It seems BLM Spiderman flopped. Press S to spit on its grave with the swag of a black teen
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Oh no!
Anyway-
Rumor has it, Insomniac's next title; Spiderman: Return of the Female Ghostbusters is getting record preorders.
Despite being 13% of the population, they are responsible for 70% reduction on sales...
I still don't get why they don't just create new characters. Not only do they destroy existing characters, they ONLY destroy existing characters. Such lack of imagination! I can come with one now, idk how about Hyena-man, who has the power to transform into half man, half hyena with berserker type moves. How about a black super hero that is analogous to Aquaman, except instead of fish and the ocean, it's the African savannah or jungle, etc.
They literally said that new characters don't sell and fans reject them (as they should).
One of the He-Man executives blatantly outright said they hijack existing characters and franchises because they have an established fanbase, and they use that fanbase to spread their propaganda. Remember, you can't indoctrinate people with a degenerate agenda if you don't have people to indoctrinate, which is why they anchor their propaganda to existing franchises and established characters.
Ah, found the article: https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/07/05/netflix-director-claims-king-grayskull-and-andra-race-swapped-in-masters-of-the-universe-revelations-because-new-characters-could-be-easily-rejected/
Here is what Ted Biaselli had to say about them race-swapping King Greyskull...
Wow, so at the end of the day, it's talentless people hijacking the art because they don't know how to get to the top of the market.
And then wrapping themselves in an LGBTQ flag to deflect criticism. It's so blatantly fucking obvious it's almost sad really. This whole SJW culture is really about companies wanting to protect their investment. They don't really want representation, they just know that criticizing a trans lead character is social suicide so their product's shittyness is masked.
Don't play by their rules, call it what it is. The fag flag.
The rainbow consoomer mask
Which, of course, is why they're never going to sell to anywhere except the People's Congress of the Soviet Union. They've marked any feedback that isn't mindless affirmation as "hate speech" and then wonder why they don't get any better.
Ghostbusters was the foreshadowing of what hollywood's doing now, and weinrapist being exposed only sped up the agenda. is it that they're ALL rapists????
Because they lack even a modicum of creativity and they know that their pastiche self-insert social agenda megaphone characters go over about as well as a turd in the punch bowl at a high school dance (see: the New Warriors reboot that didn't get off the ground). They need a way in to be able to blast their message to as many eyes as they can and they can't wait for their trash to gain popularity, so they co-opt existing characters into their agenda (Iceman, Tim Drake's Robin, Squirrel Girl) or replace them with race-lifted Mary Sue versions that are supposedly better than the originals (Riri as Ironheart, Sam Alexander as Nova, Kamala as Ms. Marvel, Amadeus Cho as Hulk, et cetera).
Great point. I read his stuff in ultimate comics and looking back I’m not sure why the writers wouldn’t change his name. Green Lantern is a Corp so it makes sense.
Yea they have to latch on to a popular name but it would be a challenge for a good writer.
Exactly. There are easily other names, and he could still inherit the role plus the powers or whatever.
What about Poofta Man?
If you touch him you get AIDS.
If his name was Arachnobruh and he blew huge vape clouds people would have bought it. He's just not Peter Parker and he never will be.
Spiderthug, Spiderthug, nabs whatever a robber does, can he spin, from a web, no he cant, it's a caddillac, look out! Here comes the spider thug.
Destroying cultural icons isn't a bug, it's a feature. That's the whole point of it all. It isn't an accident that all of these old heroes are being degraded and humiliated. It's all for the sake of the revolution. The older cultural values must be torn down before the new ones can be established.
True. They never respect the older ones, normally making them look pathetic or just killing them so the newer, more DIVERSE version can occupy their place.
Its the same way they treat societies. Infect the successful ones in an attempt to take them over, because they are parasites and cant create
Spiderman games all play like Spiderman games since Spiderman 2 20 years ago. If you played the 2018 one, you've probably had your fill of the gameplay.
Which only leaves the story as the draw, which is just generic "black people stuff" as far as they told us in the last game. And that wasn't worth buying a PS5 for at scalper prices because they pushed hard the PS5 version to the point most people didn't know it was on PS4.
Don't forget the huge mural of George Floyd the drug-addicted criminal.
wait... they actually have George Floyd's mural IN THE GAME?
Ultimate had Venom playable, which was different. Felt like Hulk/Prototype.
Which you had to beat the actually quite long game to unlock outside specific missions. 3/4th of said story being Spiderman 2 again like two years later.
But that's probably the best of the games entirely and a lot of that is that Venom option.
Web of Shadows is the best Spider-Man game.
