Important question for the flist

[elspethdixon]

If CLAMP were to make a manga/anime about the Avengers, which character(s) would end up losing an eye? (keeping in mind that Bucky/Winter Soldier already fulfills the need for a cyborg arm, and that Nick Fury probably doesn't count for angsty/slashy eye-loss purposes).

Poll #1928 If the Avengers were in a CLAMP manga

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19

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Which major character would have their eyeball ripped out in the service of angst?

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Steve
3 (15.8%)

Tony
7 (36.8%)

Thor
3 (15.8%)

Hank
1 (5.3%)

Jan
1 (5.3%)

Clint
4 (21.1%)

Wanda
0 (0.0%)

Pietro
0 (0.0%)

Carol
0 (0.0%)

Simon
0 (0.0%)

Which supporting character would likewise lose an eye?

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Mockingbird
1 (5.6%)

Justice
1 (5.6%)

Firestar
0 (0.0%)

Sam Wilson
1 (5.6%)

The Black Widow
5 (27.8%)

Bucky/Winter Soldier
3 (16.7%)

Rhodey
2 (11.1%)

Pepper
2 (11.1%)

Sharon Carter
1 (5.6%)

Jarvis
2 (11.1%)

Which New Avengers character would... you know the drill

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Steve
3 (16.7%)

Tony
3 (16.7%)

Luke
2 (11.1%)

Spiderman
1 (5.6%)

Jessica (Jones)
1 (5.6%)

Jessica (Drew)
1 (5.6%)

Danny Rand
2 (11.1%)

The Sentry
0 (0.0%)

Strange
1 (5.6%)

Clint
3 (16.7%)

Wong
0 (0.0%)

The Night Nurse
1 (5.6%)

Comments

[marinarusalka]

Didn't Spiderman actually lose an eye in that bizarro spider-god storyline? Sure, he got better, but there's clearly precedent.

[elspethdixon]

Didn't Spiderman actually lose an eye in that bizarro spider-god storyline?

Was that the New Avengers-era one where he died and came back with organic webshooters? (which were the one good thing that resulted from that kind of disturbing storyline, other than some background Steve/Tony slashiness.)

[marinarusalka]

Yeah, that's the one. I read it on Marvel's digital comics site, so I don't remember the exact issues, but there was definitely some good Steve/Tony moments, and some nice Tony-Peter (and MJ) friendship, among all the ickywrongbad stuff.

[elspethdixon]

Spiderman:The Other was actually the first comic I ever saw Steve and Tony in. I was reading along, having picked it up from the library because it was about Spiderman, and suddenly Spiderman was on a team with this hot blond guy who was apparently Captain America (Me: "Huh. Captain America is a lot younger than I thought.") and rich-guy-with-a-goatee who clearly had a thing going with Captain America (me: "Captain America has a boyfriend! Captain America's boyfriend build tech stuff and spies on his teammates with it and awkwardly tries to comfort Cap when they think Peter's dead! I love Cap's boyfriend! What superhero is he, anyway?").

Then I renting the Ultimate Avengers DVD a few months later, and the Avengers officially owned my soul (I was crushed to pick up Ultimates and discover that the people from the cartoon basically weren't in it). And then I started reading the comics, right in time for Civil War. Which on the one hand proved my Captain America's boyfriend theory right, but on the other hand...

[marinarusalka]

Heh. I can see how discovering Steve/Tony by way of Spiderman comics might be kind of confusing.

I love the Ultimate Avengers DVDs, but despite having "Ultimate" in the title, I think they're actually more like a grownup version of Marvel Adventures. Heck, that sequence at the start of the first movie, where Steve wakes up in the present, thinks he's surrounded by Nazis, fights his way out of the SHIELF facility and finds himself in the middle of teeming modern-day New York? It's totally in one of the MA Superheroes comics.