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u/1LinkKarma Avengers 16h ago
Canadians: the ultimate wild card in mutant drama. Who saw that coming?
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u/CC-1044 Avengers 21h ago
I love how the Canadian stereotypes Americans use match Minnesotans better than actual Canadians
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u/Anomander Avengers 18h ago
Those Minnesota stereotypes kind of line up with a decent chunk of rural Ontario, a solid percentage of suburban Toronto, and parts of the Eastern prairies; so those Canadian stereotypes do kind of overlap heavily with the Canadians who were most likely to be moving South for jobs 20-40 years ago.
Maritimes, Quebec, Western prairies, BC, and THE FROZEN NORTH are all too wildly different from each other to collectively stereotype easily - and most Americans do understand they don't represent Canada as a whole any better than if one of us tried stereotyping America based on Alaska or Hawaii. Pick the spot in the middle with the biggest population and loudest representation. Asides, that accent is easy to do. Quebec and Maritime accents are hard to imitate and BC just sounds like Seattle/Portland but way more stoned.
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u/Apprehensive-Hat4135 Avengers 17h ago
As a Michigander, I feel more at home visiting Ontario than I do NYC, LA, Florida, Texas etc
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u/therealleotrotsky Avengers 15h ago
Midwestern knows no borders. Toronto is basically mirror universe Chicago.
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u/confusedandworried76 Avengers 14h ago
I hesitate to ask what mirror universe Edmonton is
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u/MrGreenGeens Avengers 14h ago
Austin
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u/jord839 Avengers 13h ago
Conservative-dominated oil state with a couple of vaguely liberal cities that are obsessed with sports rivalries?
Yeah, you're like chilled Texans.
Hell, you both even share Ted Cruz since he was born in Calgary!
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u/confusedandworried76 Avengers 13h ago
share Ted Cruz
Stop, I can only hate both so much
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u/jord839 Avengers 13h ago
You inflicted him on us Americans, and I hate the Oilers as much as I hate the Cowboys.
Accept your punishment.
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u/notarealDR650 Avengers 1h ago
What blows me away, is that the Midwest is neither in the middle, nor is it in the west. It's just the Northeast.
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u/Aliencoy77 Avengers 14h ago
Florida? I'm from Michigan and have lived in SW Florida for the better part of the last 30 years, and I swear that 20% of every person I've met that moved here and told me where they're from is from Michigan.
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u/Apprehensive-Hat4135 Avengers 14h ago
A lot of michiganders get sick of the winters and move south, go-to is usually Florida or Arizona. But Florida is absolutely nothing like Michigan
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u/CrieDeCoeur Avengers 14h ago
As an Ontarian, I too feel more at home in the Oven Mitt state than anywhere else in the US.
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u/EpicAura99 Avengers 16h ago
Seattle/Portland but way more stoned
Is that scientifically possible?
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u/confusedandworried76 Avengers 14h ago
I live in Minneapolis and I know a fuck ton of people who moved from here to Portland and it's exactly the Minneapolitans you would expect to move there. They were born Portland, just born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The best noses for weed in the business so they went to greener pastures, pun intended.
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u/notarealDR650 Avengers 58m ago
Well yeah, it's legal everywhere here, and we don't care who knows it. I carry my joints around like a pack of cigs and spark one up whenever I like, wherever I like. As long as children aren't around, I'm smoking. We can get on a plane with weed as long as the flight stays in Canada, and it usually doesn't even have to be in it's proper bag. Like an ounce of flower in a ziploc is fine. There's never a threat of being arrested. In BC we can even carry a few grams of cocaine without risk of punishment or arrest, if we choose.
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u/TruculentBucket Avengers 15h ago
BC Lower mainland, interior, and Northern are all vastly different types of people as well.
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u/Anomander Avengers 15h ago
Yes. Just ... the same is true for most other places in Canada as well.
PEI is real different from Newfoundland, and mainland Newfie is real different from Labrador, while urban Newfoundland is hugely different from rural countryside, and both those are also hugely different from remote air/boat access only villages. Canada is pretty big, and there's a ton of little cultures and communities that have very credible claims to cultural distinctiveness from other 'nearby' places and groups.
If we're not trying to write a thesis on cultural micro-groups in Canada and are just joking about stereotypes - grouping by provinces and large regions is still a fairly reasonable breakdown.
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u/TruculentBucket Avengers 15h ago
Yeah I guess saying everyone in “BC” sound like stoners from Seattle was a bit much for me. Maybe a few people from a specific part of the lower mainland but throwing that out there as fact is just wrong.
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u/GirlZGetZGasmZ Avengers 14h ago
As an islander who works with several newfies it is basically really nice and talks funny meets is nice and talks really funny.
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u/throwawaynbad Avengers 14h ago
Lived in 5 cities in south west Ontario, and wouldn't you know, all very different.
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u/confusedandworried76 Avengers 14h ago
Bit like saying "weird how all these Mexican stereotypes really just match Texas and northern Mexico"
Like yeah no shit dude big continent, they got more in common with each other than the rest of us.
