What were the MARVEL SUPERHEROES doing on 9/11?

[Hara!]

From /co/:

Just thought it'd be interesting to look into what the various heroes of comics were doing on September 11, 2001.

The Fantastic Four were fighting the cosmic being known as Abraxas.

Thor was dealing with the Godstorm.

Captain America and Nick Fury were apparently dealing with the fact that Red Skull had hijacked a SHIELD helicarrier and gotten ahold of the codes for America's Nuclear Arsenal, with the intent of starting WWIII.

Iron Man was wishing he'd bought renewed his virus protection, after Ultron took over his armor.

Hulk was being written by Bruce Jones.

Luke Cage was waiting for someone to pay him to be a hero.

Sentry was utterly insane.

Black Panther had just returned from New York, and was probably kicking himself (this was back when Priest was writing him, and he could occasionally be surprised by something).

The X-Men were... probably being feared and hunted by mankind. I'm not looking it up, but I'm probably right.

Dr. Strange was with the Defenders, fighting a minor war in Atlantis.

The Watcher was watching

Magneto - THE WORLD'S MOST NOTORIOUS TERRORIST - Was on the scene after the attacks, helping to move debris.



Despite the fact that New York has the highest concentration of superhuman beings, Spider-Man was the only one on the scene for the incident. This fact, coupled with the Stamford Incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(comic_book)) are considered the largest contributors to the creation of The Fifty State Initiative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_State_Initiative).

And now you know.

[Ken-Ohki]

Yay, unnamed group of Mormons! Hey, wait ...

[SlackerDude]

Corncop, I'm letting this slide this once only because you probably didn't know, but it takes at least 10 years for something tragic to become the subject of comedy :P

[Leader Desslock]

^ That's an urban myth. Classic comedy is timeless. If it'll be funny in a decade, it's funny NOW.

[J.Mizuno]

me and my friend said if the DBZ crew showed up Goku would have made it worse

[Samurai Drifter]

Marvel Superheroes aren't the ONLY heroes, you know. I'm curious to know where Batman was, though really, since he's just a rich guy with a bunch of cool gadgets, he probably would have been killed in minutes.

[Trefellin]

The attacks came out of nowhere though. At most, the second plane that hit the WTC and possibly the plane that crashed in a field could've been saved...

Wait, superheroes aren't real.

[taily]

^Oh, so now super heros aren't real, eh?

What next, Santa Claus?

[Trefellin]

What next, Santa Claus?

Well he was real, until Mrs. Claus shot to death him in his sleep after she caught him him one of the reindeer.

[Tidusauron12]

Well he was real, until Mrs. Claus shot to death him in his sleep after she caught him him one of the reindeer.

That might've made me chuckle... if it weren't for the fact that it is riddled with typos. <_<

This means you fail, Trefellin. :(

[taily]

^ Oh dear...

[Trefellin]

What? I typed that in haste. I also decided to rearrange my wording after I had finished... let me try again!

Well he was real, until Mrs. Claus shot him to death in his sleep after she caught him with one of the reindeer.

There! Is it funny now?


I'm so bloody embarrassed! :redface:

[Haro!]

corncopp, I say this for your own good. You're too much of a nerd. What I would do to be your age again...

[blackknight]

Corncop, I'm letting this slide this once only because you probably didn't know, but it takes at least 10 years for something tragic to become the subject of comedy :P

Bah, I was making jokes about it on 9/12. It was the only way to make people smile after such tragedy.

[Trefellin]

I haven't ever heard many 9/11 jokes that were funny. I don't think that the situation makes for good humour. The only good one I can recall is seeing a chessboard where the white pieces were airplanes and the black pieces were buildings.

If you want to make people smile after a tragedy, who would do better by making jokes about other stuff. Some people are sensitive and don't like that.

I don't care though, as long as your jokes are purely for amusement and not some healing mechanism.

[blackknight]

I never said they were especially good, but they helped. Why cower under the fear of Islamic terrorists when you can instead say that it was a bunch of disgruntled gas station employees?

The best cure for grief is to lessen the effect of the source of the grief.

[Trefellin]

That's still no reason to tell lame, unfunny jokes. Don't try to justify that. A bad joke is a bad joke, that's all there is too it. I don't care if China suddenly sank into the sea and there were no survivors. Deal with it without the mediocre comedy. If 9/11 was meant to be funny, the hijackers would've been dressed like clowns.

[Hara!]

You have to be careful. Have a spot of class added into the horror of it all. Because if you aren't careful, and the joke falls flat, things will just get worse.

[Leader Desslock]

If 9/11 was meant to be funny, the hijackers would've been dressed like clowns.
Well, they were terrorists, and I can't picture anything more terrifying than a group of suicidal clowns with a political agenda in control of my flight.

Seriously. Just imagine it. A group of clowns who thinks that they will be glorified in clown heaven (surrounded by 72 unsplattered pies) by killing themselves and taking as many non-clowns as possible with them.

