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Subj: Re: I agree with "hmm" but for a different reason...
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 12:27:46 pm EDT (Viewed 484 times)
Reply Subj: Re: I agree with "hmm" but for a different reason...
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 at 11:26:25 am EDT (Viewed 484 times)




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    Well, I suppose the Asian characters I was thinking of were technically "Bronze Age", but the 70's saw the introduction of multiple heroes from Japan and China. Admittedly, the were mostly mystical martial artists, but not treated as jokes or evil.


I always thought the 70's were the end of the Silver Age, rather than its peak, so even that might be stretching quite a bit. Martial Arts/Kung Fu *were* "in" during the 70's though.

But if you noticed, I did follow that kind of Kung Fu extreme in the short story I posted. Chiaki isn't normally so angry or threatening.



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    Seriously, the guy showed up in 1968 indistinguishable from a human, even under medical exam. Hank Pym couldn't answer what he was because he was "every inch a human being" only composed entirely of synthetics. Then Vizh got angry, fought his creator (which was also an overly emotional robot), learned his origin and wept.


I thought he was a much later creation. At any rate, it's really the motivation for creating Anna that would be difficult to justify, unless I throw that out entirely and ignore it. \:\)



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    I would think that would only apply on worlds close enough to her own that all the people she knows exist there too. Once you get far enough down the road to the point of the Parodyverse, I wouldn't think it'd be an issue. I don't, for instance, expect Visionary to exist on her world.


That's a good point, and works the other way too - since Lara isn't native to the Parodyverse, she wouldn't exist on any of its alternates unless she imports herself there.

Of course if we're stretching the Silver Age into the 70's I could pick up the whole 4th-wall-breaking trend a few comics used, and that could be how Lara makes it to the Silver Age Universe - conscious of the fact that she's not supposed to be there, perhaps guiding people by telling them where they are. But then I might be putting too many characters into this relatively short round-robin, so we'll see.