Itt: unusual takes on characters that actually worked.
Itt: unusual takes on characters that actually worked
Owen Morales
Josiah Moore
Even if you don’t like MCU Spider-man, Vulture was good considering how he is in the comics.
Caleb Ross
That was just Killer Croc
Jordan Rogers
Vulture, Mysterio and Flash are actually really damn good in MCU Spidey.
Ian Cox
Has there been a bad portray of live action Penguin?
Tyler Turner
Replace flash with methed out shocker and I agree.
Eli King
Not that I know of.
Caleb Hernandez
is he the only character that remained consistent throughout that show?
I dropped it in the season where butch became Grundy.
Anthony Thomas
I really wish pic related could've gone on for a bit longer than 2 volumes. There was like alot more topics the series could've dealt with. But good things can't last forever I suppose. I do hope that the upcoming adult-oriented Flintstones reboot can take a note or two from this series.
Luis Taylor
>Butch became Grundy
Oh Jesus Christ, you’ve got to be shitting me.
Mason Howard
Charles Torres
Define consistent
Oswald was always a scheme little turd and he stayed that way, but he climbed higher and higher and began to betray his roots. Same with every villain who just went more and more insane.
Alfred and Harvey also kinda stayed the same I suppose?
It was a cliffhanger line that they put in the finale because they didn't know if the show would get another season.
Kayden Parker
There is none. All adaptations should be forced to follow the original comics blueprint
Michael Adams
Lol found the cop.
Andrew Parker
While I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, I still have issues with this take on Cobblepot.
This worked out amazingly because comic Vulture just sucks
Here's mine.
Joshua Cox
I never understood why some writers and directors wanting to turn Penguin into some kind of freak villain. He worked well enough as a Gotham mob boss with a nickname because he was a short fat guy.
For some reason they want to make him into a Bird themed Killer Croc.
Isaac Reed
>It was a cliffhanger line
it was a whole damn thing. He came out of the swamp and was a cage fighter.
Jason Smith
Good God it’s Uncle Fester with hair.
Michael Long
why do people say this show is good
Landon Ward
There was a huge stinker by the (((usual suspects))) when Batman Returns was released in the early 90s, supposedly DeVito’s Penguin was too close to Jewish caricatures both in appearance and behaviour.
Jose Adams
The Penguin is merely an outcast of Gotham High Society. Given how easy it is to get into high society nowadays, they changed him to a freak to better fit in.
Besides, the Penguin's schemes generally revolved around schemes that would've gotten him in trouble with the Feds like corruption, petty robbery, possible money laundering.
Gavin Hall
it was decent when it was what it intended to be, a cop drama with some nods to Batman. Then it just became Batman-but-Gordon and fucking weird.
Grayson Cook
It's the tug of war between writers who want Bat villains to be the same thing as all other comic supervillains with a solid theme and costume. And other writers who want all Bat villains to follow the standard pattern of each one of them having some kind of mental problems that forms the basis. Penguin traditionally falls into neither category so they keep trying this.
Hunter Cox
That's because the Penguin is the closest thing to a corrupt politician and mob boss that Batman has.
Charles Cox
Yeah because of growing up with supes/bats/JLU etc. animated series and not being able to buy comics at 7, when i eventually saw comic brainiac i was confused. Those animated series' were something special man
Blake Allen
He is almost never considered one of the mob bosses like Thorne, Falcone, and Bertenelli. Having Penguin not be a crime boss in the Burton movie was weird after the first one established Joker as one. It would have been pretty easy for Penguin to come up in the vacuum left after Joker and Grissom died in the first.
David Barnes
This. The more “Batman” they injected into the show, the worse and worse it got.
Lincoln Morgan
Jordan Jenkins
The Bruce Timm "I'm so smart I leave clues just to make it a challenge" Riddler was a good idea. I liked the explanation that without leaving clues behind he would always get away each time concept. Since nothing else really made sense.
Henry Bell
Marketers.
Kevin Cook
>MFW Tetch was more based on Lewis Caroll being Pedo-y around the person Alice was based off of.
Jesus fucking christ the things you learn.
Benjamin Parker
Because it was when it needed to be
The show had great takes on Penguin, Riddler, Joker, Alfred, etc
Easton Anderson
The first seasons of Batman used the villains really well, not too much to make them jokes, but enough to leave an impression.
Nicholas Kelly
Oh man, I gotta catch up. I haven't watched since The Thing started hulking out because of radioactive blood or whatever.
It's weird combination of serious and camp was very compelling.
Adrian Taylor
What's the point of an adaptation at that point? The very meaning of the word adapt means to change, and different media have different strengths and weaknesses. Nolan's Batman wouldn't be as fun in a comic, and Archie makes for a boring live action TV series.