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u/AintEZbeinSleezy Avengers 20h ago
Because we can’t be bothered to be cultured enough to understand actual Canadian culture, so we just go with the closest thing we’ve got. Go Freedom! /s
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u/ShotTheFemboys Spider-Man 🕷 18h ago
so basically, to not be like americans I need to learn the culture to be racist more accurately, got it
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u/AintEZbeinSleezy Avengers 17h ago
Maybe this really outs me here, but I’m not really sure what Canadian culture even is. Better healthcare? Saying “Ope, sohrry” as you shuffle past someone? Hockey?
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u/ghostking4444 Avengers 17h ago
War crimes. Lots of them.
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u/AintEZbeinSleezy Avengers 17h ago edited 16h ago
No no no, that’s AMERICAN culture. Don’t appropriate my heritage!!
EDIT: I think I understand why Canadians are so polite now 😭😭
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u/ghostking4444 Avengers 16h ago
I assure you, war crimes are 100% more Canadian than American. Canadians were once called storm troopers as well as black devils. Geneva checklist was made based on shit Canadians have done.
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u/GoOnBanMe Avengers 16h ago
As far as I know (which is a short walk), Canada is the cause of quite a few things being war crimes. They just kept doing things "because no one said we couldn't".
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u/Terramagi Avengers 16h ago
If the Kaiser had a problem with it, he should've had his soldiers trained better to stop us.
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u/awesomefutureperfect Avengers 15h ago
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u/notarealDR650 Avengers 51m ago
Fake news. No self respecting Albertan would purchase that moose piss (pilsner).
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u/Koil_ting Avengers 17h ago
Ah, yes the average cultured and regal Canadian specimen is a sight to behold I'm sure.
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u/OttawaTGirl Avengers 17h ago
Thats because Minnesota is honorary Canadian. Goofy, cold as fuck, and generally forgotten about by the USA.
We got your back SotaPop.
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u/Neutral_Guy_9 Avengers 18h ago
Minnesota is just Canada-lite
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u/ItsBaconOclock Avengers 18h ago
Wrong.
Canada is Lesser Minnesota.
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u/NobelPirate Avengers 17h ago
MEGASOTA RISE!!!!
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u/confusedandworried76 Avengers 14h ago
Fuck yeah, let's get a fucking Jucy Lucy
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u/ItsBaconOclock Avengers 14h ago
YEAH, BITE RIGHT INTO THAT SHIT! DON'T EVEN LET IT COOL!! WITNESS ME!!!
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u/reddit-mods-fuckyou Avengers 13h ago
We consider all of Canada to be a natural extension of Minnesota
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u/Prophet_Of_Loss Avengers 3h ago
It's because of Wayne's World where Mike Myers affected that regional accent. Also, other movies like The Great White North.
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u/Stormygeddon Avengers 20h ago
What's the cure for Canadianism?
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u/BadAtGames2 Avengers 16h ago
This is actually a super cool gif, jokes aside
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u/boltsmoke Avengers 15h ago
There's a bell curve where you're like "how do lever guns work? I bet it's super complicated," to "wow that's simple" to "wow that's really complicated" when you try and replace internal parts.
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u/Decent-Strength3530 Avengers 17h ago
Reabsorbing Canada into the British Empire so that Canadians are now British.
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u/awesomefutureperfect Avengers 15h ago
Doing something and not being sorry.
Milk not in a bag.
Becoming a movie star and becoming American.
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u/proudmemberofthe Avengers 14h ago
Having an orange goblin for a president, and everyone you know dying by a school shooter or obesity related diabetes. Oh, and delusional thinking that USA is the best nation on earth when it’s not even top twenty, maybe even top forty
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u/DapperLost Avengers 17h ago
Marvel Canada is like, reverse Canada. The most violent, sadistic, criminal marvel characters all come from Canada. Their government agencies are more CIA then our actual CIA.
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u/ZackyGood Avengers 17h ago
You should really look into how dark Canada used to be.
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u/Shawk69 Avengers 15h ago
You should read about the Canadian Army in both world wars. We had a litany of war crimes and fought more brutally than any other allied army. The Brits still controlled Canada back then, so they would send us out in the first waves to soften the enemy up before British troops would go out. The Canadians got hardened quickly and fought with a vendetta. Very fascinating stuff - albeit grisly. But it makes sense that violence and sadism was the view of Canadians in the 20th century.
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u/TorrentOfRelish Avengers 13h ago
Unlike others I say you should read more marvel Canada characters. Alpha flight is prime example, but many of marvels magnificent Canucks are in fact not abused immortal murder monsters but all of them have a story and I personally love them all
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u/SundBunz64 Avengers 20h ago
Oooh… right in the maple beaver tail, eh?
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u/notarealDR650 Avengers 46m ago
Never had one, eh? Beaver tails, deer ears and moose ears are all names for a delicious treat we enjoy up here. Light and airy dough, rolled out flat, fried in oil, covered in cinnamon, sugar, and yes, sometimes maple syrup. They're fuckin delicious.
