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It's like someone saw the Crossbones costume and decided they needed something less practical.
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He's an angry white guy who kills the poo poo out of people because that's real and he's so angry and morally conflicted all the time and his backstory is crazy tragic but he's just so god-damned good at killing people he can take out the Justice League by himself. In other words, why wouldn't the current DC be loving obsessed with Deathstroke.
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Deathstroke is Evil Batman/Captain America. He's a Mostly Regular Guy whose power is being really super talented and smart and abnormally good at gettin' strong. DC's obsession with him isn't anything new, he's been a long-term fixture of the company for decades now.
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Aug 29, 2016 15:43
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Why do they insist on giving him this bulky rear end armor that never looks good in anything?
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Roth posted:Why do they insist on giving him this bulky rear end armor that never looks good in anything? The same reason they do Batman, because ~tactical realism.~ In this case they also probably are a bit hesitant because Deadpool made All The Money and they don't want to end up with people going "He's like Deadpool but boring and not funny!"
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Aug 29, 2016 15:46
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Roth posted:Why do they insist on giving him this bulky rear end armor that never looks good in anything? When his first N52 series launched that's what they gave him along with a giant sword. His Rebirth book has him back in a form fitting suit that looks pretty excellent.
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Aug 29, 2016 15:48
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ImpAtom posted:In this case they also probably are a bit hesitant because Deadpool made All The Money and they don't want to end up with people going "He's like Deadpool but boring and not funny!" This is exactly who he is though 
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Aug 29, 2016 16:07
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is exactly who he is though Well, more accurately Deadpool is like him but eventually became a funny (or 'funny') version. Still, I doubt anyone's going to care about that minutia when he's getting punched repeatedly in the balls by Aquaman.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:11
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Deadpool is not funny Deadpool.
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Deadpool originally started as a Deathstroke rip-off but thankfully became more than that over the years
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Aug 29, 2016 16:17
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DC is clinging to Deathstroke because he's the only time they got ripped off by Marvel instead of the other way around since 1938
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Aug 29, 2016 16:34
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I'm pretty sure Thanos was ripped off from Darkseid but I could be wrong.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:34
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Deathstroke should've been renamed Slade ages ago.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:35
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Deathstroke should've been renamed Slade ages ago. Slade the Terminator isn't as 90s badass as DEATHSTROKE THE TERMINATOR But of course they can't use his full name because litigation.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:52
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Travis343 posted:DC is clinging to Deathstroke because he's the only time they got ripped off by Marvel instead of the other way around since 1938 The Doom Patrol. 
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Aug 29, 2016 16:55
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ImpAtom posted:Deathstroke is Evil Batman/Captain America. He's a Mostly Regular Guy whose power is being really super talented and smart and abnormally good at gettin' strong. DC's obsession with him isn't anything new, he's been a long-term fixture of the company for decades now. He was the main Teen Titans enemy in the 1980s, then I think he was a sort of Suicide Squad type anti-hero (?) with his own comic in the 1990s. But I think him being pushed as an A-list villain who had a seat at the table in the Secret Society's inner circle only happened because of the cartoon, where he was a) this invincible master planner bad guy rather than an assassin-for-hire; and b) played by Ron Perlman. From there, he had his dumbass fight with the Justice League in Identity Crisis and that made him into one of the main villains in the Infinite Crisis era. Roth posted:Why do they insist on giving him this bulky rear end armor that never looks good in anything? The suit that he (well, Wintergreen) had in the first season of Arrow looked fine. Then in the second season of Arrow, he gets this costume that makes him look like a really determined hockey goalkeeper.
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Aug 29, 2016 17:22
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Ah yes, when he managed to stab flash in the shoulder.
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Clearly the people who came up with the Cyborg designed were involved in this atrocity. I love the person who said Cyborg looks like an Nvidia graphics card.
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Kingtheninja posted:Ah yes, when he managed to stab flash in the shoulder. He also defeated Black Canary by putting a bag over her head.
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E: I think I just got mixed up about something, move along please.
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Aug 29, 2016 19:14
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I actually liked the Arrow S1 costume way way more than this.
