Talk:Gertrude Yorkes

Asian?
Is she Asian? --DrBat 02:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No, she is ethnically Jewish --Godheval 18:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Jewish is as religion not an ethnicity so she is "ethnically" American
 * That would imply she was Native American. Jewish is definitely an ethnicity with physical features and culture attached to it. Despite not following Jewish religious teachings, I descend from Lithuania and identify as Jewish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Torca

Semitic would be the proper term to call someone genetically descended from the Levantine area. Calling yourself Jewish when your not Jewish (religiously) is completely wrong. No Semitic doesn't mean exclusively Jewish despite what popular media and terms like anti-semitic imply.

(talk • contribs) 23:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Clean-up
In trying to clean up this article - mostly organizing the information into sections, because it looked like a continuous ramble - certain scraps of information had to be removed, because they simply didn't fit anywhere. They also weren't terribly relevant to Gertrude as a character. There was a double-reference to her relationship with Chase, which I put all into one section. There was a comment about her looking and acting like Daria, which is a matter of opinion, and not at all relevant unless Vaughn stated that Daria was an inspiration or something to that effect. I may have to fix a few more things, but I think it's good enough now to remove the clean-up tag. ---Godheval 18:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Avengers Box?
Do you guys think that Gert and Victor deserve to be placed in that giant box of Avengers members since they are members in an alternate future?--Radaar 23:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirect
Arsenic (comics) and Gert Yorkes should redirect here.

Time Paradox...
There is no way that the death of Gertrude can actually last forever, as we already know she survives long enough to become an adult in the future, and goes back in time to warn the current members of impending doom. Coolgamer 14:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


 * And that's not how Time Travel works in the Marvel Universe, for every time one travels tot he past, it, in essence, is of a new universe. Marvel goes with the "many worlds" theory of time travel in order to rectify parodoxes. It's why the Marvel Universe (616) hasn't become the Age of Apocalypse. -- Majin Gojira

Name
I can tell that Vaughan is a fan of old movies as with his using the title "Arsenic and Old Lace" as a sort of code name for Gertrude. I was doing some reading last night on the evolution of film and it spoke about Winsor McCay in 1914 doing a live performance with animation. In his performance he interacted with an animated dinosaur named Gertrude. This event is considered one of the first known well-known usages of animation in film. Since the connection with old film, the usage of dinosaurs and the name - I'm led to believe that Gertrude Yorkes may have been named after this event. It's quite probable but I wasn't going to risk putting it in. Maybe someone else who's in charge of this article can take liberties with that.Abrynkus 17:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

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Overweight?
The introduction states that this character is overweight (even stressing that this makes her unique among comic book heroines), then continues to relate a size and weight that translate to a BMI of 23,7 - which is both healthy and normal. Are both of these informations (BMI and "being overweight") official canon? Because the way the introduction reads right now is probably gonna give young women a few pretty unhealthy ideas about "overweight" and attractiveness. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.2.140.45 (talk) 21:12, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I googled it. Vaughan describes her as chubby in this marvel.com article. As for being overweight, that doesn't appear to be canon. -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 01:20, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Gertrude Yorkes
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Reference named "Vol2#18": From Pride (comics): Runaways vol. 2 #18 From Old Lace (comics): Runaways: Volume 2, #18 

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