How dependant is a characters power, on fan popularity?
I am under the impression that if a character dosen't have a good reception by comic fans, then their power for the most part, either stays stagnet, or that particular character is written poorly. (ex. Absorbing Man)
Now if a character becomes popular with fans, its seems like they are sometimes powered up to rediculous levels (ex. Wolverine).
Your thoughts?
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Last edited by Galan007 on Dec 27th, 2006 at 10:22 PM
i agree with that! its all about the benjamins marketing really if its a good seller they do what they must to keep it a good seller. Not particularly fair to other characters and their fans ie: absorbing man.
Not always. Take Apocalypse, Cable, and other characters who've been reinvented. Apoc is one of the most popular characters, but he's vastly underutilized and underwritten, with lots of PIS losses.
Or, go the other route. Cable has been written as an 80s era he-man gun toting badass, and people loved him. Now he's turned into this super-powered messiah figure with a jesus complex, and lots of people hate him, myself among them. Or Squirrel Girl, who nobody likes, but owns the likes of Thanos, Dr. Doom, Mandarin, Modok, and of course, Deadpool in a recent issue of Cable&Deadpool.
I agree that some people like Logan get insane hype and power because they are popular. But let's all agree there is some inherent stupidity in Marvel's writing lately.
this Civil War thing could be so much better done, not to mention the lame attempt to link this schtick to Bush's presidency.......
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more often then not, it's just cuz she's comic relief. As I said, it depends on the story, she's there to beat these guys because she's the last one you'd expect to do it, and it's often funny when she does.
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I didn't like Cable in Jesus form but I liked him even less as the standard 80's-90's anti-hero. At least he had some good adventures with Deadpool.
And Apocalypse is popular? Says who? I can't stand him. He's one of the biggest failures of all time. It's bad enough that he hasn't accomplished anything but he's thousands of years old and has Celestial tech for cripes sake.
Come back when you define your powers and do slightly more than Doc Ock, who at least has the excuse of being a pudgy man with robot hentacles.
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squirrel girl is there to piss off comic fans who take things like power levels and vs scenarios way to seriously. that's why I love her
and I'd like to see her as a regular
also I'd rather have messiah cable then generic gun guy # 12234214234234
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Dec 27th, 2006 10:16 PM
marketing really if its a good seller they do what they must to keep it a good seller. Not particularly fair to other characters and their fans ie: absorbing man.
i think she is total pis
