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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power_movement
Power is also a term for electricity.
(i.e. "I'm going to call the power company to turn my power back on because I forgot to pay my power bill.")
Long story short is Black Lightning was DC's first black superhero. Legal dispute stuff happened and so the Super Friends show couldn't use him, so they made a substitute called Black Vulcan. Then later on DC wanted a kid version of Black Lightning, so Static became a thing. But then Static got a TV show and legality of using Black Lightning became an issue again, so Soul Power got invented as a substitute Black Lightning. And then Juice got invented over in the Justice League cartoon as part of their homage to the Super Friends minority characters. So a good chunk of them are basically just Black Lightning and his million different clone characters, which of course influenced other companies like Marvel and the independent publishers once it became sort of an established thing.
Long story short is Black Lightning was DC's first black superhero. Legal dispute stuff happened and so the Super Friends show couldn't use him, so they made a substitute called Black Vulcan. Then later on DC wanted a kid version of Black Lightning, so Static became a thing. But then Static got a TV show and legality of using Black Lightning became an issue again, so Soul Power got invented as a substitute Black Lightning. And then Juice got invented over in the Justice League cartoon as part of their homage to the Super Friends minority characters. So a good chunk of them are basically just Black Lightning and his million different clone characters, which of course influenced other companies like Marvel and the independent publishers once it became sort of an established thing.
said but also the fact that electricity is considered a more "urban" element than something like fire or wood.
Static Shcok isn't just a better name but also he looks better. This outfit honestly looks generic as all hell. And honestly the art isn't doing it any favors.
>storm
Controls all weather not just electricity >Miles morales
Isn't even his main power >Electro from Amazing Spiderman
Not a hero and is only black in amazing spiderman >Static Shock, Black Lightning Black Vulkan Soul Power Juice >Black Lightning' s kids > Shango the Thunderer thunder fall
All DC heros
Can someone explain why you morons keep pushing this forced meme so much?
Eh i don't really find this trope bad
I just hate it when they make them incredibly generic
So i'll add to it >Black male character >Haircut is either a fade, buzzcut or an afro >They're always bigger/taller than the non black characters
>white superhero but black
There's at least dozens of white people name Spider-Man and at most 2 black people that use the name Spider-Man. Superman, Batman, Flash and more had more white guys that used their name. This board just shit their pants if the guy is black and ignore decades of white legacy.
>dozens of white people name Spider-Man
Yeah there’s Peter Parker, a clone of Peter Parker, an alternate universe version of Peter Parker, uhhhhhh… OH RIGHT, Peter Parker’s daughter and then there’s uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh… Seriously who’s the other white Spider-Man who’s NOT biologically related to Peter Peter? I know those one of them but I just can’t remember their name
2 years ago
Anonymous
Peter only had 2 legacy in his universe. They are Ben and Otto. But they biological his brothers. One of the venoms used the name Spider-Man and Man-Spider became Spider-Man for sometime.
Miles is just a multiverse refugee like Chavez.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Here's an alternate universe Spider-Man that is not Peter.
Peter only had 2 legacy in his universe. They are Ben and Otto. But they biological his brothers. One of the venoms used the name Spider-Man and Man-Spider became Spider-Man for sometime.
Miles is just a multiverse refugee like Chavez.
How did you forget about Spider-Man 2099, Miguel O'Hara?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Isn't spider punk, Peter's old friend hobie Brown? Who's black?
But Storm often just goes for Lightning Bolts now because of Halle Berry Movie synergy/ "Toad meet Lightning Memes". Outside of flight with windblasts, she's mostly just bolt spam now in the comics. Also, Miles being such a ripoff reskin has come full circle anon, guess who's the new electronegto for their MilesVerse bullshit.
Black Lightning
Black Vulcan
Static
Living Lightning
Storm
Jennifer Pierce
Miles Morales
>storm
Controls all weather not just electricity >Miles morales
Isn't even his main power >Electro from Amazing Spiderman
Not a hero and is only black in amazing spiderman >Static Shock, Black Lightning Black Vulkan Soul Power Juice >Black Lightning' s kids > Shango the Thunderer thunder fall
All DC heros
Can someone explain why you morons keep pushing this forced meme so much?
