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KittyEmpress posted:And at least in the young justice cartoon, he explains that Miss Martian, while not nearly as adept at the physical aspects of her powers, was the strongest psionic of any Martian he had ever met, including himself. I assumed the reason for that was because Jonn was only comparing to green martians.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Or JLU. Except he was almost always taken out immediately in JLU  I remember the Suicide Squad episode made him out to be a paramount badass who got chumped almost immediately. Like every other episode.
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GrandpaPants posted:Except he was almost always taken out immediately in JLU I'm specifically thinking of Ties that Bind where he comes off as both a good leader and one badddddd motha
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One of my favorite Martian Manhunter bits was from JLA #18 by Mark Waid. The JLA are fighting Julian September who has been loving with chance/probability. Oracle is trying to get hold of Batman over a secret radio frequency to talk to him about something involving Bruce Wayne (at the time most of them didn't know he was Bruce Wayne from memory) but he can't hear her. So Manhunter, who isn't supposed to know, kind of chuckles and says out of nowhere,"Batman, Oracle is attempting to talk to you in private." Later in the storyline Manhunter takes over the Batman role of guy who figures everything out and directs everybody what to do, and it was pretty cool.
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Jun 19, 2017 08:03
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Ghost Rider vs Sailor Moon.
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Why have animes corrupted Ghost Rider?
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it was a monstrous corruption which reshaped flesh into living approximations of anime. god, that was a good run.
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Sure. What's the source?
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GrandpaPants posted:Except he was almost always taken out immediately in JLU You mean the episode where he was torn in half and still kicked all their asses?
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Say Nothing posted:Ghost Rider vs Sailor Moon. Jason Aaron's Ghost Rider was so much fun 
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Jun 19, 2017 14:22
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Superman was the one constantly getting Worfed by unexpected electric charges on JLU. J'onn gets a lot of good moments, like when he punches through a brainiac robot and uses it's torso as a shield while using it to blast other brainiac robots.
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purple death ray posted:Superman was the one constantly getting Worfed by unexpected electric charges on JLU. J'onn gets a lot of good moments, like when he punches through a brainiac robot and uses it's torso as a shield while using it to blast other brainiac robots. That time on JLU when J'onn shows up on the Great Wall of China and starts beating the poo poo out of Darkseid's forces in the form of a great red dragon before shifting to his usual form so Wonder Woman knows who he is. Also, isn't it established in comics that J'onn was some kind of super-weapon/super-soldier Martian? There was a whole event about it.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:That time on JLU when J'onn shows up on the Great Wall of China and starts beating the poo poo out of Darkseid's forces in the form of a great red dragon before shifting to his usual form so Wonder Woman knows who he is. Better yet, he starts the battle I'm thr form of Asian Jack Kirby punching out parademons
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That scene was so great because they had really committed to it and J'onn had been out of the League for like the entire season to go experience humanity, and now here he is in China, with a wife, who apparently knows he's a Martian. It was a genuine surprise the first time you see it but it immediately tells you so much about the character and the life he's been leading off screen this whole time.
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And the simple fact that J'onn's speech patterns had changed. He was using contractions and being all casual, instead of the stiff, formal outsider he'd been before.
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Phylodox posted:And the simple fact that J'onn's speech patterns had changed. He was using contractions and being all casual, instead of the stiff, formal outsider he'd been before. It was a great payoff for all the "I don't know if I can keep superheroing if I can't relate to people" stuff he had going since the JLU started. Also I just love the idea the moment he stops hanging out with superheroes he makes himself look like an average guy instead of a dude with a godlike physique. The show didn't do a whole lot with the idea that Jonn was an average family man back on mars before he became the manhunter, and that felt like a nice way to call back to it.
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good day for a bris posted:It was a great payoff for all the "I don't know if I can keep superheroing if I can't relate to people" stuff he had going since the JLU started. JL:DARK had a good John Jones. 
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Say Nothing posted:Ghost Rider vs Sailor Moon. Please to be telling me what trade that is in, so I can get my comic shop to order it. That panel deserves to be owned.
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Toshimo posted:JL:DARK had a good John Jones. Is he invisible?
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haitfais posted:Is he invisible? Maybe that's him in the center? Wasn't he pretending to be a detective when he first came to Earth?
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That's John Constantine.
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if that was supposed to be a joke it went way over my head
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Cabbit posted:That's John Constantine. Who probably has more name recognition.
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Cabbit posted:That's John Constantine. Yeah, looks like MM had brown hair when detecting. 
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I just escaped genocide time to slap together an identity and go on an adventure!
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Push El Burrito posted:I just escaped genocide time to slap together an identity and go on an adventure! Honestly yeah I would probably do that too
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prefect posted:Yeah, looks like MM had brown hair when detecting. "As for my name -- well, J'onn J'onzz could easily be John Jones! But where's the fun in a new identity without a new name? Henceforth I shall be known as Leugenia Pinklethwarp!"
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IIRC there was an issue of JLA which revealed that J'onn actually has a bunch of different civilian identities.
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC there was an issue of JLA which revealed that J'onn actually has a bunch of different civilian identities. He's even had different heroic identities, such as being Bio Armor Jade Warrior in Japan... 
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC there was an issue of JLA which revealed that J'onn actually has a bunch of different civilian identities.  Though I mainly watched JLU for Flash.
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Push El Burrito posted:I just escaped genocide time to slap together an identity and go on an adventure! Did he even know about the genocide at that point?
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Selachian posted:He's even had different heroic identities, such as being Bio Armor Jade Warrior in Japan... These are awesome. J'onn rules. Push El Burrito posted:Though I mainly watched JLU for Flash. Flash was great in JLU. I still go back and watch the time he beat the Brainiac out of Luthor, or the time he "caught" the Trickster.
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Rhonne posted:Flash was great in JLU. I still go back and watch the time he beat the Brainiac out of Luthor, or the time he "caught" the Trickster. Everyone having their insecurities and fear played on by Brainiac's clones, Flash just responds that he has a seat at the conference table he's gonna paint his logo on  Rhyno posted:Did he even know about the genocide at that point? I only know like 2 things about Martian Manhunter: he likes Oreos and he hates genocide.
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Push El Burrito posted:
That's from the most recent Martian Manhunter solo by Rob Williams and I wanna say Eddy Barrows did some of it? It's really great and the concepts it deals in are very alien in a really cool way.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Aside from the fact that it's faithful to the point of basing compositions on individual comic panels, the direction of the movie is not "taken" from the comic (comic books are not directed). It's rather obvious from things like how scenes, action, and dialogue play out. One example is how the comic at points indulges in empty negative space that has a coldly calming effect, while in the movie this aspect is completely absent. The movie ruined one of the utterly defining moments in the comic. In the comic, when Leonidas boots the Persian emissaries into the giant well, he's offhand, casual, Laconic, almost bored.
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Differing from source material is not ruining.
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Bongo Bill posted:Differing from source material is not ruining. When the difference is bad it is E: the creation of the "this is Sparta" meme should be enough to declare 300 a war crime
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It does give a different emotional impact, for sure. Getting riled up and screaming something patriotic is different from treating it like another drat pile of dog poo poo to clean up.
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TheCenturion posted:The movie ruined one of the utterly defining moments in the comic. Fitting since that's where we get the word "laconic" from. quote:One prominent example involves Philip II of Macedon, who after invading southern Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, sent a message to Sparta:
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