I'm not that familiar with Ernie, so I'll take your word for it. I was a teenager when Sesame Street premiered; my generation became acquainted with Henson and his Muppets by watching the Ed Sullivan Show. It was The Muppet Show that really made a fan of me. For me, Henson is mainly Kermit and Rowlf.
Speaking as a child of the 80s (albeit the late 80s) -- Jim Henson can totally be on the list. My list would go thusly:
1. Steve Rogers 2. Jan Van Dyne 3. Ted Kord (for reals and permenant this time) 4. [free space, insert any currently dead long-time Avengers character other than Jan or Steve here] 5. Sirius Black and/or Severus Snape and/or Remus Lupin.
considered and rejected: Pepper Pott-Hogan's original personality (because that will hopefully return when Fraction leaves), Rumiko Fujikawa (because if she was brought back, it would probably be as a psycho villainess, and not as the fun character she initially was), Mr. Eko from Lost (because his story arc actually ended really nicely), and Clytemnestra Morley (because as insanely kickass awesome as bringing her back as a new major Iron Man antagonist would be, the return of happy Ted & Booster hijinks to the DCU would be even better). Oh, and the Mandarin, because he's a supervillain, and they never stay dead.
About Jan: I found her "death" extremely unconvincing, even given the usual unconvincing standards of comic book death. Maybe it was problems with the art (seriously, bubbles? What kind of deadly threat is a bunch of bubbles? Why not just draw a bunch of pixies), maybe because there was no corpse.
BTW, have you realized that in current Marvel canon, of the four people who knew where Steve is actually interred, only two of them remain? Tony, Jan, Hank, Namor: Hank was a Skrull and Jan's "dead".
Pepper: It seems that writers just give her whatever personality's most convenient, story-wise, at the time. This has been going on for a loooong time. Poor Pepper. Maybe I should be thankful for the movie for giving Pepper a more concrete, visible representation (this is what she looks like, this is what she sounds like, this is how she moves), except that it's still hard to get a handle on her personality. You've got the canny and efficient assistant (although I wonder how good she is at actually reading people), and you've got the ditz who
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1. Steve Rogers
2. Jan Van Dyne
3. Ted Kord (for reals and permenant this time)
4. [free space, insert any currently dead long-time Avengers character other than Jan or Steve here]
5. Sirius Black and/or Severus Snape and/or Remus Lupin.
considered and rejected: Pepper Pott-Hogan's original personality (because that will hopefully return when Fraction leaves), Rumiko Fujikawa (because if she was brought back, it would probably be as a psycho villainess, and not as the fun character she initially was), Mr. Eko from Lost (because his story arc actually ended really nicely), and Clytemnestra Morley (because as insanely kickass awesome as bringing her back as a new major Iron Man antagonist would be, the return of happy Ted & Booster hijinks to the DCU would be even better). Oh, and the Mandarin, because he's a supervillain, and they never stay dead.
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BTW, have you realized that in current Marvel canon, of the four people who knew where Steve is actually interred, only two of them remain? Tony, Jan, Hank, Namor: Hank was a Skrull and Jan's "dead".
Pepper: It seems that writers just give her whatever personality's most convenient, story-wise, at the time. This has been going on for a loooong time. Poor Pepper. Maybe I should be thankful for the movie for giving Pepper a more concrete, visible representation (this is what she looks like, this is what she sounds like, this is how she moves), except that it's still hard to get a handle on her personality. You've got the canny and efficient assistant (although I wonder how good she is at actually reading people), and you've got the ditz who ( ... )
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