[ SECRET POST #3095 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3095 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Poets of the Fall]


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[The Authority/Stormwatch/Midnighter]


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[Anthony Bourdain/Parts Unknown]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 010 secrets from Secret Submission Post #442.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't dislike Miles, and I don't think a hero with a "boring" personality is a great problem.

A good superhero character often (not always) works on the level of audience identification.

We identify with Kitty Pryde, or Jubilee, or Jaime from Blue Beetle, because we are or have been young people, even if we're not Jewish from Chicago, Chinese-looking American, or El Paso chicano. Some guys with glasses identify with Clark Kent for that reason. Short guys identify with Puck or Wolverine or something. Ancient Mediterranean history buffs identify with Carter Hall, and so forth. The character doesn't have to be super-complex, just someone we can sympathise with.

Peter Parker is a New Yorker. He's not from the idealised rural Midwest like Clark Kent, nor outer space, nor Paradise Island, nor "darkest Africa." That makes him identification material to a lot of people, especially those who live in NYC. You don't have to be white or from NYC to identify with him, of course. He has his family issues, his soap opera elements, his self-confidence problems.

But Peter Parker is from NYC of the 1960's. If Peter is relatively "boring," it's because there are so many white dudes, and even "white dudes from NYC of generations past" in superhero movies already. Miles gives a share of the audience something different. And that's "less boring" to them, even if Miles in the comics isn't as wildly popular as Petey was at his height of popularity.

I think a good script can make Miles not be boring. And a white dude named Peter Parker isn't automatically more interesting, and might just seem repetitive. So the anti-white-Peter crowd have a point.

Really, though, it's a shame we're not seeing a Luke Cage project developed. Yeah, they say they're going to do Black Panther, but I think Cage is a better character. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Luke Cage is getting a Netflix series, like Daredevil and Jessica Jones.

[insanenoodlyguy]

That excites me greatly. I just hope somehow we get a brief 70's luke cage moment.



At least have him exclaim "sweet christmas!" once and I'll be happy though.

[(Anonymous)]

And he's in the Jessica Jones series, too. There's stills online if you google them. He looks great but I miss the headband, tbh.