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There is currently an edit war with Image:Captainobvious.jpg and Image:Captobvious.gif over its appearance. Tom mayfair keeps changing the colours (red and black), because it makes it look less Captain American; and I keep reverting it to its original blue version, because changing the colours would be like altering history or adding an 8th day to the week (Read Wikipedia's article on the subject).

So we need to get over this problem by asking: Which colour should Captain Obvious be? --AAA! (AAAA) 06:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't trust wikipedia on something like what colour captain obvious should be. And I'm willing to bet that the picture came after the phrase. So it's not really changing history, it's more like a different version of it. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 07:13, 6 Jan 2007

The imagetalk for one of the pics mentions an IRC discussion; I take it you weren't involved? Have you tried, oh I don't know, talking to him? Sometimes that helps. Nibble on his earlobe, maybe.--Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 07:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

There is an old discussion is one of Tom's archives. Technically, all he said was he was going to make a B&W version of him. Sikon has uploaded and protected Image:Captobvious.png, which is a PNG version of one of the above images. And nibbling on Tom's earlobe, let's not go there... --AAA! (AAAA) 11:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

What I said was, "I talked with users in the IRC. They think it would be better if his colours were black & white. I will work on that tomorrow possibly or within the next week. 01:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC)". 13:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Proof that my memory ain't what it used to be, or something... --AAA! (AAAA) 13:55, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

And the black & white wasn't even my idea. I thought it was better than the red one because, like someone on the IRC said, "everything is black & white with him anyway so it makes more sense." 14:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I added the choose option to the images. Case solved. I'm still puzzle as to why people would support Imperial Capitalistic American propaganda with Captain America. We all know that America is the best and all and should be represented at all times as the best. I admire your patriotism to support the United States of America. And thanks for supporting the Iraq war. :P 16:24, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Wait 'till the discussion is over my little H&S friend. --AAA! (AAAA) 01:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Like modern comic books, the original origin of Captain Obvious should be changed to meet the changing demographics. Thusly, I elect that we change Captain Obvious to an old black woman.--Nytrospawn 22:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Ahem

So, when is the poll suppost to close? It might as well be over. 19:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Which colour?

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Blue (original)

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Worst...pissing...contest...ever

• I can't help not caring...--Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 18:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

But that shouldn't stop you from signing the page now should it...:) --Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 20:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

• Just have different versions of his costumes, because he changed the color to create more versions of his action figures, obviously. One blue and red, one red and yellow, and one black and white. Obviously like when Spider-Man had his black and white costume they had to have a red and blue Spidey action figure and a black and white Spidey action figure. Say that Captain Obvious got his black and white costume after Secret Wars, obviously like Spider-Man did, to help Marvel sell more action figures of Captain Obvious. The red and yellow costume was made by Tony Stark aka Iron Man based on the colors of his Iron Man armor, like he did for Spider-Man's new costume. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 20:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Damn, you see into thin's WAY too much. But it's a great analogy. 20:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Seems like a pretty good place for <choose> and <option> tags, to me.  Sir Tooltroll, Esq. CUN • Eh? • Oh! • UnTunes! •• I my cat! 23:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

AAA! doesn't agree with the <choose> and <option> tags. He wants the votes to determine the outcome. See Here. I didn't need Captain Obvious's advice to see that. Oh well. I tried. 00:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, duh! ;) AAA!'s just being silly: obviously, all three images already exist on the wiki, and future authors will make their own choices regarding which one they use, or using a choose tag. It's a wiki!  Sir Tooltroll, Esq. CUN • Eh? • Oh! • UnTunes! •• I my cat! 00:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hisss! Nah, I removed the tags because I think we should use only one colour, and we need to find out which. --AAA! (AAAA) 06:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Heh. And then? You'll sit by your computer 24/7 for the next 50 years to enforce it? It's a wiki, dude! It'd take more space to huff the alternates than keep them, anyway. Besides, Cap'n Obvious has to wash his jammies sometime! Maybe he threw his lucky red hat into the wash with them. Or Mrs. Obvious did. Maybe. . .   Sir Tooltroll, Esq. CUN • Eh? • Oh! • UnTunes! •• I my cat! 07:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

