Sunday Subtext for Kung Fu Fans

[bluefall]

So I actually posted this once before, but the page in question has been rather hacked. So, here it is again in all its slashy glory:

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

Colleen Wing's "deal" is that she's half-Japanese and half-Irish, right? I *think* she's also related to Sunfire, but don't hold me to that.

Also, John Byrne was did a pretty cool retcon revealing that Misty's boyfriend at the end of the POWER MAN AND IRON FIRST series was really an old IRON FIRST villain due to his name (Tyrone King was really Magna Khan) in a way the original writer may not have intended.

[sindra]

Tyrone King was really Magna Khan

But you can call him T.K., baby.

[stolisomancer]

You ever notice that you've never seen Tyrone King and the Black Baron (stop starin') in the same room at the same time?

[destroyed]

I was BEYOND disappointed when I reached the overtime fight and "Look Pimpin'" didn't start to play.

[stolisomancer]

Her mother was recently established to have been a member of the Hand, and the leader of a five-woman band of assassins called the Nail, in the Daughters of the Shadow miniseries. Her maternal grandfather was named Kenji Ozawa, and was an agent of the Japanese Secret Service. He raised Colleen in Japan after her mother died.

Her dad was a white guy named Lee Wing, who was a professor of Oriental Studies at Columbia University, although we haven't seen him for quite some time. (Looking it up, the surname "Wing" is apparently British. Who knew.) I didn't know Lee existed at all until he showed up in a three-page bio for Colleen in the first issue of Daughters of the Shadow.

Sunfire's a member of the Yashida family, which includes the Silver Samurai and the late Mariko Yashida. As far as I know, there's no relationship between Sunfire and Colleen besides the fact that they've probably met at one time or another. In the MU, Sunfire's pretty much the only consistently active superhero in Japan, although I think he might be maimed or evil this week.

[starwolf_oakley]

As far as I know, there's no relationship between Sunfire and Colleen besides the fact that they've probably met at one time or another.

I believe Colleen, Misty and Sunfire helped out the X-Men in a two-part Claremont & Byrne story before the Dark Phoenix Saga, where Moses Magnum threatened to sink Japan. I'll have to re-read that to see where I got a Sunfire/Colleen connection.

[thanekos]

with a name like that, he could've been Tyrannus.

[darkblade]

With Misty playing Oracle-lite in the new Heroes for Hire series this is doubly amusing.

[nezchan]

"Coleen...what do you think of... fishnets?"

[thanekos]

The role of Brainiac tonight will be essayed by the Puppet Master.

[thebigapricot]

If they do allow Marvel/DC Crossovers again with Joe Q. gone I am praying for a Canary/Oracle and Misty/Colleen team-up.

[darkblade]

I thought it was as much Didio's doing as Quesada's but regardless if another crossover happens I would also hope for this.

[kamino_neko]

They're both out, so it doesn't really matter who was being the pill (my recollection was, like yours, they were both the problem). Just whether Alonzo and/or Harras keep it up. (Or if DiDio and JoeQ still have a say.)

[bariman]

Ooh! Adding that to my crossover list right now!

[stolisomancer]

One of the things I really like about modern Marvel is that they brought Colleen and Misty back into circulation. If I was going to put together a list of the top ten underused characters in the MU, Colleen and Misty would be at the top if not near it. I'm still disappointed they're not on Luke's Avengers team.

[mistersandman]

Motto.

I haven't been following any Marvel comics in a while so I looked up Misty on wikipedia and learned that she actually wasn't pregnant and she isn't actually getting married to Danny, which totally negates the great ending of the last Iron Fist series.

[stolisomancer]

I would love to know what the hell happened there, unless they had to walk it back quickly due to somebody buying the film/TV rights to Iron Fist.

[myniamh]

Someone posted scans of that ... some point in the last year.

If you can't be bothered: it was very angsty but Misty was never pregnant. Apparently Danny has some kind of magical super sperm that 'read as life' (NOT my words) and showed up as a false positive. They broke up, moved out, cried over whose book was whose and decided they were never meant to be together after all. Or something.

[stolisomancer]

No, I read it once I heard about it. I'm more curious what the hell happened at Marvel to make them walk back a major life moment for both characters, in a short story in an anthology book that has no immediately obvious connection to either.

[myniamh]

Ah, I'm still wondering why half the stuff by Marvel happens or unhappens at all. :)

[julian]

From the earlier post:

Byrne whines about Claremont ruining things for him.

Interviewer: Well, didn't you know that before Chris told you? You had no inkling at all?

Seeeeeeriously.

[philippos42]

Heh, you think this is slashy, you should see what Claremont did with Colleen in Spider-Woman.

[blackruzsa]

I've been wondering until I saw this post what Colleen's relationship with Misty was. Apparently, enough to merit her presence in THIS chart:



It's... so sweet :)

[akodo_rokku]

Sadly Colleen and Misty can't get gay-married 'cause they'd lose their health insurance.

[blackruzsa]

Aw dangit
And I'm not sure five way marriage is legal either, so... XD

[wonderwomanhero]

I have all three tpb's of her Heroes for Hire series....sad it ended. I want them to tie up some loose ends though. What happened to them after it disbanded. I heard Misty showed up in New Avengers, and Colleen is currently Daughters of the Shadow. What the freak was the point of Tarantula if she was just gonna be added simply to be...stuffed into the fridge. Love how they've done nothing with her character since then.
Seriously Marvel, wtf.

[thebigapricot]

Misty is in the new Heroes for Hire.