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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
If I said animation as a blanket term I don't think anyone would be upset about both western and Japanese works falling under that umbrella. Just recently I asked for recs for good animated movies and was recced both Coco and Your Name.
In that same way Power Rangers being called superheroes is magically inaccurate just because it's based on Japanese source material. Source material that, as mentioned, explicitly calls them superheroes.
edited 10th Jan '18 1:18:00 PM by comicwriter
I've mentioned this before, but I think people use the word "superhero" in too narrow a fashion. I'd personally throw characters like the Men in Black or the Terminator into the mix.
edited 10th Jan '18 2:14:10 PM by RavenWilder
ok, but if you use Superhero as a blanket term and not specifically for American Comic book based movies, there are a TON of additional movies which also had to be considered for the list and weren't. So what makes Power Ranger's special? If Collider adds movies like Power Rangers (or V for Vendetta or The Crow) into their list, it should also consider movies like Man in Black, Ghostbusters, all the Sailor Moon movies (which were theatrically released, just not in the US) along with a number of other movies based on Japanese Hero lore. So either you narrow the list down properly, which would mean to leave The Power Rangers off, or you have to honour a number of movies which were just ignored exactly because they don't fall into typical Superhero comic book tropes.
edited 10th Jan '18 2:50:20 PM by Swanpride
So it's the Top 50 American Superhero Movies, then. I can live with that. Sentai do totally count as superheroes, but that probably wouldn't be a list most of Collider's audience have seen.
Power Rangers (2017) is already on there, though (#49), so this argument seems kind of moot.
edited 10th Jan '18 3:42:22 PM by Unsung
Umberto Gonzalez from The Wrap is reporting that Jac Schaeffer has been hired to pen a script for a Black Widow movie [1]
edited 10th Jan '18 3:23:15 PM by ComicFan
Not really. Or at least not in the way you're framing it. If the list is even specifically about American superhero movies (which it seems to be), Power Rangers is still an American superhero movie. It just happens to be based on a Japanese superhero property.
Anyway, movement on the Black Widow movie is interesting. I wonder if they'd have Yelena Belova as the villain if the film is actually made. We need more badass lady villains.
edited 10th Jan '18 3:46:27 PM by comicwriter
If they do make it, I'd prefer if it was a prequel. Mostly because I'd want it to be a straight up spy movie, and it's a bit hard to sell Widow as a secret agent thwarting evil from beneath the public's notice now that she's quite possibly one of the most popular and recognizable people in the Marvel Universe.
Random people walking down the street can glance at Natasha's face and go "OMG, it's an (ex)Avenger" which throws a wrench into the whole "keeping secret" thing.
Besides, I'd love some more worldbuilding for the point before Tony made his mark. We're already getting a little of it from Captain Marvel, but imagine if, say, Jessica Drew (my other number one pick for if Marvel ever does a "superhero secret agent" movie) as a supporting character in both Captain Marvel and the Widow movie?
edited 10th Jan '18 6:43:12 PM by KnownUnknown

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Avengers Power Rangers crossover when?
Just Makima.