Marvel introduces Black Basketball playing superhero

[filial_piety]

Marvel's attempt to expand into the "urban" market.



I think In Marvel's business model...there are ovbiously black comic book connoisseurs (such as myself) and that number is growing...and with that came a more inclusive number of black prominent characters in the Marvel U--Old and New

They've revived Black Panther and Luke Cage from being supporting cast members to individuals with their own histories and featured storylines within the mainstream....and they've introduced a few new BIG ones (Miles Morales...the new black/hispanic Spiderman....Moon Girl (black female)..the smartest person in the Marvel Universe....and RiRi Williams (black female) as the New Iron Man over the last 5 years or so.

This isn't really about getting black people as a whole...this is more to an attempt to reach out into that black market, inner city type who's uninterested or feel that some of these current black characters aren't relateable....

And yes, the cold hard reality is that many inner city black youths love basketball. Is it a play on stereotypes if there is some truth to it?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

DC wouldn't have done something like this.

 

[AllHolosEve]

Yeah. But he is too much of a bytch to get legit steals... like rips I mean, he just gets passing lane steals sometimes cause the other team will try and pass the ball to each other even though he is standing right there in between them...

Cause he is so garbage they literally forget he is on the court.
They call him the phantom 6th man even though he starts. He is trash...
like if a 10 year old girl somehow had the passing ability of John Stockton but none of the other skills and was invisible. Thats him basically.

That anime is comedy cause they take themselves very serious but its ridiculous.

I gotta watch this now.... I dont play often, my shooting way off point but defense still strong...At least they dont LITERALLY forget me cause they know Ill take they shyt.....My brother almost 7 feet... jumped in the air twisting & landed the layup, not even a dunk, backwards, off my assist... I wish this dude the best but I gotta learn from his Ls....

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Where is the real black super hero
who is connected to the worlds or worlds
He can see the future the present the past
He can save lives
He can make the immpossible for the good of the hated economy happen
without a scratch or injury.
Smart, Phd black creator superhero with a crew of entourages
multiple skills and multiple levels
He can jump in and out of universes and restart the universe again!
He can create a garden of salad for kids in the hood
He can stop planes from crashing into buildings
He can tell people to budget $100 million for black schools.
He can beat street gangs mentally and get them to work for him.

Blue Marvel?

 

[Ironman]

This sucks if he can't assume a human form.

Only thing I'm not feeling

 

[AintNoCrampInYaMouthTho]

Seems corny. Seems like they really just said fukk it. Throw some shyt in there.

 

[Bigbigguy]

DC wouldn't have done something like this.

That's because they wouldn't give black characters books

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Yeah because all black people play basketball, right?

Yes

Any time I meet a brother that doesn't play ball I'm just like

Stereotyping is not good. In a lot of Black countries majority play Soccer and don't care for Basketball.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Stereotyping is not good. In a lot of Black countries majority play Soccer and don't care for Basketball.

In America nikkas play basketball. yall reaching for the sake of it.

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Y'all crying but dude is a 5 year pro, with 5 MVP awards and 5 championships,



And he's a superhero now?


WHATS THE PROBLEM

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Where is the real black super hero
who is connected to the worlds or worlds
He can see the future the present the past
He can save lives
He can make the immpossible for the good of the hated economy happen
without a scratch or injury.
Smart, Phd black creator superhero with a crew of entourages
multiple skills and multiple levels
He can jump in and out of universes and restart the universe again!
He can create a garden of salad for kids in the hood
He can stop planes from crashing into buildings
He can tell people to budget $100 million for black schools.
He can beat street gangs mentally and get them to work for him.

Who are you demanding this of?

Write that comic breh

Ain't no one doing shyt for "us" but us.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

So they give bruh everything a young superficial/materialistic millennial could dream of and then strip it from him? He can now only act through the bodies of others because he has been disembodied? This is the Marvel universe so can't Nick Fury lend the brother a Life Model Decoy that looks like him? Can't Tony Stark make a synthetic body for him like they did for Vision? Anything just don't leave him without a body.

 

[MJ Truth]

Stereotyping is not good. In a lot of Black countries majority play Soccer and don't care for Basketball.

So you're saying you don't/can't hoop then?

 

[horizon]

Yeah because all black people play basketball, right?

Nikka, if you don't sit your ass down

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

So you're saying you don't/can't hoop then?

I'm Haitian. Majority of us play Soccer/Fùtbol.