They could've used another well-known sunken civilization mythology like Mu or Lemuria if they didn't want to use Atlantis. Talokan worked in the movie I guess.
They could've used another well-known sunken civilization mythology like Mu or Lemuria if they didn't want to use Atlantis. Talokan worked in the movie I guess.
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Yeah, that was a disappointing aspect of the first Cap movie. Marvel didn't have the rights to Namor at the time, but if they had -- could have branched out to an Invaders movie with or without Cap. The appearance of the Jim Hammond android was my favorite part of that movie. Sadly, the movies haven't been great at honoring the source material.
^^^True, but they’re still the best Marvel adaptations/comic movies we’ve ever gotten.
There’s just no way they were ever going to be a hundred percent faithful to the source material for numerous reasons. To me they’re a just a different reality (again a way better reality for the most part than other non MCU products), so I take it w. a grain of salt.
That's the funny part.... They really have very little in common other than being Atlanteans. DC and Marvel have different ideas about what Atlanteans even are. So they don't generally look the same, and Atlantis doesn't look the same. and in DC they have an entire system of underwater civilizations... not just the one.
But they decided to do new stuff... and not simply focus on what was already different.....
I can't put my finger on it, but I know that Marvel had to do SOMETHING with Namor's culture. In the end, I think it worked.
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Everything about Namor in the MCU was bad. Nothing can be saved and I won't waste my time with the character in the cinema.
I just hope this "no love" nonsense and others don't get brought into the comics.
its amazing that the final battle between Shuri and Namor the movie makers got away with like Namor beating up a skinny African girl and stabbing her with a spear.
then Namor's ankle wing feathers getting ripped off
also Namor surviving a major burn blast from one of those Wakanda flying jets
If you look at the Golden Age depiction of Namor, he very much has features that are not classically Eurocentric. of course, Namor isn't purely Atlantean. He's "biracial." He gets his last name from his father, who is white. But for that, Namor would have blue skin like his mother, Princess Fen. That said, even that doesn't quite make sense as very few of the people who resided on Atlantis before it sank had blue skin. Perhaps Marvel explained that in a series that I missed, but I always thought that somewhere along the way the Atlanteans really needed to be linked to the god, Poseidon, biologically, which would explain their physical and genetic attributes a bit better, what, with the gods all having fairly protean attributes themselves. (And yes, I know Proteus, the shapeshifter god, is the son of Poseidon, so there's that.)
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