{"id":1225,"date":"2006-05-04T21:42:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T02:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2006-05-04T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T02:42:55","slug":"the-watcher-returns-in-marvels-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-watcher-returns-in-marvels-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watcher Returns in Marvel&#8217;s Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.comicbookresources.com\/news\/WhoseSidesm.jpg\" alt=\"Whose Side Are You On\" align=left \/><br \/>\nThe Marvel world is split in two. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/universe\/Iron_Man_%28Anthony_Stark%29\">Billionaire industralist Tony Stark aka Iron Man <\/a>is pushing for strong security to the point of putting other superheroes in Gitmo-like prison. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/universe\/Captain_America_%28Steve_Rogers%29\">Captain America<\/a> is all about defending civil liberties and freedom for the heroes. What brought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/comics\/22\">this Civil War, as the new Marvel series is called<\/a>, on?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_War_(comics)#Synopsis\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The story opens with a reckless fight between the New Warriors, filming a reality television show, and a cadre of villains in Stamford, Connecticut. The battle goes awry for the heroes, resulting in villain Nitro creating an explosion that takes out a local school, the surrounding neighborhood, and all but one of the New Warriors. This event crystallizes a government movement to register all super-powered beings as living weapons of mass destruction.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most interesting reappearance to me is that of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/universe\/Uatu_The_Watcher\">the Watcher<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060503.wxhero03\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/home\">The Globe and Mail reports<\/a> that Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/universe\/Doctor_Strange_%28Stephen_Strange%29\">Strange<\/a> will explain: <em>&#8220;He [The Watcher] only appears to record moments of great change and enormous upheaval. His presence now does not bode well.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marvel world is split in two. Billionaire industralist Tony Stark aka Iron Man is pushing for strong security to the point of putting other superheroes in Gitmo-like prison. Captain America is all about defending civil liberties and freedom for the heroes. What brought this Civil War, as the new Marvel series is called, on? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-literature","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}