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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 2, 2024 19:21:12 GMT -5
I think it is symptomatic of a larger trend at Marvel (DC, too) to make the characters even more powerful, to have bigger impact in the visuals, when the story doesn't always deliver it. Captain America was supposed to be the peak of human ability, an Olympic athletes Olympic athlete. But, still human. Then, Ultimates has him jumping out of panes without parachutes, unscathed and battling toe to toe with the Hulk. That carried over into the films, as the Hulk and the Abomination are now related to the Super Soldier Formula and experiments to replicate it (which also factored into Ultimate Hulk. Everyone wants their characters to be able to do even more, rather than write a story where the character uses their intellect and skill to solve the problem that raw power cannot. Some writers can handle strategy and problem solving; but, many seem to fall back on just making the character powerful enough for the needs of the plot. That is the kind of thinking that had Superman pushing planets out of orbit, rather than being "more powerful than a locomotive."
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Post by Yasotay on Sept 4, 2024 1:43:46 GMT -5
I think it is symptomatic of a larger trend at Marvel (DC, too) to make the characters even more powerful, to have bigger impact in the visuals, when the story doesn't always deliver it. Captain America was supposed to be the peak of human ability, an Olympic athletes Olympic athlete. But, still human. Then, Ultimates has him jumping out of panes without parachutes, unscathed and battling toe to toe with the Hulk. That carried over into the films, as the Hulk and the Abomination are now related to the Super Soldier Formula and experiments to replicate it (which also factored into Ultimate Hulk. Everyone wants their characters to be able to do even more, rather than write a story where the character uses their intellect and skill to solve the problem that raw power cannot. Some writers can handle strategy and problem solving; but, many seem to fall back on just making the character powerful enough for the needs of the plot. That is the kind of thinking that had Superman pushing planets out of orbit, rather than being "more powerful than a locomotive." It's definitely true that most heroes undergo a kind of power inflation over time. I think it's kind of an arms race. They up the power on one hero, then another and suddenly you have to start doing it for all the heroes or a hero who looked pretty impressive in the 1960s suddenly looks like a 3rd rater in the present day.
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