If you’d like, I can offer up some of his best stories! They’re mostly self contained, so even a minimal knowledge of Marvel is enough to get into them! Reply DeleteĪbsolutely neat! I have absolutely no idea who Beta Ray Bill is. He’s one of the most honorable and kind characters in Marvel, and it’s a damn shame that he doesn’t show up more. They fight near to the death at Odin’s behest, Bill saves Thor instead of killing him, earning Odin’s favor and Stormbreaker, a hammer of his own. Bill fighting the “demon” who’s energy signature is so similar to Surtur’s minions, and Thor fighting the misshapen monster who leads these Invaders.Įtc., etc. So when the Korbinite Fleet is attacked by Surtur’s demons, and Thor is asked to confront the incoming “Alien Warfleet” by Nick Fury, they come to blows. Bill loves his people, he will and has done everything to protect them. Except for BETA RAY MOTHER FUCKING BILL who not only survives the experiments as a a twisted, gruesome cyborg who’s people will always revile him (the horse head is quite literally the face of one of the most feared predators on Korbin, and one of his deepest regrets is that he’ll always be a pariah because of it) but he COMES OUT SWINGING. So their top scientists gather up all of the “heroes” on Korbin, all volunteers, and instead of just feeding them a super soldier serum, they subject them to the most vile and gruesome experiments imaginable in order to create the ULTIMATE SUPER SOLDIER to protect their race. The journey to a new habitable planet is going to be a long one, and the Korbinites are going to need someone to protect them while they’re in cryosleep. You see, the Korbinites planet was dying, and the population needed to evacuate asap, so the Korbinites built a massive fleet of ships with Skuttlebutt as its flagship.Īll’s well that ends well, right? Wrong. Beta Ray Bill is what happens when you take Superman’s backstory (a dying planet,) combine it with Captain America’s, then ramp Captain America bit up to 11. So, to clarify, because I’m unsure how deep into Bill’s backstory they go. Hey there! It’s me! Your friendly neighborhood Beta Ray Bill fanatic. The fact that neither Beta Ray Bill or Surtur ended up mattering much, though, ends up making this episode feel a bit more throwaway than usual. Anyway, this one's a neat episode as a standalone episode. and considering how utterly shafted a huge chunk of the cast end up being in this season, it's definitely an unfortunate side effect of that story model. And normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the guest star spots that introduces Beta Ray Bill and Scott Lang end up being particularly egregious for not giving any of the cast any sort of appearance. Not much is wrong with this episode other than the fact as well done as individual episodes of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes tend to be, they're also basically alternating between having plot-heavy episodes where it's the Earth cast dealing with the Skrull invasion, or guest-star heavy episodes that end up not mattering when the guest stars really end up not showing up elsewhere in the season. And, honestly, taken on its own, this is a neat and solid episode.
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