Lol that’s true. But dr doom is iconic and marvel has this weird thing with turning iconic characters into black peoples or girls. So if he’s not black then expect a lesbian female . I’m just being realistic lol
I fully believe most of the X-Men will be racebend, and the FF will be "diverse", but not Doom. He's the go-to evil anachronistic Euro Monarch. He'll be the new Loki. Dark-haired white boy for the Tumblrinas to fall in love with. Now, the X-Men, yeah, those are gonna be changed. I'll be surprised if Jean remains a white redhead. Gambit and maybe Rogue will be turned black. Xavier maybe, but I think they might go for Asian. Magneto I think they'll keep the Jewish thing going, and they might want to tie him in with Wanda later. Cyclops will probably still be white. They might turn Wolverine into a Native American in order to get diversity bux and distance themselves from Jackman, as it'd be hard to replace him in the public consciousness. Really, I'm not expecting even half of the muties to remain as they are. Maybe the ethnic representations like Sunfire or Colossus and Magik, who are to tied to their countries to get a racial makeover. Hey, as long as I get a Magik dolly...
X-Wise I want the Summers/Greys (Cyclops, Jean, Rachel, Cable, and Havok I probably will skip because I don't care for him), their main adversaries (Sinister, Apocalypse), the core duo (Xavier, Magneto) and then some randoms (Fantomex, Magik, Emma, Deadpool, Brand). I think I'll stop it there, max, so these are the ones I want to be accurately cast. For example, Sunfire and Nightcrawler I always found cool looking and interesting as characters, but I'll have to skip such cases (Beast, Archangel, Sage and others fall under there too). I used to, uh, "like" Rogue and Psylocke a whole lot too, but I'm not dropping 300$ for such reasons. Between all the different costumes and the such, restraining it to around 10 figures is best for me. Magik I want to pose with my Sorcerers and Brand would go with a Fury or something. If I get a Black Panther for my Illuminati display I might get a Storm too, but considering BP will be either posed with the Illuminati, I probably won't need her. Unless I cut down on some other wants by then and do a Kings & Queens display with Namor, Doom, T'Challa and Black Bolt. The problem is that T'Challa & Bolt have their Queens, but Doom and Namor don't, so that again doesn't work. Eh, we'll see.
For now my X-List includes just these ones. The question is what costumes they'll get. A full Morrison team would tempt me greatly. But someone like Emma has too many good costumes and I enjoy her as a character (no, I really do, not just for those reasons....) so I might want to get multiples (black NOW! look, White Queen, modern). Which will obviously create problems with all the other one-offs I want. I mean, do I want an expansive wardrobe X-Shelf, or do I want a more varied collection? Do I want a Ghost Rider and a Blade, or can I just expand the Bat-Shelf and hope Todd releases a good Spawn to represent my Gothic & Edgy phases? I'll see as I go along. It's a question of whether it's better to have multiple different things, or for example to have both a Cyke & Jean Family and a Rightclops display:
I think that is a problem that arises when multiple costumes and teams come into play. Do you like one thing so much to get multiples of the same basic character over an entirely new one? How many different shelves are you going to set up? Bigger characters like Apocalypse, or ones with add-ons like GR and his bike, up the price point too. I'm already building a Star Wars collection. Do I get two different Vaders or do I get one Vader and one other capecharacter I don't care for as much just to complete another new shelf? You can go by genres, but even then it's tough. I like Space Operas, so technically I'd be into the Fourth World too, but I made the decision to not get into Cosmic DC at all beyond GL and stick with Marvel. Likewise I might not get into Dark Marvel and just hope they release a good JonCon and Swamp Thing in some movie. Stuff like that. With the X-Men I know which ones still interest me, but they change costumes in every run and there's tons of combinations, so this could be a Wars-Tier moneysink as well. Ah, decisions...
Gangsta Doom went a little crazy with the face tattoos, but you make a good point about the outfit. I don't know if you're familiar with the Mortal Kombat games and characters, but to your point, in the first MK game, while iconic, the character's costumes were very simple, which is one of the reasons they're iconic, simplicity is usually easier to remember than some elaborate mess. Anyway, if you look at those character's costumes in the latest MK game, they are more elaborate and don't look like cheap bought from a store costumes like the originals. Characters like Raiden now look godly and Scorpion and Subzero also look like real ninjas.
I still think Trank could've given us a solid body horror F4-flick, but alas...
Yeah, the guy went overboard with the face lines, but he has trying to give him that ornate look. There's better designs out there:
I get what you mean about MK. I was never the biggest fan, but I was aware of it. I liked the "reboot" looks a lot and bought the PS3 MK as it also had a Kratos add-on. I didn't follow the series after that, but I wanted to get those WorldBox figures which are too expensive now. Funny thing, I watched a review of one and the pleather chipped off so easily that it makes you wonder how we drop so much cash on such fragile figures that we can't even move. Gets the brain questioning if you really hundreds of these things...
Simpler can be better and more memorable, yes. It's evident from the MCU that all the LINESLINESLINESLINES are detrimental to the look. But with someone like Doom, who's a Monarch, you need more pomp. Sometimes you need to go simple and lean, others update and streamline, and so on.
