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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I only knew cos we replaced the image
on The Man in the Moon for that reason.
Damn. RIP Moon-Man.
It ain't you're fault you got dragged over to the wrong crowd.
One Strip! One Strip!That just changes things to: Moon Knight vs Moon Man. The battle for the moon.
Incidentally, early Moon Knight did have an arc where he fights a cop-turned-supervillain called Xenos, who's a virulently racist and xenophobic Hitler-worshipper (MK literally finds a Hitler biography talking about how the holocaust is a hoax in his lair and goes "Oh that explains a lot") with rat motifs who seeks to drive the "foreign devils" out of the US. That character aged like fine wine.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."White redhead. That's all they really care about.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I want so badly for Erin Kellyman to play a racebent redhead so we can see people admit in real time that it's not the Adaptational Dye-Job people are mad about. (She did in Les Misérables (2018) but colorblind period dramas don't grind people's gears quite as much anymore.)
I enjoy her Deadpan Snarker personality. But not everyone can have the same great taste in characters as I do. ![]()
I will say I wouldn't of minded if they gave her red hair. But they could still keep Zendaya as the character. Dying hair is a thing. But fundamentally that's an extremely minor gripe on my part.
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the midI do feel it's kind of pointless to have her be MJ instead of just being a new character... like, other than being Peter's love interest, she has practically nothing in common. I'm not disliking the movies for it, but it does feel kind of dumb to have a character In Name Only like that.
Edited by FGHIK on Nov 21st 2021 at 1:12:03 PM
I find that she does share comic MJ's use of a facade to cover her real feelings.
Comic MJ pretended to be a vapid party girl, MCU MJ pretends to be an above it all troll
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI like the character as a character but the whole "MJ" thing seems like an attempted meta joke that wore out. The love interest is NOT Mary Jane Watson... But she IS MJ! How witty! How droll!
Except its not really. Like I say, I actually like the idea of the character and having her be the one who can troll Spidey/Petey himself but there's no reason for her to be called MJ except that a completely different and unrelated character from the comics is called that.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."She also has MJ's observational and investigative skills. I really appreciated Far From Home's adaptation of that scene from the comics where MJ reveals to Peter that he's Spider-Man and she fucking knows it.
As well as MJ's willingness to pick up a blunt object and involve herself. Zendaya's MJ is the first adaptational version of the character I've ever seen in which I can actually believe that she would bludgeon the Chameleon with a baseball bat.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 22nd 2021 at 4:14:08 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

This is the perfect time for McDonalds to revive their old ad campaign.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Nov 21st 2021 at 7:36:37 AM