Used to come to school and talk with my friend about how cool Blade was and thinking "he's literally me". I always saw black people in movies and didn't think much of it.
Now I see black people in the screen and I'm immediately triggered, diversity seems so forced nowadays
yeah but you dont have to keep making threads about the same thing. i get it. everyone gets it.
you're not the main character bro I'm sorry, being a moronic Trumper isn't a personality trait
Cool blacks are based. Woke homies are embarrassing.
same anon, same
I loved Blade, and various black vidya characters like Johnson from Halo and the Cole Train from Gears of War. Never thought once that them being black was somehow relevant
Blacks in movies today pop up in unsuitable roles such as medieval fantasy, or play previously white characters, and that's the problem
Just make a new character instead of blackwashing a previous one
That's because it is forced. Blade is a black vampire hunter, him being black is part of his character. Blade acts like a black man. You could listen to Blade with your eyes closed and you would know that Blade was Black. Modern flicks write white characters and then just arbitrarily cast black actors for the role.
>Modern flicks write white characters and then just arbitrarily cast black actors for the role
this
>character is presented in a way that doesn't emphasize his race
>it's easy for people of another race to self-insert
>character is presented in a way that emphasizes race
>it's hard for people of other races to self-insert
Not much of a mystery.
The question is when hollywood will stop sabotaging itself like this. Not anytime soon I fear.
Same tbh. My favorites as a kid included Spawn and Black Panther (I was reading the Priest run as it was coming out). Even in porn I watched whatever had the best ass getting fricked, I didn't care about the dick. Now it's all pozzed and every single decision is politicized.
Spawn is my favorite character in capeshit, not because the story is great (in fact it's pretty meh past issue 100) but because he was created as a complete inversion of the stereotypical Clark Kent type hero.
Hanwiener did the whole hobo superhero thing as well, but it was mostly played for laughs. Al Simmons is just going through hell but pushing forward like Guts.
it's a critique on zogbots and their puppet masters
he got screwed over by jason wynn when he was alive and then by malebolgia and the ~~*angels*~~ in death
I'll say something controversial, but I legitimately find Superman, the classic, "good natured" Superman, to be evil. Downright evil. He's this alien with the powers of a god who can do literally anything, /anything/. He's not just strong, he's a literal quantum computer who is probably ahead of most supergeniuses. And yet he wastes his life doing mundane heroics, and even worse, he actively lives a human life. That makes him a genuine sociopath who can see/hear every crime on Earth, and both refuses to take a stand because that'd be interfering with humanity, which I get, but also literally wastes time on needless things just to live out his fantasies when at the very least he could use his superhuman brain to solve a myriad problems. Superman sucks and for many reasons.
As for Spawn, I just liked the suit. I saw him as a typical 90s edgy character beyond that.
t. Luthor
Frick off Supergay.
>The foundation was laid by Greek myths and the archetypes in those stories.
What the Hell does Supergay have to do with Greek myths? You're comparing apples and dunno, tennis balls.
Superman is closer to a classic heroic archetype than, say, Spider-Man.
...Are you literally moronic? Superman is the furthest thing from the Antiquity concept of the Hero. Christ, why are you Snyderpajeets like this?
He's comparable to Achilles if you ask me. Right down to his occasional envy of mortal men.
Alright, yeah, you are moronic. No joke, you are literally mentally challenged. How are you even operating a computer? How the Hell is a
>demigod killer who yearns for the ultimate glory
comperable to
>a literal god who wastes his time LARPing as a journalist and won't kill literal genocidal maniacs
>He's similar to Zeus as well.
Oh, and now you went ahead and made it even worse. Christ... You Snydergays really need to be beat to death.
>one kills and the other doesn't! (except he does) so therefore they're not comparable!
Superman is a lot closer to Greek mythological archetypes than most modern superheroes are. This isn't as "Snyder" take.
Each JL member can be loosely compared to a mythological deity because they all fit classic archetypes more so than marvel characters who are more contemporary.
they're both gods trying to live like humans
achillies is borderline gay for a mortal man because he wants to be in his shoes
the difference is superman is moral the point where it becomes a net negative at times and it's one of the biggest critiques people have with the character
achillies was a warrior through and through
He's similar to Zeus as well.
Envy probably isn't the correct term here but there's a desire to *be* mortal and knowing he never will.
It depends on the writing. A lot of people think Superman is "boring", which might be true on the surface level, but it can be a good foundation in the right hands. Morrison's Superman is a good example of that.
But the thing is, clean-cut guys like that were still the norm at the time, whereas with Spawn in particular, practically everything about him is an inversion of the norm. From the skin color to the origin, powers, motives, attitude, etc. He's a chunk of smelly burnt flesh stuck with a bunch of hobos in an alley and I found that refreshing in a way.
But again, it really depends on the writers, as it all started with Superman-esque types, so you can't really go to a more grey area without first exploring that. The foundation was laid by Greek myths and the archetypes in those stories.
Like putting Jesus on trial for not taking the Devil’s temptation to rule the world while he was in the desert. If God says that God is good, then God is good. That’s what makes him God. You cannot overcome the power of the blood.
>that pic
cringe edge-lord stuff
>ooooh he's wrapping his arms with barbed wire that's so tough and cool
self harm is homosexual cringe
It's undeniably edgy but the entire point of that page is pretty simple, it's not your suit or [insert handicap] that defines you.
The self harm in this case is a cake in the walk compared to what he has been through, so with context in mind, I think it works despite the edge.
>a cake in the walk
>diversity seems so forced nowadays
It is. Back then casting blacks and women wasnt a part of the agenda, now it is.
Blade was and is awesome and as a kid I never even had second thoughts about the fact that he's black.
Modern day politics have destroyed race relations beyond repair.
>Back then casting blacks and women wasnt a part of the agenda
Oh no no no, he actually believes that just because he grew up with the agenda and it seems natural to him now, ahahahaha
no because back then you dont browse /misc/ thats why youre ok seeing black people in movie
>diversity seems so forced nowadays
It is.
Because he was genuinely good and the character was black in the comic books. I feel the fine with actors like Denzel Washington or Idris Elba, they good, charismatic actors. It's when they stick crap, offensively ugly black actors into roles they don't deserve that it's jarring.
>diversity seems so forced nowadays
No shit.
Blade doesn't even exist, Black Panther was the first black super hero.