Master Bruce

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And as far as the 'With Great Power...' mantra goes, I'm sure that it's coming. Infact, I wouldn't be surprised if Uncle Ben does appear at some point in the series via flashback and that some form of the origin is mentioned later on, now that they've gotten some distance from the Raimi films and Sony in general with their established version of Peter.

I can see why waiting for it again is annoying, but this is also a studio that has yet to have Cap yell 'Avengers Assemble!' after however many movies. And that's a line that I'm also pretty much convinced is being saved for Evans' final outing, whether that's Avengers 4 or something else.

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I honestly did not mind and don't find any of what's being brought up about Homecoming to be annoying. I liked the cast alot and thought that the individual roles that the kids at Peter's school played served a nice purpose of establishing a very different status quo that ultimately serves to distance the MCU version of Peter Parker into it's own thing. It reminded me alot of when they shifted dynamics around for the Ultimate comics, but in a less annoying way than having Mary Jane take on the Gwen role while Gwen takes on the Mary Jane role, or something (Damn you, Bendis! You had me up till that!). I like doing new things with old characters in the service of a story, provided the story is enjoyable, and I thought Homecoming very much was.

Stuff like making Betty Brant an intentionally bad news prompter for the school was funny to me, and I don't really see how going with the traditional "She's Jonah's secretary that Peter may or may not have the hots for" alternative really would've make the movie better beyond the fact that it'd have made Jonah a factor. Ned being essentially Ganke worked for me because Peter being a lonesome character who doesn't have any friends while dealing with these issues as Spider-Man was something even the comics were quick to throw out after that initial learning curve period with the character, and I understood the reason to change it from Ganke to Ned Leeds due to the possible future of Miles Morales popping up. Flash was an enjoyable douchebag, and I didn't need to see a dude bigger than Peter stuffing him into a locker for thankless scenes that provide no real character development yet again after the movies tried it twice. I can actually remember stuff that the Flash in this movie did beyond act gruff and brainless for one scene to help established that, oh, Peter Parker has superpowers.

Now, that being said, the one thing I do agree was bullshit and should've been rethought immediately is the Michelle character. Every aspect of her personality screams a coming-of-age Mary Jane Watson who uses her snarky personality to deflect from a troubled homelife, or in the case of Michelle, loneliness from being a self-imposed social outcast. I was actually really looking forward to a scene where they actually get to the Homecoming dance itself and "Michelle" appears all glammed up, reflecting MJ's change into the consummate party girl that she becomes in college. That... scene didn't happen, and instead she was just called MJ near the end as a sort of apologetic wink for chickening out on that.

It was a really dumb decision to me because Zendaya, I thought, would make a great Mary Jane to Holland's Peter. She basically had everything there except for the aforementioned glamming up and the red tint to her hair, both of which she could have still acquired in sequels if she'd just been allowed to be named Mary Jane. As it stands, I'll wait to see if Far From Home makes any headway in making up for that, but it's kind of going in on shaky ground due to that hesitation to just call her that. And I think it stems moreso from the culture of studios believing that if a character's appearance is spoiled, however major or minor, that it ruins the movie for the audience. I guarantee that in the early 2000's, Homecoming would have never minced words about her totally being Mary Jane Watson from the first press release onward.

That, or it's a dumb Sony thing. Which I can actually see, come to think of it. They probably want to make Mary Jane Watson the star of the next phase of their cinematic universe.

As Carnage.

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Fredile could play literally all of the male Robins up to Damian. And even with Damian, there's the grown-up Batman #666 version.

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Okay, with voice actors, it's a bit different. There are voice actors that fit particular eras of characters better than most. For example, yean, duh. Conroy is the be-all end-all voice of Batman. He's who I hear whenever I read the comics, his voice is what I draw on to write Bruce's dialogue, both inner and outer.

However. I don't particularly hear his voice when reading comics of an older era. The 70's and every era before that have their own Batman that isn't Conroy, for me. So with that said...

1939's Batman - Jeremy Sisto
1940's Batman - Gary Owens
1950's Batman - Diedrich Bader
1960's Batman - Adam West (he voiced Batman several times too)
1970's Batman - Bruce Greenwood
1980's Batman, onward - Kevin Conroy
Possible Future Batman - Michael Ironside

Shout-outs to Roger Craig Smith, Will Fredile, Olan Soule, and Peter Weller for being great in their own right. If I had to choose a voice that wasn't Conroy for UOU Batman specifically, I'd actually use either Smith or Fredile. I actually wouldn't mind Fredile playing Batman proper, given his Terry McGinnis is essentially a Year One era Batman mixed with Dick Grayson.