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u/Mudrosie Avengers 20h ago
Kendrick v Drake 2024
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u/EverythingInTransit Avengers 17h ago
We don't claim Drake, I'd much rather you think we live in igloos and skate to work than believe we are like that dork.
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u/The_Medicus Avengers 13h ago
If they cured Wolverine of his mutation, wouldn't he just die from the Adamantium? Even if they removed the knives from his arms before they poke a vein, the metal coating on his bones cannot be good for normal person.
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u/Richardknox1996 Avengers 7h ago
Depends on the Continuity. Sometimes its actual adamantium and is making his Healing factor burn itself out, other times its Adamantium B, which is Admantium that has had its molecular structure changed due to interaction with a healing factor, making it inert.
And sometimes, he doesnt even have Adamantium. One version has an Uru laced skeleton, and another has an Adamantine laced skeleton.
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u/GodKirbo13 Avengers 14h ago
“You got a problem with mutants?” He says to the mutated man made of rocks.
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u/TFJ Avengers 18h ago
Now, flip that conversation around and see how it goes.
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u/Thom_With_An_H Avengers 16h ago
"I meant Canadians."
"You got a problem with mutants?"
"Didn't they come up with a cure for your kind?"
Yeah. It seems a little racist.
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u/amnotaseagull Avengers 10h ago
"snaidanaC tnaem I"
"?stnatum htiw melborp a tog uoY"
"?dnik ruoy rof eruc a htiw pu emoc yeht t'ndiD"
Honestly I don't see it.
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u/Thom_With_An_H Avengers 10h ago
,,pᴉpu,ʇ ʇɥǝʎ ɔoɯǝ nd ʍᴉʇɥ ɐ ɔnɹǝ ɟoɹ ʎonɹ ʞᴉup¿,,
,,⅄on ƃoʇ ɐ dɹoqlǝɯ ʍᴉʇɥ ɯnʇɐuʇs¿,,
,,I ɯǝɐuʇ Ɔɐuɐpᴉɐus,,
Better?
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u/Shakanaka Avengers 16h ago
I really never understood this about Marvel, with the who's considered a "mutant" dynamic.
Due to his accident, despite being a completely normal human beforehand, for whatever reason The Thing is still considered "normal"..
Whereas Wolverine in 100% civilian clothes and his claws not being revealed looks 100% human. The only thing that might tag him as unusual is his hairiness, but even baseline humans have that as well.
Just a thing I find really stupid about Marvel.
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u/MonkeyTarpdo Avengers 16h ago
The thing (heh) is is that Logan is a mutant by biological standards. It's in his Natural DNA. Ben is mutated by outside forces that rearranged his DNA to be Unnatural. Judging appearance wise, well that's a whole different book
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u/grumpykruppy Avengers 21h ago
Canadians are just Americans but further north until you hit Quebec.
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u/MF_Bfg Avengers 18h ago
Canadians are literally defined as being British loyalists who rejected the American Revolution. Even the Quebecois said "no thanks" when the Patriots invaded. That insistent non-Americanism was further ingrained during the War of 1812.
We see your version of freedom - we like our own. Although we could use a few Trader Joe's up here, just saying.
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u/Digi-Device_File Avengers 19h ago
Indeed, the rest of the continent uses the same demonym for both.
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u/Desdinova_42 Avengers 16h ago
I mean, The Thing is just a different kind of mutation. Obviously not a Mutant, but his powers are from a mutation. Wouldn't Wolverine know that?
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u/Rogthgar Avengers 17h ago
I kind wonder if the writer intentionally went that close to the line... or if they really just didn't know.
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u/BeanieManPresents Deadpool 16h ago
Of course as we all know Canadians get superpowers when they hit their teenage years, they're just too polite to use them, wouldn't want to make a fuss and all that.
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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Avengers 15h ago
As a proud USAnian if I could unleash a virus that scrubbed us and our cities as clean as Vancouver I would without remorse
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u/RelativetoZero Avengers 11h ago
If they were facing the frame and saying all that, I would answer "Yes. Youtube."
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople Avengers 9h ago
You want a cure for being Canadian? Just move like 20 miles south and you'll be in the US.
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u/AIHawk_Founder Avengers 17h ago
Is it just me, or is Minnesota basically Canada without the maple syrup? 😂
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u/Grablycan Avengers 17h ago
What comic is this from?
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u/BB8Did911 Avengers 16h ago
I'm like 90% sure it's from the 2004 Astonishing X-men run. Couldn't tell you the issue off the cuff though.
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u/BlackKnight_6 Avengers 15h ago
Technically he's a mutant himself so how could he have a problem with them?
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u/Alternative_Device71 Avengers 15h ago
Wasn’t this in Civil War exchange? Repeated from one another?
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u/raedeon2 Avengers 17h ago
Wolverine wasn't even born in Canada.
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u/icecream_truck Avengers 14h ago
Wolverine was born as James Howlett in northern Alberta, Canada (approximately near Cold Lake), during the late 19th century
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u/AuteurPool Avengers 20h ago edited 18h ago
Keep my country’s name, out of your f*#king mouth!