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Or he just is ribbing him. Everybody loves the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing.
Aside from Cap, Ben is the most beloved man in the Marvel Universe, at least among other superfolk. Maybe even more than Cap, since there's no nationalism subtext to Ben whatsoever.
It’s saying something that when X-Men were full Krakoa, and all the isolationism that showed, Scott still congratulated Ben on his marriage.
It doesn't matter what's going on, when a mensch like Ben Grimm gets married, you give him a congrats.
Spidey is definitely on that list too
Indeed, Cable has said that some of the timelines he's seen have Spidey as the most beloved hero of them all.
“The best of us, and he doesn’t even know it.”
Spidey is the Superhero's superhero.
I hate to say it but surely Sentry has them both beat.
IIRC it's canonical that every major Marvel character has some deep and profound friendship/love for Sentry and for whatever reason they just forget it most of the time.
(There's a lot about that character I can't stand and the ridiculous backstory is top of the list; his original mini and the Fallen Son oneshot should never have been made 616 canon)
Yeah my understanding is Strange basically erased everyone's memory of him (by Sentry's request) which keeps his powers dormant or something so the void is also dormant?
I really loved the first sentry run it was so wild seeing marvel history get "revised". Very unique in their approach.
Yeah and that made sense but then he just comes back and people remembered all that stuff. So we have this weird situation where all of Marvel history revolves very strongly around Sentry but no one refers to or ever acknowledges it (outside Sentry comics).
Again that's a really interesting What If or self-contained side story bur seems kinda dumb for current Marvel to be like that.
Richard Rider is up there too.
He is just ribbing him lol.
Benjy does that with everyone. He actually has a very good chemistry with a lot of Marvel characters, despite being grumpy.
They don’t call him the ever-lovin', blue-eyed Thing for nothing.
Okay, he calls himself that, but not without reason.
Funny enough, in the Lego Marvel 1 (the best lego game btw) Cap calls him that.
He is like "I need the Ever Loving Blue eyed Thing to land me a hand"
And Benjy goes "Sweet Aunt Petunia, I will land you both hands Cap"
So I think it's safe to say, that more people in the MU call him that (at least fellow superheroes do)
Oh, I know others also do. But I remember it was a gag in Spider-Island that at least Peter was annoyed that Ben introduces himself that way.
Yeah. With Wolverine at least, I bet the two of them are drinking buddies outside of work. Ben and Logan both feel like the most "street-level" of their respective teams, so it makes sense that they'd get along.
Logan is a regular at Ben's poker games.
Despite Logan being a cheater.
I sure love me some Ben Grimm
He's just teasing him, The Thing doesn't hate anybody. He's had enough people hate him for no good reason to know how it feels
I doubt ben has forgiven him for the time he had to wear that mask
I feel like a lot of things from the Marvel 90's just don't get talked about in-universe.
Wolvie: "Hey Grimm remember that time I cut your face off?"
Ben: "remind me, was that before or after you lost your nose and hid in a shrub behind the x-mansion for a week?"
Wolvie: "geez awright no need to get mean about it..."
They buried the hatchet back in the 90s. Ant-Man saved them from a Mad Thinker attack when they both meeting to hash things out/beat each other up, and they ended up having a beer together. The interruption and fighting side-by-side let them set aside the past.
Ben forgave Johnny for thinking he was fucking/married to Ben’s ex/current day wife Alicia(Alicia was actually a skrull but nobody was aware until after her and Johnny got married). Being vain and wearing a mask for a few months seems pretty tame compared to that.
Thing the goat
As a Canadian, I found this hilarious.
So how’s that cure of your’s coming along?
Not bad actually, I live near an American major city. I didn't really learn about Celsius until highschool, amongst all the other measurement differences. I'm 6'6,how many centimetres? Fuck you got me.
Go away Canadian! (I'm joking canadiains are better than humans.)
I was thinking of a snappy comeback, but since I can't figure one out I'll just do the Canadian thing and just say I'm sorry.
What issue is this page from?
Astonishing X-men 7
Thanks for the answer
I mean, to be fair, the Canadian healthcare system kinda' HAS come up with a cure for being Canadian... >_>
There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.
Aren’t Canadians actually pretty shady in Marvel comics anyway? I say this as a Canadian. I seem to remember my country getting up to all sorts of covert evil shenanigans.
Oh, yeah. Department H has a long history of illegal activity when it comes to superhumans, and at one point stole from SHIELD
Good old east coast humor.
Remeber blame Canada and South park. It was popular to shit in Canada for a long time.
Where’s the most player place to shit in now?
Lmaooooo
I love everything about this panel
I think as a friend, Thing has more friends than Cap. Thing just seems like a guy that you just like cuz he's just being a nice dude.
Can you imagine if Origins had revealed he wasn't Canadian after all?
He's joking because he loves me.
Based
Considering that Logan cut a chunk out of his face before…
Is this run still worth reading?
It’s just a rib buttercup
sad Kurtis Conner noises
This was back when it was extremely popular to make jokes at the expense of Canadians.
I hope Kungfu Kenny doesn’t also hate Canadians, but after today I’m not so sure :’(
No wonder it's cringe