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- Last week we talked about DC's favorite number,
and how Marvel saved some money on X-men toys.
Lets see what you guys had to say.
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First off let's talk about the video
on DC's favorite number up there.
A couple of you guys, like Arsya Utomo,
and Robot Icecream Sandwich brought up this idea
that Marvel's favorite number is 12,
as we've seen in the MCU, and it's definitely
not as prevalent as DC's new 52,
but just to give you a couple examples,
so in Avengers, Tony gives Pepper 12% of the credit.
In Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter says that he
has 12% of a plan.
And I think in Age of Ultron, the Quicksilver
says something like he's 12 minutes older
than Scarlett, which there are probably other examples,
but those are the three that I know of.
Like I said, it's nowhere near as common as 52 is in DC.
And I'm even wondering if there's a reason
behind it at all, or if it's just a coincidence,
or if it is supposed to be a running gag,
I don't know, I guess we'll have to see
as that number pops up more and more.
Was 12 in Civil War?
If it was, let me know in the comments.
One thing I do want to say though
is I wonder if 12 even is supposed to be something,
or if that's just us calling attention to it.
There are probably other numbers
that we could find as well, like the number nine,
which was one of Bucky's activation words in Civil War.
We have the nine realms of you know, the Azgard
Thor worlds and everything.
And I'm sure at some point in the first
Captain America movie, there was probably some sort of
German soldier who was like "Nein!"
I don't know!
Either way, I guess time will tell,
to see if 12 is actually going to be a significant number
in the MCU.
But also on that same video,
Kiran Jones brings up this idea
of how the new 52 was almost called the fab 48,
and this is something that we had heard,
and it was actually written in the script,
so if you didn't know, Dillon made this video
like on his own channel a while back,
and he's kind of ret-conning it,
rebooting it on the nerd sync channel.
And someone left a comment on his old video
saying that yeah, it was called the fab 48,
but we couldn't find any research for it,
we couldn't find any sources for it,
so he did write it in to the script
if I'm remembering correctly,
and I made the executive decision to say
well if we can't find any information on it,
let's just cut it out completely.
I'd rather not spread information
that we don't have sources for.
And of course what happens is we cut it out,
and immediately Kiran Jones on Twitter
sends us a link to a video clip
where you can very well see that it was,
the new 52 really was almost called the fab 48.
Let's actually, if we could take a look
at that clip right now.
- As a matter of fact, it would have been the fab 48,
and not the new 52 if it wasn't for Jeff.
- So there you go, Kiran Jones, you are getting
this week's nerd sync no prize.
You did it.
I'm proud of you.
Next up on the video of pouts,
how Marvel saved some money on X-men toys
by claiming that the X-men weren't human,
they were something very distinct from human.
We tried to make this metaphor
for how the X-men stand for, you know, equality.
And you know, having people wanting to
embrace their humanity despite the fact
that they're different, and here's Marvel over here
saying like nah dude, they're completely separate.
Let's isolate them, let's, you know,
pick them separate from humans,
which was, you know, at the very least
interesting to think about.
But as other commenters like Jason Bryant
and another Jason, who I'm told is
definitely not a robot, they brought up this idea
that we kind of have a legal precedent
for how people would treat mutants in real life now.
And again, I know that it's just toys
and they're not real people, except for that fact
that Marvel did release their statement
that said that their characters are living breathing people.
So that is kind of troubling in a sense.
So I guess what I'm trying to say here
is that yeah, the metaphor, it's a little bit of a stretch,
sure I'll grant you that,
but I don't think it's something that
is worth ignoring and/or overthinking,
and of course that's what we do here at nerd sync,
we love to overthink this kind of stuff.
So this is the last comment I want to address today,
and it's kind of an important one.
capfogful, you know, basically writes some comments
that I've been seeing a lot.
Last week, you know, I basically didn't host
any of the episodes.
It was Dillon, it was Joel,
and that's beginning to be more of a trend
here on nerd sync is videos without me,
and I want to be clear here,
nerd sync is not in any capacity "Scott's Channel".
It's not me; I am not nerd sync.
All of us are.
And so as we kind of bring more people
on to do more shows,
different types of videos,
maybe you'll start seeing less of me,
I don't know.
It's definitely possible, and so I want to be clear,
and just kind of prepare you for that.
There is a possibility that in the future at some point,
you might not see me on the channel.
I'll still be running stuff behind the scenes, I assume.
But this channel was never just meant to be me.
It was meant to be a bunch of people.
That's why it's called nerd sync.
It's a bunch of, it was supposed to be
a bunch of nerds coming together
and talking about the things they like,
not just one nerd.
So I just wanted to throw that out there,
you know, put that little seed in your brain
for if that happens.
I mean, I want to be clear.
It's not in the foreseeable future whatsoever.
I still have videos planned out
basically through the rest of this year,
and probably some other stuff for next year,
and so on and so forth,
but like if it happens, I just want to be clear
that like this was always the plan.
So with that I just want to say thanks
to all of you guys who have been very supportive
of these other hosts like Joel and Dillon,
and DK who have come on and made other videos
for the channel.
We'll still be seeing more of them.
And we got a whole week, just to make up for it,
we have a whole week of X-men videos
with this face in them,
so look forward to that.
I think that's gonna be it for this week guys.
Thanks so much for watching.
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