Sentences with phrase «comic character name»

A bit of comic book history: Marvel's comic character name predates the Black Panther Party by several months — though many people mistakenly assume it's the other way around.

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A kind of Jetsons - like, intergalactic name, it's attached both to a comic book character and to Princess Astra on «Doctor Who».

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Atom Eve (real name: Samantha Eve Wilkins) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Image Comics Universe who appears primarily in the comic book A famous and popular core Cockney Rhyming Slang expression, Adam and Eve has been around since before C20th.

The latest film is Black Panther (directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong» o), based on Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's 1966 comic book character of the same name.

There is, still, something goofy and amusingly retro about the clay - animated look and style, from the marble - eyed character design to comic relief in the form of a domesticated pig named Hognob, whose grunts are voiced by Park.

Boasting perhaps the strongest supporting characters yet among Marvel titles, director Ryan Coogler's visually dynamic film should transform a lesser - known comic - book hero into a household name.

Based on a comic character that first appeared in 1962, «Ant - Man'tells the origin story of a sweet - natured thief named Scott Lang (Paul Rudd).

There are literally dozens of major characters (you pity whoever had to fit all of these A-list names onto the poster), in service to a story that's simultaneously every superhero movie ever and, for those who aren't obsessive readers of the comic books, a bit confusing.

Jones named the Hulk while Cox stated that he'd like to see Scarlett Johansson appear as the Black Widow due to their characters» history in the comics.

This certainly wouldn't be the first comic book movie to not name the film after the main character.

Given the list's dubious origins — and even its formatting for a cast list is a little peculiar — and all these supposed comic book character connections (even the fact that it spells Betty Brant's name incorrectly), it's perhaps best to load your web shooters with cartridges of spider - salt for now.

Ernst Lubitsch had a significantly prolific period in Germany — probably only familiar to the most devoted of fans — in which he played a slapstick comic character by the name of Sally Pinkus.

Author, journalist and comic book writer Ta - Nehisi Coates recently told comedian Marc Maron that he relates to T'Challa, the fictional character that goes by the name Black Panther in Marvel Comics.

Interestingly enough, the character in the comics was named Bruce Banner while the one in the TV series was David Banner.

Therefore it was not used, but it was in the comic book adaptation, and many fans of the movie have adapted it as the character's «real» name.

While the casting of Crispin Glover as a disassociated loner who discovers he has the power to talk to rats is sort of inspired, «X Files» expat writer Glen Morgan's Willard suffers (and yes, I feel silly for saying this) from a lack of character development, a forced psychoanalytic structure, and a sort of inbred Comic Book Guy fondness for self - reference (i.e., the majority of the bit characters have animal names — a sort of thing used best in Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Dante's The Howling: Mrs. Leach, Mr. Garter, Janice Mantis, George Boxer, and so on) that grates.

Black Panther comics which feature Monica, who eventually turns out to be a superhero herself (first called Captain Marvel, subsequently named Pulsar, Lady - Of - Light, Daystar, Photon and Sceptre) tend to linger on panels featuring the two characters gazing at each other.

Ant - Man has played around in the Microverse in comic books before, but the usage of it — under the new name of the Quantum Realm — in Ant - Man puts it front - and - center in the revised mythos of the Ant - Man character.

White Wolf isn't just a random nickname, but the name of a longstanding character in the Black Panther comic books: Hunter, orphaned as an infant when both his parents died in a plane crash near Wakanda and, despite being a white foreigner, was adopted and raised by T'Challa's father, T'Chaka.

One of the five, a trophy wife with a Texas drawl named Skyler (Brooklyn Decker), isn't even an important character but a comic foil to the difficulty of the others (Her delivery is literally as easy as sneezing) and an accessory for the odd conflict between one of the women's husbands and his father (It climaxes with a golf cart race).

Which is something previous Silent Hill comics were guilty of exploiting with their random character name drops and familiar location or game creatures that in the end served no real purpose to the story.

Producer Adi Shankara is becoming a household name when it comes to gritty short films based on characters in comics and pop culture in general.

So many other names have been floated for the Marvel character it frustrates me they're looking at yet another actor who's already played someone from comic books in an adaptation.

