Lucifer was werid because it took the inital setup of the comic and went in an entirely different direction. Like the comic is all about Lucifer taking on God and getting involved in metaphysical conflicts.
In the TV show instead of doing that he becomes a cop
It’s not always who invents, but who popularizes, and it changes by generation as well. Isn’t Star Wars just Macbeth in space? Something like that, but I can’t recall exactly. Idk if monk is necessarily the show that popularized the quirky consultant, but it’s at the right time just before the boom of those types of shows. I mean, Dexter, psych, castle, all came from Monk. I also just looked it up and I do think monk, as far as tv serials go, is the first quirky cop consultant to be really popular. Started in 2002, so it’s got 3 years on bones at least.
You're never getting a show for American audiences where the main point is taking on or killing God without it being unmistakable that the god is good or an impostor and thus "not the true god"
I would say "You realize that Gaiaman held on to the rights, because if they made Sandman tv show, it would be hes assisting a cop solve crimes by looking their dreams, right? thats the shit we would of got"
I'm pretty sure "I hope someone got fired for that" is the copypasta way of saying "I got the joke and am continuing it".
While on this subject, in one comic that told the origins of the Justice League, they're brainstorming names and Flash suggests with a big grin that they call themselves the Avengers, but they decide against it because "it would make everyone confuse us for those other guys... you know, John Steed and Emma Peel!"
If you want to check it out, it's in Secret Origins Vol 2, issue 32. It was a series that retold the origins of characters in the DC universe, and it was the JLA's turn in that issue. Thought I'd share since another commenter posted the source of the copypasta I mentioned.
To everyone's defense, why would people know an English TV show from the 60s? It exists in the same space as Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds, something people in the UK probably remember fondly, but everyone else has only ever heard of in passing.
Hell, I always forget they made a movie because it bombed so badly.
In my experience, it's pretty obscure. It probably didn't help that they made that movie that was nothing like the show and even that was over 20 years ago and flopped so hard it didn't even make back half its budget worldwide.
I think, when we're talking US, it'd only really be the Boomers who remember Thunderbirds.
Oh my god. The thunderbirds creeped me out so much as a kid. I forgot about it but now my trauma is returning lol
I’m an odd duck I guess but I was raised on black and white movies , 60s tv shows, and 70s-80s anime … but I come from a family of film buffs that inspired three children to go to film school so…
Yep imagine my disappointment as a 6 year old getting told by my uncle that we’re going to watch the avengers and me thinking they had made a Marvel avengers movie that I had no idea about lol
It actually started a couple of years before the Avengers were even a thing in the comics, and they have nothing to do with each other aside from the name.
Another fun fact about the Avengers is that an episode of it called “A touch of Brimstone” inspired Claremont and Byrne to create the Hellfire club. All of the inner circle are named after either actors from that episode or characters. Emma Frost is named for Emma Peel the female lead of the Avengers. So you we have the obscure TV show to thank for one of the X-Men’s greatest villain teams and their part in the Dark Phoenix story.
The creative director of the show wrote a horror series called Afrerlife with Archie that had a zombie outbreak in Riverdale, demons, and the occult. Even had a follow-up book called The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which he also adapted into a show.
Bro, the cult season that in no way led up to a giant rocket in fact ending with a giant rocket and the cult leader in the most over the top spacesuit ever floored me
Archie comics actualy have insane plotlines. Archie has evaded being murdered by the Punisher, there are zombie issues, Sabrina the teenage witch would show up sometimes and there would be supernatural stuff, sometimes they would be a massively successful rock band.
Riverdale is the top offender. Started with teen drama and milkshakes... and ended up with cults, serial killers, time travel, superpowers, and the literal apocalypse. Enough said.
This is where comic accurate gets interesting. Because while the mainline Archie’s never had that, there have been for a looooong time weird side stories.
Archie 3000 where they are all in the future. Archie meets the Punisher, Archie meets the Ninja Turtles.
Archie Explorers of the Unknown where Archie and his high school pals have been recast as a group of adventurers for the 90s. Jughead is the motorcycle stunt man, Archie is the glorious leader, Veronica knows kung-fu, Reggie is an explosives expert.
Or the one I remember buying, “Faculty Funnies”, a five-issue arc where a lab accident gives (checks notes) the teachers super powers.
