I believe Mr. Terrific has a good potential. His original costume is very cool. I like these metal balls flying around him. He's smart, his brains and flying metal balls around him, So much can be done with both.
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Naomi (Naomi McDuffie)
Mr. Terrific (Michael Holt)
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I believe Mr. Terrific has a good potential. His original costume is very cool. I like these metal balls flying around him. He's smart, his brains and flying metal balls around him, So much can be done with both.
Nah, it's been written about for decades. You just haven't been paying attention.
For a post nine years ago:
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/cybor...570434/?page=1
From 2008:
http://leisurelyhistorian.witchcityd...-black-bomber/
Did you know Google allows you to set a range of years for your searches? Like you can limit it to posts from 2008-2009, for example?
There are so many examples of articles about this being written that I'm not going to waste my time posting all of them.
Regardless of the blaxploitation beginnings, Jefferson Pierce’s codename has been addressed by his ability to manipulate literal “black lightning”. It’s done. They even showed it in the latest season of Young Justice.
Things are addressed to fix all characters at some point.
GL’s being weak against wood. Gone. (Parallax also)
Superman only leaping. Fixed. Now he flies.
Batman and guns. Boom. What guns?
Adjustments get made all the time. This ain’t no different.
I'm watching the cast of Black-Ish on GMA 3 right now and wondering what the show would be called if it's name were changed. Outdated as it may be, black was beautiful in the 70's and it still is today.
Black-ish is specifically a commentary on upper middle-class blacks who deal with not fitting old stereotypes. Hence, black-ish. The company's most prominent black character shouldn't be a character limited from the outset to addressing racial issues, any more than (White) Superman or (White) Batman are.
Have you seen "black lightning" in nature? It's not a science-based power, which was hinted at in Black Lightning Year One. It's just never been outright called that because some writers just write him as a metahuman. DC can't even figure out why he should have black lightning other than trying to make up for a stupid name.
It’s like we don’t realize how corny a name Batman is today. It’s just been burned in our consciousness so much that it doesn’t register. How corny would it be if a man got mauled by a radioactive dog, gained powers, dressed like a dog, and fought crime under the guise of “Dogman”. The Bark Bite.
Batman is no different. It would seem so lazy. Wonder Woman. Aquaman. We know you’re a man. Why mention it in your name? They’re just old sensibilities that people have grown accustomed to over decades.
My heart want to say Naomi. My guts, Black Lightning.
Why not both ?