New Hope for SHIELD!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Idiot Ball: The Superpower, a show that once had a plotline about illegal immigrants spreading disease, is coming back. Admittedly it will be hard to top "To save the inappropriately powerful black man, we had to shoot in the head."

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[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Said character is now the only previously existing named Marvel character to be a hero in the show, albeit an extremely obscure one.

I'm not sure any show not actively made by members of the National Socialist White People's Party could top Heroes for sheer level of race/culture/class offensiveness, after they decided to become Dallasty with superpowers and that anybody who wasn't a member of the rich white Bennett/Petrelli clan was only there as a jobber to die horribly and helplessly every time a villain needed a dog-kicking moment.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Said character is now the only previously existing named Marvel character to be a hero in the show, albeit an extremely obscure one.

It was also a nice bit of red-herring and foreshadowing. When he made the second appearance, I know pretty much everyone was thinking "Power Man". Deathlok might be relatively obscure, but the character has been around for 40 years and pops up in assorted comics on a fairly regular basis.

His origin also tracks pretty closely with some of the various versions of Deathlok (death/near death, unwilling weapon for bad guys, African-American).

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call the Deathlok concept "obscure" either.

And - as you've noticed - this particular version hews closely to that developed by Dwayne McDuffie, Gregory Wright and Jackson Guice. Particularly the "African-American trying to raise a child on his own" part.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

My commentary from elsewhere:

It's amazing how often, and how quickly, "they have no history with comics, they can bring a fresh perspective" collapses into "they're just doing the same crap comics have been doing for decades! Why do they think this is original!...oh right."