SCOTT: We just hit thirty thousand subscribers so I think it's time once again to showcase
your fantastic comments.
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Welcome to Comic Misconceptions where you guys take me into
detail about things that I thought I knew about comics. I'm your host, Scott Niswander
and just like when we hit ten thousand subscribers I want to talk about the great comments and
trivia you all left on older videos that either made me think harder and dive into some more
research or just made me laugh. Before we start I want to give you guys three pro tips
for commenting: #1, I try my hardest to read every single comment that ever pops up on
every video so there's no need to repost multiple times. I may not reply to every single comment
but rest assured that I do read them all. #2, it's family show so try to keep explicit
language to a minimum, thanks. And #3, I love sources so if you guys have any information
that further enforces or challenges an idea present in the video I would love if you could
include a link to any sources. Got it? Good. Now, lets go over your comments from the past
few months in no particular order and just like last time I apologize for any names that
I pronounce wrong. I want to start off with a big emission on my behalf on the episode
about the dinosaur and the giant penny in the bat cave also doubled as a history of
the bat cave. There's a lot going on in that episode. Adam S. points out that I neglected
to mention the new fifty two origin of the giant penny that was revealed in the zero
year story arc. Thank you so much for bringing this up because it's definitely a cool a story.
So the basic gist of the zero year story is that the Riddler has to be in control of Gotham
during Bruce Wayne's early days as Batman. Lucius Fox created a device that would block
Riddlers signal but Riddler sent drones to destroy it. Fox needed a new conductor to
use to block the signal thankfully Wayne enterprises has the large penny statue out front that
Fox rigged up to the signal jammer allowing Batman to take back the city from Riddler
because he's Batman as Alfred astutely points out. So now we have three villains associated
with the giant penny. Riddler, Two Face, and of course the Penny Plunderer. I just need
there to be a live action interpretation of it where it somehow will be used to defeat
Superman and or save the day in the upcoming Batman Very Superman film. Heck, I'd be happy if
they just showed it outside of Wayne enterprise in the Gotham TV show. That'd make my day.
Thank you so much for this comment Adam. Also on this same video there's a great thread
started by Many Facts about how Batman gets his trophies into the bat-cave in the first
place which you should definitely check out. Link to that one and all the other comments
in the description. Maybe you can add your own theory into the mix. Next, I want to look
at Norrin Radd’s comment from the video about whether or not superheroes need secret
identities. Their comment talks about how Iron Man has lately been known as the guy
who reveals his secret identity to the public almost instantly thanks to the Marvel Studios
movies. But they want to know the real story behind Iron Man unmasking himself from the comics.
This one was super fun to research and I'm sure there are many other times where Tony
comes out as Iron Man to the public but from what I researched the most notable time the
public found out Tony was Ironman was in Invincible Iron Man #55 from 2002. Yes
2002. It took him decades before finally revealing it to the public. Before then Tony convinced
the media that Iron Man was simple his own personal body guard.
CHRISTINE EVERHART: Did you honestly expect us to believe that that was body guard in a suit.
TONY STARK: I know that it's confusing.
SCOTT: So when Tony disappears for a few weeks due to Iron Man business he comes back home
and the newspapers have declared him dead in his absence and his companies stocks are
plummeting. He tells everyone at a press conference that there will be a major announcement coming
soon from Stark Enterprises but he's just blowing smoke. He has no idea what that announcement
will be. A short time later in that same day a young boy loses his dog and some thieves
are getting away from the cops. These two events emerge as the getaway car is hurdling
towards the lost dog about to run it over. Tony sees this and springs into action with
his Iron Man armor and his briefcase. He stops the thieves car just before it hits the puppy.
The thieves get arrested. The young boy reunites with his dog and the media goes crazy. Tony
accidentally fulfills that promise of that major announcement. So unlike the movies where
Tony outs himself due to his ego, he did it in the comics because he wanted to spare a
young boy from dealing with the loss of his dog. That's nice. Thank you so much Norrin
Radd for this question. Now, lets talk about everyone's favorite comic book character Mopee.
