Zoramon089
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Equus Bellator Apex said:
I was thinking of examples to use but this is perfect. Boondocks is the perfect example of race based caricatures that exaggerate common stereotypes without going into the realm of being racist
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I was thinking of examples to use but this is perfect. Boondocks is the perfect example of race based caricatures that exaggerate common stereotypes without going into the realm of being racist
ChocolateCupcakes
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Equus Bellator Apex said:
Didn't see that one but I skimmed the thread and a similar thing happened when Idris Ebla was cast as Loki for the Thor movie. People were up in arms about it and I remember someone compared it to casting MLK Jr. as a white man. It was ridiculous.
Equus Bellator Apex
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No it's a different thread that came before the spiderman oneParallax said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396888
ChocolateCupcakes said:
Yeah, that was PhonenixDark. Don't take him too seriously.
spindashing
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The idea of something different is a scary thing for people, and has been throughout history.Equus Bellator Apex said:
I found it so cool that Stan Lee himself approved the idea of Donald as Peter Parker. I guess it was too good to be true, but the first episode of the new season of Community where Donald's character was wearing Spiderman pajamas in the start was laugh worthy.
Donald Glover as Spiderman was handled poorly around the web, though: not just on GAF.
A black Mary Jane woulda been such a bitch though LOL
100 Pages of Negrodom on NeoGAF!
lightless_shado
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Equus Bellator Apex
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spindashing said:
All it those is confirm that the world isn't ready for Idris Elba as James Bond.
TOO. MUCH. SWAG.
Naked Prime
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Lebron said:
you sure about that? Just saying.....
I can see Idris as Bond though
Equus Bellator Apex
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OuterWorldVoice said:
lightless_shado
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Naked Prime said:
ChocolateCupcakes said:
ugh, the fucking thor thread. what a fucking trainwreck
lightless_shado said:As long as everyone's talking about black superheroes and what not, I hope Patriot gets hinted at in the captain america movie. And I hope I live to see a proper Black Panther movie, animated or otherwise. I wasn't satisfied with this.
I mean look at his suit, so weak.
fuck the ultimates. i wanna say the ultimate universe as a whole, but the first 50 or so usm issues were pretty good. that being said, the only way we could possibly get him in a next avengers movie, and thats if the avengers does well
Lebron said:
is elba limber enough to be bp? hes big, but he needs to be able to move too
Tokubetsu
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In all honesty, any sort of big Hollywood production fo BP will probably suck. It needs to be a EU affair. It demands a certain kind of tone/atmosphere that hollywood would never get right.
That said, when it came to black characters in comics, Spawn was always my dude but I was always the anti-hero, listening to cure and death metal on the back of the bus sort of a kid.
That said, when it came to black characters in comics, Spawn was always my dude but I was always the anti-hero, listening to cure and death metal on the back of the bus sort of a kid.
lightless_shado
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Seems you guys forgot about Blade.
Tokubetsu
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Imm0rt4l said:
I love MJW but no way dude. The best line in Cinema was all Wesley Snipes:
http://youtu.be/pXhKzY0BKwY
lightless_shado
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Imm0rt4l said:
I think we can all agree: Every black action hero can be played by MJW
In a different world Action Hank would have gotten his own live action series and would be played by MJW
Tokubetsu said:
a foreign approach to bp would be interesting to see. hopefully tchaka would have some part in it.
as for spawn, he was a joke character who happened to be black. bullshit enemies like the eradicator, and down right retarded ones like cy-gor(part human, part gorilla, with cybernetic parts? what the hell) made me drop that crap
lightless_shado said:
action hank the series?...... yes, yes i do want it. someone needs to get brunched in the face
Tokubetsu
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Spawn went to shit after issue 50, not gonna argue that point but it was always entertaining, especially in it's hey day. It kinda had a return to form recently when Todd actually sat down and went "hey, lets make spawn not a pile of shit anymore" and they took it in a more serious/horror direction.
"This is Al Simmons. The man who saved the world but could not save himself"
Don't see how he wasn't that different most of the other heroes we got.
"This is Al Simmons. The man who saved the world but could not save himself"
Don't see how he wasn't that different most of the other heroes we got.
You know what I hate the most? When most of my friends on FB are poor-ish, black, then they get a good job but keep the pictures of them with smoke dripping out of their mouths clearly after hitting the ganja. I can understand if that ish was for friends only, but it isnt! Stop being so ignit. Fuck.
Wanna strangle them.
