Discussion Main / LongRunnerTechMarchesOn

Pulled this:

• Not to mention, Marvel's use of Comic-Book Time isn't ignored in the stories. Every so often, a story from decades ago will be referred to as having been five or 10 years ago. Hank "Beast" McCoy was in his late teens in the sixties and celebrated his 30th birthday in the nineties. The technology seen and real-world events referenced in the Silver Age that are later established as recent would seem to set all things Marvel in a version of the late seventies that happens to have smartphones and such (perhaps due to having people like Peter, Tony, Reed, and Hank hanging around. Maybe Reed Richards isn't useless after all...?)

Unless someone can also explain how "present day Marvel is the seventies with modern technology" also explains Barack Obama becoming President in his teens, not to mention the use of actual 21st century dates, I think we should stick to the standard interpretation of Comic-Book Time that it's the past stories that we're meant to assume took place later than the publishing date, not present stories that are actually set in the past.

Is there a trope for the opposite, where a work starts in the present and becomes basically a period piece by the time it ends