tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3459131702457723175.post9057065552065722469..comments2023-10-28T12:41:43.001-05:00Comments on The Superheroes List: Marvel's Guide To Destroying TimeBlake Czirrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01383413707498458320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3459131702457723175.post-44422929281641954912014-07-31T00:24:24.267-05:002014-07-31T00:24:24.267-05:00I guess our saving grace here is if we would belie...I guess our saving grace here is if we would believe that Dr. McCoy will be able to return the original five at that very moment when he took them. Past Prof. X mind-wiped them and lived their normal lives. Or am I getting these all wrong? HahaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3459131702457723175.post-67555142705940232402014-05-10T12:09:13.807-05:002014-05-10T12:09:13.807-05:00I have to be honest. Until Beast brought the Found...I have to be honest. Until Beast brought the Founding X-Men back, I hadn't been paying much attention to Marvel's temporal continuity cohesiveness because of the fact that there have been so many possible futures that have been altered or averted in so many titles and series, and in every other issue, the FF are jumping all over space and time, and Mephisto is making conniving deals, that for me, Time Travel in the Marvel line-ups had become Old Hat, Routine, and Expected - like the go-to plot device when you're stuck for something to do.<br /><br />However, when Beast stepped in and brought the Original X-Men to meet themselves in the future, I nearly fell off my chair doing a huge "WTF?!" which was complicated by the subsequent visits of more Time Travelling X-Men from more possible futures all showing up with different stories! I said, almost exactly what you did: "Wait a minute... If Beast took them from the past, their present day counterparts shouldn't be here!" I thought maybe they would do a "What If". But they didn't.<br /><br />Then when Logan and Susan started mucking about with Pym, I did another double take, saying, "How does this work now? How can the X-Men timeline be unaltered by the removal of the *entire original team*, yet the Avenger's timeline be so screwed up by one man's death?"<br /><br />And finally, when they stopped the Age of Ultron, I sat up and said, "If Ultron was stopped, then nobody had to go back in time. And if nobody had to go back, then Pym wouldn't have had any warning. And if Pym wasn't warned, they couldn't have stopped Ultron, so if they didn't stop Ultron, then somebody would have had to go back..." and collapsed under the weight of confusion, uncertainty, and circular logic.The Great Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14089518626060692609noreply@blogger.com