That's kinda the point of the story. Cage is bulletproof, Harlem and the people he's protecting are not. That's why being stronger and tougher isn't always the way to solve Cage's problems.
Mike Colter as luke cage is TRASH
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That's kinda the point of the story. Cage is bulletproof, Harlem and the people he's protecting are not. That's why being stronger and tougher isn't always the way to solve Cage's problems.
Diamondback was a lil over the top. RIP cottonmouth
But calling LC trash is absurd. The actor for IF is horrendous; every time he speaks in defenders, I wanna slap the dude.
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Yaddam Yussein
All Star
Show was dope as fukk.
Am I the only person that thought Diamond Back was Blade?
Am I the only person that thought Diamond Back was Blade?
Show was dope as fukk.
Am I the only person that thought Diamond Back was Blade?
Pretty sure you are, actually.
Thats a writing problem fool
More like a writing solution. Every black character doesn't need to be Samuel L Jackson.
He has no hot lines and his character is to humble. The writing staff for luke cage is garbage
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
Luke Cage is supposed to be a character tho
Yeah, But people like Rhodey, Diamond Back, Sam Wilson, Nick Fury are already like that. fukking Deadshot in the DCEU is like that. Cyborg is prolly going to be like that in the Justice League movie. Only black character in Comic book movies that isn't sassy right now is Black Panther.
Even Blade had moments like that and he was written as dark and brooding in comics
shyt is tired, and MCU already has multiple sassy black men.
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
Yeah, But people like Rhodey, Diamond Back, Sam Wilson, Nick Fury are already like that. fukking Deadshot in the DCEU is like that. Cyborg is prolly going to be like that in the Justice League movie. Only black character in Comic book movies that isn't sassy right now is Black Panther.
Even Blade had moments like that and he was written as dark and brooding in comics
shyt is tired, and MCU already has multiple sassy black men.
Having a fukking personality is sassy?
Luke Cage is supposed to be a tough nikka that dont take no shyt
Talks smack
I cant believe you call every black man in the mcu sassy
Having a fukking personality is sassy?
Luke Cage is supposed to be a tough nikka that dont take no shyt
Talks smack
I cant believe you call every black man in the mcu sassy
you're trying to debate the semantics of the word sassy. Fukk that, My problem is that they can all be described the exact same way.
Look at the bolded, tell me one black hero that doesn't apply to.
Literally every black hero has the same personality.
Scottie Drippin
Should Never Mention Me
Nah, I think people wanted Luke Cage to act like Cottonmouth.
You can be calm, cool, collected and not corny. Luke Cage in the verse is just generic, boring, and a square. Mike Colter just doesn't have the charisma for the role.
The Rock in the Fast movies is basically a better Luke Cage than Luke Cage.
Corny is another way of saying that shyt is cliche or banal, lacking in originality. That word applies more to Cottonmouth/StringerBell/Frank White Insert gangster cliche.
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
I wanted Luke Cage to act like Ving Rhames in baby boy
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
I’m fine with a Luke Cage who can move past the moreelements 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.
Nikka started lecturing criminals about civil rights as he beat their asses
My eyes rolled into the back of my head
Netflix luke cage would never roll up to doctor doom like pay me my money