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10-29-2009, 05:07 PM
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Side-Kick
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Live-action vs. Animation: Compare & Contrast
Basically, which form of media did the respective characters more justice. Since, there have been various animated programs devoted to a particular Marvel character, I don't want to turn this into a "which TV program was better" debate. I would like to keep things focused on the individual shows when compared to their live-action counterparts:
Live-action Spider-Man (Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire) films vs. The Spectacular Spider-Man Live-action Spider-Man (Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire) films vs. Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) Live-action Spider-Man (Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire) films vs. 1967 and 1981 (solo) Spider-Man cartoons respectively I'm not going to include Spider-Man Unlimited since that wasn't exactly centered on the mainstream comic book continuity. I also don't want to go into the MTV Spidey show since that one was loosely related to the live-action film continuity. Live-action X-Men films vs. Wolverine and the X-Men Live-action X-Men films vs. X-Men Evolution Live-action X-Men films vs. X-Men: The Animated Series I'm not including the "Pryde of the X-Men" pilot since we'll never really know how that particular show would've evolved (besides the Komani produced arcade game) beyond that single episode. Live-action Iron Man film(s) vs. Iron Man: The Animated Series (including Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes/War Machine's guest appearances on the Spider-Man and Incredible Hulk cartoons from that period) I'm not sure that I want to include Iron Man: Armored Adventures into the discussion since that show is based around a teenage Tony Stark. Live-action Incredible Hulk films (both Ang Lee and Louis Leterrier's versions) vs. The Incredible Hulk: The Animated Series (1996) and the 1982 Hulk series I'll include Hulk's various guest appearances on shows like Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes and Wolverine and the X-Men. Live-action Fantastic Four films (the Tim Story films only - not the ashcan Roger Corman version from 1994) vs. Fantastic Four World's Greatest Heroes, Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, and the 1967 Hanna-Barbara cartoon I'm not going to even bother talking about the 1978 F4 cartoon with H.E.R.B.I.E. instead of the Human Torch.  Live-action Blade films (with Wesley Snipes) vs. Blade's guest appearances on the 1994 Spider-Man cartoon series Live-action Daredevil film (with Ben Affleck) vs. DD's guest appearances on the 1990s Spider-Man (this includes their depiction of the Kingpin) and Fantastic Four series The depiction of the Silver Surfer and Galactics (storm cloud and all)  in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer vs. the Surfer's guest appearances on the various F4 cartoons throughout the years and the Surfer's solo cartoon from 1998Live-action Ghost Rider film (with Nicholas Cage) vs. GR's guest appearances on the '90s Fantastic Four and Hulk cartoons. I don't know if I want to bring up the Punisher's guest appearances on the '90s Spider-Man cartoon and compare/contrast them to the live-action movies. For all intensive purposes, the animated version of Frank Castle was the santized, PG version (therefore, he wasn't allowed to do any bloodshed whatsoever). |
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10-29-2009, 05:55 PM
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Side-Kick
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: USA
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Re: Live-action vs. Animation: Compare & Contrast
Live-action Spider-Man (Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire) films vs. The Spectacular Spider-Man
The Spectacular Spider-Man Live-action Spider-Man films vs. Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) Live-action Spider-Man (Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire) films vs. 1967 and 1981 (solo) Spider-Man cartoons respectively Live-action Spider-Man films Live-action Iron Man film(s) vs. Iron Man: The Animated Series Live-action Iron Man film(s) Live-action Incredible Hulk films vs. The Incredible Hulk: The Animated Series Live-action Incredible Hulk films Live-action Fantastic Four films vs. Fantastic Four Animated Live-action Fantastic Four films Live-action Blade films vs. Blade's guest appearances Live-action Blade films Live-action Daredevil film vs. DD's guest appearances Live-action Daredevil film The depiction of the Silver Surfer and Galactics (storm cloud and all) in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer vs. the Surfer's guest appearances on the various F4 cartoons throughout the years and the Surfer's solo cartoon from 1998These choices are poorly organized. Why include Galactus in the live action portion, but ignore him in the animated version? Why lump the two characters together in the same question? Pass. Live-action Ghost Rider film vs. GR's guest appearances GR's guest appearances |
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10-29-2009, 10:11 PM
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Side-Kick
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Re: Live-action vs. Animation: Compare & Contrast
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10-31-2009, 02:26 PM
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Grim Avenger of the Night
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Re: Live-action vs. Animation: Compare & Contrast
Live-action Spider-Man films vs. Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994)
Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) Live-action X-Men films vs. X-Men Evolution Live-action X-Men films (only X1 and X2 are better, the rest are s**t) Live-action X-Men films vs. X-Men: The Animated Series X-Men: The Animated Series Live-action Iron Man film vs. Iron Man: The Animated Series Live-action Iron Man film Live-action Incredible Hulk films vs. The Incredible Hulk: The Animated Series (1996) The Incredible Hulk: The Animated Series (1996) Live-action Daredevil film vs. DD's guest appearances Live-action Daredevil film Last edited by returntovoid; 10-31-2009 at 02:30 PM. |
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