Re: Wonder Woman - June 23, 2017
Doctor Doom and Dracula?
What comic is that? Looks like a fun read...
Captain Britain & MI:13. That cringy image aside (not the level /pol/ is making it out to be though) it's a very enjoyable book. You've got all the Marvel UK characters, Skrull Beatles, Vampires, all that good stuff. Twas one of the last truly comic book-y runs of the last few years (well, it's from 2008 or so, but you get the idea). Doom doesn't appear for long, although Dracula is the main villain.
This page is an exhange between Doom and Dracula on the... wait for it... MOON! There are two reasons why people throw it around:
(a) /pol/acks believe it's part of a secret conspiracy to turn the West into Muslims.
(b) People just find it cringy.
(c) It's Dracula and Doctor Doom on the moon. It's just cool.
The reason why it's cringy is because it picks up an interesting premise, but hammers it into the ground. The historical Vlad Tepes III, alongside his brother, due to the Balkans being part of the Ottoman Empire, were given to the Sultan, and raised alongside his own son. Vlad wasn't really a fan of the whole thing, and was constantly abused and generally had a miserable life, until he came back to take over the throne from his father. And then the usual story follows, with him impaling people, kinda protecting his country, all that jazz.
So for him, essentially a man stuck in the 15th Century, it's very in-character to despise anything related with the Ottomans. Hell, his "method of execution" that made him famous was just the normal way the Ottomans executed folks. They'd put a huge spike in the ground, carefully place the person above it, and let gravity do its work, slowly dragging the man down, and letting the spike go all the way, from his **** to his mouth, or just exit from another part of the body.
Now, like I said, his bubble makes sense. He's a villain, he's nuts, he's racist, end of story. The problem is Doom's response. See, when writers play up the sympathetic side of Doom, they just bring up the fact that he's a Roma and are done with. Hence his whole "I don't tolerate prejudice" answer here. In reality though, he's only half Balkan Roma (and half Balkan Germanic) and has, in-canon, time travelled back and worked with the Nazis. Granted, twas only to get info and knowledge, but still.
Besides all that, this is the guy who, in-canon, is so damn nationalistic, that he's cut-off Latveria from the world, enforces a strict policy on travel, and has declared that Latveria is European, and that he has no intention of changing that. So to have that guy, who's also the leader of his country, hear the news of a potential threat and simply respond "omg, razist" is just... silly.
Anyway, that page aside, it's a cool book. The core cast is CapBrit, Pete Wysdom, Black Knight, Spitfire, Blade (reminder that 616 Blade is British), Union Jack, Meggan and Faiza Husain (new character, weilds Excalibur).
Dat right. She too white.
Das right. Ancient Greeks were Black man. Also Romans. And Vikings. Das right!
On the subject of WE WUZ, I find the Nordic version much funnier for some reason. WE WUZ TRU EUROPEANS. WE WUZ MEDS. WE WUZ RE-NA--SAINCE(?). WE WUZ ROMANZ!
