The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

@Thanotos Omega
 
I guess what I’m trying to get at is, I grew up in the 90s. For a long time my only exposure to Spiderman was through his cartoons, games and movies. When I discovered the internet Wikipedia helped me get the summary of his comic stories, but that’s it.
 
Fast forward to today, and now this character who was big before I was born, was a non-entity in the mediums I’m used to for most of my life, is now one of Marvel’s hottest products again and in only a few short years.
 
It’s odd, but welcome.

@Angrybrony  
Well that’s gonna he kinda hard since Elseworlds is DC.

@Dustcan  
actually she’s been there in spirit, MJ’s deeper nicer traits are mostly lifted from Gwen as MJ pre development in the comics was a very shallow girl with very little going for her beyond her looks

@Thanotos Omega  
And now MJ is just basically Lois Lane.

@Darth Prime  
you know what i mean.

@Angrybrony
 
What If he doesn’t?

Gwen also showed up in The Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon. That probably helped boost her popularity.

@Jarkes
 
Ja, mentioned that.
 
I dare say that might be where the current fascination with her started from.

Batman Returns is the best Christmas movie. Don’t @ me.
 
(This is Spaceman, BTW. I got signed out of my account.)

@Angrybrony  
shouldn’t you use “WHAT IF?”

@Background Pony #BCB2  
Funny you mention that movie I’ve wanting to post some musings involving that movie in how it influences in how DC movie have been.
 
Starting in the 60s there was the Adam West series well known for its camp which many believed to make Batman a joke in pop culture.
 
Then came the first Burton movie that went dark and gothic with a Batman that wasn’t a afraid to kill a film made to be as far from the 60 TV show as possible.
 
It was then followed up with the aforementioned Batman Returns a movie so dark it began with parents attempting to drown their monster baby.  
McDonald’s didn’t want to sell toys in their Happy Meals from a film that bleak which is what will lead into the next point.  
(Side note: the plot of Batman Returns with Penguin running for mayor is actually lifted from the 60 series.)
 
So Joel Schumacher takes over actually wants to do a serious Batman film but because of the Happy Meals thing the executives want a lighter tone movie more like the campy feel of the 60 show which leads to Batman Forever and McDonald’s being able to sale collectors glasses.
 
Forever is followed up with Batman and Robin (and Batgirl) and even more campy film the last and one so reviled it necessitated a reboot.
 
This is of course Nolen’s Dark Knight Trilogy a dark more realistic depiction of Batman that was much acclaimed.
 
The success of this dark and gritty take is of course what leads to Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice which are meet with “mixed” reviews.
 
This leads into Justice League a movie which the had to promise “there will be jokes” which there were particularly at the experience of the previously grim and gritty Batman.
 
And round and round it goes where it stop? Never cause no learns anything.

@Darth Prime  
Funny, I thought that both of the Burton Batman films were the perfect balance between dark grittiness and comic book humor.

@Background Pony #F6F5  
yeah that’s what i meant but couldn’t think of it at the time.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Hey I watched the first one recently still pretty good Batman’s murderous tendency aside.  
But McDonald’s didn’t like having toys from a movie that starts with attempted child murder at the start in their Happy Meals.

I wonder if “Jet” in avatar was an allegory of the Kuomintang engineering the 1938 yellow river flood

@Commune  
In Avatar: The Last Airbender? Wouldn’t surprise me. I only just recently realized that the scene of Zuko and Iroh cutting off their topknots in the episode “The Avatar State” was meant to be reminiscent of seppuku.

@TheHappySpaceman  
No, I’m pretty sure that is actually something from Japan, which meant showing you weren’t a noble  
I’m fairly sure I read somewhere that during the chinese revolution, the Chinese themselves did something similar as a symbol of disrespect to the Manchu empire

Will Gwenpool ever get a cartoon cameo?

well super best friends just ended their channel…that’s a blow to my moral.

@TheHappySpaceman  
that is a really unflattering pic they used…
 
He looks like he’s drunk and in the middle of a sneeze…

@icey wicey 1517  
I suppose it does.
 
Anyway, I don’t know if anything is gonna come of this. Let’s not forget how many movies get announced or mentioned but never come to fruition. There have been, like, seven times recently when people were like, “Oh boy, rumors of blank???? This guy’s working on blank???” but it never happened.

So, the Death of Superman animated film that came out earlier this year… if I’ve already read the comic and seen the earlier “Superman: Doomsday,” do I need to watch it or will it just be like reruns? Does anyone who knows the original story already get anything out of seeing this version?

@Angrybrony  
The phrase “Mat and pat are no longer friends” is something that genuinely breaks my heart

@newsketches  
i felt like i lost a family member.