usually I’m indifferent towards brands and their tributes to 9/11, it’s always the most inane, yet inoffensive, salute type of thing they can cook up to look patriotic and respectful but also without wanting to lose potential customers, typical shit but I’ll never forget when marvel did their tribute to 9/11 by having marvel villains watching over the ruins and commenting how even in their evil they’d never think to inflict such tragedy crying dr doom and all
This is really stupid, because everyone here but Kingpin (a more practical and lower-scale gangster) has performed a major act of international terrorism, but the bit that really takes the cake is Juggernaut, who destroyed the Twin Towers in a late 90s X-Force comic
They could have chosen so many other villains, but they went with Bullethead Bin Laden over here
Hate to be that guy but this is just a result of typical comic book cheap fake-out tactics. In this issue of Spider-Man, we don’t see the entire towers right after Juggernaut rams the base. There’s just a splash page of several X-Force members and Spider-Man appearing dramatically in a cloud of debris, teasing the fight in the following issue. In that next issue, X-Force #4, the towers are shown to be mostly intact (prior to these panels a series of bombs were detonated, hence the smoke billowing out from one tower). Juggernaut is almost defeated and then teleported away, there’s a few throwaway lines about Boom-Boom and Cannonball evacuating survivors, X-Force fly away because Cable is being hunted, or something. So maybe McFarlane wanted a massive scene of destruction and Liefeld disagreed with him. Maybe they didn’t discuss it at all. Lack of communication is already the norm in superhero comics and these guys were about to leave Marvel to found their own company (remember Spawn?), so who cares about minor continuity errors.
Maybe all this is the actual reason Juggernaut is so upset on 9/11: Al-Qaeda accomplished what he could not.
