Thread 149971724

Truly, is there a greater combination of skills for a superhero than being smart and rich?
>"I have telepathy! I can make you shoot yourself!"
I'm smart and rich. I can build a device that reflects your telepathy.

>>149971724 (OP)
Even if they can't solve everything it more or less rockets them to a core cast member if not leader position for any team book where they'll fund everything.
Which in turn results in them becoming more ambiguously wealthy and knowledgeable to maintain the smokescreen of how they're covering all that as adventures escalate.

Bruce Wayne goes from a cave filled with admittedly already impressive wares while confined to Gotham to a personal space station with the Justice League. The others assist with developing it, but he's implied to be footing the bill somehow.
Another example is MCU Tony reasonably manage his Iron Man escapades in his movies to having an orbital Hulkbuster system and being able to repair significant Hulk damage to a city in Age of Ultron.

Even a less than stellar example can be found with Hawkman in Black Adam, it makes sense a long lived individual could get their hands on some degree of significant wealth and tech but he's well beyond convention and clearly in charge instead of just part of the JSA.

Oh hey its the new hamfisted black character of the month that we're all suppose to pretend has a completely natural fan base like we did with Black Panther

>>149972352
It'd be nice for once to have a rich character who isn't a super genius and just bankrolls everything cause he's nice. Most of these characters inherited their wealth anyway.

>>149972374
He does have a natural fanbase. Even people shitting on the movie will do so with statements like "Mr. Terrific is cooler than Superman in his own movie." He's just a fun guy in a fun movie. That's all there is to it.

>>149972374
You niggers never complain about this shit when it's a white character.

>>149972374
>ham fisted black character
>is anything but an african furry or electric powered metahuman
you faggots will complain about anything really
thank god you dont see movies

>>149972440
Pretty much this. Superman is not suppose to be cool, but a good role model. Cool characters are not roles models. In fact, cool characters represent people who go agaunst the grain, not being a boy scout who can do whatever he can to save life and unite people. Literally an antithesis to what it means to be """"cool"""".

>>149972374
Is it possible for a black character to not be hamfisted?

>>149972785
When they're written by Dwayne McDuffie

>>149972374
mr. terrific's always been cool thoughbeit, his fanbase is organic because he's just cool

>>149972444
>never complain about this shit when it's a white character.
I GET what you are saying, but I personally did complain about it with a white character. The fucking "Marvel:What If" Season 3. Did they REALLY have to shove Super Satan Strange down on our throats one last time EVEN AFTER he died and became an universe? Really?

On a different note, I fucking hated how they needed to bring in Ultron-Vision because they needed a synthezoid, when there was a whole fucking episode about the Riri-Vision variant that the Watcher saved.

>>149972374
(You)

now sit down.

>>149972374
He was fine in the movie.
On a more general note, why DC doesn't just integrate Static into their universe better I don't know.

>>149971724 (OP)
Just like in real life, being rich (and, to a lesser extent, smart) is basically just god mode

>>149971724 (OP)
It's terrific

The smart part is REALLY important though. Just having money to buy tech from people who are smarter than you isn't going to help you when circumstances change unexpectedly.
You need to be the guy making the shit, and figuring out how to best use it to you advantage. Your wealth is for materials and methods of speeding up development, not for paying other people to do your job.

>>149972785
when they were created before the person talking about them underwent right-wing reactionary brainrot

>>149972444
Wandavision

>>149972374
There are many characters that are hamfisted but Mr. Terrific anf BP aren't one of them. Panther was a very popular character when he was introduced

>>149972374
Bro just admit you don't read comics and only come to /co/ for the culture war.

>>149972374
Oh hey, it's a newfag that wasn't alive for the Greg Rucka Checkmate storytimes, and too young to see how much /co/ glazed The Terrifics.

>>149975195
I feel like he got worse over time though. Or at least, Wakanda did. Like, that place went from just another fictional country like Latveria, to a pan-african black nationalist utopia in how it's often presented.

>>149975492
I don't necessarily mind that. With their technological advantage they would've conquered Africa in a day if they hadn't been super isolationist for most of their existence. What annoys me more is that Wakanda is also a massive intergalactic empire now, which makes very little sense even with the justification they gave for it.

>>149975512
Yeah but that's what I'm saying, they don't really seem isolationist anymore because they're so racialized in their ideology. I like the idea better that they're just a broadly benevolent kingdom who keeps to themselves instead of having any kind of global political ambition.

>>149975492
>to a pan-african black nationalist utopia in how it's often presented
The only way someone could think that was if they only read the Reggie Hudlin run and literally nothing else.
Tell me what Black Panther books you've actually read.

>>149972432
Classic Max Lord?

>>149976516
Mr. Jupiter did it first.

Both Mr. Terrific were on par with Reed Richards in terms of intelligence, but this was back when marvel didnt rape the scale to add fucking moon girl as the smartest of all to satisfy their shareholders.