Storm shouldn't count since her powers are much more than electricity manipulation.
Black Lightning' s kids Thunder and Lightning, Volt, Shango the Thunderer, and Thunder Fall
Thunder doesn't have electricity powers, she manipulates density.
Lightning's power is energy generation and mimicry. As long as it's energy she can become, absorb and generate it.
>black guy with spider powers >gets an extra "sting" power that no other spider hero has, that is always drawn like electricity and shown to act like a powerful tazer
Robots hating humans. It's so fricking stupid and relies on layer after layer of stupid bullshit contrivance and ignorance to happen period. Robots acting in error is fine and good, but the "meatbags must die" bullshit fricking grinds my gears to no end.
More specific hateful robot thing: shiny exoskeletons walking around and driving cars and shit while being taken out by regular guns in the Terminator sequels. The whole point of the future sequence where a terminator is crushing a human skull was that it was Skynets last bid for survival where it put everything into defending itself, even the half-finished terminators because at least it can wield a plasma rifle. Having chromedomes walking around before that point, instead of sending hunter-killer robots to bomb the whole area, is moronic and why not focus on their infiltration aspect? Like in the Salvation movie, what if instead of having the giant robot with the gatling gun the MC instead comes across a "survivor" with rotting skin who tries to use him to find a resistance cell. The dude doesn't know what the frick is going on but knows something is off with this stranger, wondering about radiation sickness. In Genisys Skynet apparently built trucks to be driven by Terminators, as if that isn't fricking moronic. Not to mention the giant humanoid "terminator" in Salvation that appears out of nowhere in a fricking desert where it should be impossible to sneak up on foot. That was an obvious time to use a hunter-killer that swoops in too fast for the lookouts to warn anyone but nooo they had to come up with some moronic OCdonut "terminator" that shit outs bike-terminators.
>Like in the Salvation movie, what if instead of having the giant robot with the gatling gun the MC instead comes across a "survivor" with rotting skin who tries to use him to find a resistance cell.
The first Terminator literally explains it. >The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new.
Skynet went through a bunch of designs to try and infiltrate the last human survivors, and the first attempts sucked ass and were easy to figure out. Salvation’s big climax was seeing the T-800 for the first time for a reason. >giant humanoid terminator in Salvation that appears out of nowhere
Another T-600 that was left in the desert. They’ve been canon since T1, bro. Salvation is deliberately set at a point right before the T-800 was rolled out.
The best way of handling this is just having the well being of humans be either optional or detrimental to whatever the goal it is the machine had programmed into it. For being the poster child of human hating AI this is one way writers handle AM, he was built to be a war machine, so in hating and torturing his captives hes just doing what he was made to.
Yes, see, that kind of thing is actually fine and good with me. I don't mind robots "hating" humans if the robot is more or less just a human, and in AM's case its doubly so, for he is both humanlike and keenly aware of the fact that he will never be anything but a war machine, which makes him angry at his creators like a human would be, but worse. AM is basically throwing a tantrum while being given godlike power.
This is also why I do not mind, say, HAL, because HAL in fact does not mind human beings at all and gets a redemption arc. HAL is a machine which simply does not understand certain human concepts- like that of deception- and this led him to attack his original crew in error while still trying to follow his orders and complete his mission.
What gets me fricking steamed is more constant humanization of machines in contexts where it does not make sense, or where robots are explicitly not humanlike, but still attack humans for human reasons. For this reason I heartily dislike, say, GlaDOS, because she is a machine which is by all accounts both a human being and an enormous failure.
I have a story in my head about an AI being built, and most people think it's the end of the world, but one guy thinks it's really cool, and becomes its friend and teaches it morals and then the AI just makes a utopia and everyone loves it.
>hero chases antagonist whole series with the intent to kill them >doesn't kill them when they finally confront them >turns back on them after throwing loaded gun at their feet
I wish more protagonists just oldboy'd them. Not kill them, but do something to them that entirely ruins their opponent. Granted, they wouldn't be much of a hero afterwards, but this depends on if you make them actually do what happened in oldboy their opponent.
