I noticed in the original version of the TV 24, that the "bad guys" always started out as some group of "people of color" and as the season progressed it turned out they were just being manipulated by a more evil and more "cunning" group of white people. The writers had no idea their racism was showing. C.S. Lewis once pointed out that good and bad are corollaries of each other, inasmuch as while a bad horse can do more damage than a bad mouse, a good horse was of much more use that a good mouse. And a bad man could do more damage than a bad horse, a good man could do more good than a good horse. Power and propensities works both ways--for good or for bad. By acting as is non-white people could not be as evil as white people they were also making the claim that people of color could not be as good as white people--both equally absurd ideas.
I'd read a Sickle graphic novel. You're right, though - even in the old Luke Cage comics, all the supervillains were white guys. I think the only supervillain I can remember who wasn't was Fu Manchu, and I guess Our Moral Superiors don't want us to read about him because it's RAAAAACIST. Funny thing about those stories, though - the English "heroes" are the biggest bunch of dumb idiots you ever saw, constantly bumbling from one screwup to another and barely avoiding death thanks to Fu Manchu's slave girl who inexplicably falls in love with one of them.
Piranha Jones, Cockroach Hamilton, Big Brother, Cheshire Cat, Bushmaster, Spear, Mangler, Cottonmouth, Black Mariah... There were plenty of black villains in the old Luke Cage comics.
My brother was a huge baseball fan. So I asked him one day if he could name an all left-handed team of Puerto Rican players. He paused for a moment then said, "National League or American League?"
Anyway, my idea was that Sickle could fight to a draw with Wolverine, have extra rage powers like Hulk, plus have some mind control like Aquaman. Essentially, he could create a zombie army. So yeah, supervillain.
Hardcore baseball fans are crazy about lists. Back when Bill James was doing his Baseball Abstracts, he used to occasionally come up with lists of players that were just (sorry) completely out of left field, like the All-Handicapped Team (Dummy Hoy, Three-Fingers Brown, etc.) the All-Frank Team, and stuff like that. Heck, there are entire baseball books comprised of various lists.
I noticed in the original version of the TV 24, that the "bad guys" always started out as some group of "people of color" and as the season progressed it turned out they were just being manipulated by a more evil and more "cunning" group of white people. The writers had no idea their racism was showing. C.S. Lewis once pointed out that good and bad are corollaries of each other, inasmuch as while a bad horse can do more damage than a bad mouse, a good horse was of much more use that a good mouse. And a bad man could do more damage than a bad horse, a good man could do more good than a good horse. Power and propensities works both ways--for good or for bad. By acting as is non-white people could not be as evil as white people they were also making the claim that people of color could not be as good as white people--both equally absurd ideas.
I'd read a Sickle graphic novel. You're right, though - even in the old Luke Cage comics, all the supervillains were white guys. I think the only supervillain I can remember who wasn't was Fu Manchu, and I guess Our Moral Superiors don't want us to read about him because it's RAAAAACIST. Funny thing about those stories, though - the English "heroes" are the biggest bunch of dumb idiots you ever saw, constantly bumbling from one screwup to another and barely avoiding death thanks to Fu Manchu's slave girl who inexplicably falls in love with one of them.
Piranha Jones, Cockroach Hamilton, Big Brother, Cheshire Cat, Bushmaster, Spear, Mangler, Cottonmouth, Black Mariah... There were plenty of black villains in the old Luke Cage comics.
My brother was a huge baseball fan. So I asked him one day if he could name an all left-handed team of Puerto Rican players. He paused for a moment then said, "National League or American League?"
Anyway, my idea was that Sickle could fight to a draw with Wolverine, have extra rage powers like Hulk, plus have some mind control like Aquaman. Essentially, he could create a zombie army. So yeah, supervillain.
Hardcore baseball fans are crazy about lists. Back when Bill James was doing his Baseball Abstracts, he used to occasionally come up with lists of players that were just (sorry) completely out of left field, like the All-Handicapped Team (Dummy Hoy, Three-Fingers Brown, etc.) the All-Frank Team, and stuff like that. Heck, there are entire baseball books comprised of various lists.
Villains, yes, but supervillains? I may be wrong, and if so, I stand corrected.
(see "Black Manta".)
Well, Baltimore.
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Black Manta and The Sickle have Baltimore in common. Might be something in the water.