For me, Smallville barely even qualified as a superhero show. If you look at any other previous live action superhero show, even the goofy old ones like Adam West Batman and the Incredible Hulk, the show was about them doing superhero stuff. Smallville was about being an awkward teenager…with super powers sometimes.
X-Men holds up better than Spider-Man animation-wise, but neither of them held up well.
I actually feel like Uncle Grandpa is trying to tap into the Adult Swim-type stoner viewers with abject wackiness that I assume would be funnier if I smoked weed. I actually love Steven Universe. All the characters are compelling. It’s not as good as Adventure Time and Regular Show, but it’s also not the same type of show (which get by on a large, diverse, interesting cast of characters and oddly relatable slice-of-life-type-stuff, respectively).
The first season was weak (but what cartoon’s isn’t?) but once they polished the characters it became really solid. If you don’t like it, you’re almost certainly actively looking to not like it.
With the Ms. Marvel thing The rape itself was bad enough but the avengers just let her go with her rapist to another dimension without opposition knowing what happened to her. It was just a badly written story.
A lot of weird stories about rape popped up around that time across all mediums. Like really weird stuff that would be raked over the coals today. A couple of the recently-cancelled ABC soap operas had main characters that, in the 1980s, were rapists. One of them married the chick that he raped and they just pretended it never happened, and the other one stayed a villain but they only made allusions to the fact that he had raped two of the other main characters. The way rape is portrayed in fiction today is radically different than it was 30 years ago.
Did you actually watch the episode, or even read about why he looks like that? Either way, it’s appropriate to the series’ style of hyperbolizing appearances based on the story they’re trying to convey. In this case, Trigon was trying to manipulate Robin, Starfire and Cyborg into believing he was a good guy by being a stereotypical 1980s sitcom father in order to have them encourage Raven to rebuild their relationship (so he could push her into conquering humanity).
Ah so I just finished the cartoon series this morning. man that last ep…now I definitely see where you guys are coming from about they may ass well continue the cartoon. I missed out all on the 5th season when the show was still running so it was good to see it all from start to end now, and it definitely holds up greatly. But we will see where this goes as far as the live action show.
But im definitely gonna be to used to the cartoons portrayal of everyone.
They couldn’t stop her, she wanted to go with Marcus of her own “free will”. She was mind controlled, but what were they going to do, fight her when space was being destroyed? It’s a common occurrence when teams lose a member by brainwashing or manipulation, the best they can do is hope they come back to their senses on their own.
I like that comics have things like this, the woman being the refrigerator (not because of misogyny!), when the DC villains joined together to kill Martian Manhunter, etc. If not, comics would be about everybody playing baseball and having a good time, and then beating up the bad guys on and on. Oh, Dr. Light raping Sue Dibny, that bastard.