Nah, that's based. It's even better if it's a loser character that insists they did something awesome and no one believes them because they're usually so full of shit, only for it to be proven true in the end and save everyone.
It's insane how often this happens. Mary Jane, Jimmy Olsen and Wally West are just the few at the top of my head, but I can remember having noticed it dozens of more times.
>characters punch and kick one-shot enemies even though they lack appropriate powers >fight scenes are either drawn out or literally one panel >martial arts styles being taken seriously
i await the day comics give me a super strength man who throws ribs at people during combat
As a black person, Frick you, I like electric powers. If it was a lame power I'd agree with you but Electricity is cool as hell and decently varied.
But yeah it's kind of a cliche.
"Strong women" showing that women can be head-strong violent b***hes. They just took toxic masculinity and gave it to a woman. Imagine every way men can be raging buttholes. Now give it breasts. BOOM, an over-used trope that fricking trained a generation of buttholes.
Big masculine blue eyed chad looking White men being jokesters and clumsy. Also considered ignorant and annoying by the supposed serious minority, mostly female characters
Evil Superman.
>Black people using electric powers is overdone.
Name more then 2,
Miles Morales, Storm, Static Shock, Black Lightning, Electro from Amazing Spiderman, Black Vulkan, Soul Power, Juice, shall i continue?
>shall i continue?
Please do, I'm curious
Black Lightning' s kids Thunder and Lightning, Volt, Shango the Thunderer, and Thunder Fall
Christ almighty
Where did this begin?
WHY did it begin?
because cops have tasers
Black power, get it?
NTA, and no.
Black Power=Black slogan
Power=Electricity
Black heroes get electricity
>Black Power=Black slogan
wow race supremacists
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power_movement
Power is also a term for electricity.
(i.e. "I'm going to call the power company to turn my power back on because I forgot to pay my power bill.")
Long story short is Black Lightning was DC's first black superhero. Legal dispute stuff happened and so the Super Friends show couldn't use him, so they made a substitute called Black Vulcan. Then later on DC wanted a kid version of Black Lightning, so Static became a thing. But then Static got a TV show and legality of using Black Lightning became an issue again, so Soul Power got invented as a substitute Black Lightning. And then Juice got invented over in the Justice League cartoon as part of their homage to the Super Friends minority characters. So a good chunk of them are basically just Black Lightning and his million different clone characters, which of course influenced other companies like Marvel and the independent publishers once it became sort of an established thing.
Wasn’t Static a Milestone comic? And just got pulled in when DC bought the rights to all the characters?
DC was always milestone's publisher. They were just their own separate universe.
Black Lightning and then people making Black Lightning expies
What
said but also the fact that electricity is considered a more "urban" element than something like fire or wood.
>Static Shock
>not just "Static"
writers aren't that good at writing, i know
His name is static. The show is static shock, not the character
Static Shock sounds way cooler than Static and more like something like a teenager would call themselves.
SUPA HERO STATIC SHOCK WOO WOO
Static Shcok isn't just a better name but also he looks better. This outfit honestly looks generic as all hell. And honestly the art isn't doing it any favors.
>storm
Controls all weather not just electricity
>Miles morales
Isn't even his main power
>Electro from Amazing Spiderman
Not a hero and is only black in amazing spiderman
>Static Shock, Black Lightning Black Vulkan Soul Power Juice
>Black Lightning' s kids
> Shango the Thunderer thunder fall
All DC heros
Can someone explain why you morons keep pushing this forced meme so much?
>Isn't even his main power
reminds me of another one
>is just white superhero but black
Eh i don't really find this trope bad
I just hate it when they make them incredibly generic
So i'll add to it
>Black male character
>Haircut is either a fade, buzzcut or an afro
>They're always bigger/taller than the non black characters
>I just hate it when they make them incredibly generic
anon, i...