The story was weak and notably shorter than the 2018 game. Miles just isn't interesting despite the (op) new abilities and they had to reinvent an old B-list villain (Tinkerer) to give him something to do. Between missions it's all charity work and helping mom campaign for city council, which is boring as shit. He was written from the ground up as a copycat and his story is every bit as deep as that could lead to. Top it off with a generic rich white corporate villain unapologetically destroying precious Harlem and you have the whole picture.
He never was, his personality from the comic onset was "black people problems, but also spiderman" which is generic and cliche by now.
This was a problem with 2018 too with "Mr. Negative" but they at least made that one work.
Shouldn’t be surprising as Peter Parker is iconic. I actually liked miles morales run in ultimate comics. Stopped reading him and haven’t read modern comics so I can only imagine what nonsense they are pushing in his books now.
Because people don't like Miles, they only liked the movie because of the plot. Dude, it's not that hard to figure out. Tokenism only gets you money in small bits, but a solid franchise can be milked for decades.
The funny thing is, I remember in some of the older comics, they had Miles even complaining about that. He saw some video on "Not-YouTube" where some black girl was freaking out over seeing some of the skin visible in a tear in his costume, and she was screaming "OMG, Spiderman may be black! Finally someone who represents me!" And Miles was talking with his friend who knew the secret and said something to the effect of "I dont want to be 'Black Spiderman', I just want to be 'Spiderman.""
But I guess that died pretty quickly, because SJWs demand Tokenism, always, without fail. And then they are shocked and outraged when the stuff they push fails. And then they are even more outraged when Anime and Manga gives the people what they want, and even tell them "Piss off" and start doing things themselves in response to their control attempts.
Which is funny because he will never be Spiderman, he will always be "black Spiderman."
Wow! I read the early stuff but never got to that nonsense
"Despite launching on two platforms" doesn't count for jack shit when one of those platforms is still effectively vaporware for the average gamer, nearly a full year after its release date. Didn't help it any that the game was effectively MOTSS when compared to the original 2018 version and they were selling what should have been a DLC at full retail.
Well, what did they expect? There are far more white people than black people. They're not going to buy a game if they have to play a character they cannot in any way identify with.
That's what you lefties always say. Right?
Stop making sense. But I remember the Green Lantern Jon Stewart was popular with a lot of people during the justice league cartoon. He wouldn’t have been popular if they had used him to push the usual “black oppression” we see today.
Your point also makes me think of the crazy women on Twitter whining about why action video games are so masculine
I grew up with JLU Green Lantern. Had he opened up about any kind of nonexistent racism in the early 2000s I'd have dropped him like a hot rock.
I haven’t read a modern green lantern comic book in a while. I have 70s and 80s comics and I’m sure it’s there but not to the level of today. I really enjoy Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart GL stuff from the past
I dont think blacks are a big market for $60 single player either, but dont quote me on that, idk the total industry figures, but i bet its not great.
For every Dying Light the following there are 50 Spiderman: Miles Morales
Tbh it would be a shame if the suits take this as a reason to not continue the franchise. The last one was the best spiderman game is years
The mechanics were absolutely solid.
The plot was fucking shit, especially the fugly Mary Jane who don't need no man, so I'd be fine with the franchise being dead.
I actually forgot she was in it lol
Never played it. Really liked the first one though. That's what I mean
The suits tried to make a quick buck but will use it as leverage to stifle the series
Another one bites the dust to subversion.
seems like people didnt like the exaggerated swagger of a black teen.
I love Spider-Man. Everything post-Andrew Garfield SM has been shit. Probably a lot even before.
I never watched that new one because everything about it looked like leftist garbage.
In the new monies, wasn't Aunt May younger than SM, and MJ was a black feminist? And a Mexican side kick or something?
Looked fucking stupid. It's a shame that was the movie where they finally used Mysterio
Now that I think about it, you may be right. MCU spiderman is obv not canon peter parker. Just starting anew with Miles Morales, keeping Peter (teasing that Toby is in another dimension) would have kept that spiderman hype train going.
Zendya is the billy islish of acting. An untalented manly looking whorish person.
Weird, I wonder why. Oh wait it's because he wasn't Spiderman, he was MM.
#getwokegobroke
Spiderman are impossible for many known reasons. I'm a librarian.
I've never read any Miles Morales. Is the character any good? Evidently the general public doesn't seem to think so.
I despise these characters that copy or hijack White ones, and some of them have been around for decades. However Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse did quite well. People seem to like Miles, though not as much as Peter. In General these characters do poorly in comparison to their White counterparts, but I don't know if that is whats going on here, for the most part. There are definitely fans who wouldn't buy a Miles game, myself included, but would buy Peter.