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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Enormous apartment doesn't necessarily mean "loaded out the wazoo". "Friends" Rent Control.
Also, the continued hate-on for everything about Danny Rand just never stops being hilarious.
edited 13th Dec '15 2:37:23 PM by Eagal
This isn't one of those anti-racist is a code word for anti-white things is it.
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Holy Shit! I got it!
So due to the recent Immortal Iron Fist series, we know there's been more than Iron Fist right?
So people are going crazy saying Making him Asian would be racist, and Making him white would be racist and it seems like there's just no way to win right?
So, should he be Asian, or should he be white? Or even Latino as some have suggested?
People. There's been more than one Iron Fist.
Why does there need to be only one in this series?
Basically instead of one active Iron Fist, have multiple ones, all sharing the name.
Voila. Problem solved, all hail Rob.
Marvel should have hired me.
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Frankly, while I appreciate that these shows (and Ant Man even) call attention to how the system can especially be a pain the arse for those less well-off, I wouldn't mind seeing one of them rip apart the whole "oppression olympics" mentality by showing it for how unhealthy/poisonous it really is.
edited 13th Dec '15 5:05:50 PM by nervmeister
Not really. Tell the story of how they all trained together and reached the point of becoming Iron Fist.
Maybe focus on one in the actual Iron Fist show, have one of them (probably Danny) help out luke when he gets his show, and have another step in for Defenders.
You can have Daredevil cameo in Iron Fist (via the connection to the hand), then when all the defenders get together, you can have Luke and Matt be like Who's that dude? He's not Iron Fist! and then have him say I am Iron Fist and so's my wife!
Right. Still has some bugs to work out, but I think it can work.
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I don't understand how "oppression olympics" (a term frequently misused by reactionaries to mean "social justice talk ever" instead of the Misery Poker it's actually supposed to describe) even has to do with a hypothetical Iron Fist adaptions.
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I know you're mad and I agree with you, but careful with the tone, it's not the kind that leads to good discussion.
edited 13th Dec '15 5:39:07 PM by AlleyOop
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The mentality, Wackd. It can happen in anyone, ranging from the rich person who compares the idea of the wealthy (gasp) paying more taxes than everyone else to the Holocaust (yes, this happened) to a very polarized university student who thinks "white + male = opressor (whether he knows it or not)"
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That's fine.
edited 13th Dec '15 5:59:08 PM by nervmeister
That... still doesn't sound like "oppression olympics" to me? Sounds like your problem is more with Black-and-White Morality and Strawman Political, but the Netflix series have been good about focusing on the grey.
edited 13th Dec '15 5:48:48 PM by AlleyOop
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I think you're strawmanning there with the latter. In my experience, it's more talking about how members of privileged groups benefit from their privilege, whether or not they realize it.

Yeah, I don't know about Daredevil being a representative of everyday people either. He's a kid from a poor family who ended up alone and having to fend for himself, but right after that he fell under the tutelage of a drifter-ninja-master-assassin who attempted to induct him into an ancient order of ninja-master-assassin-guys, which stripped away a lot of his humanity and connection to society even though he didn't fall all the way.
Jessica and Luke have a "regular people trying to deal with their extraordinary lives" vibe, but Matt is a very Batman-esque: he's consumed by his mission and out of touch with the people around him, but feels he needs to be in order to succeed.
Even his approach as a lawyer is more "I'm an outsider entering the hell you're in to save you" rather than "I once lived a life just like yours, and want to help people who were like me."
edited 13th Dec '15 2:59:17 PM by KnownUnknown