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The controversial bit is that in the comics it grants the wielder passive abilities that don't require explicit activation of the stones. They never explained it well enough in the films themselves to know if the intent was meant to be different from that. Apparently both the Russos and the screenwriters have said their intent was that he didn't use the stone against the Hulk: https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/12/02/avengers-infinity-war-how-thanos-beat-hulk/ I haven't seen any comments yet where they address how the comic version endows passive strength, endurance, and power enhancement though, so it's hard to even say if they ever thought about that and intended to change the film version of the stones from that.

Thanos already has the power stone in his glove in the opening scene on the Asgardian ship where he kills Loki and Heimdall and beats the Hulk. He got the Tesseract from Loki, crushes it with his hands, and puts the second stone, the Space stone, into his gauntlet. The Russos said they didn't feel the need to show him acquiring the Power stone because Guardians of the Galaxy covered his search for it.

How'd we ALL forget that.

Our current estimate for the number of stars in just the Milky Way is between 150 and 250 billion, so she didn't have to travel to another galaxy and still have the overwhelming odds be in favor of her never encountering Thanos.

It doesn't bother me either, but I do wish they'd work it out. It's less interesting to think of Thanos, Hulk, Juggernaut, Colossus, and Thing as all basically the same guy with the same powers who just look different.

It just magically appeared, and yea, I didn't buy that when I was 11 either.

I thought of that, but every one I've ever seen on the site is a uniform size, lighting, and quality no matter how old or new the comic is, and that indicated to me they were all scanned in a similar way. But who knows, I'm sure I haven't looked at more than a fraction of a percent of what's up there, so maybe you're right and they do vary in size and quality or they're getting ripped from DC and Marvel directly.

My memory on Binary is vivid because I began reading X-Men at issue #165 at age 11 right in the middle of her Binary origin arc.

Start here at X-Men #163 where the Brood manipulate her DNA, and move forward using the "Next" button through at least issue #166: http://vlcomic.com/read/comic-uncanny-x-men-1963-eng/190 Or if you want to jump straight to her kicking butt as Binary just start at #166: http://vlcomic.com/read/comic-uncanny-x-men-1963-eng/193

I want that figure, but it's not out yet. I'm disappointed though that the plasma (or whatever that glowy stuff is) effects are limited to her hands and head which are more representative of her Binary powers inhibited by that Kree device on her neck, not her full-on powers that enveloped her entire body after she ripped the device off.

I forgot about that, but yea, you're right, that's why Lilandra went after her. So they seem similar, which may not be surprising since Chris Claremont wrote both of those stories within a few years of each other. I wonder if he realized how similar Binary was to Phoenix as he wrote it.

She seemed similar. I never fully understood Phoenix's powers, but could she really generate the power of a star? Carol Danvers as Binary sounds more powerful than most other characters in that regard. I can see from reading the Wikipedia entry on Carol Danvers that she didn't keep the full Binary powers for long, and that she's been flipped back and forth between a limited set of Binary and Ms. Marvel powers closer to what we saw in the film through the 90s and 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Danvers#Publication_history The way she cleaved through those Kree ships like a hot knife through butter in the film seemed full-on Binary to me. Certainly more powerful than any of the heroes Thanos fought in Infinity War, but not as powerful as Thanos himself with the fullly-decked out gauntlet.

They took that from her time with the X-Men. Rogue permanently stole her Ms. Marvel powers in Avengers Annual #10 in 1981, and she spent time with the X-Men without any powers at all. In X-Men #164 in 1982 the Brood manipulated her DNA and inadvertently gave her the ability to channel the power of a star through her body.

So it appears you can view scans of most comics from the past or present on vlcomic.com. I've been searching for information about the site without much luck. Anyone know much about it or why DC and Marvel haven't gone after them yet? Usually both companies guard their comic copyrights pretty well, yet somehow that site is offering a viable alternative to their own online monthly comics subscription service. My first guess would be that it's hosted out of the country and they haven't been able to legally affect its operation yet, but I have no actual idea what's going on with them. I do know that the domain name is registered to a company in Vietnam which lends a limited amount of credence to international legal issues being what's allowing them to operate. I'm particularly interested in answers to the following questions: How long has the site been up? Who runs it, and where is it hosted? What actions have Marvel and DC tried to get the site taken down? Who's doing all the scanning?

That sounds like a great way to end up spending a night in jail.

This is my biggest issue watching movies at the theater over the last few years. It's not the soda in the theater that does it, it's the drinking four hours before going in that ends up getting me. I'm in the habit of hydrating throughout the day, and if I intentionally break the habit before going to a film, I'm fine. But if I forget, I have to get up two or three times, and if I'm in the middle of a row, it really sucks.

I'm talking a lot about Binary, but I have no idea what they did with the character in the aughts or since 2010. Maybe she's just like the film version now; that's more likely to be true than not given the versions of all other Marvel characters shown in the films.

It's possible she can utilize that, but they certainly never showed it in the film and Binary in the comic didn't have that ability. When she took off into space at the end to fight the Kree, all I thought was "good luck, gonna take you a decade or ten to get where you're going." Which fit with the character who was clearly still learning her limits.

The nearest star to ours is Alpha Centauri, and that's four light-years away. So travelling at the speed of light it would take four years to travel to the nearest star. She'd have to travel using something else other than the speed of light to get between solar systems at all in a reasonable amount of time after that page from Fury. The Kree seemed to be using something like a wormhole to jump between points around the galaxy.

His were explained better than any of the other X-Men.

Or she could generate plasma and melt everything in front of her. That's what Binary from the comic could do.

I don't believe so. And her mask comes on in space, so I assume she can't survive in that environment. It did, and at the very end she ditched it. I assumed she didn't realize the first time that she could survive in space, but by the end she somehow had discovered it. Binary had that ability in the comic.

The level of Superman's powers have gone up and down over the years. That's author variance. In the case of Carol Danvers, one author took her powers away entirely and another granted her a completely different set of powers.

I don't remember now--did the film establish her as invulnerable to physical harm? Ms. Marvel was tough, but I'm not sure she was Superman invulnerable, and I don't remember what the film established on that.

How is that the case? 50 years ago she only had the same near-invulnerability, strength, and flight powers that Rogue now has since she took them from her. She didn't get her Superman-like powers until the Brood turned her into Binary in Uncanny X-Men #164 in 1982. Also, this just occurred to me--Binary isn't invulnerable and strong like Ms. Marvel was, is she? She can channel the power of a star, but I thought she lost her Ms. Marvel powers. The film combined the two characters into someone more powerful than those two different versions of Carol Danvers ever was in the comics.