[xerxes]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Well, apparently she's going to be the next Thor.

Jane foster became Thor in the comics for a brief period 5 years ago, after exploring the concept in 1978. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/What_If%3F_Vol_1_10

She then became Valkyrie after Brunnhilde was killed.[/quote]C'mon dude. Natalie Portman? I'm not saying a woman should never play Thor but seriously, Natalie Portman? Christ, at least bring in a woman who looks Nordic and is kind'a stacked (no, not THAT way).

Mind you, they kind'a lost me when they portrayed a Black guy as a part of Viking mythology.[/quote]

So? Why does it matter? These are fictional characters we’re talking about here. Who cares what colour they are, do they portray their character properly would be the bigger issue I would think. Did Idris Elba not play a badass Heimdal?

[xerxes]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

xerxes xerxes:

Seeing as Avengers: End Game just beat Avatar for the record of all time box office gross, I wouldn't hold your breath.

And it's telling that they called it End Game. Because, I suspect that was the end of the magic that was Marvel.

Have you heard about Phase 4. Does it seriously fill you with hope for more mega blockbusters. The big name draws are gone. What's replacing them? Girl Thor? Black Cap? Rowdy in the Iron Man suit? Where's Hulk now? Anybody know?

Remember how Game of Thrones fell apart after they lost the books for guideposts. Get ready for more of that is my guess. In the comics good Marvel died about a decade ago.

This new marvelverse might be like Captain Marvel. OK but just OK. But to hold the verse up out of the red they have to be better than OK.

I have hopes for some of what's coming though. I can be wrong, I guess, but in the long run I see the marvelverse petering out from here.

Marvel hasn’t put one foot wrong yet so have faith. Remember when RDJ was cast as Iron Man and people were all like, “really? Him” Ok.....l

[Tricks]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

C'mon dude. Natalie Portman? I'm not saying a woman should never play Thor but seriously, Natalie Portman? Christ, at least bring in a woman who looks Nordic and is kind'a stacked (no, not THAT way).

You'd want them to change the actress half way through the series for no other reason than she doesn't look nordic enough? Got any actresses (who are actually good) that fit that mold?

$1:

Mind you, they kind'a lost me when they portrayed a Black guy as a part of Viking mythology.

Comics =/= viking mythology. And Idris Elba did a fucking outstanding job in that roll.

[Tricks]

xerxes xerxes:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

xerxes xerxes:

Seeing as Avengers: End Game just beat Avatar for the record of all time box office gross, I wouldn't hold your breath.

And it's telling that they called it End Game. Because, I suspect that was the end of the magic that was Marvel.

Have you heard about Phase 4. Does it seriously fill you with hope for more mega blockbusters. The big name draws are gone. What's replacing them? Girl Thor? Black Cap? Rowdy in the Iron Man suit? Where's Hulk now? Anybody know?

Remember how Game of Thrones fell apart after they lost the books for guideposts. Get ready for more of that is my guess. In the comics good Marvel died about a decade ago.

This new marvelverse might be like Captain Marvel. OK but just OK. But to hold the verse up out of the red they have to be better than OK.

I have hopes for some of what's coming though. I can be wrong, I guess, but in the long run I see the marvelverse petering out from here.

Marvel hasn’t put one foot wrong yet so have faith. Remember when RDJ was cast as Iron Man and people were all like, “really? Him” Ok.....l

WOMEN AND COLORED FOLK BEING STARS. GET WOKE GO BROKE.

Fucking idiots. Completely ignoring source material where falcon became cap, Foster became Thor. Fuck me I hate people so much.

[llama66]

Is "coloured" an appropriate word to describe those with a darker complexion? I feel there are some serious connotations attached to that word.

[Tricks]

llama66 llama66:

Is "coloured" an appropriate word to describe those with a darker complexion? I feel there are some serious connotations attached to that word.

That was the point.

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

Is "coloured" an appropriate word to describe those with a darker complexion? I feel there are some serious connotations attached to that word.

