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    Character » Rom appears in 268 issues.

    Silver sentry from the golden galaxy, Rom has come to Earth to destroy the forces of the Dire Wraiths.

    Anyone Want Him Back?

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    #1  Edited By Stormultt

    I've done some research on the guy and he seems pretty amazing to me. 
     I think we could use a "Old New" face back in the mu. I think a reboot would be cool. 
     
    Would anyone else want him back? Or do you not even know who he is?
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    #2  Edited By TheBlueAngel93

    Truthfully, I don't even know who he is. But hey, with a good story, I'd read about him.

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    #3  Edited By Stormultt
    @War Killer:
    You know it's interesting to me that marvel let some pretty amazing characters slip by without relaunching them. 
    Hopefully this decade they relaunch this guy, I'm becoming a big fan.
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    i do. at least a 1-shot or a mini.
    they could use the digital format as 
    a testing ground, or FCBD as its
    coming up.

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    #5  Edited By TheBlueAngel93
    @Stormultt said:
    "@War Killer: You know it's interesting to me that marvel let some pretty amazing characters slip by without relaunching them. Hopefully this decade they relaunch this guy, I'm becoming a big fan. "
    I agree, I like my Captain America and Iron Man, but every now and then I want to read about someone I know little to nothing about, it's good to read about someone new or old, that's why I'm loving books like Marvels Project, Golden and Silver Age heroes forgotten in time.
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    #6  Edited By Meteorite

    A new ROM book would be good, but I think that they can't do one because of copyright reasons or something like that.

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    #7  Edited By gravitypress

    Marvel doesn't own the rights, Parker Brothers does.

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    #8  Edited By Nova`Prime`
    @gravitypress said:
    " Marvel doesn't own the rights, Parker Brothers does. "
    This is why you won't see ROM Space Knight in any more comics, but that doesn't stop Marvel from introducing different Space Knights. Like the one at the end of Thanos Imperative Devastation.

     Ikon The SpaceKnight
     Ikon The SpaceKnight
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    #9  Edited By Heckfire
    @Nova`Prime`: She's no Rom, but I've heard good stuff about her.
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    #10  Edited By Nova`Prime`
    @Heckfire: agreed.
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    #11  Edited By Avenging-X-Bolt

    funny, my old teacher lent me a whole bunch of rom issues but i never read a single one
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    #12  Edited By MrSeaman70

    If ROM can set the whole marvel universe back to the good old 90s where Magneto and Prof-X hate each other's guts, Cyclops and Jean still lovey dovey with each other, and Spider-Man and Mary Jane are still married, and Rogue still plays hard to get with Gambit... then I'm all for ROM :)
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    #13  Edited By CATPANEXE
    @gravitypress: @Nova`Prime`
    Parker Bros parent company Hasbro is in bed with Disney producing the Marvel license until 2017. 
    Why would they not allow their own partner in industry put a toy of theirs that hasn't had a pulse in over a decade in a comic book that might spark interest in it?
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    #14  Edited By gravitypress
    @CATPANEXE: My guess would be royalties and legal BS. Or they would have brought him back already. Wow I posted that a while ago.
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    #15  Edited By PowerHerc

    Not me.

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    #16  Edited By Sempurna

    Rom wasn't a good character.

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    #17  Edited By CATPANEXE
    @gravitypress
    Like I said I don't believe that. When Disney acquired Marvel Comics, they allowed Hasbro to continually use the entire Marvel Comics property line, as well to add to it and produce for animation, Hasbro reaping the benefits of all, despite their long standing with Mattel and ownership of their own toy companies. I really doubt Hasbro>Parker Bros would deny them use of Rom, a character they make no money on and Marvel originally gave any popularity to. 

    I think it's more reasonable that the writers just didn't choose to use his specific character for the Annihilators series. Probable that his back story meshed with the one they were writing, or, they had possible future plans for him.
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    #18  Edited By gravitypress

    I did like Rom but hated Dire Wraiths. With a cool name like Dire wraith you wouldnt think they look like mounds of poo.

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    #19  Edited By Kairan1979
    @gravitypress said:
    I did like Rom but hated Dire Wraiths. With a cool name like Dire wraith you wouldnt think they look like mounds of poo.
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    #20  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous
    @MrSeaman70 said:
    If ROM can set the whole marvel universe back to the good old 90s where Magneto and Prof-X hate each other's guts, Cyclops and Jean still lovey dovey with each other, and Spider-Man and Mary Jane are still married, and Rogue still plays hard to get with Gambit... then I'm all for ROM :)
    You mean erase every bit of character development ever?
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    #21  Edited By karrob

    @PowerHerc said:

    Not me.

    Agreed!

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    #22  Edited By AskaniSon295

    DC should buy the rights to Rom and Have him appear in the NEW52 Earth-0. DC has a history of buying unused properties and re-imageing them. Just like they did with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

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