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Aug 21, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
☆ There is no proper way to portray a made up, comic-book character
☆ There is no proper way to portray a made up, comic-book character
☆ There is no proper way to portray a made up, comic-book character
☆ There is no proper way to portray a made up, comic-book character
You can have *your* version of a character with the traits, abilities & values you believe they should have, but there is no right or wrong portrayal when it comes to a fictional being whose original traits, abilities & values were made up years ago and have continued to evolve.
There is no true Batman, no true Spider-Man, no true Superman. There are only portrayals more accurate to particular comic incarnations. There can be no comic-accurate version when the comics are so many different things.
Man Of Steel Kal is no less Superman than Reeve's. Batman from the 90s movies is no less Batman than the Nolan version, or for that matter, Snyder's. Raimi Spider-Man, MCU Spider-Man AND Webb Spider-Man are all... you guessed it! SPIDER-MAN! and no one version is the "proper" one
Any writer can chose which characteristics of a character they want to use & explore, and the joy of writing these characters is that the mythology is constantly being pushed so that the characters can evolve, and our understanding of them can be challenged. This is a good thing.
Also, wanting your own idealised version of each character on screen is great, but wanting that every time? I dunno, I just find that boring.

You don't have to like every portrayal, but like... I'd be bored out of my mind if I got Tobey's Peter or Heath's Joker in every movie.

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