Episode 139 of the Letters Page: Creative Process: Absolute Zero Villains

Insert cold pun here.
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HOW COLD MAN MAKE FIRE? XD

What in the world was that ending clip? c.c I don't even have the faintest idea.

Really intriguing villains, really fun, I could see at least one of them being a Vengeance deck.

Yeah that ending clip was very weird.  I thought for a moment it has started into  another episode.  

I can only assume it's a preview of things to come. Like, they were discussing a new theme song a few episodes ago. Could be related?

do they realive that they reinvented Venom?

 

They’re both well steeped in comic lore, especially Adam. Yeah, I’m sure it wasn’t an accident. But it’s different enough to be its own thing – and at least they didn’t evolve it into an anti-hero. :wink:

I mentioned this on the Realm of Discord, but the story A&C seem to be riffing on here isn't just a Venom/Spider-Man one:  rather, it's also from an Iron Man one:  LINK here.

Joe Quesada, in a March 2000 storyline, wrote an arc in which Tony's armor started acting independently of him, after his S.K.I.N pre-programming subroutines go haywire.  Effectively, the armor becomes obsessed with Tony, having picked up on the romantic feelings he has for Rumiko Fujikawa.  Effectively, it plays out the same way the AZ storyline does.

 

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I had heard of that story but don't read any solo Ironman stpries 

I also avoid most things connected to joe quesadilla 

is that the Technovore?

 

No, Technovore is something different: Technovore - Wikipedia
Also, it was created earlier than the sentient-armor storyline.

When they’re making their 80s villain, I like that they’re all “we can’t have AZ not get decayed because that’s just the Baron Blade story where the death Ray doesn’t accelerate his molecules” and then they go on talking about a character who just kills people with a touch, as if that wasn’t FAR more of a boring cliche than the Death Ray thing working in this one specific way that AZ uniquely resists. I’d much rather have two versions of AZ uniquely resisting a thing, rather than say having five (well, four and a half) villains that are all motivated by revenge so they form the Vengeance Five, AND Miss Information who is also that with the same heroes but is just one deceitful villain instead of five obvious ones, plus there’s the Iron Legacy thing with four of the same heroes, and then also there’s the Slaughterhouse Six with Glamour that’s also kind of that with one of those five heroes.

If there can be four people trying to murder Tachyon for revenge slash fallen hero-idol reasons, there can be two villains who’s powers don’t work on AZ. You guys repeat stuff all the time, stop killing a cool idea because you did it before, you’ve done literally everything before, there’s nothing wrong with doing it again only slightly different.