Marvel announces "first official" Chinese Superheroes?

[donpricetag]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0e57cd9f9fa07

Article basically discusses Marvel partnering up with the biggest Chinese comic book publisher (similar to Shonen Jump in Japan) to create two new heroes. Kind of obvious ploy to gain a foothold in the elusive Chinese market by using a Chinese company. One character can control wind currents (like the 4th or 5th character to do that in Marvel...) and another one with a magical sword... You know, I'm pretty sure Marvel has had Chinese characters before this. Shang Chi comes to mind first. Not sure if "first official" is warranted here.

[Alan2099]

I guess Collective Man means nothing to them now.

[responsarbre]

I've seen a couple people bring this up, but I think we all know what they mean by this; it's just semantics. Marvel had British characters in X-Men and the like before the Marvel UK imprint ever started publishing original stories, but there's still a distinction between the British characters created for an American audience and the stuff created by Brits, for Brits.

[Jabare]

Marvel doesn't have the cinematic rights to X-men characters or mutants in general.

Honestly I'm surprised it took this long.


Still the visuals don't scream Marvel to me looks like a webcomic

[Sutekh]

I guess Collective Man means nothing to them now.

Or China Force (Auric, Silver, Jade Dragon, etc.), or Jubilee, or Jimmy Woo, or Shang-Chi. Meh.

[kilderkin]

I do like the art

[vasir12]

Or China Force (Auric, Silver, Jade Dragon, etc.), or Jubilee, or Jimmy Woo, or Shang-Chi. Meh.

These are Asian heroes, yes, but we're talking about characters and stories geared towards a Chinese audience. That's what they mean by "first."

[Xalfrea]

Pretty nifty that Marvel is going to this length for a potentially untapped Chinese-geared audience. I suppose with them being a huge moneymaker for the movies, this could be a good move.

[donpricetag]

Pretty nifty that Marvel is going to this length for a potentially untapped Chinese-geared audience. I suppose with them being a huge moneymaker for the movies, this could be a good move.

Or end up like most of the media that lands on Chinese shores. They seem to embrace Western music and some movies (not Black Panther so much...) but just about everything else fizzles. Trying to tap that audience is the only reason we saw those certain parts added into The Martian and Transformers Extinction. Same goes for utilizing specific actors like we saw in Blink with Days of Future Past.

[Sutekh]

These are Asian heroes, yes, but we're talking about characters and stories geared towards a Chinese audience. That's what they mean by "first."

I actually picked *Chinese* heroes, some of which are indeed based in China (China Force, and the Collective Man, in particular), and not Japanese heroes (like Sunfire) or heroes from India (like Trinary) or Korea (Silk), Vietnam (Mantis), etc.

[The Dying Detective]

Not the biggest fan of this art style and some of them look way too generic especially the sword guy.

[Digifiend]

I actually picked *Chinese* heroes, some of which are indeed based in China (China Force, and the Collective Man, in particular), and not Japanese heroes (like Sunfire) or heroes from India (like Trinary) or Korea (Silk), Vietnam (Mantis), etc.

Totally Awesome Hulk is also Korean.

[Sutekh]

Totally Awesome Hulk is also Korean.

Yeah, I just picked one character for each example. The list of Japanese heroes would have gone on and on, otherwise. (Silver Samurai, Jolt, Surge, Nico Minoru, Hazmat, Radiance, etc.)

I even skipped some Chinese characters, like Sprite (Jia Jing) and Nature Girl (Lin Li), whom, I think, are Chinese. There's quite a few options, and I'm totally fine with there being a bunch of new characters of well, although I find it silly to call such a new character 'the first' of anything.

[roni190]

Marvel doesn't have the cinematic rights to X-men characters or mutants in general.

Honestly I'm surprised it took this long.


Still the visuals don't scream Marvel to me looks like a webcomic

They are tailoring the art to meet the market demands, that style is dominant in Chinese entertainment.

[GrandEleven]

Pretty nifty that Marvel is going to this length for a potentially untapped Chinese-geared audience. I suppose with them being a huge moneymaker for the movies, this could be a good move.

It won't be. If it starts to work a local company will blatantly rip off the idea and get help from the government to make it 100x as difficult for Marvel to compete because they are incredibly protective of local businesses. Just ask _any_ American company that's had delusions of dominating the Chinese market.

What's the definition of foolishness again?