State Your Opinion on a Character!!!! (Reboot) - Part 6

[WolfCypher]

That damn 90s cartoon made me think Anna was a total unlikable %_=#!. Comic Anna is actually pretty nice and caring. I like her. I especially appreciate her when I go back and read classic ASM when you had Aunt May as this doting decrepit old lady having another heart attack and Aunt Anna was there to look better by comparison.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Anna is just... there.
Beside introducing MJ and being very supportive and a very good friend of May, there isn't much to be said about her.

 

[KevanG]

I'm not sure there's much about Anna to be said beyond - Meh. She's just someone related to MJ and took care of her for a while and unlike May, she just fell out of focus.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

ARSENAL​

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

NEW WARRIORS​

I was a HUGE NW fan in the 90's. I liked the a truly rag tag band of misfits, though Night Thrasher didn't need a freaking skateboard. Bagely's are and Fabian's scripts made for some compelling teen angst drama using some characters that most had no use for. Unfortunately like a lot of 90's books things went off the rails quick for all the reasons 90's books did, but I think the sales pressures just caused a bloat of over the top bombast to sweep aside the better slow boil styled plots and character development. Most every reboot of the series has been Meh City. It may have been a lightning in a bottle situation.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

DONALD PIERCE​

 

[DawnWarrior]

Donald Pierce's purpose is to get his robot arms ripped off.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Sad but true. I guess the Reavers were kind cool but... meh.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

RED GUARDIAN​

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Hah. Cap narrating his own fight in the third person.

I actually didn't read the Brubaker run so I don't know how Red was possibly handled there. I assume he would have some role given the Bucky/Winter Soldier stuff, but maybe not.

The Soviet super heroes were all kinda one note and I can't say they ever registered much with me other than being colorful adversaries that were often not quite full blown villains for Cap and assorted Avengers over the years. I think there's lots of potential there though. Red Guardian was Black Widow's husband once, right?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Red Guardian was Black Widow's husband once, right?

That is correct.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Donald pierce sucks!! as do most of the hellfire club except the white queen ( for most reasons we already know! that OUTFIT! hehe)

Red Guardian is cool!! i like the chick one better! i love the Soviet Super Soildiers and thought they were cool!! i love those evil counterpart guys!! only what did they ever do to be evil!?!! all they were.. were Russians and cause at the time if you were Russian then you were automatic a baddie! but back in the USSR they were good guys!
see that why i dig MARVEL even when they were trying to be sneaky like everybody else and Russians are bad! they throw in that... well maybe they aint and we are the bad guys!! cause every time they fought cap or whoever it was cause they came to Russia to retrieve whatever fell on their soil so hey!! they were right in punching out iron man!

 

[KevanG]

Pierce is just another idiot for the X-Men to hand off to the new kids to beat up. I remember they killed him off (again) a while back before Schism happened and I doubt I'll miss him at all. Haven't so far.

I like the Russian Superheroes. We never see too much of them and like BV said when we do see them they're usually the 'good guys' in the story. A lot of the heroes in the MU are jerks that assume they're right no matter what and when they get stopped by people who are legally or morally in the right we are supposed to assume they're in the wrong because they're trying to stop the guy whose book we're reading.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

If I remember correctly, Pierce enslaved the X-Men while the world thought they were dead?
Wolverine and Jubilee excluded.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

JACOB CONOVER
He's like, 1 of 3 (I think) Daily Bugle employees to turn evil, and I'm not counting Globe's ex-reporter Eddie Brock because of the 90s cartoon and Spider-Man 3.​

 

[WolfCypher]

Let's see...the Rose (one of them), Ned Leeds (asterisk), Foswell, and J. Jonah Jameson. If Ned doesn't count, that is three.

Anyway, a Rose by any other name, isn't as good as Kingpin's son.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Please tell me that's his usual outfit.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Christmas special.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I know nothing about any Rose that isn't Kingpin's son.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Christmas special.

Well, that's highly disappointing.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

DETECTIVE FLINT​

 

[Hellion]

SALOME​

I know it's a little late, lol, but I only remember her from some of the 90s Marvel Trading Cards.

Still have em...

 

[Spider-Aziz]

VALERIA
Loved by Conan the Barbarian.​

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

No opinion on the comic adaptation, or the character as she may have appeared in the Howard novellas, but the movie Valeria is one of the great action supporting characters of all time. Seriously...

...talk about a Valkyrie! Sandhal Bergman was perfect as a chick as ruthless, skilled and had as much lust for life as Arnie's Conan. But then again, the whole of Arnie's first Conan film is aces.

Seriously boys and girls, "Do you want to live forever?"

When that's waiting for you on the other side?

 

[WolfCypher]

I love Conan, but I honestly have no idea who she is. I thought the character said Valkyrie at first and THEN i thought this was Aziz finding some random pic of Valerie Richards as an adult dressed up like a pirate.

Then, I just gave up. G'night!