Please tell us more. Did his brother tell you “hey, my brother was Superboy” or did you just recognize him? Did you get to know him? Did he have any good stories?
>I'm so glad that man died so I never have to hear his voice again. RIP to the man, but good riddance of his voice.
BUT YOU STILL HEAR IT WHEN YOU READ ME TALKING, RIGHT? THATS THE BEEEAUTY OF IT! I NNNNNNEEVER DIE, NOT TRULY AS LONG AS I'M IN YER HEAD PISSIN YOU OWF!
I MIGHTA DIED, BUT YOU'LL DIE SALTY AND I'LL STILL BE FAMOUS!
Do you mean looks wise or like DOING shit wise?
Looks wise is easy, he's literally an interdimensional old midget. His fashion sense is completely alien so he can dress however, just make it out of decent material so it doesn't look like some guy made it in his basement. You could even be cheeky and have it so he steals the hat from Earth because he thinks it looks neat. You've had like seven Marvel movies straights about aliens wearing stupid bullshit that makes no fricking sense but is acceptable because they're fricking aliens.
Storywise, you either make the whole plot a mindbender and it's about putting Superman in an absurd adventure through warped reality where the climax is a big dumb punch em' up and at the all is lost moment he cleverly tricks him into saying his name backwards.
OR
Myzpltz isn't the actual villain and he's an secondary antagonist/supporting character who's just there for the shits and giggles so the main conflict of the movie doesn't rely on making people take him seriously.
It's not impossible, it just requires clever and well thought out writing. Something that Hollywood hasn't displayed for decades at this point.
Personally. I'd go for something like a Doctor Who style character or Q from Star Trek. A person who at first glance looks like a normal guy in a suit and bowler hat, but you recognize theres something wrong with him that the characters in the story dont pick up on immediate.
>Personally. I'd go for something like a Doctor Who style character or Q from Star Trek. A person who at first glance looks like a normal guy in a suit and bowler hat, but you recognize theres something wrong with him that the characters in the story dont pick up on immediate.
This, 100%
I always liked the idea of Mxyzptlk being Superman's Q, where their conflicts are personal and/or ideological, rather than just silly pranks.
>I always liked the idea of Mxyzptlk being Superman's Q
That's in the notes of Mxy's character sheet for the new cartoon, so you may get that. It's gonna be shit though.
Personally. I'd go for something like a Doctor Who style character or Q from Star Trek. A person who at first glance looks like a normal guy in a suit and bowler hat, but you recognize theres something wrong with him that the characters in the story dont pick up on immediate.
If you had more of a comics history you might have pointed out John Byrne did the perfect story.
I'd argue that STAS did it right by going back to OG Mxy's design. Odd short man with clothing that's a bit peculiar and out of date, and a strange color combo... but nothing that screams "space man."
He can't hold up an entire movie, but he could be effective in a little opening vignette. Imagine a Superman/Justice League/World's Finest/whatever movie opening with a live action scene like
But no, we can't have that kind of fun wholesome, upbeat stuff. We've gotta have dour superheroes looking like saving people is a fricking intolerable inconvenience for them.
>He can't hold up an entire movie
There's this one story that I think can hole up a movie. It's a standalone story where he gets in a fight with Bat Mite and destroys half the multiverse in their childish fight over who's the better superhero Batman or Superman. It's so dark, twisted and gut bustingly funny at the same time.
Anon, there's been at least a half dozen "upbeat" capeshit films in the last 3 years. Just say you're a supergay who hates alternate takes on the character instead of pretending to be an indignant fungay. I'd respect you more.
Give him two forms: a snarky old midget who plays around and makes jokes, and his true form, which is a shapeless distorted eldritch abomination. Maybe tie his bizarre name to some Lovecraftian shift, normalgays love that. People are gonna say I'm being edgy but that's what Moore already did 40 years ago and everyone liked it. Focus on the horror of bringing absurd concepts into daily life, or fighting a being that can bend reality however it wants, show him causing large-scale chaos. Have Superman beat him not via strength obviously, but via some spiritual journey. Not sure how to make the backward name thing work with this, though.
