TravelerKai said:I honestly think Stan is too old and nice to give a good shit. His family will be super wealthy for generations to come. They will probably wait until he dies before they make a transgender Spiderman. He and Jack Kirby(RIP) created most of the characters you see today, but Spiderman is his personal baby.
Peter Parker and his alter ego Spider-Man must be heterosexual and Parker must be Caucasian, according to a legal licensing agreement between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment.
The information was disclosed in a massive document release by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which released this week 276,394 private files, emails and financial data onto its servers.
Sony Pictures and Marvel reps declined to comment on the licensing agreement, first reported by the Gawker website.
The contract went into effect in September 2011. It lists “mandatory” character traits for both Peter Parker and Spider-Man — and the agreement includes the caveat that Spider-Man is “not a homosexual (unless Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual).”
The Peter Parker/Spider-Man character was created in 1962 by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in “Amazing Fantasy #15” as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Parker was portrayed as a teenager dealing with adolescence and being a costumed crime-fighter, complete with super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, and to react quickly to danger with his “spider-sense.”
The agreement spells out that mandatory Spider-Man traits must always strictly conform to the following list: male; does not torture; does not kill in defense of self or others; does not use foul language beyond PG-13; does not smoke tobacco; does not sell/distribute illegal drugs; does not abuse alcohol; does not have sex before the age of 16; does not have sex with anyone below the age of 16; and is not a homosexual (unless Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual).
The Peter Parker character traits include: his full name is Peter Benjamin Parker; he is Caucasian and heterosexual; his parents become absent from his life during his childhood; from the time his parents become absent he is raised by Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City; he gains his powers while attending either middle school or college; he gains his powers from being bitten by a spider; he designs his first red and blue costume; the black costume is a symbiote and not designed by him; he is raised in a middle class household in Queens, New York; he attends or attended high school in Queens, New York; and he attends or attended college in New York City.
AboveAverageJoe said:Which (((people))) would we be talking about here?
Tenerife said:Every one in Asia:
" I can't believe this is Riri happening"
On a related note, did anybody catch the history channel documentary on barbarians where they picked a black person to play Hannibal of Carthage?
Tenerife said:Every one in Asia:
" I can't believe this is Riri happening"
On a related note, did anybody catch the history channel documentary on barbarians where they picked a black person to play Hannibal of Carthage?
Sp5 said:I knew there would be tons of indignation about this. You did not disappoint.
I wonder if the girl will be an alkie like Tony Stark?
Aside from all the free advertising they are getting, consider that core audience for comic books is nerdy 15 year old boys, and a well drawn 15 year old girl with black booty who is also an MIT nerd will provide many hours of fantasy enjoyment for many 15 year old boys.
Relax, Tony Stark will be back.
Eirykr said:Comics are a dying medium. Their sales are in that dead zone where basically any controversy at all boosts them a little. So that's what the printed comics industry has become: create controversy, receive minor uptick in issue sales.
I don't really get offended by it at this point, because that's just how meaningless this is. It's a bunch of vultures picking over the corpse of childhood memories. Enjoy those characters for the joy they gave you at that point in your life. These caricatures they create aren't those characters, literally.
Daddy Chains said:Geez, 57 replies and not a single one to get into the gist of the issue.
This is how you do basic deconstruction (as pertaining to this case):
You first ask WHO IS the creator of this fanta$y character?
You find out his name is Brian Michael Bendis.
You Google for his pic, and then ask yourself does his mug looks jooish/cuckish/crossdressing/cultmarxist/agitprop/punchface enough?
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Then you look into his biography;
"Brian Michael Bendis was born on August 18, 1967 in Cleveland, Ohio to a Jewish-American family. Despite rebelling against a religious upbringing, he attended a private, modern Jewish Orthodox religious school for boys."
and of course you're not surprised:
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Now, you're getting somewhere.
But, dig some more.
"Bendis met his wife Alisa in 1995 through the Cleveland chapter of the Hillel Foundation...
he and his wife adopted their two younger daughters, one of whom is African-American, and the other of whom is Ethiopian."
:discussionclosed:
Daddy Chains said:he and his wife adopted their two younger daughters, one of whom is African-American, and the other of whom is Ethiopian.[/i]"
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