26Damage Control
In the Marvel Universe, Damage Control is the group responsible for rebuilding New York City between the fight scenes, so that everything looks normal again in time for the next fight.
27. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby appeared in comics at the wedding of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, but weren’t let into the ceremony because they didn’t have invitations.
28. Groot was originally an alien invader, ‘The Monarch of Planet X’, who was defeated by termites.
29. The shapeshifter Mystique is the mother of Nightcrawler, but writer Chris Claremont previously intended her to be his father.
30. Captain America’s shield is round because his original shield was thought too similar to the costume of a rival publisher’s superhero, The Shield.
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31X-Men & Doom Patrol
Marvel’s X-Men and DC’s Doom Patrol, both teams of outcasts with strange powers led by a wheelchair-bound mastermind, debuted within three months of each other. The Doom Patrol were first.
32. Captain America co-creator Joe Simon claims in his autobiography that he got the inspiration for the Red Skull from the cherry on top of a hot fudge sundae.
33. Many of Marvel’s Asgardians are based on Norse mythology, but the Warriors Three Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg are based on Errol Flynn, Charles Bronson, and Shakespeare’s Falstaff.
34. DC and Marvel share the trademark to the phrase ‘Super-Hero.’
35. Marvel produced a short-lived series called The Human Fly, based on a real-life stuntman who kept his true identity a secret. He was billed as “The wildest superhero of all because he’s real.”
36Weird Relationship
Shatterstar is his own grandfather. Longshot is also his own grandfather. They are each other’s father and son. It’s weird.
37. In the Six Part Saga “Man and Wolf”, Captain America was injected with a serum that turned him into a Werewolf.
38. In Pryde of the X-Men (the pilot for a never realized X-Men Animated Series), Wolverine was improperly dubbed with an Australian accent. Since Australian stuff was popular at the time, the error wasn’t corrected and it was instead suggested to change Wolverine’s nationality in the comic’s continuity.
39. Natalia Romanova a.k.a Natasha Romanov a.k.a Black Widow is almost 70 years old. She kept her young looks thanks to a variation of the super-soldier serum.
40. Marvel used to publish an annual swimsuit special featuring its heroes.
41Hulk
In his first stories, Bruce Banner didn’t turn into The Hulk when enraged, the transformation was simply triggered by sundown.
42. Squirrel Girl is a mutant with squirrel-like features and the ability to communicate with squirrels. In her first appearance, she managed to defeat Dr. Doom with the help of her squirrels and saved Ironman, who she was trying to impress.
43. After Punisher died, he was recruited by his family’s guardian angel (who had failed the family when they were gunned down) to be heaven’s assassin.
44. Marvel created Spider-Woman just to secure the trademark for her name. In the 70’s Filmnation had a cartoon called Tarzan/Batman Adventure Hour and would use new characters to avoid licensing fee. Marvel heard that an upcoming character was going to be named Spider-Woman, so in response, they rushed out Marvel Spotlight #32 and secured the trademark.
45. The X-Men Evolution cartoon was strongly influenced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The somewhat infamous dance Kitty and Rogue perform in “Spykecam” was a reference to the Buffy episode “Bad Girls.”
46Mike Murdock
Once to protect his secret identity, Daredevil pretended to be his own (non-existent) twin brother, Mike Murdock, who isn’t blind.
47. When Black Mamba uses her powers to distract Deadpool by making him dream of his greatest desire, he had a homoerotic fantasy about cable in which he is rubbing sunscreen on Cable's back on a sunny beach.
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This business as to who-all are worthy to wield Mjolnir ( #23 ) is nerve-wracking. According to the spell of Odin, candidates to wield Mjolnir must meet TWO- not ONE-but TWO basic requirements: Requirement Number One: The successful candidate will be extraordinarily noble of both heart and character. On that basis, all of the wielders listed above qualify. Where all of the candidates on the above list do NOT qualify is Requirement Number Two: The strength of arm requirement. Mighty Mjolnir weighs EIGHT HUNDRED WHOPPING POUNDS, per The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, so, in order to heft that bad boy, the applicant must not ONLY be Christ-like in character, ( as all of the names on the above list are, minus Loki, of course ) they must ALSO be physically strong enough to heft eight hundred pounds, regardless of HOW noble in character, heart, and spirit they are!! That hammer is DAMNED HEAVY, and there are reasons FOR that!!! Of the above-listed characters, here are the ones who will NOT- repeat, NOT- be able to lift it, due to this stipulation! 1) Storm. She’s bad, all right, but her power comes from a genetic ability to command weather, not lift cars in the air. Her level of body-strength is peak-normal human, due to her many years of training in the X-Men’s Danger Room, but she simply does NOT possess the necessary strength of arm to lift Thor’s hammer. Sorry, Storm-fans. 2) Black Widow- same explanation. Natasha is bad, and all, after so many years of training in the KGB’s “Red Room”, but Natasha- the Black Widow-simply can NOT lift an eight hundred pound object!! I’m sorry! No way!! 3) Conan the Barbarian- actually, Conan probably COULD, with a massive effort, heft the hammer, like Captain America and the Black Panther could, ( but, in all three of their cases, not without risking the development of a massive hernia!! ) However, where Conan misses the cut is his relative lack of character- he’s a nice guy, and all, but so is Daredevil, and I doubt that neither ol’ Hornhead OR the Reiver possess the necessary levels of nobility to lift Mjolnir on that basis. ( Daredevil has been known to be guilty from time to time of very sketchy behavior, thus, ol’ Fearless misses the cut, as well ) 4) Captain America. Yes. With titanic effort, as he demonstrated in ‘The Mighty Thor’ #390, 1990, he can handle it- and rightly so!! 5) Superman- you bet. No problemo, compadres! 6) Wonder Woman. Not ONLY can the Amazin’ Amazon wrest the hammer from Thor’s grasp, with no trouble, physical, magical, moral, or otherwise, but it was a pure HOOT to watch her DO so, back during 2004’s “DC Versus Marvel” event!! That’s just high entertainment! 7) Loki. Are you fucking KIDDING me-??!!??!!??-?? I have no trouble believing that, as an inhabitant of the general area of the Asgardian dimensional plane, that Loki would have no trouble meeting the “strength-of-arm” requirement, but, people- I don’t give a hairy poot HOW ‘woke’ and/or politically correct the Marvel Universe/Marvel Cinematic Universe has become, Loki is the GOD OF EVIL- meaning, he AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIES from the ‘character qualification requirement’, strictly on that basis!!!! Come on, people- I don’t care if Marvel Entertainment HAS turned Loki’s story into a ‘redemption arc’- NO ONE who has tried to conquer Asgard, and kill Thor as many times as Loki has, is going to be able to change his spots!!! It’s just not happening!! Loki is the God of EVIL, people, NOT the God of Redemption/Turning Over A New Leaf!!! Some things in life are the way they ARE, for a REASON, and this is just one OF them!! So- no hammer-hefting for the God of Evil, not today, not tomorrow, not yesterday, and not EVER!!! Logic talks, and ‘woke’-bullshit WALKS!!!! Thank you for the pleasure of your time!