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"OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball comedy?" , posted Thu 9 Sep 21:22

Alright, since everyone here seemed to hate the idea of Green Lantern being made into a wacky comedy in the vein of 'the Mask' (which has thankfully been canned) how does everyone feel about the rumor that it seems WB, desperate for people to laugh at one of their Superhero movies ON PURPOSE is going to make "Aquaman" a wacky comedy?

It's just a rumor, but is it as bad to make a 'serious hero' most fans think is a joke into a joke character? Or should they just let serious heroes be serious movies and give Plasticman a movie if they want a hero laugher so bad?

Discuss!

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"Re(1):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Thu 9 Sep 22:46

I guess this is relatively fair, it's not like i followed either aquaman or green lantern seriously or anything, but I suppose this hits me better. Still...lame. Making a theme of this sucks. I find the Marvel series of movies (except daredevil for the most part) relatively respectable

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"Re(1):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 00:15

Just a question from someone who never opened a comic book in his life : since Aquaman seems to be universaly loathed, why hasn't he been written out of the team ? (or if he has a comic all for himself : who buy those?)

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"Re(2):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 04:41

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Just a question from someone who never opened a comic book in his life : since Aquaman seems to be universaly loathed, why hasn't he been written out of the team ? (or if he has a comic all for himself : who buy those?)

Aquaman isn't universally loathed, just universally laughed at and ridiculed by every geek from here to hullabaloo because his ability is so completely absurd and limited. The only reason he stays alive is because he's in the revolving DC door, so every so often some random writer comes along and says "I WILL FIX TEH AQUAMAN!1!!" And for one month Wizard will say "OMGOES TEH AQUAMAN IS FIXED!1!" and then everyone forgets about it or ignores it until next time.

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"Re(1):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 06:52

I don't really care for Aquaman but that doesn't make the idea of a screwball comedy for Aquaman right. It's like the only Hero they are willing to take seriously are Superman and Batman(Even if the Batman Movies have not been that great so far.) Smallville's a good show, they can't get the Superman Movie 'up and flying' but at least there's interest. Marvel will continue to kick DC's Ass in the Movie department, DC will continue to kick Marvel's Ass in the Cartoon Department, and all will be right with the world. Though I still can't figure out how Marvel's Mutant X is still on TV...

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"Re(2):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 08:58

Aquatic ZANINESS OMG

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"Does whatever a...wait, that's not right" , posted Fri 10 Sep 09:59

What's Aqua's current set of powers? As of DC vs. Marvel he had a grappling hook.

Yes, I'm THAT out of the loop on his powers.

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"Re(1):Does whatever a...wait, that's not righ" , posted Fri 10 Sep 10:47

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What's Aqua's current set of powers? As of DC vs. Marvel he had a grappling hook.

Yes, I'm THAT out of the loop on his powers.

here are his powers taken straight from marvel vs DC #2 :

"Ability to communicate directly with sea life, ability to sense the primal emotions of aquatic creatures, can swim underwater at rates up to 100mph, can withstand extremes of temperature and pressure"

wtf?

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"Re(3):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 11:15

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Maybe they could get Seanbaby to write the screenplay... he's probably 99.9% responsible for people thinking Aquaman is the lamest hero alive. (I mean seriously... when all the other superheroes went away after the Golden Age, only Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and AQUAMAN remained. So for the longest time people must have liked him, he's been considered a joke for a while, but then again movies and Adam West made Batman just as much of a joke... it wasn't until the internet really became popular you see people REALLY making fun of Aquaman, and normally linking to Seanbaby to do so)

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What's Aqua's current set of powers? As of DC vs. Marvel he had a grappling hook.

Yes, I'm THAT out of the loop on his powers.

In the latest revampe of his comic his hook hand has become a water-hand, what it does I've no clue.... probably makes it hard to hold a cup of coffee (... also I read somewhere because he's used to extreme preasure he can withstand bullets like Superman, but that sounds like bullshit)

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"Re(4):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 12:55

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Maybe they could get Seanbaby to write the screenplay... he's probably 99.9% responsible for people thinking Aquaman is the lamest hero alive. (I mean seriously... when all the other superheroes went away after the Golden Age, only Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and AQUAMAN remained. So for the longest time people must have liked him, he's been considered a joke for a while, but then again movies and Adam West made Batman just as much of a joke... it wasn't until the internet really became popular you see people REALLY making fun of Aquaman, and normally linking to Seanbaby to do so)

Well, you've got to admit- Aquaman's pretty useless in most SuperFriendly situations. I guess he could sort of be taken seriously if his was a stand-alone story, but when they tried to put him with the rest of the superheroes, we start to realize how much use you can get from talking to fish and swimming really well when a majority of the SUPER CRIMES seem to take place on dry land...

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"Re(1):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Fri 10 Sep 15:32

Can you not see that Aquaman is serious? Join him or die. He is disrespectful to oil spills.

