Originally posted by Phantom Zone
The point is you stated that aliens these days are nothing like humans or are extremely different eg A-Wave. Im merely pointing out to you that if we have lots of aliens that look like Skrulls for example that is an example of aliens that dont fit into your category. Alot of the aliens in the Thanos series were like that they looked different from humans but were cleary based and acted like humans.
i didn't say that at all. i said that aliens created within the last decade or so, as in, new alien races, tend to more often than not be as different from humans as possible. i'm not saying there are none like humans, i'm just saying that nowadays artists like to flex their creative muscles and come up with new, unique looking aliens.
LOL I know you didnt you missed the point.
you should make it clear then, seriously.
Again are you going to stop stating something like its fact without proving it? The whole point I was making is that hardly (or none) any of the aliens in the Thanos series fit your category of extremely different aliens. You have extremely different aliens in the A-wave but again all this means is that those type of aliens outnumbered the other types in that particular crossover not for the marvel universe in general.
everything i state. let me repeat that. EVERYTHING. everything i state is my own opinion. to some people i'm notorious for putting too many imo's in my posts.
Your not helping yourself by bringing up the warbound. Some of the invasion force mainly included insect like aliens but characters like Hiriom and Korg are members of species that possibly include millions of people like them. You could argue that the invasion force consisted of more strange looking creatrures that were vastly different from humans but back on Skar im not so sure.
i used the warbound to illustrate that there are plenty of non human looking aliens, thats all. so yes, it does actually help me illustrate my point.
Also in the infinite abyss series we see human looking and acting aliens. So theres nothing conclusive that writers nowhere days are creating more (If I dont highlight this you'll probably repeat the same thing and tell me I dont get the point) extremely weird looking and acting aliens.
again, read what i wrote.
Nevermind. Oh yeah the red lanterns as aliens themselves seem to be still based on humans, what makes them act differently isnt becaue they are aleins but their red power rings. Liara didnt act like that until she got her power ring.
no shit. i know who laira is. i was talking about the group as a collective, not individuals. all the corps have human looking aliens, all the corps also have aliens who don't.
you're not listening to what i'm saying. i'm not denying that there are human looking races. what i'm saying is that nowadays, when an artist is tasked with creating a new alien race, more often than not they will go to town on making their aliens as funky looking as possible.
look at the sinestro corps. there are human looking members, but several artists had to come up with new, scary alien races, which they did.
they only tend to anthropomorphise aliens when the main characters need someone to interact with on any deep level. soranik natu needed to have a nice rack to make kyle rayner attracted to her, and the hulk was never going to marry a chick that looked like the brood queen (yet another marvel race that is as unhuman as it gets. not to mention the phalanx).
to go back to the first post:
Originally posted by Phantom Zone
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/010906-Supermen-Color.htmlAn article about non-white krptonians. I personally think its a good thing to have ethnic diverse alien races. I used to find its strange that most humanoid alien races where white. Like one of the actors in heroes stated it would be absurd to make all the heroes white and the characters should reflect the real world.
No doubt flaming will commence but this is not why I started this thread
you seem to be operating under the assumption that "white" is an equivalent of caucasion. caucasion kryptonians? ok, granted, so lets give them black kyrptonians. they're obviously based on humanity to a large extent, even when it comes down to skin tone (something tells me the population of earth wouldnt have taken superman to their hearts if he had three arms and lilac skin), it fits.
when it comes to other races? there seems to be a kind of reverse racism going on in your post. there seems to be the assumption that being a blue kree, a white (as in, white, not caucasion) member of saint walker's race, a grey member of Caiera's race, etc etc, is some galactic equivalent of being caucasian. it isn't. at all. some alien races have one colour, some have two, but the entire point of making alien characters is to make new, exciting characters that are not human. that means being different. if they make CAUCASIAN aliens, then sure, you could go and make black, asian, latino and puerto rican members of said race. if they aren't caucasian, then no, i don't see a reason to bring in different coloured aliens.
earth is generally considered (in both companies) to be the most diverse planet in the universe. thats something i will never have a problem with.