Wednesday, May 3, 2017

WEDNESDAY WISH-CRAFT - MR. FANTASTIC IN THE MAIN TOOBWORLD


Bill Potts: 
You can’t reach the controls from the seats.
What’s the point in that? 
Or do you have stretchy arms like Mr. Fantastic?”
'DOCTOR WHO'

There are a lot of permutations on the Borderlands which blend the fictional universes of Television and Comic Books.  (Some of these Borderland dimensions also pull in the movies as well.)  Here are a few examples:

COMIX TOOBWORLD-MARVEL1
The Marvel Universe Movies:
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War
Thor
Thor: The Dark World
Thor: Ragnarok
Doctor Strange
Spider-Man: Home-coming
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy II
Daredevil
Jessica Jones
Luke Cage
Iron Fist
The Defenders

COMIX TOOBWORLD-MARVEL2
Hulk
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Fantastic Four (1994)

COMIX TOOBWORLD-MARVEL3
The Incredible Hulk
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Fantastic Four (2005)
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

COMIX TOOBWORLD-MARVEL4
Captain America (1990)
Fantastic Four (2015)

COMIX TOOBWORLD-DC1
Arrow
The Flash
Legends of Tomorrow

COMIX TOOBWORLD-DC2
Supergirl

COMIX TOOBWORLD-DC3
The Adventures of Lois & Clark

COMIX TOOBWORLD-DC4
Smallville

COMIX TOOBWORLD-DC5
Superboy

But superheroes are not confined to just the various Comix Toobworlds.  Some shows featured well-known superheroes who were too dumbed down to go anywhere else but:

DOOFUS TOOBWORLD 
Powerless
Legends Of The Super-Heroes: The Challenge
Legends Of The Super-Heroes: The Roast
Got Milk commercial with the Avengers

Earth Prime-Time does not go super-hero free and several high-ranking characters from both DC and Marvel have appeared in their own shows (or as guest stars in other shows) over the decades.

EARTH PRIME-TIME
The Adventures of Superman
Batman
Captain Nice
Mr. Terrific
Wonder Woman
The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk Returns (with Thor)
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (with Daredevil)
Spider-Man
Captain America
Captain America II: Death Too Soon
The Manimal
Nightman
The Flash
The Tick
Witchblade
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Blade

Swamp Thing

(I have to admit, I'd prefer some of those shows to be shipped out to Doofus Toofworld - 'Mr. Terrific', 'The Tick', and 'Captain Nice'.  But if the main Toobworld can support 'Get Smart' as well as 'Danger Man', it can survive those caped clowns.)

The Daredevil and Thor didn't have their own shows, but they were featured in TV movies which brought back the Hulk of the main Toobworld.  And I think the reference by Bill Potts to Mr. Fantastic is the next step once removed - Reed Richards doesn't actually show up in Earth Prime-Time, but the way the reference is phrased suggests that he does exist in the main Toobworld.  (But as we don't have a visual yet for a Mr. Fantastic in Earth Prime-Time, I chose the one I prefer from the three options in the Borderlands.)

MR. FANTASTIC
(From Comix Toobworld Marvel-3)


This doesn't mean we have to accept that all of the Fantastic Four exist in that world, just ol' Stretchy.  But the door is always open to them being accepted into the citizenry at some point.  (But so far I only have found references to the movies in 'The O.C', 'I exafanisi', 'Entourage' and a few other Toobworld mainstays.)

BCnU!


1 comment:

Hugh said...

Not Toobworld, but in the 1990s, a character named Death's Head (the first one; Marvel has had three) appeared in the Transformers comic in the UK as well as had his own book, and that book crossed him with a series called Dragon's Claw, paired him with a future Iron Man, as well as in separate issues had him cross paths with both the Fantastic Four, including Mr. Fantastic, and the Doctor (whose comic adventures Marvel published then through Doctor Who Magazine). The 7th Doctor was in an issue of Death's Head.