Eddie Brock

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The first season of Daredevil is great but I think the quality of pretty much all of the Netflix shows has steadily declined with time. Either that or the Netflix-mandated thirteen episode structure has led to real pacing problems that has really detracted from my enjoyment of them

@Morden Man

This, but also being sold the lie of a "connected universe," yet the Netflix U shies away from even the mention of their theatrical big brothers like they're skirting a copyright lawsuit or something.

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Spectacular Spider-Man.

Good discussion! So, what's our next topic?

(I kid. Actually, we've been quite blessed with a litany of awesome TV comic book adaptations, from the DCAU days to Spectacular, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and Young Justice. There's quite a few answers I'd accept to this question.)

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Ha! You won't fool me into spilling my secrets. And not because I don't have that much planned, either; as we've discussed, I have a great many plans! So many plans it would make your head spin! I could talk all day about my plans, and the only reason I'm not starting now is because I don't want to! Not because the plans don't actually exist, oh no. A good try, all, but this vault of plans shall remain sealed!

_{(Did it work? Did I fool them into believing the guy still working on his second post is actually way ahead of the game?)}

In any event, in order to further these many, bigly plans of mine, I shall aspire to finally get another post up tonight. It would have been quite poetic to finish it in time for yesterday, but alas.

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If my crack about making people uncomfortable contributed in any way, I apologize. I promise I'm only guilty of having a lame sense of humor, and I don't intend to be unwelcoming towards anyone... except @Byrd Man, and that's only because I worry he'll make the South rise again.

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I think you could do do Dick. But it would edit Dick's for some reason.

@Byrd Man

Maybe that's what it was. All I remember is the censor was so robust that if any part of a word happened to contain a prohibited word, it would throw asterisks over that part.

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Don't forget that they used to censor "dick," which is problematic when you're trying to talk about Bruce Wayne's ward, the young Richard Grayson.

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Look, obviously we don't want to make anyone uncomfortable...

... that's just an added bonus.

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Weekly post reminders, RPG awards... Jesus, it's like the Hype is alive again.

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Superior Spider-Man is definitely a no-go for a Year One setting and Hawkeye is a supporting character, I believe, of Eddie Brock's Cap with his own established history. But the other three are doable. Elijah Snow wouldn't be turned away in a game where Skinner Sweet turned Wolverine into a vampire.

@Master Bruce

That said, if anyone has a real hankering to play Purple Arrow, I won't be a roadblock.

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Though, alright, let me put on my best suit, slick back my hair, and give it my best Keanu Reeves impersonation:

Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson come from two different eras of storytelling. Gwen is a hero's girlfriend in the very Silver Age style; she's no worse an offender of the "bland, personality-less beauty designed to be put in mortal peril" trope than, say, (classic) Iris West. Hell, until ol' Spidey and Marvel came along, even the heroes hardly had character traits beyond "always does the right thing" and "reminds kids to eat their vegetables." So to completely compare the two without considering their relative context is a bit misleading.

Still, as Gerry Conway is quick to point out, no one cared about Gwen Stacy until after he killed her. That's when the cult of personality around the character really began.