#superhero genre

[magnificent-nerd]

Opinion article from The Disinsider:

Why the latest Marvel death is so insulting.

It's a good article and several points were made:

• "In 2023, the act of killing off a superhero in comics just feels lazy – mostly because everyone knows this obviously isn’t going to be permanent"

• "Kamala isn’t even being killed in her own book"

• "They not only used her for shock value, but her death also goes back to another tired trope of storytelling called 'fridging' "

• "The other thing that’s disgusting about this is that they’re killing off their first major Muslim hero" [during AAPI heritage month, no less!]

Ms Marvel deserves better!

#kamala khan #ms marvel #ms marvel deserves better #superhero genre #marvel

[jinglebellrockstars]

#izzy.txt #spawn #the crow #ghost rider #comic books #superhero genre

[shinigami-striker]

20th Anniversary: Danny Phantom | Wednesday, 04.03.24

On this day, Danny Phantom premiered on Nickelodeon exactly 20 years ago!

Considered one of the greatest TV shows of all time, it developed a strong cult following to this day as many critics and fans called this Butch Hartman's best work.

Starring:

David Kaufman - Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom

Grey DeLisle - Sam Manson

Rickey D'Shon Collins - Tuckey Foley

Colleen O' Shaughnessey - Jazz Fenton

Kath Soucie - Maddie Fenton

Rob Paulsen - Jack Fenton, Technus, The Box Ghost, etc.

Cree Summer - Valerie Grey

Martin Mull - Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius

and many more!

#20 years ago #20th anniversary #anime iconography #april 2004 #april 2024 #april 3rd #billionfold inc. #butch hartman #cancelled shows #critical acclaim #danny fenton #danny phantom #david kaufman #dramedy #going ghost #nickelodeon #nickrewind #nicksplat #nicktoons #nicktoons network #on this day #protagonist #superhero #superhero genre #teennick #the best of the best #wayback wednesday #wednesday wisdom

[thebiballerina]

A lot of Batfamily fans like fan content which dives into the trauma of some of them being siblings with people that have tried to kill them. While they aren't wrong, I would posit that they need more fan content which addresses the real issue here: the Batkids should absolutely make fun of those of them that failed at murdering one (or more) of the others.

I'm just saying, if my sibling failed at killing me or another relative, I would mock them about that until one of us died for real. I would give them birthday cards talking about how they truly put the 'attempted' in 'attempted fratricide'. I would ask them if they remembered their cringefail murder skills. I would bring that up at the slightest provocation. Anytime they got annoyed at me for something, I would be like, "What are you going to do, kill me? It's not like you're any good at it!"

#not my usual content #but it needs to be said #I have determined this after an in-depth survey of batfam fandom trends which is definitely for the love of genre and not for data analysis #[Scrambles to close suspiciously graph-looking windows on my computer.] #batfam #batman #dc universe #comics #superhero genre #siblings

[eldritchtouched]

I always come back to how, at least when talking about superheroes and their development and how they’re written, I think Tiger and Bunny is one of the better superhero works I’ve come across by a country mile. It’s far more “adult” than stuff like Deadpool and The Punisher despite being less graphic. I think it ultimately reveals the ethos that traps most American superhero stuff.

It deals with themes for Kotetsu that are more going to be felt by an adult audience- balancing his work and trying to be there for his daughter, his family dynamics more generally, and his dynamic with his partner Barnaby, along with the very adult concern about not being able to keep up anymore with one’s work as one ages in a physically demanding field. Barnaby has the Batman Backstory (TM), and he’s heavily isolated, especially at first. However, he works better than Batman because the trauma is the focus, along with why he is the way he is (there’s spoilers if I get into it too much, but I think that’s incredibly important to recontextualizing a LOT of his stuff).

Likewise, the audience spends far more time with the heroes outside of their public hero persona. Even Sky High/Keith, who is the most stereotypical of American superhero works of the bunch gets some focus outside of that persona. We know the superheroes of Tiger and Bunny more by their off-hours reality than their on-hours superhero personas and I think that’s important. That’s not very common, in my experience.

Tiger and Bunny is written as a story about characters whose work is superheroing, instead of superheroes whose side gig is being people. Even Spiderman, who’s one of the more humanized American superheroes, is often ultimately brought back into the perpetual status quo thing in all sorts of ways, which ultimately stifles him as a character and lends that sense of artificiality to his personal life compared to his superhero life. At least with Peter Parker. 

Likewise, Miles Morales in Into The Spiderverse is easily the best iteration of Spiderman because the focus is on Miles as a person first, and becoming Spiderman represents a sort of narrative apotheosis/becoming one’s best self, instead of an escape or some compulsion to avoid dealing with one’s personal shit.

#writing discussion #superhero genre #tiger and bunny #miles morales

[zoanzon]

I love getting massive brainworms for Gen V because I can't in good conscience recommend it to anyone, because it's like 85% content warnings by volume.

