His performance didnt bother me because all the characters gradually became like their comic counterparts. I think next season will be more flashy.
Mike Colter as luke cage is TRASH
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Seriously. This thread has all the Coli tropes tho. "Oh you don't like him cause he wasn't a c00n"Mike Colter as luke cage is TRASH
No disrespect to Mike Colter but they really didnt get his character
"Why can't you just support a black character"
"You don't like him because he pronounces his words correctly"
Brehs shut the fukk up with that lame shyt. Blindly supporting this. Diamondback is literally top 3 worst characters in the MCU and Colter is blander than a wheat bread and turkey sandwich. PLAIN.
Killigraphy
Banned
He does talk shyt....all throughout the Defenders and his own show. He tells Cotton Mouth straight up, that he can't do shyt to em.
Dat envy hit OP hard....made him blind to the lines on Luke's show.
Dat envy hit OP hard....made him blind to the lines on Luke's show.
John Hull
You can’t see me!
I think he does a decent job. Most protagonists are bland with a basic sense of morality to drive their actions. Also like someone said, he's the New Avengers version which is basically a regular cat with super strength.
If you don't think he's sassy enough then you should love Diamondback seeing as how he follows the 70's prototype to a T. But ya'll hate him too, so basically nikkas hate everything.
If you don't think he's sassy enough then you should love Diamondback seeing as how he follows the 70's prototype to a T. But ya'll hate him too, so basically nikkas hate everything.
Mic-Nificent
I didn't eat nobody
I think I might be the only person that liked Diamondback as a villain.
I think people were still mad about Cottonmouth being offed way too soon and just weren't willing to give Diamondback a chance. He wasn't really any more over the top than Kingpin or Kilgrave, he just wasn't given as much depth as those characters.
I think people were still mad about Cottonmouth being offed way too soon and just weren't willing to give Diamondback a chance. He wasn't really any more over the top than Kingpin or Kilgrave, he just wasn't given as much depth as those characters.
Be mad because Luke Cage doesn't talk like white writers from the 1960's thought black people talked like brehs.
NO black person ever called another person "turkey" without being directed to by a white employer
NO black person ever called another person "turkey" without being directed to by a white employer
I’m fine with a Luke Cage who can move past the more 
elements on the ‘70s comic, but I feel like the showrunners of the Netflix series went all the way in the other direction to the point of making him boring. There is such thing as a middle ground. For example, “Hero for Hire” is an interesting concept that separates Luke Cage from the other Marvel superheroes. Why get rid of that just to make him, as Cottonmouth said, “Harlem’s Captain America”? And while we really didn’t need all the ‘70s jive-talking, I’ll never understand why they wrote Cage as sullen and moody as he was in the show. He can still be a shyt-talker and actually display some emotional range without descending into stereotypes. Again, there’s a middle ground.
Another thing I didn’t like was how they changed Luke’s backstory so that he was never born in Harlem. Harlem is meant to be a big part of the show. Wouldn’t it make sense to give the main character of a show where Harlem as a setting plays a big role some kind of emotional connection to it? It’s another change that weakens the character. Two of Luke’s villains, Mariah and Cottonmouth, are defined in large part by how they see Harlem and the future they want for it. By taking away Luke’s connection to Harlem, the writers take away any deeper meaning to his conflict with them besides “I’m the hero, you’re the villains, now we fight”. It’s telling that the one character who does affect Luke on a personal level, Diamondback, does so in a way that has nothing to do with Harlem whatsoever. Diamondback doesn’t care about it, neither does Luke really, so all of the talk about Harlem in the show just means nothing.
I have no problems with Mike Coulter as an actor, he looks believable enough as Luke Cage, and I think he does about as well as he can with the material. It’s not his fault the writing around him was so bad. For what it’s worth, I thought he came off better in Jessica Jones and the Defenders.
elements on the ‘70s comic, but I feel like the showrunners of the Netflix series went all the way in the other direction to the point of making him boring. There is such thing as a middle ground. For example, “Hero for Hire” is an interesting concept that separates Luke Cage from the other Marvel superheroes. Why get rid of that just to make him, as Cottonmouth said, “Harlem’s Captain America”? And while we really didn’t need all the ‘70s jive-talking, I’ll never understand why they wrote Cage as sullen and moody as he was in the show. He can still be a shyt-talker and actually display some emotional range without descending into stereotypes. Again, there’s a middle ground.Another thing I didn’t like was how they changed Luke’s backstory so that he was never born in Harlem. Harlem is meant to be a big part of the show. Wouldn’t it make sense to give the main character of a show where Harlem as a setting plays a big role some kind of emotional connection to it? It’s another change that weakens the character. Two of Luke’s villains, Mariah and Cottonmouth, are defined in large part by how they see Harlem and the future they want for it. By taking away Luke’s connection to Harlem, the writers take away any deeper meaning to his conflict with them besides “I’m the hero, you’re the villains, now we fight”. It’s telling that the one character who does affect Luke on a personal level, Diamondback, does so in a way that has nothing to do with Harlem whatsoever. Diamondback doesn’t care about it, neither does Luke really, so all of the talk about Harlem in the show just means nothing.
I have no problems with Mike Coulter as an actor, he looks believable enough as Luke Cage, and I think he does about as well as he can with the material. It’s not his fault the writing around him was so bad. For what it’s worth, I thought he came off better in Jessica Jones and the Defenders.
People, well I can speak for myself, just want him to be played as someone with a cool factor. Everything about his dialog was forced. Ep 1, talkin about the Knicks - compare Fish, Pops to Luke Cage dialect and demeanor. They spoke natural. Talking about Goines, a writer whose whole catalog is blaxploitation, but can still translate to modern times. Colter sounded like someone that would've never attempted Goines. Scene with Mef "PLO Style was my jam back in the day" that ish sounded like it came from someone that didn't even listen to rap.
He was never corny. He was blaxploitation in a time in which it now would seem stereotypical, but relative of the times it was cool then. Now he's portrayed as the modern laid back bul, but still a cool demeanor. But all of those guys spoke natural - Shaft, Foxy, Truck Turner, Poitier & Cos, Slaughter. Look at Samuel L in every movie. Natural. He's being portrayed as Bruce Leroy corny, while everyone else is at least Richie. If these were modern you at least want him like Will Smith cool. That's who they should've pattern him after if they were going for articulate, cool, educated brother.
shyt is sad.
Take the bait from an obvious troll thread and proceed to play yourself.
shyt hilarious cuz he basically the same in the movie Girl's Trip tooMy main problem with Colter (this is going to be a weird criticism) is that his enunciation is jarring.
He speaks almost too clearly. No
it was like watching Luke Cage in it...Dude from South Carolina too
so you know that's not his natural speaking voice, he acquired that shyt in acting school and never drops it
You summed up what was wrong with the overall direction of the show. I have very little knowledge of the character but going in Cheo Coker was hyping up the authenticity of it and his connection to hip hop and the current civil rights issues and blaxploitation and the idea of Harlem from the Renaissance to now.
If thats what they were going for, then why on Earth would they turn Luke Cage into a square ass cop? He belongs on Walker Texas Ranger or something..
I couldn't get past 4 episodes of the show. he's so damn boring
So bored of brothers always being so animated in every movie. You either gotta be Samuel L Jackson Loud, or Chris Tucker Silly, or Kevin Hart/Eddie Murphy Loud and Silly.
Hollywood portrays all black actors as the cinematic equivalent to a Busta Rhymes guest verse on a tribe called quest song.
I mean shyt is cool, he even kills more often than not. but
sometimes I like to hear some abstract.