Stephen Strange was name - dropped in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the character has had some heavy focus in the current New Avengers comic storyline.

They talked about their characters, with Cumberbatch highlighting Strange's «arc» and Wong noting that his character (who is also named Wong) is «not a manservant tea - maker» like he is in the comics.

Like many recent films based on well - known cult comics, director and co-writer Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) attempts to translate, quite literally, the images from the comics to the screen, with phonetic musical demonstrations (songs written by alt - rock fave, Beck), visual name tags for character introductions, and bleeped (visually) foul language.

The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther has been adapted from the superhero comic character of the same name and has been in development for some time — Wesley Snipes was first linked to the project in 1992.

The identity of the female lead character and romantic interest for Steve Rogers has yet to be announced or revealed, although we know Marvel Studios is looking for one, but the first name on everyone's list is Sharon Carter, a long time love of Steve Rogers from the comics.

Sure, there is an homage to the comic book by having characters named after the main creators of the comic, such as writer Steve Gerber and artist Mike Ploog (misspelled as Ploug in the credits), but after seeing what Lions Gate Films has done with their creation, you'd thing Steve and Mike would have insisted that their names be changed «to protect the innocent».

Undoubtedly one of the new century's few effective comic - book adaptations, Deadpool follows Ryan Reynolds» Wade Wilson as he's forcefully transformed into the superpowered title character by a vicious underworld figure named Ajax (Ed Skrein)- with the movie, surprisingly enough, emphasizing Wade's efforts to reunite with his former girlfriend, Morena Baccarin's Vanessa.

(In an interview with Manohla Dargis of the New York Times at the Cannes Film Festival, where Toni Erdmann premiered, Ade explained that her title character's first name is a salute to Tony Clifton, the insult - comic incarnation of Andy Kaufman.)

Bringing to life the enduringly popular comic book character of the same name, Gal Gadot balances formidable prowess and a genuine sense of hope in her role in this summer's critically praised, conversation - changing Wonder Woman.

In a letter to Jerry Bails, who made comics a serious academic field, Lee wrote: «[W] e have a new character in the works for Strange Tales (just a five - page filler named Dr. Strange).

On Dawson, he said that the character «was going to be the actual Night Nurse from the comics,» but that «the feature side had plans for her down the road... And we just used another name.»

The movie is based on the 1968 Marvel comic book character of the same name.

Yes, he's a character from the comics, but that name more than anything else breaks the spell Coogler so carefully succeeds in constructing.

He plays the character Wong in this comic book adaptation and shares the first name as the film's lead actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, which must make things very confusing on set.

In 1972, the character explained in a Fantastic Four comic why he was now called Black Leopard, saying his old name «has... political connotations.

Instead, it feels almost like Fox took an existing script for an original sci - fi film and just slapped the names of the characters from the comic in there.

Ryan Reynolds, who is known for being a big comic book fan, played the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), but while the early stuff of him as Wade Wilson was good, the version of Deadpool that he ended up becoming was so different from the source material that he was essentially Deadpool in name only.

While the costumed alter ego that can do «whatever a spider can» gives the film and the comic its name, Raimi and screenwriter David Koepp have wisely focused what has made the character such an enduring icon: the man behind the mask, Peter Parker.

Though Kasumba's character wasn't given a name in the film, speculation ran wide that she was a member of the Dora Milaje because the women in the comics are always depicted with shaved heads and because she has a slight confrontation with Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

Book Quiz: Round 1: Name 6 fictional characters Round 2: Name 5 comic book heroes Round 3: Complete titles of 10 Horrible Histories Round 4: Name 5 more comic book heroes Round 5: Name 6 more fictional characters Round 6: Name another 5 comic book heroes Round 7: Solve the fictional characters» anagrams Round 8: Complete the book titles Round 9: Name the authors Task sheets and word search

At the Los Angeles auto show Mitsubishi introduced the Goku Shin Ka concept car in a comic book (printed just for the show) featuring a character named Dr. Evo — Fujii's real - life nickname.

Last year, it was announced that Brian Michael Bendis — who made his name at Marvel creating characters like Miles Morales and Jessica Jones, and headlining iconic comics runs at the publisher for over a decade — would be leaving to work at DC Comics.