[Parademon1]

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Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey

The scale chart is great and all, but it's only really there for a reference point and not as a set in stone rule.

At the end of the day, comic books are art, which means by their very nature they are open to artist interpretation and there's nothing wrong with that. After all, part of what makes comic books exciting is artists' willingness to bend the rules to make the comic books feel larger than life. Todd McFarlane had to damn near throw human anatomy out the window in order to get some of those more dynamic Spider-Man poses that everybody loves. And yes, this includes making some characters bigger and bulkier to make them more threatening, despite their "official" height.

There's nothing wrong with that. If someone has always seen Thanos to be almost as big as the Hulk (because yes, sometimes he's drawn that way) and wants that kind of scaling for their collection, then so be it. That doesn't make them wrong.

So Marvel & DC should just discard the listed hgts/wgts that they gave to each character that they have ever created & just tell every single artist to draw any character they want as big or as small as they want. Make Wolverine a 7 footer if that's what the artists is feeling. Make Thor 5'5 if that's the mood that artist is in that month. Make the Hulk a 15 footer from now on, like Ang lee did in that POS movie. I mean yeah, obliterate the hgt/wgt chart for these characters. todays artist don't give a crap bout it anyway, not the way artists back in the day did. Eddie Brock was a bodybuilder & 6'3 270lbs, of course he's gonna look huge next to 5'10 160lb Peter Parker. But Todd never drew him gigantic looking like latter artists started doing. Todd drew Venom like a buff bodybuilder.



Which makes the recent Hasbro ML Venom the perfect rendition of the McFarland Venom.