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Originally Posted by Liberty";p="
Reminds me of the black superheroes of the 70's..  It was a rule back then that all black superheroes had to speak jive, and always had to have their race be the first part of their name... Black Lightning... Black Vulcan... Black Panther...
Still, that was progress back then. The first black superhero to appear in Marvel comics was named "Whitewash" 
At least the writers stayed away from stereotypes when they created these characters:
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Black Lightning
A former Olympic athlete, Jefferson Pierce returned to his old neighborhood (the notorious Suicide Slum in the proud city of Metropolis) to become a teacher. Appalled by the violence he saw, he tried to intervene on behalf of his students, but quickly learned that the local mob objected violently to interference. A family friend, whose brother was a tailor specialising in superpowered clients, suggested an alternative: and Pierce donned a mask, an Afro wig, a hip way of talking, and an outfit that gave its wearer electrical powers to become Black Lightning, defender of the poor and underprivileged.
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ROTFLMAO!! Yeah, see, I'm from a rural area. And my mother was (and is) a strictly-by-the-book-proper-English-grammar kind of person; half the time, I didn't (and don't) get the "hip way of talking"... I think that's another reason why Storm ruled in my world; she was worshipped as a goddess and talked like one...
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Originally Posted by The12thMan";p="
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HEY! I'm not male!!
I liked Underdog but was too young to understand parody, so a lot of the jokes were lost on me back then, and by the time I DID get them, I had crushes on the Reeves/Reeve men who played Superman, so it was still lost on me...
05-31-2005, 04:39 AM
Spot on!
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