That's terror.

Imagine you're just getting your day started in your New York high-rise office, when you look out the window and see a jetliner with a big red nose painted on the front, flying through the city at building height.

The big red nose on the front would just make it worse, wouldn't it? Your first thought would be, "What kind of nut would paint a big red nose on the front of an airplane?" But your second thought, the one that would really chill the blood in your veins, would be "...the kind of nut who might be capable of anything..."

The 9/11 hijackers should have dressed up as clowns, in full grease paint, baggy pants and everything. That would have been terrifying - both that morning, and for years to come. Every time people saw a clown for years afterwards, they'd be asking themselves, "Is this one of those suicidal clowns? Is he wearing baggy pants to cover an explosive vest? Is he smiling a little bit too easily at my children?! WHAT'S SO FUNNY, CLOWN? HUH?!?!"

Clowns. Terrifying.

[Caster13]

This isn't the movie It.

[Black Cat]

they really should have dressed up as clowns. Clowns hijacking a plane full of people with boxknives (lol) would have provided some kind of amusement for passengers during their last hour

[Hara!]

Well, they were terrorists, and I can't picture anything more terrifying than a group of suicidal clowns with a political agenda in control of my flight.

Seriously. Just imagine it. A group of clowns who thinks that they will be glorified in clown heaven (surrounded by 72 unsplattered pies) by killing themselves and taking as many non-clowns as possible with them.

That's terror.

Imagine you're just getting your day started in your New York high-rise office, when you look out the window and see a jetliner with a big red nose painted on the front, flying through the city at building height.

The big red nose on the front would just make it worse, wouldn't it? Your first thought would be, "What kind of nut would paint a big red nose on the front of an airplane?" But your second thought, the one that would really chill the blood in your veins, would be "...the kind of nut who might be capable of anything..."

The 9/11 hijackers should have dressed up as clowns, in full grease paint, baggy pants and everything. That would have been terrifying - both that morning, and for years to come. Every time people saw a clown for years afterwards, they'd be asking themselves, "Is this one of those suicidal clowns? Is he wearing baggy pants to cover an explosive vest? Is he smiling a little bit too easily at my children?! WHAT'S SO FUNNY, CLOWN? HUH?!?!"

Clowns. Terrifying.

This isn't the movie It.

they really should have dressed up as clowns. Clowns hijacking a plane full of people with boxknives (lol) would have provided some kind of amusement for passengers during their last hour

Never change, guys.

[Trefellin]

they really should have dressed up as clowns. Clowns hijacking a plane full of people with boxknives (lol) would have provided some kind of amusement for passengers during their last hour

Now I really want to see a clown knife fight. Guys, remember my clown soldiers in Fallujah idea for a series? Let's do it.

[Samurai Drifter]

Some people are sensitive and don't like that.
And some people are insensitive and don't care about those sensitive people. :elvis:

(When was the last time anyone used that smiley? Seriously.)

[Vaikyuko]

Marvel Superheroes aren't the ONLY heroes, you know. I'm curious to know where Batman was, though really, since he's just a rich guy with a bunch of cool gadgets, he probably would have been killed in minutes.

Uhm, he was in Gotham.

That said, DC decided they wouldn't do anything for 9/11 within the actual comics universe. Superman, Batman...they couldn't have been there, because it never happened for them, unlike Spider-Man and the others who inhabit a rather realistic NYC.

I was rather weirded out by the fact that Marvel had a bunch of characters all together for it, but the weirdest was Doctor Doom, who'd tried to destroy America on more than one occasion and was crying. Yeah, it was weird.

I did laugh out loud at the X-Men being "feared and hunted by mankind". Seriously, has there been ANYTHING in X-Men comics except for thinly veiled racial criticism (with regard to major plot and/or allegory)? :lol:

[Hara!]

I did laugh out loud at the X-Men being "feared and hunted by mankind". Seriously, has there been ANYTHING in X-Men comics except for thinly veiled racial criticism (with regard to major plot and/or allegory)? :lol:

I used to have a Boondocks comic that explained the whole X-Men race thing. Too bad I lost it...

[RecentMidget]

spider-man's reason for being late on the scene:

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll11/yukarigohan/2zqwnyc.gif

[Old Ape Face]

And some people are insensitive and don't care about those sensitive people. :elvis:

(When was the last time anyone used that smiley? Seriously.)

Just for that special occasion :elvis:

[blackknight]

This isn't the movie It.

It isn't even the book the movie is based on, but clowns don't need to be man-eating alien monsters to be terrifying.

[Sendo Takeshi]

Marvel Superheroes aren't the ONLY heroes, you know. I'm curious to know where Batman was, though really, since he's just a rich guy with a bunch of cool gadgets, he probably would have been killed in minutes.

The concept of Batman' s Prep-Time escapes you.