The way I see it we either have people who are no-fun normalgays who can't take anything less down-to-earth than Batman seriously, or campgays who don't even want him to be taken seriously and want nothing but goofy shenanigans.
Roger Rabbit style, cel animation overlaid on film strip. Represent that he's from another level of reality visually, and allow for proper magical trickster shenanigans and body morphing in a non-uncanny way.
I am pleased to see I'm not the first to reach this conclusion
>Roger Rabbit style, cel animation overlaid on film strip
Bonus points if there is a sequence where he flips it so that he's live action and everything else is animated.
animate him as a toon and impose him in roger rabbit style
Animation would be my preference as will. An added bonus would be the character can later be redubbed by fans using an A.I. voice synthesizer trained on Gilbert Gottfried recordings.
That's from the Superboy TV show, right?
I remember liking the second episode where he is pursued by a fifth dimensional giant portrayed by Richard Kiel
Give him two forms: a snarky old midget who plays around and makes jokes, and his true form, which is a shapeless distorted eldritch abomination. Maybe tie his bizarre name to some Lovecraftian shift, normalgays love that. People are gonna say I'm being edgy but that's what Moore already did 40 years ago and everyone liked it. Focus on the horror of bringing absurd concepts into daily life, or fighting a being that can bend reality however it wants, show him causing large-scale chaos. Have Superman beat him not via strength obviously, but via some spiritual journey. Not sure how to make the backward name thing work with this, though.
The way I see it we either have people who are no-fun normalgays who can't take anything less down-to-earth than Batman seriously, or campgays who don't even want him to be taken seriously and want nothing but goofy shenanigans.
Get Danny Devito onto that shit.
or Toby Jones. And play him straight as a chaotical entity that does all sorts of crazy multidimensional warping for shits and giggles. People are accostumed to watchinig weird effects onscreen since Inception and Doctor Strange.
>Toby Jones
The Doctor Who people had the same idea, he played a malevolent omnipotent something or other on there, basically a Q archetype.
I personally think Mxy could work if they didn’t overexplain it and avoided flashy pyrotechnics, just have him appear and disappear between shots so it became surreal and eerie.
The most obvious, but also cheap way, is to make him young and sexy.
This will make your average female viewer go from "man this is some silly comic book shit for nerds" to "OMG he's such a deep and interesting character I am in love with him".
This new series is giving me major Steven Universe and Owl House vibes, in that it seems like it is going to be packed with a bunch of weeb references that don't belong. Also, the grammar in the character sheets reeks of Tumblr.
Myx is a narrator in an anthological movie with fragmented, random yet connected stories. It is revealed that he has trapped an amnesic superman in these varying scenarios, and before superman has a chance to fight Myx, he just leaves by saying the movie is over.
Gilbert Gottfried would've been a perfect cast.
Rest in peace.
Did you know he played Knick Knack (basically Toyman) in Superboy?
I used to work with Gerard Christopher's brother. I shook his hand when I realized that was the closest I'd ever get to touching Betsy Russell's tit.
Please tell us more. Did his brother tell you “hey, my brother was Superboy” or did you just recognize him? Did you get to know him? Did he have any good stories?
I'm so glad that man died so I never have to hear his voice again. RIP to the man, but good riddance of his voice.
Cry harder, he's still dead, and his eargrating voice with him.
thats not his real voice you dumbfrick.
>I'm so glad that man died so I never have to hear his voice again. RIP to the man, but good riddance of his voice.
BUT YOU STILL HEAR IT WHEN YOU READ ME TALKING, RIGHT? THATS THE BEEEAUTY OF IT! I NNNNNNEEVER DIE, NOT TRULY AS LONG AS I'M IN YER HEAD PISSIN YOU OWF!
I MIGHTA DIED, BUT YOU'LL DIE SALTY AND I'LL STILL BE FAMOUS!
he would've.
honestly if i had to pick someone else, i guess Adam Sandler.
