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6/25/2025, 6:24:26 PM
>>713610572
There’s a 3.5 main reasons:
>1: electricity, being bright and flashy, contrasts well against darker skin tones
>2: electricity makes for a good, for lack of a better term, "urban" powerset, what with most big cities heavily relying on electricity and most black comic characters are from urban areas (incidentally this is also why does a bunch of tech based black heroes)
>3: Back in the day, DC was the main cultural comic powerhouse as opposed to Marvel so if you saw a superhero parody and as Black Lightning the famous black DC superhero who WASN’T the pain-in-the-ass-to-animate Cyborg, then they’d based whatever black guy on was on the team off BL.
>3.5: On a related note, DC wanted to use BL for their cartoons but refuse to give royalties to his creator so instead, they would just keep making knockoffs of BL which added to the number of black lighting superheroes
There’s a 3.5 main reasons:
>1: electricity, being bright and flashy, contrasts well against darker skin tones
>2: electricity makes for a good, for lack of a better term, "urban" powerset, what with most big cities heavily relying on electricity and most black comic characters are from urban areas (incidentally this is also why does a bunch of tech based black heroes)
>3: Back in the day, DC was the main cultural comic powerhouse as opposed to Marvel so if you saw a superhero parody and as Black Lightning the famous black DC superhero who WASN’T the pain-in-the-ass-to-animate Cyborg, then they’d based whatever black guy on was on the team off BL.
>3.5: On a related note, DC wanted to use BL for their cartoons but refuse to give royalties to his creator so instead, they would just keep making knockoffs of BL which added to the number of black lighting superheroes
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