I've noticed there are certain kinds of characters (usually minor) that have had so many varied interpretations that they become more titles or themes to fill in as you like rather than defined individuals with expectations around them. The Royal Flush Gang (pic related) would be one example. Slap a card motif on a criminal group, regardless of abilities or even number of members, and boom, you got yourself a visually striking group of minor crooks.Post some, then talk about what your favorite version is.
>>150690557Probably Ragdoll. All that remains consistent whenever someone digs him up is his powers and central conceit of being a contortionist freak. As my favorite, I've always been partial the voodoo doll thief version The Batman 2004, he made for a fun rival to Catwoman.
Crimson Dynamo. There's literally been over a dozen people to take on the mantle of the Crimson Dynamos, almost all of them are just generic Russians guys with generic power armor that sometimes fight Iron Man as villains and are sometimes just background Russian superheroes.I guess the best version is Dmitri Bukharin, the only one to really stand the test of time as despite not being the first and having a bunch of replacements, writers keep going back to him as the "iconic" Crimson Dynamo on the Winter Guard.
>>150690828I liked how he was approached in Avengers EMH and Ironman Armored Adventures as being a weaponised cosmonaut, I think that's a good angle that both explores his innately Russian themes and gives him a unique hook as an armored villain since his gear is made to survive and operate within outer space elements.
>>150690828Reminds me of another, DC's Rocket Red. Hell he's not even a guy, but a seldom-used Russian military unit called The Rocket Red Brigade. I think one of them was in the JLI cartoon.
>>150690828Crimson Dynamo and Red Guardian are the Marvel Russian equivalents of Iron Man and Captain America, but every time there's an iteration of them that's a decently developed character, they either die, or a new writer just wants to introduce his own new iteration of them. Or in the Crimson Dynamo's case, use him as a generic mook where in a story that doesn't even ask who's wearing the armor because it doesn't even matter, and Iron Man editorial just kept letting this happen.Bukharin was the 1980s Crimson Dynamo who got to make a comeback in the 2000s and early 2010s because he's the version that's more "Russian superhero" than "Iron Man villain", but international politics and events mean we're not likely to see Marvel doing much with Russian superheroes in general outside of Magik.
>>150691273>but international politics and events mean we're not likely to see Marvel doing much with Russian superheroes in general outside of Magik.Marvel Rivals was a godsend for her for normalfag awareness, swear to god.
>>150691362Even Colossus and Black Widow seem to be getting downplayed in recent years, so it's really something that they're actually pushing Magik and giving her a solo book.
>>150690557Copperhead's the king of this. It's a coin flip if he's a guy, a girl, in a costume or a snake-mutant.
>>150690557King Shark too.
>>150691250>>150690828I hate all USSR characters by default
>>150691384Canonically, the guy and the snake mutant are the same person at different points in their life. The girl only exists because of Arkham Origins.
>>150690828>>150691250>>150691273>>150691374How did we get to a point where Cold War-era America was more tolerant of Russia than modern America?
>>15069276235 years of modern Russia being a little shit.
>>150690590Pretty cool
>>150692762>How did we get to a point where Cold War-era America was more tolerant of Russia than modern America?Russia, like India, lost its soft power; before these countries had a certain mystic to them.
>>150690557Can we go one step deeper? What about costumed mantles being treated like this in universe? Like the original take on Red Hood?
>>150693647Starman is a notorious example in dc.
>>150693647that's basically scourge of the underworld's whole deal, right? honestly, there should be more "characters" like that where the costumed identity is a group of people that's only assumed to be one person at first. kinda like ghostface
>>150692393The girl was hott
>>150695308Copperhead is now a femboy snake mutant, how would /co/ deal?
