Have any films made you like certain characters?

[Ragnaroknroll]

Haven't watch all of DD yet so don't want to comment, loving it so far though, but yeah, The Flash is amazing and it was capped off by an amazing finale that ended the series perfectly. And yeah, the finale had me I tears a few times as well.

My only worry is that the actual Flash movie won't be able to match it. But yeah. The show has made me want to read Flash comics now for the first time ever.

I'm surprised by the love for the Flash finale. I thought it was horrendous.

But Grant Gustin as the Flash is the best thing going for the show. I already was somewhat a fan of the Flash from the comics (if you are going to read em I'd really recommend both Waid and Johns' runs, Miller/Morrison was good too). But Gustin made me like the character even more.

I also agree with the sentiments for Cap. I was a mild Captain America fan before the movies but now he's become a favorite. Marvel has arguably done their best job with that character - but I think Matt Murdock/Daredevil will give him a run for his money. (But since I was already a big fan of Daredevil it doesn't count for the purpose of this discussion.)

Lastly I'd add Rocket Raccoon to the list. Before GOTG I was ambivalent toward the character but now I love him!

 

[-Arya-]

Captain America and Daredevil

Never cared about either of them until The First Avenger and the Netflix show respectively.

 

[SuperFerret]

Hawkeye in Age of Ultron.

 

[99ranch]

Black Widow in Avengers. Superman in Mos. Iron Man in IM2.

 

[P Supreme]

Captain America the first Avenger made me care about Cap
always thought he was corny but the movie changed that so did
Iron Man

No movie will ever make me care for hawkeye t:

 

[DigificWriter]

Clark Kent/Superman with Man of Steel. Prior to that movie, I never much cared for the character, instead preferring his cousin Kara, whom I had always felt was more interesting and relatable. MoS, though, showed that you could make the "Big Blue Boy Scout" actually interesting and flawed, and the foundation it laid is one of the major reasons I'm as psyched for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad as I am.

 

[DACrowe]

-Mystique and largely thanks to Jennifer Lawrence's performance (though I certainly preferred RR's to the comic book version too).
-Professor Xavier.
-Bane (The Dark Knight Rises, not B&R )
-Tony Stark
-Captain America
-Thor
-Black Widow
-Blade
-Guardians of the Galaxy

I will put it this way from the above list: Marvel to me mostly consisted of the Spider-Man, X-Men, and Daredevil universes growing up with a dash of Hulk thrown in. Since Marvel Studios until next year has the rights to none of those characters, they have built up the heroes who were once considered second tier by the mainstream into characters more popular than Spidey and X-Men these days. Well done.

 

[Quasimod0]

I always liked Ant Man well enough, but he wasn't ever one of top favorites. But now after seeing his movie, and reading his newest comic, Scott Lang is one of my favorite comic book heroes.

 

[dude stannis]

Not a movie, but Manu Bennett's portrayal as Deathstroke raised my estimation of the character quite a bit.

 

[Batsfan1]

Clark Kent/Superman with Man of Steel. Prior to that movie, I never much cared for the character, instead preferring his cousin Kara, whom I had always felt was more interesting and relatable. MoS, though, showed that you could make the "Big Blue Boy Scout" actually interesting and flawed, and the foundation it laid is one of the major reasons I'm as psyched for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad as I am.

That is the exact opposite of my feelings. I never really had this great liking for Superman. He was just the guy that wasn't as good as Batman to me. MOS showed me the character at his worst and made me understand what was great about him. I now appreciate Superman's character, side with him in the animated series' over Batman a few times, although Superman can be wrong a little bit too much there, grew to think of him as one of the best characters in the JL/JLU show, am far more emotionally engaged in Reeves performance than I ever was, connected so much with his feeling of loneliness and felt happy for him when he discovered he had a son in Superman Returns and don't look upon Lex as the poor kicked puppy by mean old Clark anymore in Smallville, and can see Clark's side of half of the problems he has with Lex.

