[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Byrnes

Saying MCU is grounded is ridiculous. It's a show about people with super powers. When they start changing shit because a Purple guy is not believable but a blind guy who is better at everything than anyone and a chick who can pick up a 250 pound dude with one hand is believable is when I stop watching.

I'd say it's pretty grounded, especially when you compare it to what DC is doing with their universe.

I get what you're saying about it though, but what I am saying is something that I call "The Singer Effect." Some things just look better in the comics and don't quite translate as well to real life as we'd like. You can say what you want about the way the black leather X-Men look (and no...I wasn't a fan of it either,) but if they would have came running out in skin tight yellow spandex, the whole thing would have looked more like a cosplayer flash mob and feel somewhat off, especially when you stop to realize that they are going to battle in nothing more than a skin tight layer of nylon that will tear the first time they skin their knee on the ground.

Veronica put it best...having a literal "Purple Man" while being faithful to the comics, would have also compromised one of the things that made his character even more dangerous in the show. People would have seen a purple skinned guy coming at them, and would have known to run away, or plug their ears as quick as they can. Removing that element gave him an ability to blend in, allowing him to literally come at you from anywhere. And if we look at the "Singer Effect", maybe the director actually had David Tenant in purple make-up at some point during a test shot and said..."man...that looks like ****..."