Talk:Caliban (Marvel Comics)

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Why is the virtually the entire article in present tense? "He is born an albino mutant"? Most of it should be past tense. Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 03:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 03:36, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Ahab's hounds, Days of Future Past and Caliban
I've been doing a bit of research, albeit original, but research nonetheless regarding the hounds that were used in the Days of Future Past timeline. Although there has never been an exact depiction of that reality or the process of the hound creation, I'm beginning to wonder if Caliban was not used as a possible template for the hound process. His tracking abilities aside, if anyone has looked at Caliban's appearance, in some of his early appearance Caliban has markings that resemble the hound tattoo's that are on Rachel Grey's face. Again, I'm just speculating but it does appear that he could have been used as a template power wise, and tattoo wise, even though Caliban's facial markings appear to be part of his mutation, even though some later artists seemed to not draw them in. Drunknesmonsta (talk) 06:30, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Merger to the list of Marvel characters
I'm ok with offering time to improve this, but right now it doesn't seem worthwhile. There are no sources for the other media appearances outside of 3 confirming his appearance in 2 films. I'm not convinced this character is independently notable. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:37, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Here are some others I dug up just to name a few. These are mostly thanks to the film but it still talks about the character in good detail to maybe improve. I am not saying that proves notability but it has proven he's a lot less minor than some Marvel characters who still have articles. Jhenderson 7 7 7  20:48, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/who-is-caliban-history-stephen-938974
 * https://www.bustle.com/articles/163124-who-is-caliban-in-x-men-apocalypse-the-mysterious-mutant-has-a-complicated-backstory
 * http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/x-men-apocalypse-bryan-singer-confirms-marvel-mutant-caliban-will-feature-in-movie-10278689.html
 * "he's a lot less minor than some Marvel characters who still have articles" No argument there. Argento Surfer (talk) 21:04, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

And your preffered solution is to delete the lot of them? Dimadick (talk) 21:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * My preferred solution is to merge them to the List of Marvel Comics characters. I can think of only one in the last five years that was so minor that I preferred deletion. Argento Surfer (talk) 21:52, 21 February 2017 (UTC)