>white superhero but black
There's at least dozens of white people name Spider-Man and at most 2 black people that use the name Spider-Man. Superman, Batman, Flash and more had more white guys that used their name. This board just shit their pants if the guy is black and ignore decades of white legacy.
lol
cool story, bro
>dozens of white people name Spider-Man
Yeah there’s Peter Parker, a clone of Peter Parker, an alternate universe version of Peter Parker, uhhhhhh… OH RIGHT, Peter Parker’s daughter and then there’s uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh… Seriously who’s the other white Spider-Man who’s NOT biologically related to Peter Peter? I know those one of them but I just can’t remember their name
Peter only had 2 legacy in his universe. They are Ben and Otto. But they biological his brothers. One of the venoms used the name Spider-Man and Man-Spider became Spider-Man for sometime.
Miles is just a multiverse refugee like Chavez.
Here's an alternate universe Spider-Man that is not Peter.
How did you forget about Spider-Man 2099, Miguel O'Hara?
Isn't spider punk, Peter's old friend hobie Brown? Who's black?
Spider-Gwen, for one
Black folk shouldn't be in media at all, it's disgusting
But that's just my opinion
But Storm often just goes for Lightning Bolts now because of Halle Berry Movie synergy/ "Toad meet Lightning Memes". Outside of flight with windblasts, she's mostly just bolt spam now in the comics. Also, Miles being such a ripoff reskin has come full circle anon, guess who's the new electronegto for their MilesVerse bullshit.
Technically cyborg can fits in this category
Storm shouldn't count since her powers are much more than electricity manipulation.
Thunder doesn't have electricity powers, she manipulates density.
Lightning's power is energy generation and mimicry. As long as it's energy she can become, absorb and generate it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElectricBlackGuy
It's bad enough to have its own TV tropes page.
Black Lightning
Black Vulcan
Static
Living Lightning
Storm
Jennifer Pierce
Miles Morales
Miles has Spider powers
>black guy with spider powers
>gets an extra "sting" power that no other spider hero has, that is always drawn like electricity and shown to act like a powerful tazer
Jessica Drew had venom blasts that were also drawn like yellow electricity
>extra "sting" power that no other spider hero has
Just how stupid are you?
The villain is a future version of the protagonist
Are there examples of the protagonist being a future version of the villain? Like someone reforms and has to go back and fight themselves?
Lightyear did a number on you, didnt it
Since when?
>Since when?
1977
Robots hating humans. It's so fricking stupid and relies on layer after layer of stupid bullshit contrivance and ignorance to happen period. Robots acting in error is fine and good, but the "meatbags must die" bullshit fricking grinds my gears to no end.
>show post apocalyptic Earth
>its just Mad Max
At least that god awful After Earth movie did the "nature reclamation" setting
More specific hateful robot thing: shiny exoskeletons walking around and driving cars and shit while being taken out by regular guns in the Terminator sequels. The whole point of the future sequence where a terminator is crushing a human skull was that it was Skynets last bid for survival where it put everything into defending itself, even the half-finished terminators because at least it can wield a plasma rifle. Having chromedomes walking around before that point, instead of sending hunter-killer robots to bomb the whole area, is moronic and why not focus on their infiltration aspect? Like in the Salvation movie, what if instead of having the giant robot with the gatling gun the MC instead comes across a "survivor" with rotting skin who tries to use him to find a resistance cell. The dude doesn't know what the frick is going on but knows something is off with this stranger, wondering about radiation sickness. In Genisys Skynet apparently built trucks to be driven by Terminators, as if that isn't fricking moronic. Not to mention the giant humanoid "terminator" in Salvation that appears out of nowhere in a fricking desert where it should be impossible to sneak up on foot. That was an obvious time to use a hunter-killer that swoops in too fast for the lookouts to warn anyone but nooo they had to come up with some moronic OCdonut "terminator" that shit outs bike-terminators.
>Like in the Salvation movie, what if instead of having the giant robot with the gatling gun the MC instead comes across a "survivor" with rotting skin who tries to use him to find a resistance cell.
The first Terminator literally explains it.
>The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new.
