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03-27-2020, 10:17 PM | #21 |
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Larry Hama said that he always imagined the CC/Destro voices as almost the opposite of the cartoon (while he’s famously never seen a full episode of it, apparently he knows their voices...). I can’t even begin to recall which of his youtube interviews he said it in, but he said that in his mind Destro sounds like Sean Connery and Cobra Commander has what Larry called Orson Welles’s deep, pompous, buffooinishly self-overestimating voice. (My paraphrase but it was that harsh, a rarity for Larry.)
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03-27-2020, 10:39 PM | #22 |
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Yeah, but nothing says you couldn't have a black Destro especially nowadays and this one being the 24th.
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03-27-2020, 11:38 PM | #23 |
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Larry Hama said that he always imagined the CC/Destro voices as almost the opposite of the cartoon (while he’s famously never seen a full episode of it, apparently he knows their voices...). I can’t even begin to recall which of his youtube interviews he said it in, but he said that in his mind Destro sounds like Sean Connery and Cobra Commander has what Larry called Orson Welles’s deep, pompous, buffooinishly self-overestimating voice. (My paraphrase but it was that harsh, a rarity for Larry.)
I wish I was kidding about this, but I’m not. Whatever you people want to say about Hama’s current work... there has never been another creator that has touched this property that has understood it soul better than Larry. Nobody.
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03-27-2020, 11:47 PM | #24 |
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I mean you could... you -could- do anything. I’m not one who is super opposed to changing a character’s race between different iterations of a property, but there are some characters whose ethnicity is baked into their character to the point where changing them is just stupid. Black Panther can’t be race swapped because his character is the king of and African nation. It’s an essential part of him. Destro is a Scottish noble. That’s core to his character, and I’m willing to bet that the number of black landed aristocrats in Scotland is a number very close to zero.
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03-28-2020, 12:37 AM | #25 |
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I mean you could... you -could- do anything. I’m not one who is super opposed to changing a character’s race between different iterations of a property, but there are some characters whose ethnicity is baked into their character to the point where changing them is just stupid. Black Panther can’t be race swapped because his character is the king of and African nation. It’s an essential part of him. Destro is a Scottish noble. That’s core to his character, and I’m willing to bet that the number of landed aristocrats in Scotland is a number very close to zero.
My point is there's a way around it, you just have to get creative. Last edited by Megastar; 03-28-2020 at 12:39 AM.. |
03-28-2020, 12:44 AM | #26 |
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That comparison doesn't really work with Destro, becusce he could be the first black McCullen (born illegitimately) and had to fight for his nobility or say the Mccullen clan died out and he's of direct descent and decided to change his name and rebuild the family which is why he allies with Cobra.
My point is there's a way around it, you just have to get creative.
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03-28-2020, 01:06 AM | #27 |
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03-28-2020, 02:42 AM | #28 |
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If an alternate version of Joe decides that Destro needs to be black or whatever for some reason (which is fine) it would make more sense (and simplify the narrative) to simply give him a different origin.
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03-28-2020, 04:13 AM | #29 |
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Destro is 100% Scottish Caucasian.
I feel bad for those of you who incorporate that god awful cartoon. Non canon. And destro was still a white guy there. Surprised this is a thread.
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03-28-2020, 05:42 AM | #30 |
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Destro is Scottish from the McCullen Clan.
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