Also, Captain America: The Winter Soldier for Captain America. I sided with Tony in The Avengers, but after CA: TWS I was on his side in Avengers: Age Of Ultron.

 

[scatterax]

Hell boy is definitely the main hero I liked because of the movies. Watchmen is what got me to read that GN also. That movie doesn't get the respect it deserves.

For marvel, I would have to say falcon. Always thought he was pointless next to everyone else but the winter soldier made me respect the heck out of that version of the guy.

From DC, I actually thought the joker was over rated until TDK made him a more interesting character. Even though I grew up on the awesome voice work fromBtAS, his wackiness plus the fact that he always loses made him seem like a pushover and not enough of a threat to be batman's greatest villain. His stories never seemed to have any real stakes aside from the killing joke up until TDK. He just seemed like I guy that wanted to annoy batman and didn't really have much depth aside from that. I just never could take him seriously growing up lol.

 

[Batsfan1]

Hell boy is definitely the main hero I liked because of the movies. Watchmen is what got me to read that GN also. That movie doesn't get the respect it deserves.

For marvel, I would have to say falcon. Always thought he was pointless next to everyone else but the winter soldier made me respect the heck out of that version of the guy.

From DC, I actually thought the joker was over rated until TDK made him a more interesting character. Even though I grew up on the awesome voice work fromBtAS, his wackiness plus the fact that he always loses made him seem like a pushover and not enough of a threat to be batman's greatest villain. His stories never seemed to have any real stakes aside from the killing joke up until TDK. He just seemed like I guy that wanted to annoy batman and didn't really have much depth aside from that. I just never could take him seriously growing up lol.

Didn't the Joker kill Jason Todd by that point?

 

[scatterax]

Didn't the Joker kill Jason Todd by that point?

That too. But idk the joker never seemed like he should be as effective a foil to batman as he was. Like he is shown pulling off things too effortlessly, especially when batman is the one trying to stop him. Like he always seems to be pulling villain Deus Ex Machinas out of his a$$. A lot of versions don't show any kind of pre joker persona skill or expertese of any kind. It's like he was a loser but once he got white face he got super luck as a power, and is able to pull off these elaborate non plans Just because the writers like him. There's never been any in universe reason why he's such an effective foil for batman. He's just popular so they right him like he's the most dangerous threat batman could ever face and the only logic behind that thought that anyone offers is he's so unpredictable. Ok, and? Everything is just too easy for him for no reason other than he's the joker and that's always made him seem uninteresting to me.

 

[Quasimod0]

That's a really interesting opinion. I never even considered that about the Joker.

 

[Batsfan1]

That too. But idk the joker never seemed like he should be as effective a foil to batman as he was. Like he is shown pulling off things too effortlessly, especially when batman is the one trying to stop him. Like he always seems to be pulling villain Deus Ex Machinas out of his a$$. A lot of versions don't show any kind of pre joker persona skill or expertese of any kind. It's like he was a loser but once he got white face he got super luck as a power, and is able to pull off these elaborate non plans Just because the writers like him. There's never been any in universe reason why he's such an effective foil for batman. He's just popular so they right him like he's the most dangerous threat batman could ever face and the only logic behind that thought that anyone offers is he's so unpredictable. Ok, and? Everything is just too easy for him for no reason other than he's the joker and that's always made him seem uninteresting to me.

The fact is we don't really know the Joker's backstory for real. He could've been a total genius. Maybe the chemicals made him a genius. You could really apply a similar logic to Batman himself. However, in the 1989 Batman movie, which was my first introduction into Batman, the Joker is referred to as highly intelligent. But don't knock how legitimately dangerous unpredictability can be in its own right. The Joker's villainous status comes from what he's capable of.

 

[scatterax]

The fact is we don't really know the Joker's backstory for real. He could've been a total genius. Maybe the chemicals made him a genius. You could really apply a similar logic to Batman himself. However, in the 1989 Batman movie, which was my first introduction into Batman, the Joker is referred to as highly intelligent. But don't knock how legitimately dangerous unpredictability can be in its own right. The Joker's villainous status comes from what he's capable of.

