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Mine too.

You'll note he had changed his name to King Marvel in honor of Elvis as well.

Remember that the Royal Family of the Inhumans were exiled in their original appearances, with Medusa amnesiac… I suspect that this is a take on that.

There is literally no way that she isn't an Inhuman… she wanted to ask the Clairvoyant where her people are.

Personally, I prefer the show' s take, as a compromise between the dueling visions of Ditko and O'Neal.

Yes, this.

I just assumed Laurel was too drunk to remember Sara had the League of Assassins after her.

It means "16". Trust me, I'm from Kentucky.

The next episode stingers over the credits explains this pretty well, to
me. Always worth remembering that Floki's a genuine crazy person at the best of
times, and he was genuinely, traumatically disturbed over losing his
ships to bad weather, feeling the gods were angry at them. Transferring
that over to being

Note that the climax of Winter Soldier dumped ALL of SHIELD's secrets on the Internet. Everybody knows Coulson is alive now.

Also doesn't hurt that the comics version is Coulson in every way to the point where I was shocked that they gave him a different name when I watched the first Iron Man film.

Not exactly… that was a popular theory, but the Stranger was always a mystery… even his Secret Origins issue had 4 options. Now, he's Judas Iscariot… and has a civilian life with a wife and kids.

And the Council of Kangs predates both.

Although it wouldn't surprise me at all if he did.

That's… actually fairly close to the original Atomic Skull, who was the founder of STAR Labs before he skulled out. This version thinks he's a 40s serial star.

He's almost certainly supposed to be Satan, near as I can tell. It took EFFORT to make that story screw a character up worse than it did the Phantom Stranger but DC did it.

The Helltown novel by O'Neill is also pretty great. Have them all.

Oh yeah, this was the platonic ideal of the character. So, of course DC never used this characterization in the comics.

Fire got upgraded to "energy weapon misfire" in a story which parodied Steranko's SHIELD in Secret Origins post-CRISIS.

His mother happened to be a werecat. Yes, that's as stupid as it sounds. The actual reason is, of course, "that's how the Kingdom Come Wildcat was."