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Aug 29, 2016 19:53
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Wheat Loaf posted:He was the main Teen Titans enemy in the 1980s, then I think he was a sort of Suicide Squad type anti-hero (?) with his own comic in the 1990s. But I think him being pushed as an A-list villain who had a seat at the table in the Secret Society's inner circle only happened because of the cartoon, where he was a) this invincible master planner bad guy rather than an assassin-for-hire; and b) played by Ron Perlman. From there, he had his dumbass fight with the Justice League in Identity Crisis and that made him into one of the main villains in the Infinite Crisis era. https://i.imgur.com/gHhhSFF.gifv
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Aug 29, 2016 20:07
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I dunno, I don't think it looks awful. However: Rhyno posted:He looks like one of the robots from the Mortal Kombat films.
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Aug 29, 2016 20:56
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I like how DC made two really good cartoons shows with Teen Titans and then learned absolutely nothing from the experiences.
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ImpAtom posted:The Doom Patrol. I like how people always talk about X-men being a rip off of Doom Patrol, but then Doom Patrol is a rip off of Fantastic 4. FlamingLiberal posted:I'm pretty sure Thanos was ripped off from Darkseid but I could be wrong. I read that they were actually using Metron for the basis of Thanos, hence the flying chair, but then Stan Lee (i think) saw this and said "Why aren't we ripping off the good New God?" and then they switched it to Darkseid. I mean, I like Metron but he's far, far inferior to Darkseid.
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twistedmentat posted:I like how people always talk about X-men being a rip off of Doom Patrol, but then Doom Patrol is a rip off of Fantastic 4. And then Teen Titans was a ripoff of X-Men anyway.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:16
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We'd be here all day if we kept up which characters are rip-offs of which, and which company has done it worse.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:20
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Rhyno posted:When his first N52 series launched that's what they gave him along with a giant sword. His Rebirth book has him back in a form fitting suit that looks pretty excellent. Stop trying to trick me into reading Deathstroke dammit!
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Aug 29, 2016 21:27
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Priest's Deathstroke run has started out pretty strong so far. I'm still not a big enough fan of the character to want him to show up in everything though.
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Aug 29, 2016 21:31
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Toxxupation posted:He's an angry white guy who kills the poo poo out of people because that's real and he's so angry and morally conflicted all the time and his backstory is crazy tragic but he's just so god-damned good at killing people he can take out the Justice League by himself. JLA: Tower of Babel, a Zack Snyder film
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TwoPair posted:Stop trying to trick me into reading Deathstroke dammit! He has SEX in the newest issue!
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I don't think this looks too bad at all. I also like the Flash costume. 
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Roth posted:We'd be here all day if we kept up which characters are rip-offs of which, and which company has done it worse. Early Image. Deathstroke is cool when people aren't trying to make him the coolest guy who can take down the Justice League all by himself and defeat Green Lantern by grabbing his hand and making the ring do what he wants because his willpower is just so strong and all that.
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Roth posted:We'd be here all day if we kept up which characters are rip-offs of which, and which company has done it worse. Let's face it though, we're going to be here all day anyway.
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Travis343 posted:Let's face it though, we're going to be here all day anyway. poo poo
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catlord posted:Deathstroke is cool when people aren't trying to make him the coolest guy who can take down the Justice League all by himself and defeat Green Lantern by grabbing his hand and making the ring do what he wants because his willpower is just so strong and all that. Everything about that fight was terrible and made every league member involved look like a moron.
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My favorite thing about that Thor video is the bit with Banner and how he keeps waking up wearing cutoffs.
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muscles like this? posted:My favorite thing about that Thor video is the bit with Banner and how he keeps waking up wearing cutoffs. But why does it keep happening??
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This is my favourite bit. or the bit where Thor drew fanart of Mjolnir
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It strikes me that we've had nine live-action Batman films so far, and we've never really had a truly great fight sequence where Batman fights an opponent of equal or similar skill outside of The Dark Knight Rises, and I guess Batman v Superman (but that film is bobbins). I guess there's that bit on the train at the end of Batman Begins but, though I love that film, that fight sequence isn't its finest moment. So I guess Deathstroke could provide that kind of scene, seeming as he's so great at fighting and all.
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