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Marvel borrowing from Valiant again???

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Is it just me or is Marvel's new Annihilation: Conquest a mirror image of the Maleev War in Magnus?
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Fanboy375 wrote:Is it just me or is Marvel's new Annihilation: Conquest a mirror image of the Maleev War in Magnus?
Alex Maleev had an entire war named after him? :? :lol: :P
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Brother J wrote:
Fanboy375 wrote:Is it just me or is Marvel's new Annihilation: Conquest a mirror image of the Maleev War in Magnus?
Alex Maleev had an entire war named after him? :? :lol: :P
ooooooohhhhhhhhhhh!!!! :lol:
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Post by The Harbinger »

nah, robots trying to take over the world has been done since the golden age. malev war and conquest just happen to be about that very subject.
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Post by siren3-4 »

. . . I think "Batteries Not Included" had the same plot line . . . I was not sober when I saw it so I could be a little off on that . . .
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just robot wars


no other similarities so far :hm:
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They are assembling a Future Force...

Now with 100% more Groot.
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The title implies that they at some point stopped . . .
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Post by DJSpecter »

Batteries not included is one of the finest films of all time. It was much more good transformers than bad. The alien robots recognized kindness and compassion and rewarded it and helped beat up the bad guys.
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