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Originally Posted by just have a little faith
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Wow you guys and your comic book knowledge :crazy:
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I know, Sarah. Imagine, people on the X-Men board actually knowing something about comic books? :P :lol:
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Originally Posted by dragonfire
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Alex I believe WB/DC may be scared to make a another Green Lantern/Hal Jordan sole movie, since the last one flopped at the box office. One thing I noticed if a DC movie flops it may be a long time before WB tries to make another one. Well except Batman WB gives Batman, and his characters unlimited chances, while they give the other DC characters only one chance. :look:
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Hi, dragonfire! :wave: Well, X-Men Origins: Wolverine flopped, but that didn't stop Fox from taking another shot at getting Deadpool right with the Deadpool movie, remember? :shrug: Ryan Reynolds redeemed himself with the Deadpool movie and erased that awful Deadpool from X-Men Origins, so there's no reason why WB couldn't do the same thing with Hal Jordan. Just because the first Green Lantern movie had a bad script doesn't mean that Hal Jordan can't be given a proper and better treatment in a new film. :nod:
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Originally Posted by sum1
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Well, I'm not familiar enough with the name Riri to know if it's a stereotype, but it is true that down the line Tony Stark is likely to be the one that's remembered. They've made a black woman into a spinoff of a white male character. Stop subordinating minority characters to white characters!
And I hear they just killed off War Machine. So much for them wanting more minority characters. I remember when he was Iron Man back in the '80s. I never had a problem with him, but back then there wasn't a general trend of making minority characters into subordinate versions of white male characters.
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I agree, sum1. :nod: And "Ri Ri" sounds like a character from 'Empire,' so it does seem a bit stereotypical, but I just went off on PC so I don't wanna sound too much like a hypocrite. :lol: She's created by Brian Bendis, the same guy who created Miles Morales for Ultimate Spider-Man... and just because actor Donald Glover complained about not being considered for the role of Peter Parker, which went to Andrew Garfield instead. Seriously? Who cares about Hollywood actors? They complain about everything.
I heard that War Machine was "sort of" killed, but was preserved by nano-bots or some such thing, and he's now like Cyborg or something. That's original. :rolleyes: I personally preferred Terence Howard as James Rhodes. Don Cheadle just doesn't look like Rhodey from the comics to me, but that's just me. I didn't like Robert Downey Jr. getting Terence fired from the Iron Man movies, though. I liked Rhodey in the early 80's comics as well. :nod: He was the Iron Man in the Secret Wars miniseries, as well as the Iron Man in the original West Coast Avengers miniseries. I know you didn't like WCA, but I kinda thought it made sense to have two teams, one on each coast, to give them greater mobility. Cap always was more east coast-based, and Tony does seem more at home on the west coast. X-Men did the same thing with their Blue and Gold teams.
I agree with you about Beta Ray Bill and Eric Masterson as well. I know you don't like Donald Blake, but my only reason for giving him a pass was because he didn't really exist. He was always Thor, just having been brainwashed into thinking he was a human. :shrug: Was it any worse than when Thor was turned into a frog? :lol: Remember that one? :crazy: Ditto Wolverine losing his adamantium, but I think that was done just to change his claws so they were actually bone that was covered in adamantium and not artificial constructs put into his arms.
As for She-Hulk being objectified, hasn't pretty much every female superhero going all the way back to Wonder Woman and Catwoman? They always draw these characters to arouse and attract the attention of male readers. And I understand your reservations about X-23, but I'm willing to give her a chance because I do think that they're doing with her what they did with She-Hulk and that she'll be her own character. :nod: And Chris Claremont was good at writing female characters, but he's the exception. I think there were a lot more writers back in the day who knew how to write women in comics than there are now. :shrug:
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Originally Posted by sum1
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Well for me it comes down to personal preference. I never got especially attached to Mar-Vell or Carol Danvers, but Monica Rambeau is an old favorite of mine, so I prefer her to have the name. Carol can go back to being Ms Marvel, which is what she was originally.
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Well, unfortunately it's too late for that, sum1. The Ms. Marvel name has been given to Kamala Khan, the Muslim-American superhero, as part of Marvel's "All New, All Different" cultural redistribution project. :rolleyes: And with Carol getting her own Captain Marvel movie with Brie Larson, I think Marvel has pretty much settled on her being the heir apparent to Mar-Vell. And again, while I like Monica Rambeau, I still think the Captain Marvel name should go to the wielder of the nega-bands and the title of "Protector of the Universe," and that's Carol Danvers. I do wish they'd give Monica a new storyline and a better name. How difficult is it to come up with a name? DC can make a name out of anything.