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"Re(2):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Sat 11 Sep 00:00

I started thinking he was funny when Cartoon Network did all those funny Super Friends joke commercials/bumpers a few years back.

Aquaman was always dancing or doing something stupid with fish. Wonder Twins getting teens killed and forming buckets of shit. Legion of Doom round table. And Batman and Robin having bleeps over the scripts to make it sound like they were cursing.

One of the funniest was when the Powerpuff girls saved Wonder Woman and Aquaman. WW coments on how the girls were developing into fine heroes and one girl goes maybe we will be as developed as you someday. And the entire Legion of Doom starts laughing and WW gets all embaressed and covers her chest.

Another one Aquaman and WW are tied up over a vat of acid. And Aquaman comments on how his ability to talk to fish is of no use. WW just rolls her eyes.

The Super Friends show had some really stupid episodes too. There's an episode where Mole ppl have been stealing AC units from office buildings. Superman goes to stake one out and falls asleep. They all end up battling living trees and rocks underground.

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"Re(3):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Sat 11 Sep 00:14

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I started thinking he was funny when Cartoon Network did all those funny Super Friends joke commercials/bumpers a few years back.

Aquaman was always dancing or doing something stupid with fish. Wonder Twins getting teens killed and forming buckets of shit. Legion of Doom round table. And Batman and Robin having bleeps over the scripts to make it sound like they were cursing.

Those were all good... I like the Wonder Twins one were the kid gets mauled by a bear more then the 'bucket of shit' one though

I liked the original Adult Swim bumper of Aquaman walking to random place and shaking his booty... it was random and set the tone of what you'd see in Adult Swim from then one: something funny that uses limited animation stolen from an old show with what barely passes as a joke.

"Solomon Grundy want pants too!" good stuff those bumpers are

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One of the funniest was when the Powerpuff girls saved Wonder Woman and Aquaman. WW coments on how the girls were developing into fine heroes and Bubbles goes maybe we will be as developed as you someday. And the entire Legion of Doom starts laughing and WW gets all embaressed and covers her chest.

Another one Aquaman and WW are tied up over a vat of acid. And Aquaman comments on how his ability to talk to fish is of no use. WW just rolls her eyes.

Those are same bumpers... the Aquman telepathy part comes right before the PPG bust in... HA! "BUST" my boobie pun was funnier then one in the actual bumper.

(man... I sound like a jerk, saying what's on adult swim "barely passes as a joke" and that "bust" is a better pun then "developed"... let me just say I think 90% of the bumpers and stuff on Adult Swim is terrfic and very funny... and that 10% is Oblongs and the 'squiggle-vision'episodes of Home Movies, but that's since I've seen them all and they're no fun on repeat viewing... I'm just writing like I'm a jerk today)

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"Re(3):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Sat 11 Sep 01:15:

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This site is evil. It made me spit my drink on the monitor 3 times more than the worst SNKneoshingo2003 post.

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"Re(4):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Sat 11 Sep 05:00

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In the latest revampe of his comic his hook hand has become a water-hand, what it does I've no clue.... probably makes it hard to hold a cup of coffee (... also I read somewhere because he's used to extreme preasure he can withstand bullets like Superman, but that sounds like bullshit)

That's what I was wondering. I saw a recent pic and was wondering where his hook went. And the extreme pressure thing sounds fake since water pressure is spread across his body while a bullet is direct. He could probably withstand the air pressure of a wind tunnel type devise or tolerate a gravity trap but I doubt those would ever be used.

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"Re(5):OT:Aquaman: the movie.... a screwball c" , posted Sat 11 Sep 16:44

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That's what I was wondering. I saw a recent pic and was wondering where his hook went. And the extreme pressure thing sounds fake since water pressure is spread across his body while a bullet is direct. He could probably withstand the air pressure of a wind tunnel type devise or tolerate a gravity trap but I doubt those would ever be used.

Well actually the pressure difference thing explaining bulletproofosity isn't that hard to believe...

Superman is bulletproof because Krypton had a much denser atomsosphere then Earth (which is like more air pressure right? I think), so his body had to be made of denser matterial to not explode on his homeworld... so translated to Earth bullets aren't strong enough to pierce his dense flesh.

I assume the same logic is translated to Aquaman, he lives at the bottom of the sea so his body must be made of dense material to not collapse in on itself...

However, I assume even if that is a 'logical' answer to a bullet proof Aquaman it was probably added later by a revamper hoping it would make him seem like a better superhero and made up as good excuse. (since if he's bulletproof he's got a handy non-ocean/fish centric power to use!)

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"His water hand..." , posted Mon 13 Sep 06:02

Been wandering about and I discovered that his water hand has the ability to cure disease and heal wounds though he can't use it on himself and to much offensive usage/attacking with it accidentally creates a creature that tries to kill water beings. It also allows himself to project onto an astral plane which he does not need to be in water to do.

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