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06-23-2016, 02:54 PM | #1 |
Cobra Soldier
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Forbes Welcome
The new series seems promising. I don't mind that it is moving away from a re-telling of the original 80's show/comic. What bothers me are the characters themselves. I have no problem with Matt Trakker being black. What I have a problem with is the lineup of characters. Hopefully, this won't turn into one big politically correct comic where we have one member who is black, one white, one hispanic, one girl, one gay, one transgender, etc. This isn't reflective of society (and yes I know that neither are masks that create powers). I have grown up and lived in both rural and urban settings, and traveled throughout the world. In my experience, people of similar backgrounds hangout together. This tends to occur in casual and work settings across various demographics. I would rather see a M.A.S.K team that is predominantly one race (white, asian, black, latino), one sex, or one demographic of any kind. There is always a dominant group of some sort. It creates good conflict and story telling and it reflects real life. Just my thoughts. |
06-23-2016, 02:58 PM | #2 |
Cobra Soldier
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Reading my first post, I should clarify that I would like a team that has a majority of one demographic and a minority of another. I would love to see a predominantly female team with a minority of males. That would be interesting.
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06-23-2016, 07:30 PM | #3 |
Iron Grenadier
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You could always have the female Cobra troopers head changed to a guy and call it Cobra Officer in transition.
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02-24-2017, 04:25 PM | #4 |
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I know I'll get flack for it, but I've always been against the gender or race swapping of popular pre-existing characters. 99% of the time it's just done to be PC. There are plenty of great minority or female characters out there that are under used. Having said that, I'm looking forward to reading the new M.A.S.K comics.
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02-24-2017, 07:15 PM | #5 |
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LOL, a black Matt Trakker? That is a completely gratuitous and insulting change to the MAIN character of this franchise.
I see no shortage of people complaining when a black or Asian character is changed to white in an adaptation, and I will loudly and proudly do the same when it's done to a white character. |
02-24-2017, 08:01 PM | #6 |
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As long as Vanessa Warfield still looks like the evil Scarlett-meets-Baroness hybrid...I'm good.
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02-24-2017, 08:44 PM | #7 |
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PC is killing everything...freaking can't even call Girl Scout Samoan or Hawaiian delight cookies by those names anymore they are now called Carmel delights , seriously wtf is wrong with everyone in this world.
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02-24-2017, 10:39 PM | #8 |
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Personally I couldn't care less about the change here. That may be because all I pretty much remember about Matt tracker was he was a rich guy who wanted to fight crime. The show was actually terrible. It had a lot of focus on the kid and the robot and it was just bad. The toys were ok with cool vehicles but I really wished they were joe scale but the figures were awful. So I think whatever they do with Mask it has got to be better than it was.
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02-25-2017, 08:23 PM | #9 |
Iron Grenadier
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^ This. The toys were wonderful. The original mythos. ..not so much. The comic has been fairly good so far and I'm really glad the new story is going in a slightly new directiin while keeping the core of the MASK elements that older fans are familiar with (I.E. the names, just colors, etc).
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02-25-2017, 09:20 PM | #10 |
Crimson Guard
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I'll never understand the whole popular twist on taking a established character and changing the race or sex. It's not edgy, it's not good story telling. It's lazy. Come up with a new character, shape and mould that character to stand on it's own.
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