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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Somebody mentioned the Abomination's design. I gotta say, I honestly prefer the films design over the fish-lizard....whatever thingy from the comics. That always looked so ridiculous to me.
Edited by Forenperser on Dec 16th 2018 at 10:17:24 AM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianA villain has to do villainous things, obviously, but it is possible to demonstrate their evil without lingering on said taboos. For instance, Mad Max Fury Road is a great example of how to depict a villain as a horrid sexual abuser, without subjecting us to having to witness said abuse exploitatively.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Dec 16th 2018 at 3:15:30 AM
It depend of what side you are to represent with said taboos, in Inmortal joe the first bad scene with seen of him is being a dictator who manipulate people with holding a resource, then the rest of the movie focus more in him being a rapist abuser son of bitch with personality cult.
Edited by unknowing on Dec 16th 2018 at 5:53:56 AM
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"![]()
Yeah, but that's rather relative, isn't it? Obviously a movie like Fury Road doesn't need to show the extent of how whats-his-name-scary-mask is deplorable, because it's a movie with a rather superficial plot, but with, say, Jessica Jones or similar stuff, one could argue that going the whole nine yards is imperative to the point they were trying to make.
Not that I want to argue that the billboard is in any way not tone-deaf, or that the whole that was all-together necessary for the movie, in as much that anything in that cockup cascade is in any way necessary.
Edited by HailMuffins on Dec 16th 2018 at 7:01:38 AM
The problem with the Apocalypse choking Mystique billboard isn't that it showed Apocalypse being evil. It's that it showed a female hero in a position of weakness, when most superhero films are shameless power fantasies. Every other poster showed the cast striking badass poses or whatever, but that one was all about one of the primary female characters getting manhandled.
If there were more advertisements showing multiple characters, male and female, in positions of defeat, that would be different. I have a feeling that the Endgame ads might do something like that. But that's not what Apocalypse did.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Would be much better if instead they showed a advert of Apocalypse standing over a mountain of the defeated bodies of the X-Men.
Not only it would be appropriately comic-esque, but it would show just how much of a threat the man himself is supposed to be, being the most powerful of all the teams' villains.
At least that's what the fans tell me anyway, there's not a more overhyped villain in Marvel than Apocalypse, but hey.
Again, Bruce's anger issues are not what I am questioning. It is whether or not he had those anger issues before he became the Hulk.
We saw what Abomination and the Leader were like before the radiation exposure. We don't see what Banner was like before he became the Hulk. Therefore, there is no conclusive evidence that he had anger issues before he became the Hulk.
Sure, we never see Bruce before he was the Hulk, but we can infer from how gamma radiation changes people that he had the anger before he became the Hulk, much like how Blonsky was a sociopath before he became the Abomination and Sterns was a genius before he became the Leader.
If you are trying to say that "He only became angry because he was the Hulk," I'm afraid that you are wrong; in every version, it's the other way around.
The billboard isn't the same situation, so much as it's related. In this case, the problem isn't having a male protagonist you're supposed to root for choking a woman. It's using the choking of a woman as a selling point. "Come see our movie, where bitches get choked!"
Billboards are meant to entice you and make you want to see the movie, and some marketer thought that having a powerful man strangling a woman would be the thing that makes people go, "Yeah, that sounds like an experience that I'm excited to be a part of!"
It's the kind of ad that speaks to the privilege of the people employing it, that a woman being choked by a man is, in their minds, some cool fantasy violence and not a serious threat that they live with day by day.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 17th 2018 at 12:48:54 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well it is a very fantastical situation, even then apologies for any offense.
In all seriousness though, if the billboard had an image of Apocalypse choking lets say Cyclops would it also need to come down?
Edited by slimcoder on Dec 17th 2018 at 12:37:17 PM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

@Tobias Drake: I get what you mean, but I don't know how that applies to the Apocalypse billboard, as Apocalypse is a villain, one that the movie wants the audience to hate so that his demise becomes that more cathartic. Wants but utterly fails because it's impossible to hate a piece of cardboard no matter how many speeches it gives, but the intent is there.