It's a conundrum. "Black" isn't descriptive of many people, although calling them black isn't really accurate. Sidney Poitier is 'Black'. Is Halley Berry, or is she more of a 'Cappuccino'?

'Coloured' to me brings up expectations of greens and purples. In any case, referring to them as 'non-white', while it wouldn't be a surprise to them, also somehow seems wrong.

[raydan]

I'm kinda a pinkish light brown now... and my freckles are coming out.

[N_Fiddledog]

Tricks Tricks:

WOMEN AND COLORED FOLK BEING STARS. GET WOKE GO BROKE.

Fucking idiots. Completely ignoring source material where falcon became cap, Foster became Thor. Fuck me I hate people so much.

You know what I hate about some people. Is when they think the can browbeat me into ignoring the obvious and then try to pass their ignorance off as superior knowledge.

Girl Thor failed in comics. Female Captain Meh failed about 7 times. They kept bringing her back anyway. She even failed recently with a seemingly successful movie to back her up.

At one time I was into the comics. Then I wasn't but I still kept my ears open to any developments that might filter into mainstream consciousness. I remember hearing about Marvel Civil War in the Comics. I knew about Thanos long before he was talked up in the movie verse.

But after those two things whatever was happening in Marvel Comics went dark. Other than the whole woke thing, I mean. The first time I heard about that was during the Occupy Movement. Cap and The Falcon where going to fight some evil force controlling the minds of those opposing the far left protest movement that was Occupy. The pooping on the streets, rapers in tents, and communists of Occupy were being sold as the good guys.

Lately, I've been making an effort to go the extra mile and look things up. Apparently this is what's been happening since Marvel comics went dark to me:

$1:

Marvel's Legacy Heroes are a slew of (usually) younger, more diverse character who've inherited the mantle of another superhero. Sam Wilson became Captain America, X-23 donned the Wolverine mask, and the Spider-Man range has embraced characters like Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen. Meanwhile, other books have carefully pivoted to increase their representation - returning classic X-Men, while having Iceman embrace his long-secret homosexuality.

Here's the thing about "Get woke. Go broke." It isn't about using a female or black or gay character or even making the fiction more diverse in general.

It's about pushing a flip to a new set of standards and virtues in a blatant propagandized indoctrination campaign.

It's about using somebody's fandom to sell them a new belief system. One shouldn't be surprised to learn a section of the fandom sees what they're doing, doesn't like it and stops buying into it.

Saying it's about black or female characters is nonsense. The over-selling of such things to the point it becomes cringe is only a dog whistle inviting closer observation to become aware of the obvious, underlying movement and the type pushing it at the core.

[desertdude]

BRAH BRAH:

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They could have picked someone who looked better.

Dayum Son! Bitch looks like Kanye West!

So when are we seeing the new Tomb Raider featuring Larry Croft or the new Alien movie with Alan Ripley ?

[stratos]

[Tricks]

I can't wait till they explore deadpool's sexuality.

Ya'll are gonna be pissed.

[llama66]

Tricks Tricks:

I can't wait till they explore deadpool's sexuality.

Ya'll are gonna be pissed.

He's Omni or Pansexual.

[Tricks]

llama66 llama66:

Tricks Tricks:

I can't wait till they explore deadpool's sexuality.

Ya'll are gonna be pissed.

He's Omni or Pansexual.

Omni.

[N_Fiddledog]

Tricks Tricks:

I can't wait till they explore deadpool's sexuality.

Ya'll are gonna be pissed.

Believe it or not there were comics before the mid-2000s when you appear to have wandered in.

Those were the comics thought of as the 'cool ones' by those of us who grew up with them and those who inherited the echos. This more recent thing you're trained to think of as Marvel are what we think of as that time our fandom was hijacked by social justice infiltrators.

Things have changed though. The training wheels of our era of the 'cool marvel' are off. Your social justice era of the PC hijacked Marvel are the guide posts now. Let's see how it goes from here.