Skynet went through a bunch of designs to try and infiltrate the last human survivors, and the first attempts sucked ass and were easy to figure out. Salvation’s big climax was seeing the T-800 for the first time for a reason.
>giant humanoid terminator in Salvation that appears out of nowhere
Another T-600 that was left in the desert. They’ve been canon since T1, bro. Salvation is deliberately set at a point right before the T-800 was rolled out.
The best way of handling this is just having the well being of humans be either optional or detrimental to whatever the goal it is the machine had programmed into it. For being the poster child of human hating AI this is one way writers handle AM, he was built to be a war machine, so in hating and torturing his captives hes just doing what he was made to.
Yes, see, that kind of thing is actually fine and good with me. I don't mind robots "hating" humans if the robot is more or less just a human, and in AM's case its doubly so, for he is both humanlike and keenly aware of the fact that he will never be anything but a war machine, which makes him angry at his creators like a human would be, but worse. AM is basically throwing a tantrum while being given godlike power.
This is also why I do not mind, say, HAL, because HAL in fact does not mind human beings at all and gets a redemption arc. HAL is a machine which simply does not understand certain human concepts- like that of deception- and this led him to attack his original crew in error while still trying to follow his orders and complete his mission.
What gets me fricking steamed is more constant humanization of machines in contexts where it does not make sense, or where robots are explicitly not humanlike, but still attack humans for human reasons. For this reason I heartily dislike, say, GlaDOS, because she is a machine which is by all accounts both a human being and an enormous failure.
I have a story in my head about an AI being built, and most people think it's the end of the world, but one guy thinks it's really cool, and becomes its friend and teaches it morals and then the AI just makes a utopia and everyone loves it.
>grinds my gears to no end
>my gears
nice try tin can
>hero chases antagonist whole series with the intent to kill them
>doesn't kill them when they finally confront them
>turns back on them after throwing loaded gun at their feet
I wish more protagonists just oldboy'd them. Not kill them, but do something to them that entirely ruins their opponent. Granted, they wouldn't be much of a hero afterwards, but this depends on if you make them actually do what happened in oldboy their opponent.
>Black people using electric powers is overdone.
>Character makes up a lie about doing an insanely implausible stunt
>Ends up doing the stunt at the end
Nah, that's based. It's even better if it's a loser character that insists they did something awesome and no one believes them because they're usually so full of shit, only for it to be proven true in the end and save everyone.
>Black character
>Black in their superhero name
>black character
>father not in the picture
non whites having leading roles or taking the spotlight
Making a Black version of literally every fricking character is not diversity, it's laziness.
Same goes for blackening up the redhead.
It's insane how often this happens. Mary Jane, Jimmy Olsen and Wally West are just the few at the top of my head, but I can remember having noticed it dozens of more times.
>Mary Jane
?
From the MCU. She's called Michelle I think, but still goes by MJ
>Every female character is an underappreciated genius AND martial arts master
>Not only are they martial arts masters but they also have unexplained super strength as they can always knock out far more muscular men in one hit.
>they also have unexplained super strength
like batman
> muh charles atlas superpower
INTERESTING
Batman doesn't have super strength, he's just at peak human strength level.
>characters punch and kick one-shot enemies even though they lack appropriate powers
>fight scenes are either drawn out or literally one panel
>martial arts styles being taken seriously
i await the day comics give me a super strength man who throws ribs at people during combat
As a black person, Frick you, I like electric powers. If it was a lame power I'd agree with you but Electricity is cool as hell and decently varied.
But yeah it's kind of a cliche.
ayo sonichu go out an zap to da es-treem
"Strong women" showing that women can be head-strong violent b***hes. They just took toxic masculinity and gave it to a woman. Imagine every way men can be raging buttholes. Now give it breasts. BOOM, an over-used trope that fricking trained a generation of buttholes.
Big masculine blue eyed chad looking White men being jokesters and clumsy. Also considered ignorant and annoying by the supposed serious minority, mostly female characters
Why is that trope bad electric powers are cool as frick and visually interesting
Women yelling to power up or activate their power. It's funny because it's unintentionally making fun of women but it's also annoying.