Does anyone else hate his origin. It just reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment.
>Just follow a guy into a train station and you will be granted the ability to turn into and adult with the power of Greek Gods
People today complain that SuperMan is overpowered, but originally he only had super strength and the ability to jump high. He later got more powers because Captain Marvel was outselling him. I'm not sure why I think this way since I also enjoy shonen where they have teenagers take down 30-something year olds who have had more experience in combat.
Does anyone else hate his origin. It just reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment
Leo Myers
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Aiden Foster
you fucking suck OP
Bentley Diaz
It IS 10 year old wish fulfillment. That's part of its charm and general appeal.
Dylan Davis
Trash opinion and hypocrite
Based
Tyler Bennett
You don't see shonen protags literally turning into adults. They also train to improve their powers, even if they were given or born with them.
Justin Moore
Ah, so you some Yea Forums fag. Capeshit doesn't work like that. Power levels aren't important there. Fuck off
Hudson Lewis
Training is for nerds
Sebastian Carter
>like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment
Well, yes. That's...that's the deal.
Gabriel Miller
I've seen a lot of dumb posts but this is up there.
Kayden Hughes
Forget it user, some people desperately need everything to be a deconstruction.
Cameron Cook
It's exactly 10-year-old wish fulfillment. They were the audience for the comic at the time and it worked. If it helps, don't think try to compare it to modern shounen. Its influences more likely come from certain fairy tales where good people in bad situations get happy endings for being pure of heart.
Brayden Hill
>reads post
>sees banner
Huh... interesting
Brody Roberts
> reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment.
I wonder why?
Charles Sullivan
>It just reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment
... yes? What exactly is wrong with that.
Daniel Russell
It's still bad writing.You guys tell people to read the comics, so I assume that they should have good writing. I just expected better. SuperMan's origin isn't even that dumb and he's the original superhero and was nowhere near OP.
Luke Sanchez
>it's still bad writing because I say so
Owen Butler
>It's still bad writing.
How so?
Jace Torres
Dude, this is from the fucking 40s, entirely marketed to kids. What did you fucking expect?
Caleb Kelly
Supes actually gained the ability to fly because the cartoons find it easier to animate.
Alexander Bennett
He won't give a good answer.
Bentley Allen
>you don't see shonenshit characters turning into adults suddenly
Who is Gon Freecs?
Luis Robinson
Just because they are kids, doesn't mean they can't comprehend better writing.
How not. Can you think of any other story of a kid who is granted the ability of an adult demigod if he shouts an acronym, only to fight low level criminals, that is considered good writing. This is the original Captain Marvel we are talking about.
Benjamin Martinez
>SuperMan
Matthew Myers
The writer was, as Beck said, a student of the Classics, not Comics, as they were brand new.
But be proud, user.
Your bait worked!
James Young
Togashi is the king of asspulls, so he doesn't apply. Remember Demon Yusuke out of nowhere?
Jayden Baker
It can be improved upon...
Lucas Watson
Dude, you want good writing, go to the later stuff. This stuff is like super basic shit, literally the first fucking one
John Lewis
The writing isn't bad. In fact, Captain Marvel is the most readable and charming of the golden gate capes barring early Superman. You're just not reading it the right way. It's very surrealist and dreamlike, way closer to fairy tales or epic literature than typical sci-fi-ish or fantasy capes.
It's already a given that the Marvel Family will save the day, it's not about tension, it's about the childlike ingenuity with which the problems are dealt with. The god tier art also helps.
Xavier Rivera
>Hate his origin?
Why hate anything OP? If you don't like something you don't have to watch it.
Juan Bailey
>It just reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment.
Gee OP maybe that's THE FUCKING POINT
It's literally a kid that transforms into a perfect adult, how retarded can you be?
Logan Walker
Somebody recommended you a comic written for kids. You read it, and now you're complaining that it's written for kids. You are a moron.
Noah Morgan
Welp, proven correct that OP can't give a good answer.
Mason Foster
It's supposed to be a modern fairy tale about a boy that can do anything using his powers in interesting ways to solve impossible problems and getting gagged when he has to revert to Billy to do things the Captain can't, usually undercover work against the bad guys.
It's not about fake tension where the super karateman has to pump iron to fight the opponent only he stands a chance against and people pretend that's good writing and relatable.
This.
>Only to fight low level criminals
HE FIGHTS SIVANA IN THE FIRST ISSUE
HOLY FUCK Yea Forums REALLY DOESN'T READ COMICS
Jesus user you are a goddamn failure.
You two are goddamn failures as well. Fuck off.
Aaron Turner
Those low level criminals are still capable of hurting people. If you think being strong puts a hero above acknowledging such things it's no wonder people like Goku so much.
There's a difference between being a hero and being a physically powerful protagonist.
Tyler Hall
Oh yes, all those low level criminals.
Why the FUCK do weebs think Captain Marvel and Superman only ever fought bank robbers?
Bentley Long
Second issue. And you don't need god powers to fight a scientist.
Gabriel Nguyen
>World's wickedest scientist
>"Just a scientist"
Name a shonen character and Sivana solos them.
Robert Murphy
I will now read your comic.
