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Marvel Comics Goes For a Second Only Fools And Horses Reference

A thousand years in the future, Mother Superior has seen her speech patterns go to pot in Nightcrawlers #3 from Marvel Comics.

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Set in a thousand years in the future, a universe in which Mister Sinister was the central guiding force. To the extent that one of the Sinister clone siblings, Mother Superior, clearly has seen her speech patterns go to pot. How else can you explain an utterance from today's Sins Of Sinister title Nightcrawlers #3, written by Si Spurrier from Marvel Comics? A thousand years later, it's still on repeats.

Marvel Comics
Nightcrawlers #3

"Lovely jubbly". Originating from an advertising slogan for the orange drink Jubbly, with the phrase "lubbly Jubbly", it was one of many mangled expressions uttered by Delboy played by David Jason in the eighties sitcom Only Fools And Horses by John Sullivan as an expression of delight at some event.

Like that. It's not the first time Marvel Comics creators have delved in to Only Fools And Horses. Jason Aaron has been there as well when writing Avengers and using the word "plonker".

Possibly influenced by the writer of Storm & The Brotherhood for Sins Of Sinister, Al Ewing, who co-created Horse. And may have had an intimate knowledge of Only Fools And Horses growing up. And now it's spreading.

Marvel Comics Wednesday
Only Fools And Horse – The First Use Of 'Plonker' In A Marvel Comic, Avenger #53.

Kieron Gillen? The "mange tout, mange tout" Marvel challenge has fallen to you now. I expect it in Immortal X-Men any day now.

NIGHTCRAWLERS #3 (OF 3)
MARVEL COMICS
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(W) Si Spurrier (A) Alessandro Vitti (CA) Leinil Yu
LISTEN TO MOTHER! Now that we know who she truly is, it's time to taste the horrific ambitions lurking in the heart of MOTHER RIGHTEOUS… The galaxy burns… The pieces are in place… The Storm System rages… The NIGHTKIN make a last, lethal leap…and the GREAT DEVOURER hungers only for vengeance. The experiment is over. The cosmic laboratory is on fire. At last, the Sinister Galaxy will feel the wrath of one seriously baaaad mother…
Rated T+In Shops: Apr 19, 2023
SRP: $3.99

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