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Hmm... I don't like this MX guy... I'd rather see more of Mr. Terrific... he's a CSBMiCtKAA... a cool smart black man in Checkmate that kicks alotta ass...
Bring back MX, (Muhammad X)
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His powers were actually density control. He "phased" through Superman and made a crook too heavy to move.
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In my shoes for a second please:
As I read comics I looked for BLACK heroes and tore them into itty-bitty pieces as far as understanding their motivations because for every 7 or 8 white guys with "unique" abilities,... you had a minority in the story who was comic relief or the dedicated loyal helper or the villian.
So I dismiss John Stewart because he wasn't an Angry Black man by any stretch. He declared his independence and Stated he was doing the ring his way. He put NOTHING on Hal about his color except when Hal "Marveled" at him doing anything well.
I'm trying to explain that for a lot of us being complimented for something we do easily in a tone that states that it is a surprise or we shouldn't be able to do it at all rubs most of us the wrong way.
It's like school and getting an A on a test,.. and the teacher saying you cheated because you were the wrong size to get an A.
On cyborg? He was WRITTEN as a cheerful child raised by two brilliant people who messed up big time and had to put him back together. His "anger" was the sort ANYONE would feel on being cheated from having a "normal" life. I can't put a color to that.
At the current time the ONLY ABM I'm aware of in the DC Universe are crooks, MX, and The Martian Manhunter (joke).
The Anger IMO is having to constantly WORK at what others step into w/o pressure, Be right in all the important ways while others are allowed to make mistakes, Be ready to accept abuse from others for as long as it takes for "others" to get the warm and fuzzies about you.
To carefully Pick what points and stereotypes you will defend yourself from, To look out for all in your day to day when you get the distinct impression that whites only look out only for their own.
I say impression because for every cop who has stopped me in life for just being where they think I shouldn't be, for every person who follows me around in a store to make sure I don't steal, for every person who can accuse me of wrongdoing and then feel they don't have to apologize for wasting our time or being wrong - somewhere in the mix is a white person like me.
So "I" look for the things we are talking about. The ONLY Angry Black super "hero" DC ever started out with was not officially from the DC Universe.
His name was Hardware.
AND HE CHANGED OVER TIME.
I hope that at least gave you where I came from on this.
Peace.
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"Closed-minded" is a word all too often applied to anyone with radical or revolutionary ideas, by people too small-minded to accept those ideas.
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Why? Black people have quite a bit to be angry about.
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Good answer.
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Sure we do. But theres anger, then theres being an ignorant mook. And that's what this guy comes off as. Now, what V has in mind is for this guy to step outside of his little coner of the world and see that theres more at steak here then what goes down in Harlem. Which I think isn't a bad place to take the character. If anybody is willing to put in the time.
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i like the fact that you had to point that out to him.
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i care about my own black ass.
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thanks. It pisses me off that its okay for a black guy to stay in one city, but superman has to be in every ****ing city.
plus his name sucks ass
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Muhammad X? Wow, that's a good name--hits right into what the guy is all about.
Would be a pretty interesting arc to see, though, him turning from a narrow-minded ABM to a more open hero.
Would be a pretty interesting arc to see, though, him turning from a narrow-minded ABM to a more open hero.
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No he was talking trash to Mr. Terrific (this is before Terrific was leading the team) after Mr. T tried to give him some advice or something (been a while since I read it). Stargirl pulled Jakeem to the side and, among other things told him she'd kick his butt if he talked to Mr. T that way again.
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I admit that Terrific has grown on me,... even though the classified has ALL the JSA reading a little dimmer than I remember.
But this is something DC could've run with but they dropped the ball on.
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?
(Thinking about it.)
Wouldn't "density control" tie into Gravity control,.. or one of them is a part of the others power set?
Being geek-like for a moment:
If I increase the space betweem molecules,.. I increase the entire surface area,.. and the weight of the object under the effects of gravity goes down.
Reduce the space - and it gets heavier.
What if his power actually does something like adjusts the spin of the molecules of what he concentrates on in anyway he likes? He would be a high level TK who only learned to mess with Mass and density because it's all he understands when he uses his powers.
Sort of like Firestorm could Always effect living matter but didn't know it,.. or Wally west when he spent a long time not realizing his full potential.
It would explain why he has apparently powered flight and doesn't damage people he made "too heavy" to move.
(think about that - I believe the best a human can do is 8 g's and that's in/on a padded couch - and they pass out,.. he's putting folk down on concrete with nary a bruise where they can't move but are still awake.)
He doesn't know better.
Hmmn.
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Thank you.
I wish DC would take a hard look at the character - he would be their first Black hero who wasn't mentored, wasn't sponsored, wasn't "given" a piece of tech, not driven by a mistake he did in the past.
That's not fair to Terrific because while he is none of those things,.. it read to me that he became terrific only as a grief sop to give him a reason to go on after the death of his wife.
Superman was born this way and raised right - and CHOSE the job.
The Flashes were in various accidents and raised right and chose the job.
With the exception of Batman and Plasticman All the non legacy folk I can think of CHOSE to be heroes
Meh - Black Lightning was after the 100.
Lantern was tapped as an alternate,
Jakeem as a replacement,
Cyborg needed a purpose.
These guys didn't choose.
They were picked - or could do nothing else.
Here was DC's chance to have one in the spirit of a Superman or Flash or Aquaman or Wonderwoman,... and they blew it.
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