What is he even truly capable of?

I don't need to know his backstory or anything about his childhood. Just anything to give him some kind of finite skill set. He's never displayed intelligence so much as dumb luck in most versions I've seen. And he's not believable as this force of nature because he has no powers. When I thing force of nature I think unstoppable or insanely powerful like the hulk and doomsday or darkseid and galactus. Those guys are forces of nature.

In the dark knight, while some of the details of his plans required some suspension of disbelief, for the most part his schemes seemed like something a normal guy with his could pull off with the resources he had. And finally seeing him unbound after he gains a reputation and influence is thrilling because once he turns on the mob and burns their money you don't know what he's going to do next, but he's got an army of thugs that will do whatever he says.

In the comics he doesn't really have that army behind him, so much as a few thugs, he's not showed to have riddler level intelligence so much as mr Mxysptlk level control of the stories reality. You never see any set up, just execution of his plans and you kind of have to just go with it because he's crazy so he does crazy things and he's the joker.

And as for unpredictability, last time I checked ADHD was more a weakness than a strength.

 

[psylockolussus]

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Shadowcat and Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.

I couldn't stand those two in the comics but seeing them in film made me change my opinion.

 

[scatterax]

Like for a while we never saw much of batman's training, but we knew he spent several years globetrotting in search of useful skills so every time he made a reference to how he learned how to do some random thing to get him out of a tight spot he could at least tell Robin about this one expert somewhere he studied under and we at least had a reference point for this new skill. With joker it's just oh you've been putting together this crazy scheme for months? It's a good thing batman was with the justice league all this time instead of actively hunting you down or you would have never been able to prep this.

And speeding of the justice league don't get me started on crossovers where he goes up against people like superman and we're supposed to take him seriously as a threat. Like why?

 

[scatterax]

X-Men: Days of Future Past - Shadowcat and Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.

I couldn't stand those two in the comics but seeing them in film made me change my opinion.

But the movie versions are so vanilla compared to the comics.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

But the movie versions are so vanilla compared to the comics.

I'm okay with Shadowcat thanks to Ellen Page, even though she is written nowhere near as well as her comics counterpart. Movie Emma Frost is a disgrace.

 

[Slade W]

Not a movie, but Manu Bennett's portrayal as Deathstroke raised my estimation of the character quite a bit.

Manu was excellent but IMO Slade is better in Teen Titans when voiced by Ron Perlman. The show was pretty childish a lot of the time but the episodes with Slade in them were great and had a more serious tone. Funnily enough the character is quite different from how he is in the comics. He is a criminal mastermind and not a mercenary and he is called Slade (which sounds more menacing that Deathstroke IMO) and not Deathstroke because they didn't want to say "death" on a kids show. It is testament to the voice work and to how well the character was written that he came off so badass in a kids programme that had limitations on what it could show.

 

[Slade W]

I am sure Iron Man is the character that has gone up the most in the majority of peoples estimation. RDJ has been brilliant in his role and because of him, Iron Man is the most popular and beloved character in The Avengers and Marvel films.

 

[Slade W]

To add to my last post, Iron Man is almost as famous (arguably as famous these days) as the likes of Batman, Superman and Spiderman when it comes to famous superhero characters and that is mainly down to RDJ. Before the first Iron Man and Avengers films he was certainly nowhere near as mainstream as he is today and was a B-list hero at best.

 

[Lobo]

Iron Man movie made me a fan of the character.

Hellboy I didn't know anything about him but then saw the movies and loved him/them. Hellboy 2 is still among my very favorite comic book films.

Ant-Man made me a fan of Scott Lang. I want to read some of his stories now. I am already very familiar with Pym.

 

[AlmightyWho]

Gotta echo Ironman, Thor and Cap.

Before I got into those guys I stuck to Batman, Superman, Spidey and X-Men mostly. When Iron Man came out I took it upon myself to explore the characters history. Same with Cap and Thor.