I'd vastly prefer an Icon movie to a literal Black Superman one. DC has some of the best minority supers around, why do they keep neglecting them?
I'd vastly prefer an Icon movie to a literal Black Superman one.
I'd vastly prefer an Icon movie to a literal Black Superman one. DC has some of the best minority supers around, why do they keep neglecting them?
Because the rights to milestone characters are tied up in a lawsuit. There's a reason why you haven't seen Static, Icon, and Rocket in a DC book or film.
This. DC doesn't want to pay royalties to Black creators. Mostly because royalties are shit to begin with, and once a black creator starts complaining, they'll have to pay more to everyone.
This. DC would rather push a character they have all the rights to instead of splitting up profits and having to get permission to do things or make changes with another party.
The whole entire sole reason why black characters got associated with lightning powers is because DC made so many knockoffs of Black Lightning to avoid paying royalties that they saturated the black superhero identity, it's hilarious.
Also Icon sucks, can you tell me why me or anyone should be interested in him?
He has a nice teen sidekick called Rocket.
He now has a Brazilian love interest called Xiomara.
He has many villains. One of them is Holocaust.
Is this his old run or new?
The new one has his Brazilian love interest.
Ok, I'll check it out.
>Well these other characters exist
So literally nothing about Icon himself is interesting
He’s the main character that the other interest characters gather around.
Plus he’s lived since the 1820s, so he has a lot of that “been there, done that” backstory like Wolverine.
>He has a nice teen sidekick called Rocket.
She was really preachy and annoying on Young Justice, especially during the Orion arc. Is she less obnoxious in other iterations? Is she still a single mother with an autistic kid?
The only reason why Cinemaphile tries to push Icon is because he's a Black Republican and ignore the fact that his entire arc was coming to grips with the fact that he was wrong about almost everything and had to change his mindset.
The new Milestone comics tried to overcome this by making him apolitical, but it doesn't work at all. Icon leading a slave revolt in the Civil War is interesting and better than what his original version did (absolutely nothing), but after that he basically abandoned everyone...for reasons.
In the old comics, Icon's reasoning for sitting on the sidelines was dumb and wrong , but it made sense considering his mindset.
YJ Rocket was toned down. You would probably find her obnoxious in the comics, but she's right most of the time and has to put up with pre character development Icon. She was always a single mother, but I can't remember if her son was autistic.
Women want black superman
I’m not sure who created the black Superman trope. But I’m glad they did.
Blue Marvel too.
I’m sure he’s being looked at the be in the MCU.
Why?
Everytime you guys say
>Why doesn't DC/WB promote(Milestone character) more
we need to tap a sign- THE DON'T OWN THEM.
The entire state of Milestone hangs precariously on like 3 people with a possible legal issue with Dwayne McDuffie's surviving relatives threatening at any time to take everything down. They will never take the risk while their own properties can't get off the ground
That was settled in 2019.
Well DC doesn't give a shit about Icon or other milestone characters. The only one that might appear on the big screen is Static.
If he was created as the male counterpart to Powergirl, does that mean he has the biggest wiener of all superheroes?
Netflix Luke Cage already exists
New writers only know about Obama Superman vs his arch rival Implied Racist Luthor, at this point comics are just another propaganda arm of the WEF.