Chase Morales
>Archie makes for a boring live action TV series
Jayden Mitchell
t. 14-year-old who just heard the "Lewis Carroll was a pedo" meme for the first time
Jordan Sanchez
>responding to the lame bait
Come one man, you're better than this.
Jacob Campbell
William Smith
Jack Bailey
Agreed. He was played and reimagined very well. Love that jacket as well. If only he was a garbage man/businessman with a huge lot of garbage that he used to smuggle,steal, and make shit with the Tinkerer. He carried the movie.
Adam Gutierrez
Shocker was the black guy and was cool but I was excited for the scorpion.
Eli Parker
This movie was so bad lmao
Jordan Clark
t. Reddit
Adam Anderson
OPs pic unrelated
Ian Stewart
I dunno about the character being a good portrayal of the Penguin conceptually, but damn if Danny Devito didn't deliver a damn good performance.
Jose Martinez
t. guy with a bloody nose
Jose Lee
It’s a shame, I had hoped that Bruce would only be around for the beginning of the first season, and then they’d use Ras’Algoul to handwave Bruce away.
Jose Bell
I really don't think I could come up with a better example.
Isaiah Diaz
Just wait until you see their Bane
Jose Robinson
It literally started with Burton and everyone is just ripping him off. I like his interpretation but it only really works for Batman Returns.
Hunter Hughes
Adrian Nelson
>comics Vulture sucks
Spoken like people who've never read him
Gavin Moore
There's still hope...
Right?
Cooper Robinson
Because the people who say it sucks don't realize that it's an Elseworld that followed the source material, but the source material was the 70+ years of Batman media rather than a single source. So one episode might be full on Adam West camp with Riddler leaving a giant bomb disguised as a piece of art followed by their take on The Killing Joke followed by the plot of Batman Begins. It's a love letter to Batman rather than an adaptation of Batman.
Nathaniel Adams
I actually really loved this version of the joker. Never thought someone could make him genuinely sympathetic but damn. Shame about the homicidal tendencies.
Kevin Gonzalez
I really want a Willam Defoe version of the Joker if that helps.
Hudson Diaz
Honestly I agree with you on the Flash thing. He's still a bully, but idea of the jock with a letterman's jacket shoving people into lockers isn't really all that relevant in the modern day. I like the idea of him just being this douchey normie e-celeb mainly because nowadays those are the kinds of people that would be the super popular kids who all the nerdy kids hate.
Carson Howard
Yes. Nobody is going to stop Disney ever. The percentages won't be what they want or they'll just straight take over Sony like they did Fox, but it's getting done.
Jaxson Brooks
And I want a Denzel Washington Kang the Time Conqueror who's been made aware of time shenanigansi of the 616 and decides to investigate
and Tom Cruise Maxwel Lord in charge of the JSA a who's who of low tier actors and heroes saving the world all suicide squad style and trying to one up the JLU and cowtow to the government and business interests.
Cooper Sanchez
>idea of the jock with a letterman's jacket shoving people into lockers isn't really all that relevant in the modern day.
Do...do you think this doesn't happen even now? It does.
Douchey e-celeb?
The fuck
What reality do you live in?
Do you think being some random nobody faggot with a youtube channel = more popular with women and the people in the tiny community of a school then the well built heteronormative jock chad thundercock who barely knows how a computer works?
Jeremiah Cruz
Batman Season 2 is the true Telltale Kino along with Walking Dead S1 and Wolf Among Us
Jace Baker
Joshua Ross
>What reality do you live in?
Not that user, but the reality is a modern day first world country with zero tolerance policies on bullying and a youth culture based on social media.
Jack Collins
I'd argue it's a cut above TWAU even, since that suffered from extreme rewrites. Telltale Batman did pretty much everything I'd want out of a modern Batman story and fixed most of my issues with a lot of the work surrounding the character. Truly kino.
Eli Richardson
The jacket acting like the neck ruffles of a vulture was genius
Hunter Lee
I agree on Brainiac. Him being an AI makes him more distinguishable from other Supe villains who were basically just aliens like Mogul and Darkseid.
Jason Morgan
>be actor
>agent finds me a job
>it's a cop drama show
>I would play some mob guy
>"the show is called gotham"
>what
>I don't want to do silly shit
>they promise that I would't
>"it's a serious show about gotham criminals before the batman"
>okay that sounds interesting
>3 seasons later
>they paint me like a white zombie
>I don't even have lines anymore
>mfw
Zachary Phillips
He looks stupid as fuck.
All you need to do is just find a guy with big trapes. He doesn't even need to be that good of an actor. Big trapes, big muscles, and some stuff to suggest some manner of getting venom into his system. If his acting's lacklustre, just say the venom has an effect on his linguistics.
Boom, Bane on the cheap and ready for TV.
Jace Smith
>Love letter to Batman
>Doesn't feature Batman until the finale
Okay.