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Jen has had a bulked-up, savage gray form for the last year. Apparently she’s reverting back to green, but keeping the bulk. 

I know it's not the same, but imagine if professional wrestling kept "rebooting". Fans would get tired. For all its faults, wrestling just moves on. Does it get everything right? Of course not! But if it makes a mistake, it moves on and does, for the most part, provide entertainment.

But imagine if it had its own version of "rebooting":

There may well be some overlap between wrestling and comic fans. I know the above comparisons aren't that good because wrestling is neither fish nor fowl, but I can imagine wrestling fans would get sick of that. 

They kinda do... doing the Brand split (separating/shuffling their rosters)... then merge together at some point; multiple World titles that eventually get "unified"... characters get "repackaged" then go back to their original gimmick (i.e. The Shield). Wrestling fans aren't so different from comic book fans when you think about it.

-C!

I do not know who that character in the back is, but he makes me think of a Greek character (and obviously not Hercules.) Maybe Apollo? He'd make a pretty interesting character...

I think the Hulk had surgery. That green character STILL doesn't look normal, but that might explain it. If it IS She-Hulk, then I must conclude that she is soon going to have a movie of her own, or make a TV presence - because notwithstanding that mystery character in the rear, every one of those Avengers has a recent movie or TV appearance to their credit. Not that I would mind Jen being on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Luke Cage, but... god, what is it supposed to be? I'm minded to think of the cover of Image's Captain America #1.

Robbie - your experience and analysis are EXACTLY what I'm referring to. How do you keep someone interested in a book if it keeps ending and restarting? How often can they "cry wolf"?

You make a valid point, Charles, although I'd say wrestling does it with less frequency. In the last, say, 20 years, it feels like Marvel have had numerous reboots/renumberings, soft or hard. Wrestling may "reboot" in a sense, but it feels less frequent - and usually at a point when it is needed.

It can be unwieldy and silly, e.g. WCW once had a WCW World Title, a United States Title, and a WCW International Heavyweight Championship. That last one seemed redundant and sounded unwieldy, so it was right that it was unified with the WCW World Championship. With wrestling, when they do reboot, it seems to be because needs must.

But I don't feel that about the likes of Marvel. They renumbered in recent months and yet we'll be rebooting and starting all over again. It seems like a gimmick.

I know it's not the same, but imagine if professional wrestling kept "rebooting". Fans would get tired. For all its faults, wrestling just moves on. Does it get everything right? Of course not! But if it makes a mistake, it moves on and does, for the most part, provide entertainment.

But imagine if it had its own version of "rebooting":

There may well be some overlap between wrestling and comic fans. I know the above comparisons aren't that good because wrestling is neither fish nor fowl, but I can imagine wrestling fans would get sick of that. 

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WCW did a "reboot" in their dying days and it was not received well. 

The positives (going to ignore the other negatives): The proper Captain America costume, Captain Marvel being on the roster, and aside from the arm (why couldn't they restore his arm to normal?) and the beard, I like Thor's new look.