[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Cartoon is NOT live action. I guess I should have specified since clearly people can't figure out the 18 years for themselves.

I knew what you were talking about. Y'all need to ease up and pull the stick out.

But in all seriousness, waiting on a fully accurate adaptation in live action is really just grinding your own teeth to no avail. Even the best adaptations have taken quite a few liberties in the name of delivering a good overall package, when compared to the source material.

Seriously, if you can't enjoy the adaptation on its own, without beholding it to the original, then the adaptation just isn't for you. And there's nothing wrong with that - it's called personal taste, and if people didn't have it, we'd be up the creek.

I'm not going to try and say the movies are gold, by any means. Even the post-First Class ones have their flaws (though nowhere near The Last Stand, no matter your opinions on Apocalypse). But they're entertaining and, for the most part, capture a lot of the feel of the comics. Even the first two movies have some of that.

Looking exactly like the comics just isn't an option nowadays, because quite frankly, they wouldn't live up to expectations. Heck, they wouldn't even make sense in-context half the time - using Blink as an example, how would her sash/loincloth be practical in any way, shape, or form, especially for a character as acrobatic and fast-moving as her? She'd get tangled up in her own aesthetic and biff it.

Seriously, if you want characters in motion to look exactly like they do in the comics, animation is almost your only option, because there, they're not bound to anything real-world (like physics or practicality).