where is the black hero?

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BLACK SUPERHEROs:Blade, Meteor Man, Spawn, Cyborg, Green Latern, Storm

White HeROS: superman,batman, spiderman,punisher,wolverine, daredevil, teen titans, flash, wonder women..etc

when is the normal good looking black hero going to come?

That's a good question. I think it all comes down to the creators. You make what most looks like you. Since most of the creators were white, that's who they created.

But I don't think the X-Men should fall into this category. They've always been a multicultural, multinational, etc. effort.

But as your list shows, they are out there, they just may not get the silver screen time desired.

But there are more heroes than you think: Museum of Black Superheroes

It's true that the majority of the superhero's are white.

But DC and Marvel tried hard in the 70's to have titles featuring black hero's but they never caught on, unfortunately. A few of them were:

Black Lightning- the book sucked but it lasted a while. They even had Superman guest star.

Power Man- this was a good book, but he usually shared his time with a weak hero named Iron Fist. Power Man was popular though. His character's real name was Luke Cage. And as a matter of fact, a young actor named Nicholas Copolla changed his name to Nicholas Cage in honor Power Man. And a movie is being made about Luke Cage as we speak, to be directed by John Singleton.

Personally, I remember several black hero's from the 90's when I collected- Night Thrasher, who led the New Warriors; Rage, short term member of the Avengers; James Rhodes became Iron Man for a while, later War Machine; Black Panther is still a big name; Steel was one of the people who had Superman powers when he died (Shaq stared in the movie).

And recently DC re-launched its Firestorm title with a black character being his alter ego. And in a Captain America special last year, Cap found out that the super soldier formula was first tested on black soldiers.

While there is diversity, I think the problem is there aren't many popular titles featuring black characters. Maybe if some of the big writers/artists got involved more we would see a change.

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It's unfortunate, but I think that Heck's right. There are SOME titles out there, and I'm sure that there are probably some underground movements going on, but I have to admit, I won't just gravitate to any old black superhero. Meteor man? C'mon...

It's kinda like a lot of the black sitcoms out there. Many of them just plain suck, so I can't sit down and watch it just out of support cuz I feel that by doing that, I'm dumbing down my own sense of humour, which does more harm to me than the good I feel I'm doing by supporting black endeavours.

When quality black characters are developed and given strong writing and artwork, along with quality and engrossing support characters and storylines, I'll be more than happy to support. But as it stands now, besides Spawn, and to a lesser extent, Power-Man (I give PM credit though, because he was created awhile ago and had to endure being teamed with the idiot Iron-Fist...), I haven't been very willing to get into black characters because the majority of them weren't developed well and were therefore shallow and uninteresting.

SD, I was going to point out the black sitcom connection as well. It's like, people won't watch or read crap. It has to be good, first.

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CATWOMEN is a better role for HALLE than STORM. ANGELLA BASSETT should be her replacement.

doesn't a black captain america will do better than a power man movie? only comic readers know who power man is.

Nice points, ICB.

With Storm though, Halle need to understand that she's not the biggest character. Wolverine is first and foremost the fan favorite. So you have to bring in his story, involve Jean Grey and invariably Cyclops, supporting cast, back story, villians, there just isn't room left for Storm.

And Catwoman tanked in the box office, which was a surprise to no one. Freakin' Hollywood dip's screwed up once again.

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True, but all of the chacaters in X2 could have had more lines The story just doesn't focus around Storm this time around.

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ICB i agree, Iman would be a good choice to play Storm but i think her age will hurt her with this particular character.

i hope the Storm character gets more lines and we se a better presentation of her powers. maybe the uniforms could change to the popular ones drawn in comic books.

Yeah, Storm could wear the skimpy clothes and mohawk the comic character sported in the late-80's.

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ICON & Rocket where pretty cool before that subsidiary of DC went out of business....Superman & ICON even battled once if i remember right

You know, I think Iman was one of the women I thought of when I thought of Storm. She was supposed to be DARK-skinned, so................. Oh, and 6 ft tall..................

Halle Berry as Storm, even in a limited and less significant role, was an injustice in my opinion. Bad casting. Sorry Halle, I still love ya.

Tina Turner, circa-Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, could play the punked out Storm from the late-80's.

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Iman was pregnant at the time they were filming X-Men, so I don't think it was possible.

But what about Angela basset ? she would have totally kicked butt in the role of Storm (she's a better actress, taller, more athletically fit in keeping with the character of Storm)

http://wellredpress.com/Comics/Comi...s/cap_truth.htm just some info on the truth

I don't think Angela Basset would have worked given the casting they already had. The team is relatively young, so she would be stuck in a "mother role" of the team. The team looks like Professor X as the father figure of a young group that he guides. Angela Basset seems like she'd throw that idea off.

What do you think about Gabrielle Union ? after Bad Boys 2 she shows she has the chops to play an action packed role and it don't hurt that she's gorgeous .


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She could work, I think if Halle Berry jumps ship, that would be a good choice. It's better than the other rumor I heard, Christina Milian. If they want X-Men to be successful, they stick to "actors."

But here's the next question, will they go for an accent again? I would love to see these superhero movies cast completely unknown actors.

I agree newbees have a fire to make a picture great that some of these veterian actors must have forgotten about.

I was kind of being sarcastic, malcolm.

I think giving her the white hair made her more like a 'weather witch', which was what I think the creators were going for.

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And by the way I think they should reeeealy put some time and money and effort into Black Panther if just because he is what all our parents and grandparents tell us we are (noble ,courageous ,honer bound ,honest ,brilliant ,strong ,and descendant from royalty) he represents the image of the black man (if only in my eye).


http://www.marveldirectory.com/indi...lackpanther.htm

I am pretty sure Marvel put out a new BP book recently.

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yes but it was cancelled (bastards)

the spiderman 2's graphics has set the new standard for the next superhero movies. they did a good job in creating the villian.

i wish they could do the same for Storm?

the BP is going to flop like The Punisher. besides it being a black hero, only comic readers know of him.

the new JLA cartoon was good. when will the black hero save the day? i am tired of seing green latern getting injured and having to be saved.

is there another black hero in the JLA?

unless black lightning is there .... no (sucks don't it ?)

who remebers there used to be a saturday morning caroon with black chareters as the lead , the man could streach and the woman (i think) could shrink or maby had telekinetic powers. I just can't remeber the name.

Is this thread dead or something, it's not showing up in the forum only in the history?

I don't think it is, look in the comic book section .

- whats wrong with the way Blade looks?

I am so loving it that they made Nick Fury a black man. A brother's finally got some real power to do some good in comics and not just be regulated to anti Hero (Spawn, Blade) or sidekick (Falcon)

Is this Nick Fury in a movie or a comic book now? Imagine the number of complaints when they made this change.

I haven't heard this, but I'll take anyone over that crap ass TV movie of Nick Fury starring David Hasselhoff a few years back.

As a kid I liked Black Panther when he was on the Avengers. Had his own book for a while, too.

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and he's gonna be the main focus in the Ultimate Avengers 2 movie.

Really? That is way cool. I still haven't seen the first movie, I plan to check it this weekend.

Avengers was my favorite title back in the day.

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And Cage is becomming a major player in the Marvel U .

Black Panther is a major player in marvel.

Also would like to point out that Storm, Black Panther, and Luke Cage are all featured in that new Marvel Video Game they have out...good charachters to use as well. So there is some effort to get some of the black heroes some recognition.

but there are other actresses that are suited better . to play storm IMO .

like Kerry Washington, or the chick with the hands for feet in Aeon Flux.