Taskmaster Actor Claims Her Character Is Maybe Even Stronger Than The Male Comic Book Version.

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
I mean in the comics Jane was dying from cancer the entire time she was Thor.

Should have named her Thorium.

I think everyone is just making a big deal out of nothing. Marvel has always considered itself active in the culture.

Agenda drives comics always has. As for the new movie I personally m not that concerned with the plot I saw it because of Scarlett Johansson. Beautiful woman throw in some gun violence and you got a plot.

a reply to: dragonridr


Scarlett is fun to look at for sure... Butt.....

I've never dropped $10 to go see the new Scarlett Johansson movie but I have dropped $10 to go see the new marvel movie.
Plot matters.

I do find it odd though that so many people are using the argument that comic books have always had social issues in them.
Sure they have.
Over the decades with multiple hundreds of issues they have tackled some social issues.... For the price of a 25 cent comic.
Take a bunch of comic nerds and have them talk about Thor and they probably aren't going to spend much time on the time Jane foster was holding the hammer

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: EternalShadow

However, the "M-she-U" won't survive if they're going to shove identity politics into their films. It's unbearably annoying.

You do realize that Marvel has been "shoving identity politics" into their comics since day one, right?

An early Fantastic Four issue has them busting up a hate rally. The second issue of Black Panther has him beating up the KKK. The whole point of the X-Men was to be an allegory for the Civil Rights Movement.

Anyone who demands that "identity politics" be taken out of the movies has clearly never read any of the comics.

Some of us just remember the comics of old where there was a bad guy, and he got beat by the good guy. And political persuasion wasn't part of the equation. Much like sports, I'd prefer to just be entertained, not lectured about some contrived misdeed on my part for how I was born. The Woke ideology is idiotic as well as stupid.

I had to go and look this up for some LULZ...

Super-Sister – In the Superboy #78 (1960) story titled "Claire Kent, Alias Super-Sister", Superboy saves an alien woman named Shar-La from a life-threatening crash. After he ridicules her driving, Shar-La turns Superboy into a girl. In Smallville, Clark Kent (Superboy's alter ego) claims to be Claire Kent, an out-of-town relative who is staying with the Kents. When in costume, he plays Superboy's sister, Super-Sister, and claims the two have exchanged places. As a girl ridiculed and scorned by men, he wants to prove he is as good as he always was. In the end, it is revealed that the transformation is just an illusion created by Shar-La. Superboy learns not to ridicule women.

Read that s*** and suck it all in. 1960. 19-friggin-60.

originally posted by: dragonridr
I think everyone is just making a big deal out of nothing. Marvel has always considered itself active in the culture.

That is true... but there's a BIG difference from their past activism.
Our modern Marvel version is amped up on cultural activism by 200%... WOKE on steroids to the point no one buys their sh#t.

It would be ok if it wasn't so in our faces...
It's just Marvel (Disney) hired brainwashed idiots, they will never learn from their past mistakes.

a reply to: network dude

And political persuasion wasn't part of the equation.

Once again, going all the way back to the first issue of Captain America in 1940, Jack Kirby, the creator of pretty much every big name Marvel character, was making political statements with his comics.

I guess I could always just quote what Stan the Man wrote back in 1967:

From time to time we receive letters from readers who wonder why there’s so much moralizing in our mags. They take great pains to point out that comics are supposed to be escapist reading and nothing more. But somehow, I can’t see it that way. It seems to me that a story without a message, however subliminal, is like a man without a soul. In fact, like a man without a soul. In fact, even the most escapist literature of all – old time fairy tales and heroic legends – contained moral and philosophical points of view. At every college campus where I may speak, there’s as much discussion of war and peace, civil rights, and the so-called youth rebellion as there is of our Marvel mags per se. None of us lives in a vacuum – none of us is untouched by the everyday events around us – events which shape our stories just as they shape our lives. Sure our tales can be called escapist – but just because something’s for fun, doesn’t mean we have to blanket our brains as we read it!

Excelsior!
Stan Lee

Source

a reply to: dragonridr

what stark said,

I want one

a reply to: Xcalibur254

notice Stan said, "however subliminal"....
Nowadays it's IN YOUR FACE twerking BIG time.

a reply to: imitator

You are aware that Marvel created a character named Black Panther in 1966 and had him beat up the KKK in his second issue, right?

That's way more woke than having Bobby Drake be gay.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

No not really... WOKE would be Black Panther beating up a random white guy.

originally posted by: HawkEyi
Disney and Marvels had the biggest flop so far at the ticket box office Black Widow since Star Wars Han Solo. Now the actor claims her Character is stronger then the Male Comic Book Version of it.

Yet the actor ignores that Disney swapped and tokenized for political reasons.
There are many reviews coming out calling it boring. Disney it seems they dont care they care about spreading a political agenda.

Taskmaster Actor Claims Her Character Is “As Strong And Maybe Even Stronger” Than The Male Comic Book Version Of Taskmaster

Next, Kurylenko claims the gender swap is irrelevant, she explains, “Well, I understand that they swapped gender, but I think it’s irrelevant really whether the character is a female or male because who cares?”

Meh
First marvel film at the theater in two years.
It was good.
Crimson dynamo good.

Can't really say I care..like, at all.

a reply to: Xcalibur254

You do realize that Marvel has been "shoving identity politics" into their comics since day one, right?

Actually no they haven't. What they are now is the opposite of what they were doing since Marvels started. Since when did Marvel's decide to Change Captain America during the 90s? 2000s?

After Bucky was shot and wounded in a 1948 Captain America story, he was succeeded by Captain America's girlfriend, Betsy Ross, who became the superheroine Golden Girl.

FFS, Captain America, rub some 'tussin on that you goddamn pansy.

a reply to: HawkEyi

The first time Steve Rogers was replaced as Captain America was in 1946 when Jeffrey Mace took over the mantle.

The first black Captain America, Isaiah Bradley, was introduced in 2003.

In total there's been something like 20+ people other than Steve Rogers that have been Captain America.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

After Bucky was shot and wounded in a 1948 Captain America story, he was succeeded by Captain America's girlfriend, Betsy Ross, who became the superheroine Golden Girl.

FFS, Captain America, rub some 'tussin on that you goddamn pansy.

Lex Luther is superman's arch enemy because superman was the cause of lex going bald.
Can't wait to see that movie ....

a reply to: BrokenCircles

Exactly, the last super hero movie I've had the displeasure of watching was Spider man with Toby McGuire. Fell asleep mid-ways through so not sure who won but I'll take a wild guess....

Spider man gets beat up by bad guy, gains some magical plot device that strengthens him, then proceeds to beat afformentioned bad guy, the end.

Hardly mentally stimulating and a waste of time and/or money for everyone involved in the viewing experience.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
I mean in the comics Jane was dying from cancer the entire time she was Thor.

Should have named her Thorium.

Always telling people what to do

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

People should just stick to watching Star Trek which never had identity politics and certainly didn't promote a socialistic viewpoint.

like here