Two comments stood out to me on the video of the real origin of the flash. William Fullingim
pointed out that there's a scene in Flashpoint where Barry is trying to recreate the
experiment that gave him his powers. He screams at the sky saying come on I'm right here and
William wonders if Barry isn't just yelling at nothing but instead yelling at Mopee and
or the Heavenly Help-Mates to bestow upon him the powers of the speed force once more.
Heck, even if we choose to believe that Mopee doesn't exist in the main continuity it's
still fun to think that he could exist in this one even though it's less of a parallel
universe and more of an alternate timeline but it's a comic book anything can happen.
There's even an eerily familiar line said by Thomas Wayne’s Batman about the odds
of the accident happening to Barry being ridiculously small which was also said by Mopee in the
comic book appearance. So great comment William. There's another Mopee related comment by Tim
Liefer about something that I meant to throw in the episode but totally forgot in the Flash
TV pilot episode Barry visits Oliver in Starling City who says he doesn't think the
lightning bolt struck him but choose him. Now, obviously everyone and their respective
mothers has their own theory about this in the show but Tim thinks and I agree that this
could suggest NerdSync’s favorite imp to make a live action appearance on the show.
Is it likely? Not at all. Would it kill me due to the potent mix of tremendous shock
and unfathomable amounts of absurd laughter my body would endure? Most definitely. Something
tells me we should start another hashtag campaign for this one since the other two
from this year have been pretty successful. Something like #MopeyInTheFlash.
Keep it simple. Or something like that; maybe follow it with an at tweet to the CW Flash
twitter account. Get the ball rolling on this one. We're changing the fate of comic book
movies and TV shows one hashtag at a time. Thanks Tim. That's so dumb. Since the dawn
of time I've been getting requests for a Deadpool episode and this right now is probably the
closest that wish will ever come to being fulfilled. On a rather old video (at least
by internet standards) about the Weapon Plus program I constantly get comments from people
saying that Deadpool is Weapon 11 in the comics but I have not been able to find an actual
source for that, however Studz Ramrod was the only person so far to say that Deadpool
is Weapon 9. Again, I had not heard this but they provided a link to a video of Rob Liefield,
one of the co-creators of Deadpool, who said this:
ROB LIEFELD: I said to Marvel, I said hey you always call Wolverine Weapon X, Weapon X. That means
ten right? Yup they confirmed that. Okay, have we ever seen weapon one through nine?
NOOO.
I said Deadpool's weapon nine. He's the last one before they got it right, so he looks like crap.
SCOTT: So seemingly confirmed but I still couldn't find it anywhere in the comics. So
what happened when you have a comic book legend you want revealed. Why, you ask Brian Cronin,
author of the comic book legends revealed blog among other countless comic blogs and
actual real physical books. I emailed him and asked if he knew if this story was true
or not and he told me and I quote "I think it's mostly just him slightly misremembering
stuff from twenty odd years ago. I do believe that he intended Deadpool to be basically
a Weapon X washout (which ended up becoming his actual origin) but I don't believe he specifically
put any thought into it beyond that. And certainly not Weapon IX as the whole "Weapon X is Weapon
10" didn't come around until Grant Morrison over a decade later." As Brian is infinitely
smarter than I am about this I am going to say that his answer is likely the true story
so thank you to you Studz Ramrod for the comment, the link to the video and for giving me an
excuse to finally get in contact with one of my favorite internet authors. And that brings
another episode based off of your comments to a close, but I do want to thank you all
once more for taking the time to leave all the fantastic comments and the questions and
of course the compliments. My ego never gets tired of those. And also for the 50th episode
coming in a few weeks I think enough people suggested a common misconceptions about comic
misconceptions episode and that sounds really fun to me so let me know below what kind of
things you want to know about the show or maybe some stuff about me if your interested.
Anything is fair game and boy do I regret that instantly as soon as it came out of my
mouth. I already have a few things that I want to talk about that are total secrets
about the show that nobody else knows but I want you guys to write your questions in
the comments below and if you see someone else's question that you like make sure to
give it a thumbs up that way I know which answers are the most demanded. In the meantime
if this is your first time hanging out with us here at NerdSync please hit that big sexy
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and Instagram and next week is Thanksgiving in the US so it'll be a shorter episode but
I think a really fun one. See you then.