Spiderman Now to be Half Black, Half Latino, and Gay? (Following the death of Peter Parker)

Christian Post ^ | 08/03/2011 | Vincent Funaro

[longtermmemmory]

What is it with marvel and alternative lifestyle characters?

[Jewbacca]

As a little kid, I always found it perplexing that DC and Marvel (Stan Lee) had Jewish writers/creators and made the super-enemies Jewish.

That said, Luther and Magneto were cool.

[pogo101]

what, not a hermaphrodite illegal alien, too?

Bunch of right-wingers over there at Marvel. /s

[OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings]

And the The Thing (the only Jewish superhero*) converted to Islam.

Uh. Thing isn't the only Jewish superhero by a long shot (several of the X-Men, for starters) but do you have a citation on this?

[PGR88]

Spiderman Now to be Half Black, Half Latino, and Gay?

And that's NOT his spidey-sense tingling!

[who knows what evil?]

The PC crowd just can’t help themselves...we will have a BLACK ‘Perry White’ in next year’s ‘Man of Steel’ reboot...

[longtermmemmory]

look out spidey its the homosexual manbearpig sneaking up behind you!!!!!

[drbuzzard]

>And the The Thing (the only Jewish superhero*) converted to Islam.

Where did you get that idea? If it happened wikipedia missed it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28comics%29

Still says he Jewish.

[GreenvillePatriot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhero#LGBT_characters

[OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings]

BLACK 'Perry White'

Laurence Fishburne! He's been good in (almost) everything!

I have no doubt that he'll be an excellent Perry White so long as he can pull off grouchy and stubborn and yell at Jimmy.

[drbuzzard]

Personally, while I find this a bit distasteful, I consider it a tempest in a teapot. The Ultimates line of comics overall is small change, and really doesn’t matter much. Though admittedly some of the ideas from the Ultimates universe do get into other things, the Spider Man line there doesn’t really seem noteworthy. (the Avengers one, OTOH, has been mined a lot for the current Marvel movies).

[Norm Lenhart]

The live action re-do of Akira, a Japaneese Amime classic set in Tokyo is supposed to have two non-Asian main characters, set in America.

PC kills everything it touches in any direction.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Anybody else think he looks like you-know-who?”

He does have a little Hillary in him. Must be the hands.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: And that’s NOT his spidey-sense tingling!

Spidey-sense will be replaced by the GayDar.

[KosmicKitty]

Wow. I think he looks a lot like BO.

Maybe it’s just me.

BLAH!

[jrg]

so, what's his power? Ability to swallow lot of semen?

OK bad guys, line up and I'll lick every one of you....

[NativeNewYorker]

I couldn’t find evidence for Lex Luther being Jewish. I must admit, tho, I’m a Marvel comics guy, and not a DC follower.

[sargon]

The Ultimate series takes place in a different universe from the original Marvel characters

If only what happens in a different universe would stay in a different universe...

[Jewbacca]

Not without major looking, no.

[who knows what evil?]

I would agree that Fishburne is an excellent actor, but he isn’t ‘Perry White’. If they wanted to establish a new character as Editor of the Daily Planet (after White has retired or passed away); that would be fine. Hollywood is just pandering, as usual...