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Also, this scene is pretty much the perfect Murdock/Fisk scene to me.

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Duncan was fine in the role, but he never really sold it for me. He seemed to be going for something of a version of Fisk with artistic license, which is fine, but I think the Netflix version did that aswell and captured a version much closer to the comics in the process. Pretty much every character except for Bullseye has been done better on the show, I think. Daredevil, Elektra, Foggy, Karen Page, Urich, and Westley, certainly.

I'm curious to see if Season 3 brings in a better Bullseye than Farrell. Or at least a version that feels like Bullseye, because as over the top as Farrell was, he at least kinda fit the manic insanity of that character.

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Of the vast collection of television shows, movies, and other live-action representations of our favourite comic book characters, who is your definitive, and if not definitive, favourite or preferable representation of that character.

For example, my definitive Lex Luthor is Michael Rosenbaum.

So how about you guys? Who is your Batman/Superman etc?

@Lord Wraith

Since you said live-action and it'd be far too easy to just say "DCAU/Avengers Earths Mightiest/Spectacular Spider-Man" for most characters, I'll stick to that as best that I can.

Batman - Michael Keaton, Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale
Spider-Man - Andrew Garfield, Peter Parker - Tom Holland
Superman - Christopher Reeve, Clark Kent - Dean Cain, with slight leaning towards Henry Cavill
Daredevil/Matt Murdock - Charlie Cox
Captain America/Steve Rogers - Chris Evans
Wonder Woman/Diana Prince - Gal Gadot
Wolverine/Logan - Hugh Jackman
The Flash/Barry Allen - John Wesley Shipp
The Punisher/Frank Castle - Jon Bernthal
Green Lantern/Hal Jordan - Nobody because there's never been a live action GL, clearly.
Iron Man/Robert Downey Jr. - Robert Downey Jr.
Thor - Chris Hemsworth
Martian Manhunter - David Harewood visually, Phil Morris performance-wise
The Hulk - Mark Ruffalo, Bruce Banner - Edward Norton
Green Arrow/Oliver Queen - Justin Hartley, with Amell's costume and backstory
Alfred Pennyworth - Jeremy Irons
Jim Gordon - Gary Oldman
Lois Lane - Teri Hatcher
Perry White - Lane Smith
Jimmy Olsen - Aaron Ashmore
Ben Parker - Cliff Robertson
May Parker - Marisa Tomei *shrugs* I like the new, not-perpetually-90 years old May
Dick Grayson - Joseph Gordon-Levitt*
Kara Zor-El - Melissa Benoist

_{*Even though he was playing an entirely different character for stupid reasons.}

Sadly, there aren't really any good live action portrayals for some characters I really love, like Barbara Gordon or Wally West. Hoping that changes within the next few years, but I doubt it. It would require Warner Bros. to remove their heads from their asses. I also really had high hopes for Titans' version of Dick Grayson, but that changed the minute that the trailer dropped with a certain two-worded line.

EDIT: Villains is it's own category by itself, but a few honorable mentions go out to Rosenbaum, Ledger, Hiddleston, Dafoe, Keaton again for The Vulture, and Brolin.

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For animals :P

@Lord Wraith

There you go! They're the most compassionate of all!

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Thor was a tough one to crack. He could be eligible for any of the good sides and maybe even the Reds. I chose Indigo mostly for Donald Blake, 'cause doctor.

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I'm gonna go for the "What about the others" part of the question and base it off of what I've read so far in the IC.

Green Lanterns
Superman
Wonder Woman
Captain America
Ben Grimm

Blue Lanterns
Spider-Woman
Reed Richards
Beast Boy

Violet Lanterns/Star Sapphires
Johnny Storm
Black Canary

Indigo Lanterns
The Flash
Green Arrow
Sue Storm
Thor

Red Lanterns
Batman
Moon Knight
Wolverine

Yellow Lanterns
The Punisher
Black Widow
Ghost Rider/Vigilante
Blue Devil

Orange Lanterns
John Constantine
Star-Lord
Blue Beetle (Mostly for The Reach)

Black Lanterns
Barbara Norris' Virginity
The Belt That Hung Robin Williams
Retired's Post Frequency