[OOC] CLOSED - Ultimate One Universe: Season One

[Supermaxx]

<Snipped quote by Eddie Brock>

I agree with both Triple J and Aunt May but I think I enjoyed Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben more.

Likewise, I enjoy Michael Clarke Duncan's Kingpin more than I do Vincent D'Onofrio.

@Lord Wraith

[Sep]

He will always be kingpin.

[Supermaxx]

Edit: oh uhhh don't watch this if you get queasy at violence or whatevs

mfw

[Master Bruce]

Of the vast collection of television shows, movies, and other live-action representations of our favourite comic book characters, who is your definitive, and if not definitive, favourite or preferable representation of that character.

For example, my definitive Lex Luthor is Michael Rosenbaum.

So how about you guys? Who is your Batman/Superman etc?

@Lord Wraith

Since you said live-action and it'd be far too easy to just say "DCAU/Avengers Earths Mightiest/Spectacular Spider-Man" for most characters, I'll stick to that as best that I can.

Batman - Michael Keaton, Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale
Spider-Man - Andrew Garfield, Peter Parker - Tom Holland
Superman - Christopher Reeve, Clark Kent - Dean Cain, with slight leaning towards Henry Cavill
Daredevil/Matt Murdock - Charlie Cox
Captain America/Steve Rogers - Chris Evans
Wonder Woman/Diana Prince - Gal Gadot
Wolverine/Logan - Hugh Jackman
The Flash/Barry Allen - John Wesley Shipp
The Punisher/Frank Castle - Jon Bernthal
Green Lantern/Hal Jordan - Nobody because there's never been a live action GL, clearly.
Iron Man/Robert Downey Jr. - Robert Downey Jr.
Thor - Chris Hemsworth
Martian Manhunter - David Harewood visually, Phil Morris performance-wise
The Hulk - Mark Ruffalo, Bruce Banner - Edward Norton
Green Arrow/Oliver Queen - Justin Hartley, with Amell's costume and backstory
Alfred Pennyworth - Jeremy Irons
Jim Gordon - Gary Oldman
Lois Lane - Teri Hatcher
Perry White - Lane Smith
Jimmy Olsen - Aaron Ashmore
Ben Parker - Cliff Robertson
May Parker - Marisa Tomei *shrugs* I like the new, not-perpetually-90 years old May
Dick Grayson - Joseph Gordon-Levitt*
Kara Zor-El - Melissa Benoist

_{*Even though he was playing an entirely different character for stupid reasons.}

Sadly, there aren't really any good live action portrayals for some characters I really love, like Barbara Gordon or Wally West. Hoping that changes within the next few years, but I doubt it. It would require Warner Bros. to remove their heads from their asses. I also really had high hopes for Titans' version of Dick Grayson, but that changed the minute that the trailer dropped with a certain two-worded line.

EDIT: Villains is it's own category by itself, but a few honorable mentions go out to Rosenbaum, Ledger, Hiddleston, Dafoe, Keaton again for The Vulture, and Brolin.

[Byrd Man]

Edit: oh uhhh don't watch this if you get queasy at violence or whatevs

mfw

@Superboy

Hey look, MB, it's me on my wedding day.

[Sep]

@Superboy I dunno I just didn't find him that menacing.

[Supermaxx]

I'm actually a pretty big fan of how Snyder directs Affleck's Batman- in action scenes. Outside of the whole murdering people in the Batmobile fiasco, I love the physicality and power behind New Batman's fighting prowess. He's fast, strong and fucking terrifying. I vastly prefer it to the much slower and more methodical style of Bale's Batman, though obviously there's the caviat that they were going for two polar opposite portrayals.

On a similar note, I'm confident that Henry Cavill will make one of the best Supermen yet if somebody hands him a decent script. He's a great actor that's trapped in terrible movies, imo, and somebody just needs to come along and let him loose.

[Eddie Brock]

@Superboy I dunno I just didn't find him that menacing.

@Sep

>crushes a man's head with a car door for interrupting a date
>"didn't find him that menacing"

I think @Superboy's got me covered here:

<Snipped quote by Lord Wraith>

@Superboy

That being said, I do love me some Michael Clarke Duncan Kingpin. Two valid (and awesome) takes on the same character, IMO.

