Besides Voss, who could really hate this stranger from a strange land.
Oh wow, this is the first Tuesday in years I haven’t been focused on posting a video, and I completely forgot it was Tuesday!
They should at least go 18 years, so the podcast can graduate high school.
Ooh, Wraith cartoon references! 
Aha! Given what the show notes said, I was thinking of Miss Abyss! I didn’t forget!
She’s a giant? 
Be still, my beating heart lol
Oh yeah, naming her Mariana was the best idea.
“Manciple Protocol” is an inspired name, but “Source” kinda lacks something.
That’s two characters with a punny “O.” in their name in one episode. XD This is great.
Ah, Emily Parsons hero deck confirmed for Definitive Edition.
The old put-a-Fleshchild-in-a-Faraday-cage-and-explode-it strategy, works every time.
Guise would say, “It is I!”
Oh my god, Dr. Matopoeia is amazing. XD
They need to name this guy General Oravese.
“Fvwome” doesn’t top “Fwee” for my money.
I need a Naturalist Jet with sound effects and net launcher.
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The trouble with Inclement is that it’s a very 90s-or-later sort of name. The vast majority of silver-age villains are of the form Something-Man or The Something or The Adjective Noun. It’s much more likely the character would have been something doofy like “The Wicked Weather-Man” in the 60s, and then got rebranded as Inclement in the early 2000s as a quasi-reboot with a tweaked recap of his backstory.
That makes sense. I do like Inclement as a name, but yeah, it doesn’t quite fit the era, does it?
Honestly, I think that’s an issue that applies to a lot of Sentinel’s characters. It seems to me that far more of them have simple single-word names than “Something-Man or The Something or The Adjective Noun”-type names. E.g., Legacy, Tempest, Tachyon, etc. Granted, they do have some amount of the latter type (e.g. The Wraith, The Argent Adept, Captain Cosmic), but the ratio seems much smaller than “real” companies. Part of this may very well be because many of the Word-Man type names were already taken.
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That’s true, and to some extent their particular naming preference is something I just accept as the Sentinels style (and because the decks were created with modern sensibilities). But when they’re creating small-time characters from the silver age, I often wish they’d pay more attention to the style of the era. A goofy “living weather” bad guy from the silver age is fine, but a name like Inclement is all wrong for the time period.
I could try to no-prize some of the heroes by saying that like Tempest and Tachyon started out with a The but lost it over time and nobody calls him The Tempest in the modern day, in the same way that The Hulk and The Flash have largely lost their articles.
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Personally, I just assume it’s a different universe where things happened a little differently. 
We already have various examples of things that were different, such as earlier lesbian representation. I just chalk it up to that. 
Oh, 100%. And this is why I’m fine with the weird names: GTG has a lot of constraints that the actual comics did not have.
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I’ve always viewed Sentinels as something of C&A’s “fixfic” for comics and the comics industry.
So I’ve always read the differences between what C&A leave out or overemphasize compared to RL patterns as probably being a tell of what they love or dislike about RL comics.
(Or in the case of things like the outsized presence of Hispanic/Latin America-inspired concepts, just non-comics-related creator love.)
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Interesting - I never noticed that, in part because a lot of my innner naming conventions are mutant-based, and the X-Men had a lot fewer people with “the” in the title - even their initial lineup had Beast, Cyclops, and Angel rather than The Beast, The Cyclops, or The Angel.
Sentinel Comics definitely seems to primarily follow X-Men naming conventions.
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Which would line up with how Adam, at least, very definitely seems to prefer X-Men over the rest of Marvel’s stuff.
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Nah, it took me a second, but it’s perfect. It has a code of honor that it follows, see, so anyone it converts to its way of thinking has been following the Source Code.
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Yeah, from what little they’ve said, it seems like C&A’s height of comic readership was '90s X-Men. I think I recall reading an interview or something with Christopher wherein he said one of his like top three favourite comics was the Phoenix Saga.
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as I pointed out the last time Miss Abyss and her father were brought up, I would guess it was more Filmation than H-B
The Adventures of Batman | 1968 Cartoon Intro
So, Mr. Abyss would have been voiced by Ted Baxter… I mean Knight.