Feeling JOSSED about: A rant to comic book and film write...
4 years ago
Can we please stop turning every character in fiction into Buffy the vampire slayer?
I've had this...terrible annoyed feeling for the longest time now whenever I read superhero comics or watch movies wherein characters say and do things that seem out of place for them. Either they say something that implies they're stupid (Like call an important item a "Doohickey") or exclaim something relating to their butt, or try to come up with a stupid "Team name" when they're with friends or comrades. And the more I think on it, the more I trace it back to Joss Whedon.
Now it's no surprise people are emulating his style of dialog. The man was quasi-famous with Buffy, and Angel and then became a go-to hollywood guy when he did The Avengers. But lately it seems like EVERYONE has to take fictional characters and turn them into Buffy. Made-up dummy sounding words and all. Case in point: The last comic book I read: Marvel's Black Knight had the titular hero fighting a symbiote dragon, and screaming about his "buttflaps" or something that got dented in the fight. Now I am aware the ebony blade (It's like the black knight equivalent of mjolnir but it's evil or something) does stuff to it's wielder's mind, but I don't think it should be evil enough that it turns just about anybody holding it into the protagonist of an Adam Sandler movie. Needless to say this very scene alone was what killed my interest in marvel for a while.
Speaking of Marvel and Thor as I somewhat mentioned in brackets: Part of me still feels like he got done dirty with Thor:Ragnarok. I get that there was a lot that needed covering in the MCU, but I wish it didn't cost us Thor's more serious tones (And most of his supporting cast. RIP Sif, and the warriors three). It's a fun movie. I still quite like it. But I fear it came at a great cost.
Getting off of Marvel doing this with all of their characters, I feel like it's something that needs to stop showing up in IDW's Transformers as well. At least in regards to the decepticons. While I did enjoy the oddballs of the Lost Light in the original run, I feel it's a bit inappropriate when it's being applied to a decepticon death squad. Granted this takes place at the start of a reboot, and they're more than likely just establishing Flamewar as the goofball of the cons, but even so. I feel it adds to the problem a bit. Though admittedly it could just be I like my decepticon women to be competent (Shatter), aggressive (Slipstream, Shadow Striker), and powerful (Strika). So maybe I'm just a bit biased against Flamewar or something, idk.
So there's my rant against Buffy speak and how it needs to take a nap. I'm sure to get a comment or two saying I hate fun, but really with how most series have been phoning it in by trying to ape Teen Titans GO, I'll take being compared to a grumpy dad who sends away all the party guests for his son's birthday so he can go clean his room as a bit of a compliment.
I've had this...terrible annoyed feeling for the longest time now whenever I read superhero comics or watch movies wherein characters say and do things that seem out of place for them. Either they say something that implies they're stupid (Like call an important item a "Doohickey") or exclaim something relating to their butt, or try to come up with a stupid "Team name" when they're with friends or comrades. And the more I think on it, the more I trace it back to Joss Whedon.
Now it's no surprise people are emulating his style of dialog. The man was quasi-famous with Buffy, and Angel and then became a go-to hollywood guy when he did The Avengers. But lately it seems like EVERYONE has to take fictional characters and turn them into Buffy. Made-up dummy sounding words and all. Case in point: The last comic book I read: Marvel's Black Knight had the titular hero fighting a symbiote dragon, and screaming about his "buttflaps" or something that got dented in the fight. Now I am aware the ebony blade (It's like the black knight equivalent of mjolnir but it's evil or something) does stuff to it's wielder's mind, but I don't think it should be evil enough that it turns just about anybody holding it into the protagonist of an Adam Sandler movie. Needless to say this very scene alone was what killed my interest in marvel for a while.
Speaking of Marvel and Thor as I somewhat mentioned in brackets: Part of me still feels like he got done dirty with Thor:Ragnarok. I get that there was a lot that needed covering in the MCU, but I wish it didn't cost us Thor's more serious tones (And most of his supporting cast. RIP Sif, and the warriors three). It's a fun movie. I still quite like it. But I fear it came at a great cost.
Getting off of Marvel doing this with all of their characters, I feel like it's something that needs to stop showing up in IDW's Transformers as well. At least in regards to the decepticons. While I did enjoy the oddballs of the Lost Light in the original run, I feel it's a bit inappropriate when it's being applied to a decepticon death squad. Granted this takes place at the start of a reboot, and they're more than likely just establishing Flamewar as the goofball of the cons, but even so. I feel it adds to the problem a bit. Though admittedly it could just be I like my decepticon women to be competent (Shatter), aggressive (Slipstream, Shadow Striker), and powerful (Strika). So maybe I'm just a bit biased against Flamewar or something, idk.
So there's my rant against Buffy speak and how it needs to take a nap. I'm sure to get a comment or two saying I hate fun, but really with how most series have been phoning it in by trying to ape Teen Titans GO, I'll take being compared to a grumpy dad who sends away all the party guests for his son's birthday so he can go clean his room as a bit of a compliment.


I get it, it's like everyone's trying to be Deadpool now and forgetting what made/still makes Deadpool so good.

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Essentially yeah.