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Ep. 237. Who is Blue Marvel in Marvel Comics?! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hello Marvel fans, comic geeks and all nerds in between.
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  My name is Megan and I am here with another character breakdown
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  today and it is character that I think it's just not talked about
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  enough and I would really like to see more of them.
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  This is Blue Marvel. Adam Brashear AKA Blue Marvel
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  first appeared in Adam Legend of the Blue Marvel Number One in
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  November 2008. It was created by Chris Grieveau
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  and Matt Broom. Adam Brashear grew up in Chicago
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  and was basically a genius from the start and it didn't take
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  long for people to realize that he was some kind of child
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  prodigy. He went on to Cornell where he
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  played fullback in football and graduated magnum cum laude.
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  On top of that he earned pH DS in both electrical engineering
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  and theoretical physics. So to put it plainly he was the
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  man. He served in the Korean War as
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  AUS Marine and highly decorated, earning 2 Silver Stars.
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  During this time in the military he met Connor Sims who would
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  later become anti man. After the war Adam LED a major
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  scientific project called Project Pegasus to harness
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  antimatter using something called the Negative Reactor.
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  The idea was to create a bridge between the Negative Zone and
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  our universe, giving access to a near infinite source of clean
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  energy. But things went terribly wrong,
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  as they tend to do, and the reactor exploded, exposing both
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  Adam and Connor to an unstable antimatter radiation.
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  Sims basically turned into pure energy, while Adam became kind
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  of a living, stable antimatter reactor with superhuman powers.
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  After that, Adam was known as the Blue Marvel.
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  Before we move forward, what exactly are Blue Marvel's
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  powers? You asked.
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  I'm glad you asked because I have answers for you.
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  Blue Marvel has super strength. He has 9 vulnerability which
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  means Blue Marvel is insanely tough and he once held a
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  hydrogen bomb as it exploded in his hands and he did not even
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  flinch. He's also taking hits from a
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  stacked group of heavy hitters like Miss Marvel, Aries, Iron
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  Man, Wonder Man, and A Century and kept going.
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  On top of that he can survive out in space with no problem and
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  even walk away from a nuclear explosion completely cool,
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  completely unharmed. He has antimatter manipulation,
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  energy manipulation which includes energy constructs,
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  concussive force bolts, energy pulse, energy infusion,
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  telekinesis, matter manipulation, and flights
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  infinite longevity. Basically he is immortal and
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  never ages and won't die unless he's killed.
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  Enhance mental perception. Blue Marvel's mind works on a
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  whole different level than a normal humans.
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  He can pick up and understand things across sensory ranges
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  most people can't even perceive. At one point Superior spider man
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  basically compared him to his own built in electron
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  microscope. He could literally see into
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  spectrums. Who is Monica Rambo?
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  Damage energy, form, and fix what Proxima did.
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  Later on he even used one of his inventions to push his awareness
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  even further and uncover stuff as wild as the imprisonment of a
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  conceptual being. Basically, he is incredibly
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  powerful, very much overpowered. He is considered to be an alpha
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  level threat and once knocked out the Ultimates universe of
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  the Hulk in just one punch. Which is random, but I feel like
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  it's worth mentioning. In 1962, Adam was awarded the
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  Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F Kennedy, but in
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  the same day he was asked to retire as the Blue Marvel.
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  He had been operating behind a full face helmet, but once it
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  was damaged in battle, people discovered that he was a black
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  man. At that time.
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  That sparked massive controversy because the citizens were too
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  ignorant and too racist to accept a black superhero, and
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  the government pressured him to step down.
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  Reluctantly, he agreed, which is which is sad.
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  Later on, Adam studied A mysterious being called the
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  Infinite, which tried more than once to manifest on Earth.
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  He eventually returned for one last mission, defeating a
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  powerful alien threat and stopping an invasion.
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  After that, the government faked his death and kept tabs on him
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  through an agent named Marlene Frazier, who eventually became
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  his wife. And they had three kids
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  together. So Marlene is either really,
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  really good at her job or really, really bad at it.
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  Adam also settled into a quieter life as a tenured physics
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  professor at the University of Maryland.
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  Back in the early 70s, he briefly joined an early version
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  of the Mighty Avengers. The team came together while
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  investigating a supernatural murder and ended up taking down
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  a group called the Death Walkers before going their separate ways
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  years later. When the IF Not tried to
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  manifest again in 1998, Adam and his son Kevin stopped it by
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  using the antimatter tech, realizing that if they had been
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  fully appeared, it could have destroyed Earth.
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  Things got personal when Connor Sims returned as the Anti Man,
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  now unstable and dangerously obsessed with wiping out racism,
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  even if it meant destroying humanity.
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  His heart was in the right place, but you know, he was just
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  a little too bananas for the mission.
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  After he defeated The Avengers, Adam teamed up with Tony Stark
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  and Reed Richards to stop him. Their final battle was brutal,
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  and Adam ultimately sacrificed himself to neutralize Connor's
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  antimatter energy. But it that wasn't the end,
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  because Adam eventually came back and returned to superhero
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  work. He teamed up with major heroes,
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  helped take down powerful threats, and even worked with
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  cosmic entities like Huatu the Watcher.
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  One time he helped stop an interdimensional crisis
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  involving his own son, Max, who had tried to open a portal to
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  rescue Adam's oldest son, Kevin, from the Neutral Zone.
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  Adam continued balancing science and hero work, often operating
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  out of his underwater base, Kadesh.
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  He later joined teams like the Ultimate, pushing for smarter,
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  less violent approaches to global threats.
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  Over the time, he also developed a relationship with Monica
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  Rambo. He faced everything from
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  alternate realities and black hole disasters to cosmic level
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  threats involving beings like Eternity and the Beyonders.
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  Even after the death of Doctor Strange, Adam was pulled into
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  the new Defenders team, traveling beyond the multiverse
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  itself. There, he questioned even the
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  highest cosmic powers, showing that no matter how far things
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  went, he never stopped thinking like a scientist.
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  Overall, Adam Brashear or Blue Marvel story is a mix of
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  brilliant sacrifice, navigating both human and cosmic level
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  challenges as a scientist, a veteran, and a superhero doctor.
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  Adam Brashear is a man of many talents, but lived with the
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  hardship of being black in a world that only saw him as that,
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  but that never stopped him from doing what he felt was right and
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  what the right thing for the world would be, because that's
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  what a hero does. So that is Blue Marvel, that is
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  Adam Brashear. Like I said, I don't think he's
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  talked about enough and I hope we actually get more of him in
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  the comics he was on in the Ultimates, but I'd like I'd
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  really like to see more of him. Like, why not a blue Marvel
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  comic run a solo? That would be cool.
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  I think it'd be fun. So yeah, I hope you liked this
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  episode. I hope you learned something and
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  I hope you will like and subscribe.
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  So that being said, have a marvelous day.