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My friend and I just came up with a treatment for what Ultimate Namor could be like in his debut on the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four. Here goes:
The government investigates a boat that has stopped in the middle of the Indian Ocean close to Thailand (where the big Southeast Asian Tsunami happened late last year). They find it full of dead members of the coastal guard who have apparently drowned alive, and there's only one survivor: a dark man with Asian features with slightly elfin ears and an ability to breathe underwater.
General Thunderbolt Ross, learning of this discovery, uses his back channel connections to have this "submarine man" brought into the custody of the Baxter Building research group, as a marvel of science that begs to be explored.
Sue Storm is tasked to assess the mysterious submarine man's physiology and discovers that he has an unusual physiology that makes his underwater breathing possible, such as Kevin Costner like gills on the side of his ears ("He's like the guy from Waterworld," Reed remarks.) The man calls himself "Namor" and he intuitively trusts Sue, disclosing his incredulous Atlantean warrior origins.
Sue is initially put off by his "imperious" attitude, but is drawn to Namor: His far out tales of an undersea kingdom and his battle stories make him quite the charmer, and his manly demeanor and sex appeal makes him nothing the kind of platonic peer she has in Reed.
In a bit of overshare, Sue accidentally discloses to her brother Johnny that Namor has a piece "the size of a Canadian mackarel". ("What does that make Reed, a can of anchovies?", Johnny retorts.) But Johnny finds the short-tempered submarine man's brusque nature and regal attitude irritating and the two come to blows. Johnny confidently flames on, but is quickly put out by a sudden blast of water from the Baxter plumbing and Namor knocks him out.
Much of the inspiration for Namor comes from Yul Brynner's character in The King and I. Namor/Brynner are rude and brusque men with regal bearing who find white women strangely attracted to them in spite of their callous ways. We still haven't figured out the rest of the plot, but this proves that my friend and I are complete dorky losers.
So what do you think?
The government investigates a boat that has stopped in the middle of the Indian Ocean close to Thailand (where the big Southeast Asian Tsunami happened late last year). They find it full of dead members of the coastal guard who have apparently drowned alive, and there's only one survivor: a dark man with Asian features with slightly elfin ears and an ability to breathe underwater.
General Thunderbolt Ross, learning of this discovery, uses his back channel connections to have this "submarine man" brought into the custody of the Baxter Building research group, as a marvel of science that begs to be explored.
Sue Storm is tasked to assess the mysterious submarine man's physiology and discovers that he has an unusual physiology that makes his underwater breathing possible, such as Kevin Costner like gills on the side of his ears ("He's like the guy from Waterworld," Reed remarks.) The man calls himself "Namor" and he intuitively trusts Sue, disclosing his incredulous Atlantean warrior origins.
Sue is initially put off by his "imperious" attitude, but is drawn to Namor: His far out tales of an undersea kingdom and his battle stories make him quite the charmer, and his manly demeanor and sex appeal makes him nothing the kind of platonic peer she has in Reed.
In a bit of overshare, Sue accidentally discloses to her brother Johnny that Namor has a piece "the size of a Canadian mackarel". ("What does that make Reed, a can of anchovies?", Johnny retorts.) But Johnny finds the short-tempered submarine man's brusque nature and regal attitude irritating and the two come to blows. Johnny confidently flames on, but is quickly put out by a sudden blast of water from the Baxter plumbing and Namor knocks him out.
Much of the inspiration for Namor comes from Yul Brynner's character in The King and I. Namor/Brynner are rude and brusque men with regal bearing who find white women strangely attracted to them in spite of their callous ways. We still haven't figured out the rest of the plot, but this proves that my friend and I are complete dorky losers.
So what do you think?
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) told FF about Alantis being underground ! That is awesome. What about him being some kind of Underground, tech freak ? Who knows ?