This is how Luther got started with the whole Protestantism thing; nailing that Blue Captain Obvious on the church door. Heresies upon heresies! Of course, everything I learned, I learned on teh internets...--Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 16:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

"A certain/ convocation of politic worms are e'en at him", eh? --Sir Jam 16:25, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

You made me read Shakespeare. Bastard. Taming of the Shrew maybe...but Hamlet? That's just cruel.--Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 20:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

What the fucking fuck.

ZOMG LIEK WIHCH COLUOR?!?!!!!!!!!

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- David Gerard 13:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Resolved

I think I've resolved it. I placed <option> tags on the images, with the colour with the most votes given the highest weight and the colour with the least votes given the lowest weight. Now, could Tom mayfair please re-upload the red version of this? --AAA! (AAAA) 06:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Now why wasn't this option good enough when I submitted it on the 6th of January? After some lengthy consideration, I have concluded that if this voting system is going to be honored, then one image shall remain. Sorry, I submitted to the rules of democracy & now you have to honor them as well. I tried to rosolve it in a peaceful matter but that wasn't good enough. Does Al Gore even remotely run the USA after the 2000 election? No. Make your peace with Captain America. 09:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Because you didn't do it right. They have to be the same colour when optioned. --AAA! (AAAA) 07:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Stupidest...argument...ever. Sure, once I punched that guy because he mocked my manly unibrow, but this takes the cake. Speaking of cake. /me eats cake.--Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 09:58, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Al Gore is still a part of the New World Order when last I checked, just the Liberal Democrat part of the NWO which is the left hand, and the NEOCON Republican part if the right hand of the NWO. Remember that the Supreme Court, mostly with judges appointed by Bill Clinton, a Liberal Democrat, decided that George W. Bush was the winner in Florida and thus the next US President. If Al Gore wants to blame anyone, blame the judges that he and his partner Bill appointed. Gore could have appealed as well, but he didn't. Captain America was a tool anyway that outlived his usefulness because WWII has been over for a long time, and he is in a new world that he not only does not understand, but refuses to change in order to adapt to it. We need a Captain Obvious quote on Captain America, and why Captain Obvious was picked to replace Captain America. I think your idea on Democracy was a good one, but being a Wiki, it is hard to enforce a Democracy, because we have seen people just change things like the {{USERNAME}} template being disabled before we could vote on it, the Captain Obvious vote being changed to the way it is now, and now even articles that someone obviously has vandalized are being put into QVFD and VFD without someone trying to restore them to the funnier versions. Captain America was a symbol of what the USA could have been, but when our nation needed him most, he was frozen in a block of ice and not thawed out until the 1960's which turned him from a Conservative into an Ultra-Liberal with a WWII mentality and mind-set. Not only that, but Captain America got his powers via drugs, the super soldier serum, and what kind of role model is that for kids? Some sort of super steroids. Batman got his muscles by working out a lot and studying martial arts, etc. Captain America got his from a test tube. Captain Obvious got his powers by deducing things, obviously. He obviously got his muscles by working out with the X-Men, Justice League, and at high school instead of studying and reading books, based on his observations. Captain Obvious is no role model for children, that part is obvious, but he does give children a service by pointing out the obvious to them if they are too much of a slacker to notice those things. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 05:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

What?--Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 05:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

What indeed. There are some obvious things going on in the USA and Uncyclopedia itself that Captain Obvious is needed for. Will the "Master of Duh", the "Wizard of What", and the "Champion of Crap" come to save the day, once more, in one of three color combinations of his costume? --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 05:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Obviously

if he's supposed to be obvious he should be neon pink and green - jack mort | cunt | talk - 20:08, 16 January 2007 (UTC)