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    Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: Your Favorite Mistakes Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 9 Comments1 Min Read

    Everybody makes mistakes, it’s one of the baseline rules of reality.  So, when the first appearance of Elektra misspelled her name in big bold letters on the cover, we can shrug it off and instead complain about her misuse in recent years.  And when the producers of Transformers misspell ‘Decepticon’, or DC Comics misidentified Thunder and Lightning on the cover of their first appearance, or Bob Haney forgets/doesn’t know that Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman are actually the same person, triggering decades of cascading retcons…  Things get somewhat more difficult, leading us to today’s erroneous query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still enjoys the fact that Stan Lee FORGOT the name of his own character, calling him both ‘Bob’ and ‘Bruce’, leading to the revelation that the Hulk’s full name is “Robert Bruce Banner”, asking: What are some of your favorite mistakes in all of pop culture?

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    9 Comments

    1. Bruce on

      Crisis on Infinite Earths.
      It was a good story in and of itself, but it’s attempt at correcting the muddled mess of DC’s continuity has had 30 years of revisitations, adjustments, re-dos, do-overs, rehashes, retcon-a-thons, and on and on. With hindsight it was probably a mistake.

    2. Robert Hulshof-Schmidt on

      Marvel’s first Contest of Champions mini-series. The scorekeeping error at the end is a classic gaffe, no matter what retcon / post facto shennanigans went into “fixing” it. This ranks as one of the sloppiest editing mistakes of all time.

    3. Darganon on

      When the 90s X-Men cartoon first showed the Enter the Juggernaut episode, it was spelled Enter the Juggernut. I used to record them on VHS and always laughed when I’d see that.

    4. Paul on

      Street Fighter. The Movie, not the game.

      A spectacular example of trying to cash in on a pop culture staple by making a film that’s nothing like it.

      But I love it despite it sucking dreadfully.

    5. Zar on

      Speaking of Transformers. I am sure that Jetfire was called Skyfire at least once in the two episode series in which he was introduced.

    7. Doug Romshe on

      I’ve always enjoyed the scene in Star Wars after Luke returns from blowing up the Death Star and calls Leia “Carrie.” It’s even in the remastered version. Lucas can add digital aliens, explosions in space, and make Greedo shoot first, but dubbing Luke is apparently unthinkable.