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They recently kinda tried to address this in Marvel comics by making every US state have its own superteam.

stupidest thing i ever heard

haha you are a supreme federalist even in comic book matters

can't wait for that crisis in grand forks crossover storyline

Hey, Great Lakes Avengers brought us Squirrel Girl, so just focus on the upside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_State_Initiative

(Fifty State Initiative actually turned out to be of some use during the "Secret Invasion" Skrull storyline, since the already-placed state teams were largely uncompromised.)

tbf Marvel mocked their own biases pretty well with the Great Lakes Avengers
lol xp

have they gone back and re-looped Bane? sure sounds way clearer now thankfully. although almost pisstakingly *too* much louder.

Delaware The Women Warriors Avengers: The Initiative #26 Asp, Black Mamba, Diamondback, Quicksand, Skein

did joe biden write this

"Squirrel Girl carries a utility belt comprising multiple pouches that contain nuts to give as snacks to her squirrel friends. These are known, to much comedic effect, as her "nut sacks".

Please be in the next Batman movie series, Squirrel Girl.

i never actually saw the earlier trailer/prologue things that spurred all the outcy about Bane's voice so the first time i heard it was in this new trailer and i instantly thought "wow that sounds wrong, they must've overcorrected in response to the complaints"

sounds great to me

Yeah the voice has definitely been heavily cleared up.

GLI member Monkey Joe: Joined the team along with Squirrel Girl, but was killed by Leather Boy in a fit of jealousy.

oops, GLA

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Sqlgrl1.jpg

less Marvel more Batman, guys

So this Bane guy seems not-too-cheery, huh?

Whenever I see a drawing or clip of him I think of the bad guy from "The Road Warrior."

lord goatass

http://mimg.ugo.com/201009/59382/cuts/mad-max-2-road-warrior_288x288.jpg

hate bane. such a boring villain. glad that nolan didn't feel constrained by his appearance in the comics.

he could've been constrained by a flamboyant top to show off those muscles, though, eh? /tuomas

I think the idea has some merit, but actual comic stories with the dude are not that interesting

constrained by a flamboyant top

Unlike most super dudes, Bane actually has an in-story explanation for those ridiculous muscles, so I think it's fitting he wears a rather flamboyant top to show them off.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:10 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

the only super-dude whose muscles make no sense to me is skeletor. why's a walking skeleton got to be jacked? preposterous.

the thing about bane is he was created for a specific storyline, and nobody could really figure out what to do with him after that story was finished - so as a regular of bman's 'rogue's gallery' hes not so great, but for a one-off story (like a movie) he could be really effective

http://www.denofgeek.com/comics/746701/bane_the_man_who_broke_batman.html

Never forget:

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so he's genius + psychotic + super-roids? the shots of him in the trailer show him flanked by soldiers (as guards?), i wonder if there will be a 'military experiment' angle to him

i'm p curious as to what sort of origin this version of catwoman gets to have, if any

it'd be funny if she was just an eccentric stripper

Maybe it will be revealed she's called catwoman because she can lick her own butt, who knows!

dramatic arts grad concerned for the 99%

i think it's just anne hathaway

she's using the same voice as from rachel getting married, if that gives a hint to what this catwoman will be all about.

Being boring?

The Pet Shop Boys as a very elegant Batman and Robin, this is a vision.

I would buy tickets for that.

my guess is that batman is captured, and that catwoman and JGL step in somehow?

There are at least two shots in that trailer of it looks like Batman being thrown down a well.

oh, so John Kerry is in this?

so is JGL supposed to be Robin or something? idgi

it turns out he's bat-mite

my money's on a nightwing type character, skipping robin altogether

oh please let him be Clitoris Red Hood

this movie totally needs Bat-mite to liven things up

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4Zn2a7jAz98/ScRaRHmZhbI/AAAAAAAAAP0/Igky76eu6Js/s400/bat+mite+(2).jpg

Maybe JGL is Damian al-Ghul/Wayne.

or... maybe he's TALIA al-Ghul

who is left in the inception cast that isn't in this series, now? is it just juno and caprio?

Maybe he's the cro-mag Bat-Man from Neal Adam's series. Or, even better, the evolved raptor Robin.

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