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Old 04-16-2012, 06:31 AM   #40
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I'll bet, I'll just bet that if you gave a kid a choice between a really shitty Wolverine sculpt (and Hasbro has produced a lot of them) vs. a great looking Hal Jordan sculpt from Four Horsemen and they'll still pick Wolverine.
Well, to be perfectly fair, Logan is far-and-away more popular than Hal right now. If you switched the comparison from Logan/Hal to Logan/Bruce or Logan/Clark, then you'd have a bit more of a challenge on your hands.

A big issue with DC (and it's been this way for years) is that their characters just aren't as relatable as Marvel characters. Before Peter got bit by that spider, he was a nerd who got bullied at school, dreamed about dating a girl who was way out of his league and excelled at science.

X-Men represented people who were treated poorly for who they were, rather than what they did. Fantastic Four was/is a family.

Point is, every one of those characters had flaws, weaknesses - they made mistakes. With DC, it's a joke and a Internet meme: in any fight, Batman wins. How many powers does Superman need again? Oh, he can make the Earth spin backwards and reverse time? Uh, sure dude. Have another hit and tell me more.

And don't get me wrong. DC has tried to humanize them on more than one occasion and largely succeeded in screwing up their continuity and pissing off the fans they already had.

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It's the same stuff we complain @ Hasbro over for their handling of GI Joe Renegades -- those figures didn't come out till after the show's run was done (assuming it isn't coming back) AND they didn't make all the dozen or so core characters. (not making Baroness or Roadblock is unexcusable).
They can't do a reasonable version of Renegades Roadblock in standard G.I.Joe format. He's too big, and Hasbro doesn't do over-sized figures for Joes. I agree about Baroness, though. Mindbender and Destro, too.
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