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counterfeitsaint posted:Both Spiderman and Johnny Blaze want you to stop being outraged on their behalf if you would. Emphasis on Spiderman, not Peter Parker.
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Tom Gorman posted:Batman gets shoved into lockers and pantsed in gym class for 2 hours 49 minutes. Be careful what you wish for   http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Gotham_High
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Be careful what you wish for I think DC modified this concept to make tie-in cartoon shorts for their line of female superhero toys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT74992z9hk
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The MSJ posted:I think this BvS spot is new. Stay tuned for the new scene at the very end, hahaha. Why do I laugh every time I see Batman get punked by Superman? I love Wonder Woman's theme
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https://twitter.com/ArchieComics/status/711559096361734144
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Bob Quixote posted:So if you put out a fire that would have consumed a building and killed everyone inside you are somehow saving fewer lives than the one or two guys in the building who managed to keep their heads and usher a few people in their area out the fire doors? Are you literally saving less lives? No. Does the guy getting people out have more of a dramatic impact? Yeah, that's why in most firefighting stories we follow the dude who runs into the burning building looking for people instead of the crew pumping water.
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lol at Archie in a gorillaz tee
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How come nobody ever complains about how hosed up it is that Scarlet Witch uses mind control to make people abandon their dinner and evacuate
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ALFbrot posted:How come nobody ever complains about how hosed up it is that Scarlet Witch uses mind control to make people abandon their dinner and evacuate I've read complaints about this. You just haven't seen them.
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IMHO it's p hosed up when Spiderman swoops down and picks up a man who is about to be crushed by falling debris. He is depriving that man of his free will to be where he wants, plus what if the man is very scared of heigjts
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Sir Kodiak posted:I've read complaints about this. You just haven't seen them. To be fair, my eyes usually glaze over every time people bring up Age of Ultron
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ALFbrot posted:How come nobody ever complains about how hosed up it is that Scarlet Witch uses mind control to make people abandon their dinner and evacuate a superhero story about someone with the power of mind control but who is also a moral enough person to have serious qualms about ever using it would be cool and good
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Preacher kind of does that. Bits of it, at least. The bits where Ennis actually picks consistent characterization over edgy stuff, so not a lot of bits if I'm honest. Maybe we'll get more of it in the show?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:a superhero story about someone with the power of mind control but who is also a moral enough person to have serious qualms about ever using it would be cool and good Isn't that basically (modern) Professor X's whole deal, though the other part of that deal is that he's typically (for an imperfect human) hypocritical about it when the chips are down? To be honest the "don't use your mind control powers on anyone who doesn't consent" is pretty much the default position for any powerful telepath in modern comics, and it's also usually not particularly interesting because choosing to do so is depicted as a fully deliberate choice they typically make in circumstances where putting a bullet in the brain of the person they're mind-controlling would be a morally justifiable course of action for anyone without super-powers. Imo, it would be way more interesting to see something like an in-depth examination of what a highly moral version of the Purple Man would be like- in that case your powers seems like a legitimate curse, because reflexively exuding a zone of mind control in which everyone tries to please you and does everything that you ask would mean that you'd likely need to take extreme measures to avoid unduly influencing anyone, and you'd never be sure how genuine any of your interactions were (Jessica Jones obviously touched on this a little, but Killgrave was a monster and his self-pitying justifications were not meant to be taken at face value) LGD fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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LGD posted:Imo, it would be way more interesting to see something like an in-depth examination of what a highly moral version of the Purple Man would be like- in that case your powers seems like a legitimate curse, because reflexively exuding a zone of mind control in which everyone tries to please you and does everything that you ask would mean that you'd likely need to take extreme measures to avoid unduly influencing anyone, and you'd never be sure how genuine any of your interactions were (Jessica Jones obviously touched on this a little, but Killgrave was a monster and his self-pitying justifications were not meant to be taken at face value) Yeah, this is what I was thinking of. Kilgrave is both not actually interested in reform and thematically his power is a metaphor for an abusive relationship, so it wouldn't have made sense to follow through on the "what if he could be a better person?" stuff in that context, but the semi-involuntary nature of it would be one way to force the issue. I don't actually read comics apart from a friend lending me a disorganized pile of old X-Men stuff in high school plus dabbling in stuff like The Invisibles or Sandman here and there, so it's entirely possible this has been done and done many times. I would have no idea. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Preacher kind of does that. Bits of it, at least. The bits where Ennis actually picks consistent characterization over edgy stuff, so not a lot of bits if I'm honest. Maybe we'll get more of it in the show? That's... actually most of the bits, though. The stuff like Herr Starr's head-scar making him look like a giant penis, Odin Quincannon's meat woman (tagging because we already know he's showing up in the show), and Jesus de Sade's existence is just more memorable. I re-read it a while ago and I was actually kind of amused by how the arcs seem to follow a pattern of incredibly serious buildup to a goofy-as-gently caress climax.