Aaron Thompson
I don't know man. For me the best part about Captain Marvel and Superman was that their adventure could be about anything.
Saying they shouldn't deal with bank robbers is like saying Hercules shouldn't be cleaning up Horse-shit.
John Barnes
Because normies don't think Superman has any villains other than Luthor and Zod, or that Captain Marvel has any besides Black Adam.
Brayden Wright
Dark Schneider from Bastard!!
Dominic Carter
'Yep. That one's going in my ''Yea Forums doesn't read comics'' compilation.
Isaac Cooper
How do we know those weren't Yea Forums tourists or Yea Forums tourists?
Adrian Gutierrez
There's a theory that Billy never became Shazam, it's just something he made up to tell on the radio
And this is supported by some CC Beck statements, that he always envisioned the end of Captain Marvel to be a reveal that it was just Billy making shit up around real events
Cooper Howard
This.
Dude started in Billy's first case as a guy with a device that destroyed all radio and kept advancing from there. He had a more impressive start than Ultra or Lex.
Sebastian Nelson
That's actually kind of charming.
I'd love for a crossover between Thunderworld and an Earth where Captain Marvel is something Billy tells on the radio/youtube.
Jonathan Mitchell
Op definitely comes from Yea Forums
Levi Lee
That's the first sign somebody is from Yea Forums. Japanimation fanboys can't parse Supes' name right for shit.
Brody Carter
Sounds Kino
John White
It was from a simpler time when an origin story didn't have to be complicated.
DC had a character in the golden age called Genius Jones whose origin was that he got stranded on an island with a bunch of books and read them all and became a genius.
Kevin Gutierrez
And stories from that time tended to be a lot more creative than what we have now.
Brayden Gomez
Kek
Jonathan Rogers
It's true. I'm reading silver age LOSH and Doom Patrol now, not golden age but the stories are super imaginative. There aren't any comics today like that.
Elijah Stewart
Wyatt Wright
He kinda does. He's fought Sivana as Billy before, and Sivana kicks his ass.
David Wilson
>Implying the Yea Forums faggot that slipped his containment board knows the first thing about Captain Marvel.
Carson Garcia
I saw a panel where Sivana has the obvious idea of breaking into Billy's house and killing him in his sleep, how does that go?
Austin Brown
It is kinda funny how writers back then used to strive to come up with weird, surreal plots or detective stories the hero would have to think their way out of, but the majority of today's ''sophisticated'' comics writers don't think up much more than grudge matches, usually dragged out for whole arcs.
Jace Roberts
It, at least, proved useful elsewhere.
Jaxon Nguyen
>People complain Spider-Man is overpowered
He’s literally the weakest “spider”
Isaiah Morgan
Fine OP, you don't have to like it. If you want something that deconstruct this exact premise I suggest you miracle man. Is like Captain Marvel but addresses your complains.
Gavin Gutierrez
Adam Powell
Feelsbadman
Carter Price
You do when it's this fucker
Parker Gonzalez
How is Billy on the Radio if the event that got him on the radio (stopping Sivana) a fabrication?
Joshua Howard
>muh alien x
>i'm the most important person in the multiverse
Jace Hernandez
James Scott
Ethan Gonzalez
>Does anyone else hate his origin. It just reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment.
Thats literally the point. Billy was making up shit for the radio show.
Evan Taylor
Grayson Long
As long as those kids are still sobbing over Hal curbstomping their idol, I'm happy.
Jason Harris
Blake Wilson
Camden Brown
Kevin Robinson
Juan Powell
Connor Murphy
Jaxon Robinson
I think Yea Forums would understand the appeal of a character like Captain Marvel, though. I mean, if they can suspend their disbelief for any given Magical Girl story, Cap isn't that much of a stretch.
John Lewis
Oh yes we can HO HO HA HA HE HE
Zachary Campbell
OP would be the exact same type of retard that hates anything other than Shounen Jump titles.
Jonathan Parker
Sivana works fast. Especially in this era of not kissing until the third date.
Eli Evans
>Old man in underground makes little boy an adult
Zack Snyder's version of his origin would be
metaphor to rape.
Robert Williams
those days long sobfests are hilarious
Ethan Rodriguez
This is really cool though.
Levi Morgan
So when does Alan Scott kill Reinhard from Dis Irae to cement green lanterns as vs battle sacred cow killers?
Jacob Richardson
>It just reads like a 10 year old's wish fulfillment.
>Shazam
Alexander Lewis
Spiderman is a great character and you know it!
Grayson Lee
Never forget the hyphen!
Charles Martinez
Its the Silver Age, its not supposed to make sense
Noah Taylor
>calling defining a Golden Age character Silver Age
What did the retard mean by this?
Isaiah Garcia
The Silver Age was full of goofy plots and powers, Captain Marvel (yes, i'm still calling him by his real name) fits that perfectly
Joseph White
Man. Just reading this makes me think how pleasant life must've been in the USA back when this was published, that they actually found this tripe engaging.
Ayden Hall
Does it hurt having such bad taste?
Kevin Russell
I assure you that if you were a 10 year old boy who followed strange men you'd get to experience quite a few Greek things, and arguably would become an adult. With HIV.
Jacob Carter
You can't just go around redefining the Silver Age as starting in 1939, user.