Thanos’ snap was a traumatic occasion for most individuals – however one in every of his victims really had a good time within the afterlife, assembly his heroes in heaven.
Thanos ruined loads of lives when he snapped his fingers within the original comic-book Infinity Gauntlet saga and killed half of all life within the universe. Within the MCU film model, Thanos’ victims remained useless for 5 years, whereas within the comics they had been introduced again a lot faster. Typically, nevertheless, none of those individuals remembered being useless, however there was an exception.
One Marvel hero not solely remembered being useless; he really claimed he had a good time! Whereas his expertise was in all probability not typical, the Incredible Hulk’s longtime sidekick and rock music fanatic Rick Jones claimed he met a number of of his heroes whereas useless and noticed a hockey recreation with Elvis Presley!
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This bizarre expertise started in The Unbelievable Hulk #383 when Rick and the newly-created “Professor Hulk” had been monitoring down the Hulk’s previous enemy the Abomination. It was throughout their journey that, elsewhere, Thanos snapped his fingers, and Rick disappeared earlier than the Hulk’s eyes. Oddly sufficient, whereas most individuals appeared unaware of what was taking place to them, Rick realized he was dying, showing to know who was accountable. He even grumbled, “I can’t die now! I bought a gig on Thursday!” as he light away.
The Hulk was later summoned by the Avengers and recruited into their battle towards Thanos. Hulk managed to outlive to struggle within the last battle towards Thanos’ granddaughter Nebula, who stole the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos and reversed his genocidal actions. Upon returning to Earth, the Hulk was happy to see all of Thanos’ victims, together with Rick Jones, had been restored to life. When Hulk requested Rick what he noticed within the afterlife, Rick merely stared on the Hulk and whispered, “I noticed… Elvis. And he seemed nice, man.” Rick went into even larger element, claiming that he noticed all of the rock ‘n’ roll legends who died in airplane crashes (like Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly), that the afterlife was a large airport the place suitcases by no means confirmed up in baggage carousels, and that he bought to hang out with Elvis at a hockey recreation.
It’s a hilarious scene that seemingly contradicts most of the occasions of the “official” Infinity Gauntlet story. In the primary storyline, Nebula reverses time to some extent earlier than Thanos snapped his fingers, permitting all of the individuals he killed to be restored with no reminiscence of their ordeal (because it technically by no means occurred). Rick, nevertheless, seems to retain full data of how he died and even what he did whereas he was useless. So, how is that this doable? Whereas it might be easy to state that author Peter David was merely having enjoyable with the story, in a later comedian ebook, David revealed that Rick Jones has the facility of “Comics Awareness” – he is aware of he’s a comic book ebook character in a fictional world and may even inform when his comedian ebook is getting cancelled. Given all of this, it’s doable that Rick Jones’ particular skills gave him a novel perspective throughout Thanos’ snap, permitting him to sense that he was dying but additionally enabling him to truly get pleasure from his time being useless with rock ‘n roll legends!
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