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LGD posted:Imo, it would be way more interesting to see something like an in-depth examination of what a highly moral version of the Purple Man would be like- in that case your powers seems like a legitimate curse, because reflexively exuding a zone of mind control in which everyone tries to please you and does everything that you ask would mean that you'd likely need to take extreme measures to avoid unduly influencing anyone, and you'd never be sure how genuine any of your interactions were (Jessica Jones obviously touched on this a little, but Killgrave was a monster and his self-pitying justifications were not meant to be taken at face value) Honestly? The only things that jump to mind are hermitage or joining a monastery with a vow of silence. Or, I suppose, just writing/typing everything you want to say.
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Cythereal posted:Honestly? The only things that jump to mind are hermitage or joining a monastery with a vow of silence. Yeah, those are the practical solutions and would probably be the character's default state, but they don't necessarily make for the drama. Unless you want to go really deep into how various people choose to sublimate things like desire for wealth/fame/sex/love I guess, which might be interesting but isn't typical comic book fare (not least because the most obvious modern real-world parallel to such a character would be a priest struggling with being pedophile [no one you're attracted to can meaningfully consent], though you could make a more palatable character by modeling them on a king/emperor/feudal lord who has deliberately given up their temporal power and its moral compromises to live purely). To be honest I'm not sure how interesting this hypothetical series would actually end up being, because if the Purple Man's powers in Jessica Jones were a metaphor for the coercive effects of an abusive relationship, in this version (if it's one where the mind controller interacts with people, and it'd almost have to be to be interesting) they'd almost certainly be a metaphor for fame/political power/money and the personal havoc that they can wreak even with the best of intentions. But that's a story that has been done a lot, and does anyone really have new/interesting things to say about the consequences of celebrity? (Though there are other themes you can emphasize with it obviously, since such a character would obviously face temptation to right wrongs by just dictating new political/judicial outcomes to the appropriate people [which they might be wrong about and/or can be used as a metaphor for the wealthy covertly subverting democratic politics to achieve idiosyncratic goals]. The story is either going to be about power being misused/having been misused in the past, or how and why someone with the power to trivially change the world chooses never to do so [and why that is good/bad]. Which have both been done to death, but really what story hasn't?) LGD fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Pictures from the new Batman movie.    
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Mar 22, 2016 00:40
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Is that Lego Batman the Movie or Lego Movie Batman the Movie?
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broken clock opsec posted:Is that Lego Batman the Movie or Lego Movie Batman the Movie? Lego Movie Batman. tbh, i'm kinda more excited to see this one more than batman vs. superman
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broken clock opsec posted:Is that Lego Batman the Movie or Lego Movie Batman the Movie? Either way, it's unmitigated trash.
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wyoming posted:Either way, it's unmitigated trash. You mean tons of loving fun.
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Lego Movie was dope, haters go step on a brick
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Lego movie mediocre, Lego Batman movie... I do not care
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HorseRenoir posted:making an entire movie about Lego Batman seems like the definition of in what way?
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The best
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Brother Entropy posted:in what way? The whole lego thing has created several movies and like a billion games out of a dumb gimmick that was kind of amusing maybe one time.
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HorseRenoir posted:making an entire movie about Lego Batman seems like the definition of Lego is popular. Batman is popular. It turns out that Lego Batman is probably the most popular character from The Lego Movie. The Lego Batman games are also the biggest Lego games in terms of content outside of Lego Dimensions (I know this the moment I saw a screenshot of Lego Arkillo from the Lego Sinestro Corp). It's not like this is the first Lego [franchise] thing either. Lego Star Wars had multiple TV movies, Ninjago had several series, now there's also Nexo Knights and I just saw an ad for a Lego Scooby Doo cartoon.
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Lego is awesome, quit being a bunch of squares.
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The Lego movie wasn't funny. Like, at all.
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Mordiceius posted:The Lego movie wasn't funny. Like, at all. RIP your ability to feel things
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counterfeitsaint posted:The whole lego thing has created several movies and like a billion games out of a dumb gimmick that was kind of amusing maybe one time. yeah but what in particular makes lego batman a bridge too far? they're both hella popular media franchises who constantly churn out stuff to make money, there ain't nothing new or noteworthy here to get incensed over it
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There have already been, what, nine Batman movies, along with at least two more on the way if you count BvS, even more if Justice League qualifies, but clearly Lego Batman is just too much.
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Holy crap. I had no idea that any human being could not like The Lego Movie.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Holy crap. I had no idea that any human being could not like The Lego Movie. Gotta #love the #brand
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TetsuoTW posted:RIP your ability to feel things Sorry you've replaced feelings with crass consumerism.
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