In the scenario that the stories told with these replacements were as good as some of the classic stories featuring the original 40's-60's-70's chararacters?
Yes
No
Depends on the hero they're replacing
In the scenario that the stories told with these replacements were as good as some of the classic stories featuring the original 40's-60's-70's chararacters?
No. And they’re are enough “legacy” characters already. We have yet another redundant Spider Girl. 20 Wolverines. Enough!
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I mean I’m going to say yes, I like the idea of natural progression in the universe though understand that it’s clearly slower because of the medium (12 issues do not equal a year in real time generally).
But I think a future where we could see a more adult Miles Morales, Young Avengers, Champions, Laura as Wolverine, and etc. take the reins and be a force for good. A good future not the post apocalypse that we normally get.
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Generally no but I can make a few exceptions depending on who they are replacing.
I think Danny Ketch made an excellent Ghost Rider and I didn't feel any need for Johnny Blaze to come back (its heresy...i know ).
Same with Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel.
Agreed full heartedly about Danny. Johnny still acting like the reluctant hero so they should just let Danny take full reigns. Same deal with Michael Collins replacing Luther Manning as Deathlok.
I may be in the minority, but I wouldn't mind seeing Miles Morales being Spider-Man full time.
Yup time to age some of these characters out their tired & need to retire, Rodgers, & Stark respectively can go first.
See, now that's a Marvel legacy character that I think was very well handled, and, IMHO, far surpasses the original. I always thought that putting a pacifist in charge of the world's mos powerful combat machine was a twist of genius. I think it's a shame that Marvel doesn't do more with the character.
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In a world not reliant on companies to maintain publishing of said OG characters to retain legal copyrights, trademarks etc then sure legacy characters would take over.
We are not in that world. So brace yourselves for some point a decade from now where we have a young 20something Miles and maybe 30ish Peter(hell maybe Ben also) both as adults fighting the good Spider-man fight while a new teen Spider-man is introduced. That will happen.
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No. I've always hated the idea of legacy characters. It just shows how little creativity or even spine remains in the industry. If you want to create a "successor" character, just make a brand new hero (think Nightwing). Once the OG retires or passes, their mask and moniker should be retired permanently.
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Definitely depends on the character. For example, Captain Mar-Vell is deceased. After Carol took the Captain Marvel mantle, the Ms. Marvel mantle became vacant (the only other Ms. Marvel is Sharon Ventura, aka She-Thing), which Kamala Khan took over. That example is fine, as it's not likely for Carol to revert - and Carol has used two other codenames (Warbird and Binary) anyway.
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Why not? The stories need to change a bit to stay relevant with today’s readers and viewers, right?
A girl who is Wolverine? Why not? Female Captain Marvel? Dig it. Sam Wilson as Captain America? It’s all good. Why can’t Captain America be black? Why can’t Iron Man become Ironheart? I’m down with Riri.
Kirby would have been cool with all of it. So, I think we should be, too.
I don’t really think Marvel is going to permanently replace any characters, anyway. Their business is intellectual property, meaning their business is characters. They’re not going to get rid of any characters ever, unless they sell them. They are only going to expand the stable of characters.
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