Wanna strangle them.
soul creator
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lightless_shado
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Parallax said:
I'd prefer just Luke cage and Wolverine.
THAT would be just amazing. Watching the two of them kick ass for over 70 min
spindashing
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I may get flamed for this, but...
I find black superheroes to be bland as fuck. Design and personality-wise. The one black heroes that I did like growing up was Spawn and Blade (by a small margin).
Then again, I say this with little exposure to DC/Marvel.
I find black superheroes to be bland as fuck. Design and personality-wise. The one black heroes that I did like growing up was Spawn and Blade (by a small margin).
Then again, I say this with little exposure to DC/Marvel.
spindashing
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John Stewart/Green Lantern is okay. I prefer Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner, though.
Storm, I can't hate on her at all. You're right.
I guess I can't hate on Eartha Kitt's Catwoman either, but I have little to no exposure to that goofy side of Batman.
Storm, I can't hate on her at all. You're right.
I guess I can't hate on Eartha Kitt's Catwoman either, but I have little to no exposure to that goofy side of Batman.
They're improving. Power man looks to be decent, static and quite a few of the milestone characters were good reads marred down by mediocre to bad art, alex wilder from the runaways and patriot from young avengers are great characters luke cage(the old power man) is bendis' new puppet, and leader of the awesome thunderbolts, and black panther is on a road to recovery after being turned into an affirmative action bitch by one of the owners of BET, but his push to his previous awesome might be barred by this new american panther thing. Black characters have come a long way. Hell, there's a black science powered superman on marvels side, and an actual black superman on dcs side(well, two if you count milestones icon)spindashing said:
spindashing
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I forgot all about Aqualad in Young Justice. Shame on me.
He's alright. His personality is a bit monotone, but he does his job well as leader of the YJ.
He's alright. His personality is a bit monotone, but he does his job well as leader of the YJ.
captmcblack
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Aqualad is awesome...but his blackness is easy to accept/discount because like many "black" characters in cartoons, he's foreign/ethnic/not of Earth.
If Batman was back, people would go WHAT THE FUCK.
If they had a black Batman who was an extraterrestrial Batman in/from another dimension, you could discount it and ignore it.
Also, I have a confession to make about black superheroes:
...I really loved Static/Static Shock
If Batman was back, people would go WHAT THE FUCK.
If they had a black Batman who was an extraterrestrial Batman in/from another dimension, you could discount it and ignore it.
Also, I have a confession to make about black superheroes:
...I really loved Static/Static Shock
spindashing
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captmcblack said:...I really loved Static/Static Shock
He put a shock to our systems!
Essentially, he was a black spiderman. Highschooler given powers + having to deal with life around him and the powers bestowed down to him.
Plus he has a white sidekick, lol.
magnificent83
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captmcblack said:Aqualad is awesome...but his blackness is easy to accept/discount because like many "black" characters in cartoons, he's foreign/ethnic/not of Earth.
If Batman was back, people would go WHAT THE FUCK.
If they had a black Batman who was an extraterrestrial Batman in/from another dimension, you could discount it and ignore it.
Also, I have a confession to make about black superheroes:
...I really loved Static/Static Shock
Static, Black Panther and Luke Cage are awesome. I've been reading the early comics from when they were first created and Static really holds up, Powerman holds up too but not as much. 70s era comics were so corny, especially Powerman ... Luke spits so much jive at Doom, I couldn't help but laugh. So glad to have the Essential collections of Powerman.
NotebookJ2
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spindashing said:
I forgot his name, but he was gay in the comics and apparently according to some sources he was supposed to be gay in the cartoon as well, just not open about it [or didn't realize it yet] though I can't really vouch for the latter.
I really liked the Static Shock cartoon, though I felt it went way too much into crossover land in the later seasons, which is a shame. I guess I saw why they did it, but I really enjoyed the original stuff with the bang babies a lot more. Would've been interesting to see a cross over with the Teen Titans though.
Urban Scholar
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Aqualad is best damn thing on Young Justice.
Ninja_Hawk
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I thought Static was awesome...I just really hated his costume.captmcblack said:Aqualad is awesome...but his blackness is easy to accept/discount because like many "black" characters in cartoons, he's foreign/ethnic/not of Earth.
If Batman was back, people would go WHAT THE FUCK.
If they had a black Batman who was an extraterrestrial Batman in/from another dimension, you could discount it and ignore it.
Also, I have a confession to make about black superheroes:
...I really loved Static/Static Shock