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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Red Wolf is decent
He’s a badass normal who owns a wolf. His most modern time displaced iteration had something like detective vision in being very perceptive
Wyatt Wingfoot from Fantastic Four is probably fair game considering his tribe is straight up made up
He has the powers of shopping at a big and tall store, possible narcolepsy, and dating She Hulk some of the time
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's not so much an issue now that Marvel Studios owns the rights to those characters. If you want to create films where minorities get to have conversations with people of their own demographic, it's often asking you to pull mutant characters out of their usual wheel house because the mutant cast is where that diversity can be found.
Which works for some characters, Storm totally could be introduced in Black Panther 2 fittingly for example.
But some mutant characters don't want to be divored from their source material. And probably Dani Moonstar is one of them?
This is just a consequence of us getting better at depicting minorities in media. 15 years ago having Echo enjoy her mini series in the company of the King Pin, Daredevil and Bullseye would have been seen as progressive by a fair few.
I could also be asking myself if Echo should have any other deaf Marvel characters supporting her series.
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detective vision? Gosh what is it with first nation characters and super senses. It's up there with animal motifs.
Edited by Whowho on Oct 4th 2021 at 3:38:03 PM
It’s not an actual super sense. Guy is just really perceptive. It’s not a super tracking thing like often gets used. I tried to indicate that by calling it the same thing video games call Batman’s perceptiveness
As for deaf characters, I don’t know a lot. But there was a deaf mutant introduced in the new Iron Man run who has the power of his heart rate never elevates. Tony met him street racing and then took him into space to fight an existential threat because Tony
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSpeedsters always remember the googles and so rarely the ear muffs
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's one hell of a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, that's for sure.
Although now I gotta wonder why Pietro never got hearing problems after he was experimented on by the Mind Stone...
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Weirdly enough that means Pietro has a more durable physiology.
In the Ultimate Universe he kills the augmented speedster Cyclone by taking her at speeds far beyond what her body can handle, turning her into paste while mentioning how he already reached sonic speeds when he was still a toddler.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Given that Wanda is likely at least somewhat responsible for his powers, she may have subconsciously given him Required Secondary Powers as well.
That said, was "super speed blew out her eardrums" stated anywhere in the promo materials or interviews? I can only find that merch description
saying her deafness makes her immune to her sonic booms.
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The Eternals don't all have the exact same powers. Ikaris going head to head with the big guns doesn't mean any of the others could also do that.
Edited by jakobitis on Oct 4th 2021 at 1:22:49 AM
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."Wanda would also have these Required Secondary Powers. The Mind Stone exposure almost certainly gave their bodies extra durability.
Case in point:
- In Edinburgh in Infinity War, she gets blasted through a storefront by Proxima Midnight and is fine without a scratch 5 seconds later.
- During the final battle in Endgame, she's sent flying by artillery blasts from Sanctuary II that were one shotting Leviathans, and gets up without a scratch just a minute or so later.
- In the finale of WandaVision, she starts getting her head crushed by White Vision (you can audibly hear her skull cracking), but she doesn't start bleeding or anything, and after he lets go of her, she is completely fine for the rest of her duel with Agatha while sporting no lasting damage.
So there’s a flying brick with eye lasers, a super speedster, a warrior goddess
Are there more similarities to justice league or is this just a coincidence
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIf this is the case, the Eternals might be the JL stand in instead of trying to adapt the Squadron Supreme Sinister
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Magik called her Pocahontas and asked if she liked buffalo wings. That's not borderline racist, that's just literal racist filtered through an Alpha Bitch that the movie thought was just catty Mean Girls banter.
Also yeah, Marvel has a sorta underlying issue of a lot of the more atypical diversity picks being mutants or mutant-adjacent, given the whole discrimination allegory. One thing I was kinda fine with from the Inhumanity stuff was pushing more diverse characters that weren't junior X-Men.