It's spicy-hot commentary on the youth side of PR and teens/YAs falling into a pipeline to feed Vought's insatiable need for new heroes and Marketing figures. It's also brutal about looking at how some of these kids are being used by their parents for the potential to be big celeb hits, and the artifice of performing for the cameras even as it means betraying their friends and classmates. And it has some of the best commentary/discussions I've seen on what it means to have a power that innately requires some form of self-harm to function.

And that's all woven through sexual humor of varying shapes, buckets of gore, people being creepy and skeevy, depictions of a sexual assault attempt, and a lot more CWs I'm not remembering off the top of my head.

It's fucking fascinating. It also requires one hell of a stomach to get through, and fuck I wish I had friends deranged enough for me to recommend this to because I want to rant about it with RL friends (and not have them look at me like I'm insane).

#the monkey speaks #gen v amazon #superhero genre

[autisticjoys]

My Superhero Genre Ship Dynamics

”Hero” with a ginormous ego who’s blind to the fact that they’re a tool for the government’s shady practices x Henchperson who wholeheartedly believes and supports the cause of “Villain” because of what “Hero” did to someone close to them

“Villain” who is actually fighting for a good cause and would never do anything that could hurt or otherwise harm people, but is a scapegoat for the government x Sidekick who feels underappreciated and belittled by “Hero”, doesn’t agree with the status quo but can’t rebel because it would jeopardize people they care about

Police Officer who is trying their best to fight crime, but feels like something isn’t quite right with all the criminals and crime operations that they’re supposed to take down x Mafioso who tries to help people out as much as possible, even tho it means getting targeted by the government and hunted by the police

Journalist who has witnessed some shady things and begins to put together what is actually going on and tries to contact “Villain” to help expose the corruption, without being found out x Government Agent who is in charge of keeping tabs on “Hero”, knows deep down that the system is far from ideal but has convinced themselves this is still a better alternative despite it going against their morals

#ship dynamics #villain x sidekick #hero x henchperson #police officer x mafioso #journalist x government agent #superhero genre #superhero genre ships

[elliebartlets]

ok so my friend asked me if I watched the boys and I said no cause I don’t like the superhero genre and she had “but you’ve seen buffy” and I was like “yeah but that’s more supernatural than superhero?” to which she said she doesn’t distinguish between the two which left me like huh???? so!!

#polls #tv polls #supernatural #superhero #tv genre #supernatural genre #superhero genre #idk how to tag this lmao #also don’t wanna hear the slander about me not liking superhero stuff #I like a few superhero movies form the early 00s and that’s it #i was never into comic books or super heroes #and then marvel went and really made me even less interested

[importantangeldefendor]

I'm TIRED of people asking why superheroes don't use guns so fuck you, here's why

1- Moral aversion! Killing people is bad!

2- faster then bullet! As it turns out catching bullets makes them pretty fucking useless

3- has a ability that is better then gun!

Building-leveling lasers with no ammo or reload time are in fact, better then sharp metal objects

4- They don't fight people that guns would work on

Is it because they are bullet proof? Is it because they are intangible? Doesn't matter! Guns are not helpful here!

5- there are social standards in the world preventing them from using thier gun.

6- The character is incredibly stubborn and will not add a gun to thier moveset because of that

There! Now shut up!

#genre #superheroes #guns #superhero genre #marvel #dc #worm #my hero academia #parahumans

[cgoodin]

Dasher - Issue 6 - front covers

In the story of issue 6, dasher will go down to the sewers of Blackpool to face of against a terrifying creature that threatens the lives of not just the residents of Blackpool, but the entire world too.

Currently, I have made 3 different versions of the front cover based of the story line of issue 6. Right now, I've focusing on which of the 3 is best suited for it.

Once I make my choice, my next task will be to upload it onto the last page of issue 5 to tease issue 6 to the readers for when they finish the current issue.

#dasher #adobe photoshop #photoshop #comics #issue 6 #design #designs #2023 #frontcovers #front cover #Goodinmaginations #superhero genre #superhero #the beast below #artwork #cgoodin #version 1 #version 2 #version 3

[magnificent-nerd]

Disney Lays Off Ike Perlmutter, Chairman of Marvel Entertainment The move, part of a cost-cutting campaign, followed Mr. Perlmutter’s unsuccessful effort to shake up Disney’s board.

Well, well, well!

This is very interesting indeed!

As pleasing as this is, I'm sure many of us would've preferred to see this despicable man go many years ago, before he had a chance to donate so much money to Donald Trump, before he had a chance to block any Marvel movies that were more diverse than yet another white male lead, and just generally having such an odious man at the top of Marvel (x).

Yet, it's good to finally see him go.

Good riddance.

