Things We Saw Today: Beauty and the Beast as Han and Leia

Bought my tickets for LeakyCon this morning (with StarKid being 93% of my motivation.)  Happy to share my experiences after!

“…much too small and do not have the lift…” Funny, before I read that comment I was thinking that she might be a rare female superhero not in danger of getting knocked out by her own chest when chasing down a villain. Guess those comments will fix that right up. *sigh*

Gah, seriously comic book industry?  What idiot reviewed that Batwoman pic?  An attractive and yet realistic depiction of the character thrown out on ridiculous exaggerations.  Awesome.  Way to continue to be sexist assholes guys, you are a disgrace to our whole gender.  I’m just gonna stop, I cannot even conceive how they could be more off base on that pic nor how their comments could be more offensive.  I’m a straight male in my 20′s and an avid comic reader and I think that is a fantastic looking Batwoman!   

Creating a world like Wakanda is too hard?

So where exactly is Asgard located? Is that off the NJ turnpike?

Come on this is the movies we the audience can suspend our disbelief a little bit.

Black Panther deserves his own movie, or at least some screen time, they owe to Jack Kirby at least.

Posted the Batwoman picture on my fb page and asked for people’s input, asking them: “What do people think of this photo–does she look like a superhero to you?”  I’ll update, after I get more replies. So far though, everyone loves the picture.

Not only was Christopher Robin a real person, he came to hate the fame brought to him by the Pooh books and everyone thinking of him as a kid all his life. Not surprisingly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Robin_Milne

Re Black Panther, I was thinking along the same lines – it’s a little difficult to work his origin story into a more ‘realistic’ setting. But why couldn’t he be from some real African country instead of Wakanda? They changed Iron Man’s backstory so it took place in Afghanistan, and I don’t remember anyone complaining about that.

Gaston shot first…?

Black Panther should at least be in the next Avengers film. Marvel would be smart to do a full film on him though–he’s a superhero whose whole family is heroic, how epic is that? And the stars came out in full force just to a motion comic of him, imagine who’d be lining up to be in a full length feature.

Uggg those comments about the Batwoman art piece… uggg just… really? So disgusted right now.

Isn’t the whole point of Wakanda that it is NOT any other African country? That it is not only economically stable, but incredibly rich? That it is peaceful, it’s technology decades beyond any other country, making it a stark contrast to every other African country? 
It is a highly idealized society that does not fit the mold of any current African nation. You can’t change it to South Africa, Egypt or Ghana, it just wouldn’t work. 
I do hope Black Panther and Wakanda makes an appearance eventually, but I will give Marvel time to make it work.

Wakanda is different to Asgard, since Asgard is a made up place in space, while Wakanda is a made up place in Africa, and serves as political commentary most of the time. So I guess they want to avoid any sort of controversy, they want to do it right.

Scarlet Witch is tied to the X-Men rights, so we will probably never see her. Ever. Unless Disney shells a gazillion buck for her, which they won’t. Wasp will hopefully be introduced in the Antman movie? Only reason I would go see it honestly.

I disagree. There is absolutely no reason why they can’t create Wakanda. If Burton and Nolan can create Gotham City and Donner and Singer can create Metropolis, both fictional places, there is no reason why they couldn’t create a fictional place such as Wakanda. And really the theaters are literally littered with fictional worlds from Blade Runner to Alice in Wonderland.

If the reason is because Black Panther is too similar to Captain America that’s a bunch of malarkey too. Every hero on the Avengers has the same qualities as Captain America it’s what makes them heroes.

There has to be some other reason that they’re not saying.

I just can’t with that reviewer. “Peak of human perfection”? I’d like to see Miranda Kerr punch 20 guys in the face repeatedly. Supermodels work out to make their bodies lean and burn fat, they don’t work out to regularly run through streets, climb buildings, punch people in the face, fight their way out of mobs and rescue people. If they did, they’d have athletic builds.

What, does he think for all of Batman’s athletics, he has the limber body of a yoga instructor or a lean swimmer’s build?

If ever someone should be fired simply for being a moron…

 Actually Kevin Feige has gone on record a couple of times as saying that both Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are tied in to both the X-men and the Avengers rights.  It basically comes down to whoever uses them first.  So as long as Fox doesn’t stick her in their next X-men movie Marvel could use her.

It is not that Wakanda is a fictional place, but how this fictional place operates. Wakanda stands as the only African country that isn’t poor, war torn or socially unjust. As a matter of fact, it is the single greatest nation in the marvel universe, hands down, like by far. no competition. 
This makes it completely opposite of how we view African countries and is often used as a commentary on how great African nations could become. I think that if Marvel wants to introduce it at all, they probably want to do it right, and that might take a while.

So people’s take on the Batwoman picture on my facebook was overwhelmingly that they enjoyed it. Most people thought she looked heroic, and couple felt she looked more anti-hero. And then, I posted the company response to the picture–people were not pleased with that and felt it was ridiculous.