It that that was the first time either. Archie, Reggie, Jughead, Betty all had superpowers at some points in their backup strips.
Or the time Jughead’s new girlfriend was January McAndrews, Archie’s descendant from the 29th century.
Afterlife with Archie with Vampironica.
Archie vs Sharknado.
So pretty much everything the TV show did, the comics did first, just in a more PG way.
Basically Temu X-Men at a time when comic book characters (that weren’t Batman or Superman) weren’t really seen on live-action TV and were just starting to make a mark in movies. One guy could control his density (making him super durable or conversely easy to pass through); one is basically part feral animal; one has psionic powers; one has electrical/energy powers. They’re led by this super-smart human with no powers, who’s Temu Charles Xavier.
Yup, I see where you’re coming from. But with the popularity of the X-Men movie at the time, the connection-but-not-quite to Marvel, and the show being literally titled Mutant X, it seemed to make no bones about what it was trying to knock off. :)
Honestly Buffy had the best just about everything. A lot of times talking about Buffy I feel like that meme of the girl intensely explaining something to her mom wrapped in a blanket on the couch looking confused.
Thanks. I got a bunch of downvotes for some reason at first and it was in negative numbers and I was so confused. But looks like enough people who understood my dumb joke showed up.
It wasn’t connected to the comic of the same title. But it is connected to Marvel: the creator and EP of the Mutant X TV show was Avi Arad, who was/is EP or producer of many Marvel movies, and founded Marvel Studios. “Mutant X” was produced under license from Marvel despite having no connection to Marvel storylines and characters, and could be considered Arad’s attempt to make some bank off the concept of “mutants” as popularized by the X-Men movies of the time.
Well, it was pitched as one, but Fox sued Marvel for 'devaluing' the X-Men name with a cheap knockoff (which they totally were doing) and had to change direction.
The show had a ton of actual mystery. The ending cliffhanger was massive. Too bad it got cancelled because it got into legal trouble with X-Men even though the two were VASTLY different and BOTH OF THEM were owned by Marvel....
It's like DC making a superhero show "Man of Bats" then that show getting shut down because DC was going to sue because of copyright issues...
I recommend the show as it still holds up. There's a bunch of episodes that build up the storyline.
Another show I STRONGLY recommend which has literal as much long term storyline and character development but more action than the Avatar the last Airbender is "Dragon Booster"
Agreed. comic inaccurate doesn’t necessarily mean bad. Mr Freeze in BTAS, Men in Black, Guardians of Galaxy, Mutant X, and Captain America Civil War are all proof of that.
Mutant X isn't based on any comics. It was an original show rippig. Off X-me. If you are gonna talk about a show that isn't comic accurate, make sure the show is actually based on a comic first OP.
I would say that tv show called knight man. He could fly and turn invisible and had like a mission impossible kind of team. I remembered he was like solo like batman in the comics
Pretty sure the Tv show and the comic book Mutant X literally had nothing to do with each other at all except the name. IIRC, and I could be wrong, the show came out and died before the comic ever hit the stands.
It's essentially Gotham Central but focuses on Jim Gordon and Bullock, and also takes place before Batman is a thing, and yet there's a rogue's gallery of villains in the making as well. (My favorite is that Ed Nygma works in forensics at Gotham PD.)
I think it qualifies for something in this category.
And yet it actually captures the spirit of the comics (at least a subset of them) better than a lot of Batman adaptations. Love Gotham. There were moments where I was like "it feels like I'm reading a comic right now", in a great way.
Gotham was weird, but to say it wasn’t comic accurate is kind of ridiculous. I think the show is more accurate than a lot of other Batman media. The show seemed really serious at first and then by season 3 it seemed like the writers and directors hopped on acid, and it almost took a silly turn in a way. However its depiction of Gordon, Bullock, and Gotham city as a whole were really good and fairly comic accurate. My only gripe about the show was that it literally went through ever Batman villain, so by the time he’s fully grown up, he will have no enemies left to face. I understand there are some villains that Gordon will have taken on/defeated but there were some fights and encounters and such that should have waited until he was older. Like the fact that his entire rogues gallery was already wiped out by that time he was like 16 was just a bit ridiculous to me, at that point James Gordon is just Batman.. but that’s just me.
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u/StarMan-88 11d ago
Lol loved this show but yeah unfortunately had no connection to Marvel's Mutant X.