I don't care if a character is straight, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, nonbinary, asexual, a crossdresser, whatever the frick. If a character is good I will like them.
Why is it so hard for people to write good characters? To create new OCs? Do they fear the OC will fail? Mainly talking about the big 2 but the Cinemaphile industry in general slides in as well.
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I have no idea who that is. I just typed 'lgbtq dc character' and that's what popped up.
So I guess.
oh. i thought that was supposed to be an example of a good new character. why are you complaining if you don't read comics?
>I don't care if a character is straight, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, nonbinary, asexual, a crossdresser, whatever
There's literally no reason why you would make a character those things unless you specifically wanted to make a statement about it.
>Why is it so hard for people to write good characters?
Cause writing well in general is hard
>To create new OCs?
There is literally no reason to ever make another OC in a universe with hundreds of characters.
>Do they fear the OC will fail?
probably
>Don't read comics
I'm reading through Dredd right now.
>There is literally no reason to ever make another OC in a universe with hundreds of characters.
But then people get upset if you take a literal who character and change their sexuality or something.
It's Xanthe Zhou, an OC from Cassandra Cain's Chinkworld Adventures. Advertised as a "nonbinary" character, which of course means the artists drew a girl but made them dress weird
>denoting, having, or relating to a gender identity that does not conform to traditional binary beliefs about gender, which indicate that all individuals are exclusively either male or female.
Has nothing to do with physically being a guy or a girl.
I know what it means, just pointing out the trend that NB characters in fiction (when not counting something inhuman like a robot or slime monster) just tend to be drawn as andro girls
Fair enough
Give it a try, you might like it. Or ya might not.
lesbians are safe and do not alienate people who actually buy comic books, which is to say straight white males, like it's always been.
>do not alienate people
New to Cinemaphile? Its constant wall to wall shitting themselves with rage at the mere mention of girls liking other girls.
guys used to like girls fricking girls.
before it became all this political lesbian bullshit
I'm a big yuricon so I've been enjoying the last few years after growing up and having to read mainly F/F fanfics over official stuff. Course sometimes fanfics blow official stuff out of the water.
Guys liked the occasional scene of two hot girls making out. Nowadays, that's every fricking scene and they're not even hot.
That girl is dating the Laineyball?
Cherry picking? I can easily post some Harley and Ivy if you like. Or Kate and Maggie. Or Kate and Montoya.
Understandable. Just wish that if these people were going to soapbox radical ideologies, they'd at least push the envelope somewhat
Aye, practice what you preach. Which is why Yidsney has been getting shit on in some circles I pass through ever since Owl House.
I'd be all for a show with a cute guy x guy couple or whatever.
because nonbinary isn't real
Nothing is real, we are all in a simulation.
that would actually be better news than the truth
What is the truth
the whole world has gone crazy.
or at least the people running it.
The world has gone crazy plenty of times before, its just now there's social media and we can see all the craziness.
>To create new OCs? Do they fear the OC will fail?
To fear they'd fall into irrelevancy. At least legacy heroes have recognition if only by association
You miss 100% of shots you do not take.
looks sexo enough to me
Self insert aside, I like Xanthe and I want to mating press them while respecting their pronouns.
Is the book Xanthe in any good? That other anon mentioned Cassandra is in it so I guess I'll check it out.
No. I don't understand why Cass was in it either.
Spirit World is nothing amazing but its a decent book with good art. As long as you don't mind the nonbinary stuff that gets brought up with Xanthe's parents which is only a couple issues then you're fine. Cass is fine and cute in there as well. Her inclusion is obviously because they wanted a bat character to boost interest and she works well enough.
That's the best way to use popular characters in my opinion, when it comes to team ups or whatever. Insert them into something and use em to help build up less popular or well known characters.
Batman Brave and the Bold introduced young me to many characters.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Spirit-World-2023
Not a long read. I'll pause reading Dredd The Complete Case Files for a bit.
I liked it, the Spirit World is an interesting setting and they fleshed it out surprisingly well.
Cass is cute and has more focus than she's gotten in Birds of Prey.
i thought it was okay
I found the whole nonbinary deadnaming crap kinda cringe and distracting so it didn't interest me to read beyond the first issue. If you're fine with that stuff it might be good though. Art sure was nice.
she has her head half shaved. That makes her a brand new gender!
>Why is it so hard for people to write good characters?
Because writing is hard, otherwise any dipshit fanboy with a stick up their bum could do it and not just b***h about other people no giving them content to consume
>Why is it so hard to create OC's
OC's need to
>have a good initial run
>develop a fan base
>have multiple good runs beyond the initial creators' run
The current track record is
>Runaways only have one good run beyond BKV
>Kamala Khan in shambles since G. Willow Wilson left, only Iman can save her?
>Monkey Prince likely to be ignored forever
>Primer can't even get her second graphic novel out