[Supermaxx]

@Superboy I dunno I just didn't find him that menacing.

@Sep

That's fair. I personally really enjoyed that sort of quiet, barely contained anger he gave the role. Seeing him just explode gave me goosebumps the first two times I watched through the series. I love him. Probably my favorite Marvel villain, if I'm totally honest; Thanos is a close second, though.

[Sep]

<Snipped quote by Sep>

>crushes a man's head with a car door for interrupting a date
>"didn't find him that menacing"

I think @Superboy's got me covered here:

<Snipped quote by Superboy>

That being said, I do love me some Michael Clarke Duncan Kingpin. Two valid (and awesome) takes on the same character, IMO.

@Eddie Brock

Okay in terms of the violence he could bring, yes he could bring the pain. He just, I dunno. He didn't have the same presence when I watched it, he didn't feel menacing to me.

[Lord Wraith]

For me, D'Onofrio's Kingpin comes off as frightening because he's damaged and thus slightly unpredictable. At times I found him almost whiny and childlike which worked really well for the development and backstory.

But MCD was purposefully violent because he enjoyed it and over all a much more simple take on the character. Plus he had the physicality to back it up and I found him over all more charming which is why he's the version I prefer.

[Master Bruce]

Duncan was fine in the role, but he never really sold it for me. He seemed to be going for something of a version of Fisk with artistic license, which is fine, but I think the Netflix version did that aswell and captured a version much closer to the comics in the process. Pretty much every character except for Bullseye has been done better on the show, I think. Daredevil, Elektra, Foggy, Karen Page, Urich, and Westley, certainly.

I'm curious to see if Season 3 brings in a better Bullseye than Farrell. Or at least a version that feels like Bullseye, because as over the top as Farrell was, he at least kinda fit the manic insanity of that character.

[Sep]

As we have some incredibly healthy discussion going, I'm going to regret this when I wake up.... but since the question was tabled. Who would you choose to voice your favourite characters?

[Master Bruce]

Also, this scene is pretty much the perfect Murdock/Fisk scene to me.

[Sep]

Also, this scene is pretty much the perfect Murdock/Fisk scene to me.

@Master Bruce

What helps him in my opinion, is that it's a TV show. As a medium I prefer TV Serials over movies.

Anyway SepSlep

[Supermaxx]

As we have some incredibly healthy discussion going, I'm going to regret this when I wake up.... but since the question was tabled. Who would you choose to voice your favourite characters?

@Sep

George Newbern is the voice of Superman. Definitively. Without question. It's him.

[Lord Wraith]

As we have some incredibly healthy discussion going, I'm going to regret this when I wake up.... but since the question was tabled. Who would you choose to voice your favourite characters?

@Sep

I really enjoy Ben McKenzie's go at voicing Batman/Bruce Wayne. On that note for fun, I'd love Adam Brody to voice a Nightwing alongside McKenzie's Batman.

[Simple Unicycle]

As we have some incredibly healthy discussion going, I'm going to regret this when I wake up.... but since the question was tabled. Who would you choose to voice your favourite characters?

@Sep

Well considering my favorite character already has the perfect voice, I don't really need to speak my piece.

[Supermaxx]

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I really enjoy Ben McKenzie's go at voicing Batman/Bruce Wayne. On that note for fun, I'd love Adam Brody to voice a Nightwing alongside McKenzie's Batman.

@Lord Wraith

Oh yeah, he did a great job in Year One.

Similarly, I really enjoyed Peter Weller's older, more grizzled Batman.

Kevin Conroy's amazing, but damn if there isn't a lot of great competition in the Batman department.

[Simple Unicycle]

<Snipped quote by Lord Wraith>

Oh yeah, he did a great job in Year One.

Similarly, I really enjoyed Peter Weller's older, more grizzled Batman.

Kevin Conroy's amazing, but damn if there isn't a lot of great competition in the Batman department.

@Superboy

Even though he only did it in a small segment of one episode, Michael Ironside as the Batman from The Dark Knight Returns is perfect.

EDIT: Then again, I've been on a Splinter Cell binge, so I just love Michael Ironside's voice.