Talk:The Thanos Imperative

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A Misconception About Abstracts[edit]

In the Thanos Imperative, Galactus and the Celestials are constantly referred to as "abstracts". This either a gross error or it upsets everything references like The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universes and canonical series like Quasar explained the nature abstract beings. Abstracts are exactly what the word connotes: they are metaphysical. Occasionally, they assume physical appaerance through tailored manifestations, but even so they don't take direct phyiscal action against lesser beings. Eternity, Infinity, Death, Oblivion, Lord Order, and Master Chaos are all abstracts, and have all worked through physical agents rather than reach out with an omnipotent hand and crush mortals working against them. Galactus and the Celestials (and by extension, Galactus's peers, Aegis and Tenebrous) are not abstract. They're corporeal beings of immense power, and that is why they can stand around the fault blowing up cancerverse starships while Eternity and the other true abstracts have to sit back behind the scenes. How do you notate when what's written in a book seems like an error or a gross conflict with other established references?

Synopsis completion and attempt at condensing[edit]

Since it had been weeks, and months in the some cases, and no one had bothered to summarize events beyond issue #2, I decided to try it. Plus, I was able to get a hold of #3-6 and Devastation to do so!

I also tried to pare down some of the redundancy (so many revealeds and the like), as well as condense the data down into a more digestible size. I hope--and mostly think--I succeeded, even if there are a few paragraphs to it. It covers the whole series, so there's less worry about it being added to more and more in the future to become some behemoth. Besides, I didn't want to trim too many of the delicious details that fans like I prob. want to read in such things, anyway.

Hopefully you won't scourge me for doing this and, after the aforementioned long spell of no one updating the page, it'll be interesting to see how quickly a legion of editors fall over each other to come here and tear apart my own edit XD. Adam Restling (talk) 10:47, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]