#disney #marvel #ike perlmutter #marvel studios #superhero genre #news

[unlicensed-un-proffesional]

To be around during the first superhero comic crossovers must've felt about the same as playing Kingdom Hearts. Like we take it for granted now, but when you think about it, from the perspective of writing and being freshly exposed to such an idea, it's a little strange to have all these superheroes with wildly different abilities, back stories, aesthetics, and writing conventions interact, like without wormhole or dimension nonsense, (what is more commonly now known as multiversal fuckery) just existing in the same universe, and only interacting more and more as time goes on. Honestly it was kind of a game changer for the superhero genre as a whole and has massively impacted peoples perceptions of fiction. I'm not even gonna talk about the cultural impact of the concept of a multiverse, that'd be like a thesis paper right there.

#superhero genre #comics #hexacles.txt #pentacles talks

[shinigami-striker]

James Arnold Taylor | Saturday, 07.22.2023

There are plenty of other roles that feature James Arnold Taylor (happy birthday) that aren't related to either Final Fantasy, Johnny Test, Ratchet & Clank, Spider-Man, Star Wars, and even TMNT, which includes:

Walker - Danny Phantom (2004-07)

Green Arrow/Guy Gardner - Batman: The Brave & The Bold (TV series & video games, 2008-11)

Barry Allen (The Flash) - Young Justice (TV series, 2010-22)

#american actor #barry allen #batman #batman the brave and the bold #black canary #cartoon network #danny fenton #danny phantom #dc nation #green arrow #guy gardner #james arnold taylor #july 2023 #july 22 #kid flash #nickelodeon #saturday stuff #superhero genre #superheroes #the flash #tv series #tv shows #voice actor #walker #wally west #young justice

[jinglebellrockstars]

its a shame that the superhero genre is lame as fuck now and caters to stupid people cuz i had some good superhero ocs

#izzy.txt #superheroes #superhero genre

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

People debating about who is replacing who in Marvel movies and shows while I'm honestly tired of the whole superhero thing.

Don't care if it's Marvel or DC Comics, my interest in this genre has been declining for a while.

I know...

But...

#superhero genre #i just don't care enough anymore

[complainingatthevoid]

Superheroes, status quo, and the allure of simple solutions

Here’s how learning physics felt to me:

Learn an explanation of how something works.

Be told that explanation is actually a simplified model of reality, and be shown a different, more complex version.

Be told that version is a simplification, etc., etc.

Of course, it’s not like any of those steps were particularly easy, and the math scales up fast. But I also know that while maybe there’s people out there that could jump right to the complex calculus versions of those ideas and the intuition that’s required for them, I’m not one of them.

That generally seems to be the process in learning complex material. You learn a simplified version, which is as complex as you can understand at the time, because new material is hard. They you learn increasingly complex versions as you try to slowly approach what might be the truth.

The older I get, the more I learn about the world, the more its becoming clear how much of my knowledge about everything, if I really do try to learn about it, follows a similar pattern, from trying to understand history, to literature, to politics. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with that, because again, the world is deeply complex, and jumping in to the hard version is probably too much for most people. Even knowing what the hard version is may be beyond a beginner. But it’s also important to remember that this is a process, that at any moment there are probably flaws in my understanding of the world, many things I still need to learn and many things that I only understand in a simplified context.

What does this have to do with superheroes?

Pop Culture Detective, in his video “Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo” on YouTube did a great job describing how the superhero genre presents its heroes as those who preserve the status quo, rather than those who seek to fight injustices in our own world, and in fact could easily stand as barriers to the kind of change that could improve those injustices. I’ve been thinking about it, and how, as much as I might also enjoy more challenging media, when I come home exhausted from work and life and everything else, I often end up watching something like superhero media instead, as its all I might feel like I have the energy to deal with.

I think, to me at least, the simplification, more than the power fantasy, is the escapism of superhero media. That’s probably not any big revelation. But I do wonder about the fact that superhero media has gotten so incredibly popular in a time when the world feels more and more chaotic, when we have so much information at our fingertips and yet feel like we have so little control. It can be nice, then, spend a little time in a world with flawless moral paragons and perfect solutions to problems that are easy to understand. To spend an hour not thinking about every horrible implication and dangerous knock-on effect, and just assume things will be okay.

But is there something dangerous in that?

Because I think most of us understand that solving real problems will be much harder than a Marvel movie. But I think it can also be easy, when we’re tired, to try to ignore that constant barge of complexity, to convince ourselves that we’re looking at reality, when we’re actually looking at the simplified model.

The usual explanation of why superheroes shouldn’t change the status quo is that they shouldn’t play god. That they are humans, and even moral paragons shouldn’t assume they can understand everything well enough to make decisions for the rest of us. The reality, of course, is that it’s generally much easier to write episodic stories that way, and stories set in a world that feels much like are own can be a particularly comfortable type of escapism.

But I think its also useful to remember that it’s a simplification. That decisions in life shouldn’t be made to feel comfortable, and we don’t always have the luxury to choose not to act just because we might not have all the information. Or the luxury to assume that inaction will be less harmful that trying to understand that complexity enough to do something about it.

#superhero genre #superhero media #marvel