Well, Gorge Costanza is still alive, right?
He was such an icon.
Do you mean looks wise or like DOING shit wise?
Looks wise is easy, he's literally an interdimensional old midget. His fashion sense is completely alien so he can dress however, just make it out of decent material so it doesn't look like some guy made it in his basement. You could even be cheeky and have it so he steals the hat from Earth because he thinks it looks neat. You've had like seven Marvel movies straights about aliens wearing stupid bullshit that makes no fricking sense but is acceptable because they're fricking aliens.
Storywise, you either make the whole plot a mindbender and it's about putting Superman in an absurd adventure through warped reality where the climax is a big dumb punch em' up and at the all is lost moment he cleverly tricks him into saying his name backwards.
OR
Myzpltz isn't the actual villain and he's an secondary antagonist/supporting character who's just there for the shits and giggles so the main conflict of the movie doesn't rely on making people take him seriously.
It's not impossible, it just requires clever and well thought out writing. Something that Hollywood hasn't displayed for decades at this point.
Personally. I'd go for something like a Doctor Who style character or Q from Star Trek. A person who at first glance looks like a normal guy in a suit and bowler hat, but you recognize theres something wrong with him that the characters in the story dont pick up on immediate.
>Personally. I'd go for something like a Doctor Who style character or Q from Star Trek. A person who at first glance looks like a normal guy in a suit and bowler hat, but you recognize theres something wrong with him that the characters in the story dont pick up on immediate.
This, 100%
I always liked the idea of Mxyzptlk being Superman's Q, where their conflicts are personal and/or ideological, rather than just silly pranks.
>I always liked the idea of Mxyzptlk being Superman's Q
That's in the notes of Mxy's character sheet for the new cartoon, so you may get that.
It's gonna be shit though.
If you had more of a comics history you might have pointed out John Byrne did the perfect story.
I'd argue that STAS did it right by going back to OG Mxy's design. Odd short man with clothing that's a bit peculiar and out of date, and a strange color combo... but nothing that screams "space man."
Cast Danny DeVito.
I was thinking Warwick Davis myself.
Larry David.
/thread.
He can't hold up an entire movie, but he could be effective in a little opening vignette. Imagine a Superman/Justice League/World's Finest/whatever movie opening with a live action scene like
But no, we can't have that kind of fun wholesome, upbeat stuff. We've gotta have dour superheroes looking like saving people is a fricking intolerable inconvenience for them.
>He can't hold up an entire movie
There's this one story that I think can hole up a movie. It's a standalone story where he gets in a fight with Bat Mite and destroys half the multiverse in their childish fight over who's the better superhero Batman or Superman. It's so dark, twisted and gut bustingly funny at the same time.
Anon, there's been at least a half dozen "upbeat" capeshit films in the last 3 years. Just say you're a supergay who hates alternate takes on the character instead of pretending to be an indignant fungay. I'd respect you more.
Q mixed with Kramer.
>Superman has to prevent Mxyzptlk from saying the n-word in front of black people
>All black people
>Simultaneously
So just find someone to replace Gilbert Gottfried? Sounds easy.
For me, it's Howie
make him animated in a live-action world, like Roger Rabbit.
Came to say this. Not a 3D model. Straight up 2D cartoon.
Combine with
and make him Judge Doom.
Roger Rabbit style, cel animation overlaid on film strip. Represent that he's from another level of reality visually, and allow for proper magical trickster shenanigans and body morphing in a non-uncanny way.
I am pleased to see I'm not the first to reach this conclusion
Good pick
oh man I didn't even see your post
toonmind
>Roger Rabbit style, cel animation overlaid on film strip.
unrelated bu this is how i would do a live-action plastic man
>Roger Rabbit style, cel animation overlaid on film strip
Bonus points if there is a sequence where he flips it so that he's live action and everything else is animated.
Animation would be my preference as will. An added bonus would be the character can later be redubbed by fans using an A.I. voice synthesizer trained on Gilbert Gottfried recordings.
