Nah I just don’t mess around when it comes to Spider-Man characters. They can do all they want to some of zlisters in the mcu but when it comes to X-men and Spider-Man I do t like them taking lots of liberties.
I feel you. Everyone has their favourites, and we are a bit hypocritical when it comes to that. I don't care if they race/gender/etc-swap Shocker or Bullseye, but their fans would get up in arms about that the same way I'd get about my faves. It's natural, but that's the name of the game so might as well hope yours aren't the ones that get swapped.
Honestly, the worst part is that they're so unoriginal with all the swaps. Take Domino. She's not just white, she's chalk white. And she has the pitch black mark on her eye, which makes her look like, drum-roll... a domino. They raceswapped her, but they could've still salvaged the design by inverting the colours. Paint her pitch black with a chalk white mark. But hey, why bother with all that? The best I can say is that Zazie Beets was actually not bad as Neena, had a good ol' form fitting costume and looked good. I actually do hope she jumps ship in the MCU as Storm. Which brings us to the worst offsense of all these swaps; they choose the frumpiest women. X-Men is carried in part because of its sex appeal. But whereas the men continue being hunks (I guess Shang-Chi was the equalizer; Leung's older than the guy by a decade and looks ten times better), we get castings like Tessa Thompson, Akwafina or Fungus Larson (no, the pushup dress doesn't change my opinion). I doubt we'll see a hot Storm or Emma, and all the Xir-Persons will look like tacticool rejects from a [current day] AAA videogame that gets forgotten a month after its release. I wouldn't expect to see Emma dressed up in a dominatrix bustier and office jacket, or Psylocke/Kwanon to have a sleek ninja outfit. We'll get a couple of 40 YOs cosplaying around loose uniforms and that'll be it. I'm not even a swimsuit kind of guy, it's got more to do with the body type and the design of the outfit. I want to see beautiful and built people portray super-heroes, how hard is that?
After all these years, Marvel wise, except for some exceptions here and there (like Punisher & MK from the Streets, Iron Man from the Capes and so on) F4 (which I count under Cosmic, same as Strange and all the other Sorcerers) and X-Men are my core and they're the ones I was really looking forward to owning in this scale (I went through an X-Men hate phase due to how the IP was used and its fanbase, but it's passed). However, between the Xer-Myn comments, the FF being used as Benneton ad, Namor being cast as a short middle aged guy (and Namora as a frumpy middle aged woman), Black Panther being written off, and Strange being turned into a supporting character in his own movie, what the Hell do I have to look forward to? I'm half expecting Captain Britain to be turned into Captain Carter, Brian to be an old guy with a mustache who dies after 10 minutes of screentime, and Betsy to be his half-sister who's Japanese instead of them doing Kwanon and Bets as separate characters.
Anyway, as for this figure, it does look impressive, but it being all mold turns me off. These things cost a lot of cash and when there's no fabric, facial likeness, all that jazz, my excitement goes down bit by bit. Still, I was never going to buy it as I've sore off any Symbiote characters. Spider-Man, like Batman, is a character that I have some slight nostalgia for, enough to get a few Omnis and some figures, but only of the very core cast. My Spider-Shelf will just be a Tobey-Man, Ock & Goblin posed together, plus a 2099 if they ever make a Terry Batman so that I can have them displayed as a pair, and my one-off wish, a SpOck. Still, I hope it comes out good and people enjoy it as much as they seem to enjoy the Venom figure. Even in the very brightly lit pictures it looks like a beast and the details pop; you can't mistake that for a cheap toy. I just don't know if it's half a grand worth of greatness...
