>deconstructive parody of what was popular at the time starring a mentally ill but well meaning dude with delusions of grandeur and his down to earth straightman sidekickIs The Tick the capeshit equivalent to Don Quixote?
>>154183715I view him more as a non-furry Darkwing Duck.
>>154183715Aye, Anon. I think ye've cracked it.>>154183742Meta in a different, more subtle way. I can't believe I never picked up on the fact that Darkwing deliberately violated its own canon constantly, as an homage to old comics.
>>154183777Ah that's right, Darkwing was more of a Batman parody, right? I'm not well-versed on capeshit lore.
>>154183715They DID both crash into Omnipotus.
>>154183715I remember when that Clone High show was talked about extensively in the zeitgeist's nostalgia - then they brought it back and it was shit.I love The Tick. I love that fans are discovering it again. I don't want a shitty revival if this sudden chatter leads to some studio exec wanting it back on streaming for a sequel.
>>154183818>I don't want a shitty revivalI mean, it DID get a revival, just a very short-lived one... (It had Patrick Warburton in it, so you know it had to have been at least decent.)
>>154183838then it had another, which was fucking excellent. starring Peter Scaraminnowish
>>154183838Are these even the same continuity? I feel like he meets Arthur differently for the first time in each of them.
>>154183894Each is a different continuity. A big problem is Disney owns the original cartoon and the OCs made for it, which they will never use for obvious reasons.
>>154183894nope, each of the four The Ticks is different. the cartoon is the most like the comic, but they are all doing their own thang.>>154183922exactly. Kinda like the Xeno series. You get broad strokes redos of things you no longer have the rights to.
>>154183715Only point I disagree on is implying Don Quixote is well meaning.
>>154183951pretty sure the shit Don Quixote was against was legitimately bad. but then I've never looked into it. Wasn't he fighting like, dragons and moors and shit?
>>154183777>Darkwing deliberately violated its own canon constantly, as an homage to old comics.?
>>154183715Tick mostly works when you never try to think about it or figure out the meta narrative. It's just a wacky comedy about a dumb superhero getting into shenanigans.
>>154184208you could look it up faster than I could explain what I half-remember from a few interviews, i haven't seen the show in 30 years, but once he said it (Jim Cummings I think, and the main writer) I was like 'oh yeah, they DID do that'
>>154184281meta has only been a thing for a short time and by the time people got used to it, it became overused, so.. terminology lags
>>154183787Ehh...closer to Shadow/Spirit and various other pulp heroes. >>154183777I can't recall a time canon was violated in any way. It was a wacky comedy show that was never meant to have any kind of strong "canon." It only did what was funny.
>>154184326there were different origins for Negaduck etc
>>154183808how's that?
No, Don Quixote of La Mancha was just so ridiculously influential that you would be hard-pressed to find much fiction in the modern day that isn't significantly influenced by it.
>>154185892please elaborate. Aside from 'haha sometimes heroes are delusional' I don't know anything specific we got from it. Did it originate the 'saner sidekick' trope? Because we've gotten a lotta use outta that. fuckin Haroud comes to mind.
>>154185931It popularized many themes that are seen in fiction today. And it was the first to do so, at the beginning of the 1600s. It's sometimes referred to as 'the first modern novel'. It was beyond influential.
>>154183983He picks fights with a lot of random people for no real good reason, and the part of the books that is lampooning chivalric tales makes it clear he is mostly doing this just for the sake of getting into fights cause thats what knights do, not to defeat some evil. For instance, has an early encounter with a couple of travellers who he approaches proclaiming his love Dulcinea (who is just a peasant girl who doesn't even know he exists) is the fairest maiden in the land. The travellers are naturally confused and politely ask if they can see her to judge for themselves as they have no clue what he is talking about. At which point Quixote grows enraged and attacks them for the indignity of insulting his love and to defend Dulcinea honor, even though as stated they didn't even deny her beauty they just asked who he was talking about and she doesn't even know he exists let alone returns his love.
Byrne's Superman is also a deconstruction
>>154186006That's called being based though.
If I had several million dollars I would fund a 40k cartoon in this style
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