Need to reclassify correctly so many champions
Darchon
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Let me start out by saying that I happen to have worked at Marvel under the late, great Mark Gruenwald (founder of the definitive Handbook to the Marvel Universe) and I inherited the mantle of “definer” during my time writing the Beast Files for Marvel Vision and Daily Bugle for Marvel.com (which have been adapted as their current wiki). So in short, there are few who can despite my credentials when it comes to categorizing characters in the Marvel Universe.
While there are some champions who could straddle multiple categories you have set up (such as Blade who could be Mystic) there are MANY who you have that are just plain wrong. Especially troubling are your categories for mutant.
Deadpool, for instance, could be skill or science as he was created by Weapon X program and NOT a mutant. You could perhaps argue that he is defined as mutant in the movies and make a case for him, so this one is on the bubble (tho the movies are in fact wrong on this matter).
But then there are many who you classify as mutant that in no Universe of their origin are... Mister Sinister was a human who was augmented by Apocalypse. He is science pure and simple. Same goes for Omega are who is literally the Russian equivalent of Captain America. Sorry, appearing in an X-Men comic does NOT a mutant make. If you’re struggling to fill the ranks of mutants, I suggest reclassify Phoenix and/or Warlock, both of whom are also truly classified as mutants. (Yes warlock is a machine, but a biological one born a mutant to his race). Warlock could also be classified a cosmic being.
Mystic is another category with some problem children. Jane Thor would better be classified a cosmic, as the hammer bestowed the cosmic powers of Thor. She is a bubble though and could be forgiven but not the next two. Ebony Maw is cosmic pure and simple. There is no way he is Mystic. Neither his comic nor cinema incarnations are anything but alien and cosmic in nature. Diablo is another. He is an alchemist and belongs solely to science. He has used CHEMICALS AND SCIENCE. He is in NO way mystical beyond his name.
I applaud the game for being enjoyable and trying to be a means of expanding interest in comics, but please be respectful of your source material and the creators such as Stan Lee whose works deserve our respect.
While there are some champions who could straddle multiple categories you have set up (such as Blade who could be Mystic) there are MANY who you have that are just plain wrong. Especially troubling are your categories for mutant.
Deadpool, for instance, could be skill or science as he was created by Weapon X program and NOT a mutant. You could perhaps argue that he is defined as mutant in the movies and make a case for him, so this one is on the bubble (tho the movies are in fact wrong on this matter).
But then there are many who you classify as mutant that in no Universe of their origin are... Mister Sinister was a human who was augmented by Apocalypse. He is science pure and simple. Same goes for Omega are who is literally the Russian equivalent of Captain America. Sorry, appearing in an X-Men comic does NOT a mutant make. If you’re struggling to fill the ranks of mutants, I suggest reclassify Phoenix and/or Warlock, both of whom are also truly classified as mutants. (Yes warlock is a machine, but a biological one born a mutant to his race). Warlock could also be classified a cosmic being.
Mystic is another category with some problem children. Jane Thor would better be classified a cosmic, as the hammer bestowed the cosmic powers of Thor. She is a bubble though and could be forgiven but not the next two. Ebony Maw is cosmic pure and simple. There is no way he is Mystic. Neither his comic nor cinema incarnations are anything but alien and cosmic in nature. Diablo is another. He is an alchemist and belongs solely to science. He has used CHEMICALS AND SCIENCE. He is in NO way mystical beyond his name.
I applaud the game for being enjoyable and trying to be a means of expanding interest in comics, but please be respectful of your source material and the creators such as Stan Lee whose works deserve our respect.
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alchemy noun
al·che·my | \ ˈal-kə-mē \
Definition of alchemy
1 : a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.
It may be quack science but it was a science.
https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-transmutation-and-examples-604672
Transmutation IS science and is in fact done.
And you’re arguing with a guy whose job it was to literally define characters at Marvel for years... definitions they still use to this day.
Diablo is science. Period. Not mystic. Nothing about him is magical. Nothing.
In Avengers infinity War Ebony Maw literally challenges and kinda defeats the master of the mystic arts and can move things with his hands. This could make him a mutant if you think about it or it could make him mystic.
Anyway anything is subjective and ambiguous as to which class they would be and it is fine how they are now tbh. So don't try to fix something which isn't broken
You cannot watch on an empty stomach ya know
So, no... Deadpool in the comics is NO. Sinister is a NO. Omega Red is a NO. Captain America is a NO.
If you want to get down to it, Maw doesn’t even have powers in the comics, he uses technology. So if we went with the comics, he would be tech.
Using leeches for medicinal purpose we know is quackery but it was at least an ATTEMPT at science based on a false methodology. There are procedures doctors and scientists learn they have been wrong about on almost a constant basis. It doesn’t negate them practicing science.
But enough of feeding the troll. Why don’t you try something unique in the world of the Internet and when you don’t know what you’re talking about, remain silent? Or even more rare... when proven wrong, admit it and apologize. Because these are FACTS which are NOT subject to opinions. Please astound us all with such a rare feat.
Also you claiming to be this or that has no proof that you worked for marvel.