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Rand Brittain posted:The Cyborg from the cartoons is a great, fun character, and if he doesn't fit tonally in today's DC comics, well, that pretty much tells you what's wrong with today's DC comics. I know I'm super-late to this discussion so I hate to dredge up an old topic, but I really think this is a big, if not the big problem with (current) Cyborg. DC put him on the Justice League but he has no personality on the Justice League, and hell, he barely interacts with anyone. There's a funny set of panels from... I think Justice League? Maybe Batman and Robin?... anyway there's a scene where  " hardly reacting to this poo poo. It's kind of like back when DC made Starfire a sexy murderer lady back at the start of the New 52: they are essentially failing to capitalize on a large potential demographic by making Cyborg a fun character closer to his cartoon counterpart that 20-somethings enjoyed/will remember. Yes there is tragedy in his origin and he can't be ha ha laughs all the time, but that's why he forms a surrogate family out of the other weird power-folk on the Teen Titans (or I guess the Justice League) in order to fit in. He's a man who is a robot! Have fun with that!But hey, DC doesn't make comics for kids, so I guess fun is just a crazy pipe dream. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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Toxxupation posted:Saying his personality is poorly defined implies he has a personality. He does, writers just don't use it. Here, let me tell you his (or at least a version of his) personality based solely on half-forgotten memories of a cartoon I watched 13 years ago: Cyborg is a guy who likes hanging out with his friends, bad jokes, video games, and cars. He also knows a lot about technology, probably because he's half robot, and he's had to kind of learn about how his parts work. He has a lot of issues with being half-robot, but he hides those behind a facade of being a loud jokester. Like, I get that you have a hateboner for the guy and that's fine, but there is material to work with to make an actual character rather than just the Justice League's boom tube machine and black guy. Maybe Cyborg does suck now, but he doesn't have to. There are no bad characters, only bad writers. Except for Deathstroke. He's a bad character. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jun 10, 2016 |
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Jun 10, 2016 21:10
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Sorry I guess I misinterpreted your post as a condemnation of the character across all mediums.
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Jun 10, 2016 22:43
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That's not a bad character, that's a character so boring I forget he exists regularly.
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Jun 11, 2016 02:36
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I was just disappointed because I was hyped when the game announced Scarecrow would be the main villain so I thought it would be all trippin out sequences all the time but instead all it meant was you just got loving Joker hanging out like an rear end in a top hat providing commentary on the game. And yeah the Batmobile can eat it.
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Argue posted:I was thinking, Marvel has a couple of recurring characters who were intentionally designed to evoke DC characters (eg: Squadron Supreme, Sentry). Does DC have any recurring characters intentionally designed to evoke Marvel characters? Apparently Harley Quinn just introduced a knockoff of Deadpool, but there's no way in the world I'm reading it. You could argue that Steel is totally ripping off Iron Man. And Aquaman's been stealing Namor's schtick since the 40s. Namor's just lucky he didn't have an embarrassing cartoon back in the day or every writer would write a story about how "No Namor is cool"
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