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A bit like Gallaxhar trying to give orders his clones in MONSTERS VS ALIENS, I'd guess (tried to find the clip, but failed). While true, I was joking a bit too, since Archie doesn't use The Shield character a lot, Marvel's is safe from additional legal action as the suit isn't an active trademark (plus they redesigned the Shield's outfit to be less shield-y so it stopped having the distinctive look) so have used that shield for stories set in the period Cap carried it in the comics. EDIT: I looked it up, MLJ didn't sue, they asked Martin Goodman (who the MLJ founder, Louis Silberkleit, was friends with and I believe all three had worked with Goodman at an early point in their publishing career) to change the shield since they got there first. That's why the one shield only existed for the first issue and was changed to round for issue 2. As mentioned they subsequently went back after the trademark issue wasn't an issue and did re-introduce the original shield as historically happening in Cap's timeline.
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Only if they want Archie to sue again. 😄 The round shield was created because MLJ/Archie's sued over the similarity to the Cap's Shield to the Shield's outfit.
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They killed one of the 50s Caps* (he couldn't take the pressure and committed suicide) that was created to explain why there were Captain America stories published by Marvel post WWII. In the 70s Steve abandoned the identity and became Nomad (and I think John "US Agent" Walker was brought it by the Government to take over) but I don't recall him being killed then. Steve Rogers was killed post Marvel's Civil War, but its comics, and they wibble-wobbled a storyline (Cap's body was dead but his spirit was still around, Armin Zola resurrected Steve's body with the Red Skull's spirit for giggles, eventually Bucky helps spirit-Steve evict Skull). He wasn't a hydra agent either (that was a cosmic-cube time manipulated alternate Cap). Because, again, comics. *I think they recently brought him back too
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Captain America is still Steve Rogers. They're doing a story about Steve-Cap traveling the US with Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes and John Walker (who've all been Cap; I think we're up to 8 official Caps now, discounting Cap-for-a-story like The Punisher and alternate or future Caps). While traveling, they meet people who've taken up the Captain America mantle to defend their local communities. The design doesn't grab me, but as I understand it this version of Captain America is defending runaways and the homeless, so I'm going to guess either is or was a homeless runaway himself, and may be wearing an outfit made from what he was able to find.
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The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
This is a documentary though...
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Funny Stuff: Revenge of the Funny
El Arroyo
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The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
- Obituary thread
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TNG The First Duty. Solid episode. I wish Wesley had stood up to not-Paris without, essentially, being blackmailed by Picard, but it was over-all a strong episode.- General movie thread!!!!
- The TV and Streaming thread Series 4
The trailer for Finding Ohana made it seem like it would be a bit Goonies-esque. Would you think that a fair assessment?- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
I wasn't talking about the former Sakartvelo, no... I thought this was obvious... 😐- The All Things Political Thread (The World and US Reunited)
I promise you, there actually are people in Georgia who know something about Guam.- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
It's an expanded re-release edition, so surely they edited the ass shots out?- PS4 bug reports
Amentep replied to forest's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)Per the Deadfire support page: These forums, while developers do show up from time to time (more so right after launch) tend to be peer-to-peer support which may be more useful for PCs than console issues.- What You've Done Today - As the World Turns
I remember you talking about her on the BIS boards. Now I feel old by proxy.- What Are you Playing Now: Living the Good Life
I have a terrible track record with refreshing this thread...- Weird, random, interesting - now with 100% less diacriticals
I didn't know she had a tie with an emag; my understanding was that she'd expanded a media studies paper into a kickstarter to create videos for a youtube channel and that kickstarter caused controversy since she initially abandoned what was promised to do other things. That said, I wouldn't know about her at all if it wasn't for people who hater her magnifying her reach by retweeting that they hate her.- What Are You Playing Now: The meaning of life
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Thing is Sarkeesian shouldn't have even been on the radar of what GamersGate claimed to be about (she wasn't a game journalist, but an academic researcher). The fact that they kept bringing her up demonstrated that what they claimed to be about had nothing to do with what they actually felt aggrieved over. And honestly most of the attention Sarkeesian gets is from the people who don't like her magnifying what she's said.