There are German, Italian, Irish, African, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian supheroes (A list and B list), but not too many Latino heroes. Why? For the record, I'm spanish and the closest thing I've seen to a Latino A lister is the Blue Beetle and he's more of a B or C lister.
Bane is from a fictional former Spanish colony akin to Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic. Kyle Rayner is also part Mexican. Rictor, Darwin, and Cecilia Reyes are all latino, but are not A-listers.
@Gambit1024: brother, i'm asian. it ain't like we're killing it either, especially when you break it down into how different each asian country is from one to the other with language, diet, alphabet, etc.
There are German, Italian, Irish, African, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian supheroes (A list and B list), but not too many Latino heroes. Why? For the record, I'm spanish and the closest thing I've seen to a Latino A lister is the Blue Beetle and he's more of a B or C lister.
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To be fair next to none of the countries you mention there are actually represented bt an A lister. 99.9% of superheroes are white Americans. Blue Beetle's pretty cule and getting a big push right now.
I'm Irish and what do I got? Banshee, a D list X-guy who they killed off to show us what a bad @$$ a villain who's now dead or missing in Action was :(
There are German, Italian, Irish, African, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian supheroes (A list and B list), but not too many Latino heroes. Why? For the record, I'm spanish and the closest thing I've seen to a Latino A lister is the Blue Beetle and he's more of a B or C lister.
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To be fair next to none of the countries you mention there are actually represented bt an A lister. 99.9% of superheroes are white Americans. Blue Beetle's pretty cule and getting a big push right now. I'm Irish and what do I got? Banshee, a D list X-guy who they killed off to show us what a bad @$$ a villain who's now dead or missing in Action was :( "
You kidding? You got Captain America (his parents were Irish immigrants). I'm pretty sure Daredevil's Irish too, lol.
Yeah, she's like the only Marvel one and Blue Beetle's the like the only DC ones. I mean why is it harder for a spanish superhero to be as popular as someone like Storm (African), Captain America (Irish), or Black Widow (Russian)? "
Cap's Irish? :S How many generation removed is he? I wasn't aware of this.
@Gambit1024: Is Spidey 2099 Spanish? Hmm....Miquelle O' Harra? Maybe actually. Spanish/ Irish?
@gunjin said:
" rene montoya, arana, tarantula, cecilia reyes, tarantula (dc and marvel), charles xavier, the darkness (?) brazilian: magma, sunspot "
Didn't know Xavier was Spanish. Is it the name? He's always been drawn kinda pale and when ever I've seen him in his younger days with hair I seem to remember him bein' blonde or something.
" I'm Irish and what do I got? Banshee, a D list X-guy who they killed off to show us what a bad @$$ a villain who's now dead or missing in Action was :( "
Being Scottish aint much better. We get Wolfsbane and Wee Hughie from The Boys.
There are German, Italian, Irish, African, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian supheroes (A list and B list), but not too many Latino heroes. Why? For the record, I'm spanish and the closest thing I've seen to a Latino A lister is the Blue Beetle and he's more of a B or C lister.
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To be fair next to none of the countries you mention there are actually represented bt an A lister. 99.9% of superheroes are white Americans. Blue Beetle's pretty cule and getting a big push right now. I'm Irish and what do I got? Banshee, a D list X-guy who they killed off to show us what a bad @$$ a villain who's now dead or missing in Action was :( "
You kidding? You got Captain America (his parents were Irish immigrants). I'm pretty sure Daredevil's Irish too, lol. Oh and we both get Spidey 2099 (Miguel O'Hara) "
I never knew the cap thing. I'd have expected him to drink more :P I kinda think of DD as more American but he is from an Irish back ground I suppose. On his father's side at least. I just always kinda go by how many generations removed a person is. After all there're a lot of real life Americans who claim to be from a certain back ground even if the last several generations of their family were born and grew up in the US and may well have mixed since. I've spoken to several folks who've climed to be from several different places when by now they're really American. The US is strange like that. One coukld argue the only true Americans are the Native Americans after all. Controversial I know. It's not my own opinion :)
" @Gylan Thomas: i'm just going off the etymology (?) as xavier is a spelling of javier a la 1602. "
I guess it's possible he's got some Spanish in him. Spanish sailor settled in Ireland and England after the Battle of Trafalgar. (I think. Battle might be the wrong one)
@MisterDK said:
" @Gylan Thomas said:
" I'm Irish and what do I got? Banshee, a D list X-guy who they killed off to show us what a bad @$$ a villain who's now dead or missing in Action was :( "
Being Scottish aint much better. We get Wolfsbane and Wee Hughie from The Boys. "
Scot's can't be superheroes. They'd never keep a cool head in a situation. They'd be like ginger Wolverines :P
@Gambit1024 said:
" @Gylan Thomas: Dude Cap's parents were literally right off the boat from Ireland lol And Spidey 2099 is half Mexican half Irish (odd mix if ya ask me, lol) "
I was nto aware of the Cap thing 'till this thread. Explains why every one likes him ;) I hope the my 2099 we're all odd mixes liek Miguelle O' Hara :D
@MisterDK: c'mon man, what does cambodia have? 2 and possibly three. i know i've looked. silhouette is half from new warriors, her brother midnight's fire is a villain. and i heard a rumor about fist from weapon zero. f list all the way.
@gunjin: Fair point. By population Cambodia should have 3x as many as Scotland (I wiki'd the populations :) ) but since I think there is more Scottish comic book writers than Cambodian (that I might be wrong about) I still think we should have some better superheroes. Maybe this upcoming all-Scottish superhero film that Mark Millar is doing (and I use the "is" very liberally) that could all change!
@Gylan Thomas said:
"Scot's can't be superheroes. They'd never keep a cool head in a situation. They'd be like ginger Wolverines :P
You sir, are a racist :P (And for the record Wee Hughie is a short, angry ginger man. So that doesn't really help.)
I'm sorry, but I'm a little confused, are we talking about nationality or ethnicity? When you said there were no Spanish superheroes I assumed you meant Hispanic not Spanish from Spain.
If your talking about nationality, a lot on countries are under-represented. Truthfully, I wish Marvel would go back to the days when they placed more emphasis on people's nationality, like they did in the first issues of The Uncanny X-Men back in the 70's.
If you talking about ethnicity, then I agree, Certain minorities are underrepresented. Truthfully I'm surprised that the comic book population hasn't created more Hispanic characters to attract more Hispanic customers, considering there are an increasing number of Hispanic people in the population. DC is the worst offender. Do you remember the "Just Us League" from the old Tiny Tune's Adventures" cartoon.
When I think of how DC treats minorities in relation to A-Listers I think of that phrase.
(If your asking why my post is in all bold print, I tried to change it to regular print, but whenever I press the post button it posts as bold.)
not a lot of well-known heroes; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latino_superheroes
Ultimate Tony Stark appears on the list; heroes with current ongoings?
I'm a fan of White Tiger; read White Tiger (Angela Del Toro) a couple days ago she already has more control over the amulet then her uncle hope she continues developing powers and gets powers like Iron Fist; her powers do come from a K'un Lun amulet after all!
@FadeToBlackBolt: Oh I'm not complaining (sorry if you guys thought I was), I was just asking why, lol. I've always thought about it and I figure I might as well post about it
Depends what you call by "Spanish"( as in a subject of the Kingdom of Spain and its erstwhile colonies in Central and Latin America such as El Salvador, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico Peru and Venezuela)-there are many Hispanic/Latino heroes such as Hector Ayala, the White Tiger.
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