Have any films made you like certain characters?

[The Joker]

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.

I thought the consensus was Emma Frost was badly handled in FC. I don't know what the comic book version is like, so I've no basis for comparison. But I always remember the X-Men fans saying that was one thing FC got wrong. Emma Frost's character.

 

[Batsfan1]

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.

Not if you're insane. But its not ADHD. That's not what his unpredictability is.

Forces of nature aren't about power. They're about something being unhinged un-approachable, fearless. You can't scare a hurricane. You can"t bargain with it. And you can't try to get it to give you mercy.

I've never really gotten the impression that he has just dumb luck behind him.

 

[Batsfan1]

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?

Batman doesn't just have the Joker to deal with. Even if he wasn't with the Justice League, he would still have a villainous threat to go after every few days.

 

[DigificWriter]

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.

I think you used the wrong word here, because your comments sound like they echo mine pretty much word-for-word.

 

[hafizbat]

Ant-Man

 

[dude stannis]

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.

I actually did see clips of Perlman's Slade menacing Robin and it was pretty great. That's Young Justice right? I have the first season on DVD, but I've yet to get around to it. But thanks to Manu the character is probably one of my favourite villains/anti-heroes ever.

 

[Batsfan1]

I think you used the wrong word here, because your comments sound like they echo mine pretty much word-for-word.

You said that you like him in MOS because of MOS, didn't you? I'm saying that I like him in other versions because of MOS.

 

[Batsfan1]

I actually did see clips of Perlman's Slade menacing Robin and it was pretty great. That's Young Justice right? I have the first season on DVD, but I've yet to get around to it. But thanks to Manu the character is probably one of my favourite villains/anti-heroes ever.

It's from Teen Titans actually. I actually didn't even know that Ron Perlman did Slade's voice in that show until I saw it on this thread.

 

[Slade W]

I actually did see clips of Perlman's Slade menacing Robin and it was pretty great. That's Young Justice right? I have the first season on DVD, but I've yet to get around to it. But thanks to Manu the character is probably one of my favourite villains/anti-heroes ever.

Teen Titans is the name of the show. Funnily enough, Ron Perlman voiced Slade/Deathstroke during his short scene in The Flashpoint Paradox. This Slade/Deathstroke was a completely different one to his Slade in Teen Titans. This one was a mercenary and not a criminal mastermind.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The Mask/Stanley Epkiss
Loved the movie, really enjoy the cartoon based on it.
Read the online synopsis to the original comic, and read a few follow ups including Joker's Mask, not a fan of the original version of the character.

 

[OcStat]

I've never read any of The Mask comics, but I have a feeling if I did, the Jim Carrey portrayal would be my preference.

I've also not read any comics with Scott Lang as Ant-Man. Ant-Man made an appearance in some books I was reading during Secret Invasion, but if I remember right, that was the "Irredeemable" Ant-Man whose name I'll have to double check, (Eric O'Grady) and not Scott. Really enjoyed Paul Rudd in the role.

 

[John Locke]

I know pretty much all the backtories and supporting characters of most superheroes but some films like Iron Man, Captain America, Ant-Man, and the Flash tv show have made me love the characters.

 

[Bayne]

For me, it's basically every hero introduced in the MCU. Although I'm not feeling Scott Lang as a character very much yet, but I'm still loving Ant-Man as a hero; and I didn't really like Thor at all in his early appearances, but Age of Ultron finally brought me around there, too. I'm also very intrigued by the Flash on his tv show (although I think a lot of people are making it out to be much higher quality than it actually is).

Most of these characters, though, I'd just never really read. I think saw maybe a few x-men/avenger crossovers as a kid, maybe some marvel/dc stuff that included Iron Man and Cap, and I recall reading 1 or 2 Cap stories, but my comic reading habits were always 99% X-men/Batman/Spider-man.

Spider-man is an interesting corollary in that I'm approaching the point of ceasing to care about him altogether. I think part of that is just maybe changing interests - what I loved about him as a kid is no longer as interesting to me, maybe - but I also wonder if part of it isn't just from the endless disappointments in his movies. Even when they finally got a good actor to play him, the story still didn't support him. I'm curious to see if Marvel and Tom Holland can revive my interest in the character.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

I've always liked cap but the mcu made me love Cap

 

[The_Manhunter]

Man of Steel made me like Superman. I used to view him similarly to how I view Captain America - a cheesy, boring character.

 

[The Face]

I've always been more of a DC person then a Marvel person, I like DC for it's insanity and righ heritage (at least before the New 52 ) and disliked Marvel for being more grounded. After spending these past few years following the MCU films however I've actually grown to appreciate the Marvel universe as a whole.
The MCU made me care about Marvel.

 

[Flint Marko]

Ant-man is going to have to take the cake on this one. As much as I loved the Marvel Universe growing up, nothing ever made me care about Ant-man until they made that movie. Now I find myself reading Ant-man comics on my Marvel Unlimited App on a weekly basis.