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Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
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It would be interesting to have a villain whose evil even makes the audience suffer...
edited 22nd Sep '14 9:24:25 AM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Love is Love is Love
I guess I just like the idea of the Marvel movies using different powerhouses after Hemsworth and maybe Ruffalo's contracts run out. Like, how weird would it be to see Beta Ray Bill or Blue Marvel front and center in major motion pictures?
My various fanfics.
@Karkat: Ebony Darkness Dementia Raven Way? 
edited 22nd Sep '14 10:03:21 AM by higherbrainpattern
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Yes, I thought I made that pretty clear...
He apparently doesn't know that the foreplay is sometimes better than the release....
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@18769: People are overly focused on race and it would be funny to see them go, as Son of Sharknado puts it, crazy-town banana pants over Kamala being cast as a white girl. Besides which what's there to say white people can't be Muslim too? ;-P
@18770: Who ever said it would be a good idea? It would be funny initially, but their pissing and moaning would get old quickly. ;-P
edited 22nd Sep '14 10:45:55 AM by Eagal
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Let's not. Because good representation of other races and cultures in media is important, even if most male comic fans don't think so.
Love is Love is Love
Hey don't lump me in there.
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Even putting aside white-washing a minority character for the lulzzz, part of Kamala's beginning arc is about wanting to be white and blond to better fit in with the other kids at school and with what the image of female superheroes is.
She goes from subconsciously shapeshifting into Carol Danvers to this
◊ and that's neat.
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Regardless, I don't see the fuss over Kamala either way. Quirky fangirl who's suddenly a hero now has been done.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Just because you don't care about her doesn't mean other people don't.
Love is Love is Love
But she's awesome. She's basically Marvel's Jaime Reyes.
And she has Lockjaw! The greatest dog sidekick in all of comics!
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Writer, Artist, Ignored
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Not a particular fan of Jaime either. Except for the Brave and the Bold version.
edited 22nd Sep '14 11:01:26 AM by Eagal
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Funny but not helpful
I'm just kind of glad you don't run comics, geez.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
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As I am equally glad you don't.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
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If Eagal ran comics, the country would see a shortage in peach ink.
edited 22nd Sep '14 11:07:02 AM by SonOfSharknado
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I only know that he's some Hispanic/Latino (Not really sure which applies to him, nor motivated enough to look up the differences at the moment.) guy with an alien amnesiac parasite robot on his back. Cool kid that tries to be a hero.
But people who understand importance of representation in comic books (as I'm sure Bocaj does) do in fact, write and draw these comic books. So yeah. Even if they might not run the comic book industry as a whole.
Kamala's creators include an actual Muslim woman, and that's pretty neat. And her being a teenager who's part of a Muslim family isn't depicted in a negative or stereotypical way.
edited 22nd Sep '14 11:08:59 AM by higherbrainpattern
Love is Love is Love
And all his friends and family are super supportive of his being a superhero and do shit. It bucks all the trends! His best friend beat the shit out of an alien that was trying to kill Jaime with a stick.
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That Muslim mutant's got a cool power. Sand girl.
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@18794: Nah. I'd go whole hog and mandate that every character be literally white. None of that "light skinned" nonsense. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
@18796: Maybe they do. That's got nothing to do with Bocaj.
edited 22nd Sep '14 11:10:25 AM by Eagal
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Love is Love is Love
See, I went for white ink, but then I thought that wouldn't make sense.
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Hide Morlun!
He can always be worse!
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