The Simpsons Just Joined Marvel’s Universe
Characters from The Simpsons simply unexpectedly confirmed up inside the pages of Marvel Comics. In a shock cameo in Immortal Hulk #32, a gaggle of children being interviewed concerning the new Hulk, Xemnu, are clearly based mostly on Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, and Nelson.
The Simpsons have made references to Marvel Comics and characters in a number of episodes because it first debuted greater than 30 years in the past, together with Homer Simpson turning inexperienced and indignant similar to the Hulk. With Disney now proudly owning Marvel Studios and Fox, The Simpsons just lately had a extra bold crossover that featured Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige voicing a parody of Thanos known as Chinnos. The newest cameo within the comics is far more refined and straightforward to overlook, nonetheless.
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In the newest concern of Al Ewing and Joe Bennett’s very good Immortal Hulk, the Dwelling Hulk Xemnu continues his manipulation of most of the people to imagine that he is a lovable star of the youngsters’s present Magic Planet and the most effective Hulk there’s whereas portray the precise Hulk as a harmful monster. His techniques look like working as Immortal Hulk #32 opens with folks being interview about simply how nice Xemnu is. In one of many pictures, a gaggle of 4 children is proven praising Xemnu. “I really noticed him, uh – aw man, what’s he name it – embiggen. I noticed him embiggen. Xemnu’s the greatest,” the child within the entrance says. Take a more in-depth look and you will discover these characters are styled precisely like a few of The Simpsons most iconic characters.
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From left to proper we will see a child with an identical look to Nelson Muntz, Bart Simpson, Milhouse Van Houten and within the very again proper, Lisa Simpson. In the event you assume that it is purely only a coincidence, there are much more hints within the panel. Have a look at the identify of the college – whereas it is deliberately blocked out my speech bubbles, it certain appears to spell out Springfield – the house of The Simpsons. Moreover, the phrase embiggen was popularized (and outlined in its present type) in The Simpsons episode ‘Lisa The Iconoclast.” It is used a number of instances (together with the phrase cromulent) all through the episode and is even featured in Springfield’s city motto “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.”
The panel is about as shut as you may get to doing a cameo from The Simpsons, with out formally doing a cameo from The Simpsons. There is not any method this was a coincidence. It is so effectively executed. So there you’ve got it, The Simpsons exist within the Marvel Universe.
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