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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I read somewhere that they wouldn't have killed him off if they had known about the Spider-Man deal.
Is Jessica Jones even being made by the same team that did Daredevil?
Oh God! Natural light!No, that'd cheapen the whole plotline.
The best choice would be making a storyarc of Ben's nephew, Phil Ulrich, following his footsteps in the world of journalism in the wake of his uncle's death.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."And then he becomes the Hobgoblin.
Depending on how free the deal allows them to be with Spidey's characters in non-Spider-Man media, they could always switch their newspaper of choice to the Bugle and use Robbie Robertson as a Suspiciously Similar Substitute.
edited 31st May '15 12:42:31 PM by KnownUnknown
Now, hey, maybe it's just because I'm a white devil trying to cover up the evils of my other white devils, but is it just maybe possible that they'd already had the entire script written out and killed off Ben before they'd even had him cast as a black guy? I mean, I know white devils will use any excuse to kill the other races or women in media, but it might be within the realm of possibility to believe that Urich would be just as dead if he were white.
My various fanfics.
...I'm not certain whether that would be the case or not. I suppose it would be forgivable if that were the case, although it would still be contributing to a trend.
And wow, maybe you want to tone it down a notch?
Yeah, I think you're right.
edited 31st May '15 1:52:52 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Ninety: Somewhat. I think it was a stupid decision anyway but the fact that he's the most important black character on the show only makes it worse.
Sonof Sharknado: Dude no one is saying it's part of some conspiracy by the evil white people to kill the black characters.
edited 31st May '15 2:19:45 PM by Kostya
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Then let's not accuse anyone of doing that this time.
edited 31st May '15 2:27:12 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Honestly it'd be worse if they had decided he'd die before he was cast because it meant at no time during production did anyone think critically about this decision.
...okay, no, clearly no one thought about it during production anyway, so it's about the same, I guess.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I think at the end of the day they killed off Ben Uric because they wanted to kill off at least one of the protagonists and all the other options would either completely derail the premise of the show and/or create even worse unfortunate implications.
Now it could be argued that the fact that there are no minority characters who are vital to the premise of the show is itself a problem, but one that won't apply to the Netflix series as a whole since Luke Cage is on his way.
Come to think of it, it could also be argued that there was no need to kill off any major protagonist at all. And I really can't argue with that, narratively Fisk needed to start taking the gloves off near the end of the season, but he didn't actually have to deal a deathblow.
edited 31st May '15 3:25:50 PM by Falrinn

edited 31st May '15 11:53:15 AM by Falrinn