That's from the Superboy TV show, right?
I remember liking the second episode where he is pursued by a fifth dimensional giant portrayed by Richard Kiel
Give him two forms: a snarky old midget who plays around and makes jokes, and his true form, which is a shapeless distorted eldritch abomination. Maybe tie his bizarre name to some Lovecraftian shift, normalgays love that. People are gonna say I'm being edgy but that's what Moore already did 40 years ago and everyone liked it. Focus on the horror of bringing absurd concepts into daily life, or fighting a being that can bend reality however it wants, show him causing large-scale chaos. Have Superman beat him not via strength obviously, but via some spiritual journey. Not sure how to make the backward name thing work with this, though.
The way I see it we either have people who are no-fun normalgays who can't take anything less down-to-earth than Batman seriously, or campgays who don't even want him to be taken seriously and want nothing but goofy shenanigans.
Get Danny Devito onto that shit.
or Toby Jones. And play him straight as a chaotical entity that does all sorts of crazy multidimensional warping for shits and giggles. People are accostumed to watchinig weird effects onscreen since Inception and Doctor Strange.
>Danny DeVito
>play him straight as a chaotical entity that does all sorts of crazy multidimensional warping for shits and giggles
So, Frank Reynolds?
Frank gonna make everyone the Shit Sandwich
>Toby Jones
The Doctor Who people had the same idea, he played a malevolent omnipotent something or other on there, basically a Q archetype.
I personally think Mxy could work if they didn’t overexplain it and avoided flashy pyrotechnics, just have him appear and disappear between shots so it became surreal and eerie.
The most obvious, but also cheap way, is to make him young and sexy.
This will make your average female viewer go from "man this is some silly comic book shit for nerds" to "OMG he's such a deep and interesting character I am in love with him".
Thank you for your unsolicited opinons on women.
Why do you hate trans men
He's right. Casting good looking men in live action capeshit is what got women invested in the MCU and why the genre panders so hard to them now.
Turn him into a coomerbait e-girlshota 2D character
>Straight up a damn DBZ character
What the Frick.
Worse, straight up ThunderCats 2011 character
This new series is giving me major Steven Universe and Owl House vibes, in that it seems like it is going to be packed with a bunch of weeb references that don't belong. Also, the grammar in the character sheets reeks of Tumblr.
good thing it'll never see the light of day
It's scheduled to air on Adult Swim, slowpoke. A brief teaser was also released.
Literally the villain from a Tenchi movie.
Cast Pauly Shore as Myxy
Wooah bud, no harshin' on the Fifth Diiii-men-shuuuun
Myx is a narrator in an anthological movie with fragmented, random yet connected stories. It is revealed that he has trapped an amnesic superman in these varying scenarios, and before superman has a chance to fight Myx, he just leaves by saying the movie is over.
animate him as a toon and impose him in roger rabbit style
Simple, stop making live action cancer.
someone already cartoonish if it cant be roger rabbit style. Brian Blessed or Bill Skarsgard
Q
is that john c reilly?
Michael J Pollard
Mxyzptlk should be a weirder version of Stan Lee's cameos throughout the Marvel movies. He should be played by an eccentric figure from comics.
I vote Morrison.
For some reason I feel James May could pull it off.
A mix of CGI and prosthetic. Like a modern version of the gnomes in Harry Potter but without the schnozz. Some prequel yoda influence I guess.
You mean the goblins?
Yeah whatever autismo
Pretty much the only living actor who could pull it off now would be Danny Devito.
Nathan Lane would be my second pick just because I loved The Birdcage.
>Is it even possible Cinemaphile?
Doom Patrol made Mr Nobody work.
Just cast Clint Howard. No makeup needed.
Unconventional idea, but cast Vince Staples.
Didn't this version work? Haven't read a lot of comics with him.
Wallace Sean would make a great Mxyzptlk
The only way would be to have him be the only animated character, a la roger rabbit.