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#FreeBlade
Mar 12, 2018 7:43 PM
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#FreeBlade
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Tax Fraud man
Brocktooon
Where did you read that?
fireant21
Three weeks late
amglasgow
Blade wasn't a superhero movie, it was an action/horror movie. Different genres.
naijapotato
Oh my God what it is that stupid post! Black panther is the first family friendly, almost all black super hero movie. Let us have this!
ResonantPause
It isnt just the superhero. It had a black director and mostly black cast.
cogitoro
This meme persists not because you guys enjoy Blade but because you are mildly resentful of Black Panther's success.
cogitoro
And you're mildly resentful of Black Panther's success because it's a bigass geek party, and it's not being thrown for you.
anSSLerrorhasoccuredandasecureconnectiontotheservercannotbemade
Gonna need a Slowpoke meme about now
SorDavos
Blade is an anti-hero in an R-Rated movie. Blankman and Meteorite Man were comedies. BP is a hero who can inspire kids sincerely.
SorDavos
Spawn is shit.
Rips4w
THAT CLAIM WAS NEVER MADE BECAUSE IT'S SOM AMAZINGLY EASY TO REFUTE. THESE ARE ALL JUST STRAWMEN.
SpringToMyWinter
You’re a couple weeks late for this bandwagon.
BEANSBEANSBEANSBEANSBEANSBEANSBEANS
Nobody is saying that. Take your stale 2 week old meme the fuck outta here.
statutoryape
Wow youre only like 2 months late on this observation.
Kronzor
First movie with a black superhero to make a billion dollars.
HalTheMisinterpretivePornStar
Spawn
TheGreatAku
Let's talk about Abar, a black superhero movie from 1977.
jetah
Blade first appeared in a comic in 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(comics)
TheGreatAku
We are talking about movies, bud
myr14d
It's amazing. Apparently, A black motorcycle gang who were playing themselves in the film intimidated white cops sent to shut down filming.
makelthappen
FROST!!!
YourMomsNewBoyfriend
First pretty much entirely black cast and crew is what I got from the headlines. Can I see this mythical “BP first black hero” headline?
Amythyst
There was a qualifier of "blockbuster format" in there, which everyone ignores.
Groznek
Not to mention, most people haven't heard of Blankman. Blade is an anti-hero. And Hancock wasn't quite playing the superhero thing straight
Khrome
Shaft?
JeAlterEgo
Blankman and Meteor man were made more as comedic relief rather than actual hero’s so we like see a more serious positive superhero to be
JeAlterEgo
At the top with other serious hero’s, as far as the mention of blade and spawn, those 2 aren’t aimed at children....the thing is for
JeAlterEgo
Minority children to have a imaginative person to look up to they can relate to the same as Batman or Superman, like girls have Wonder Woman
JeAlterEgo
As an under represented group in most positive dynamics in theater it’s a change that is welcome with open arms
n0tJesus
Oh yeah? Where did ya read that?
tazedconfused
Some muthafuckas always trying to ice skate uphill
TemmieAmine
SBFP?
Radvstheworld
Damn beat me to it.
tazedconfused
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Migotchi
Nobody says this. Nobody with an opinion that matters anyway. Why is Imgur reposting this over and over again?
Goatsarepeople
Nobody has an opinion that matters.
danielsan1977
Because SJWs, even ones that have to be invented, need to be attacked all the time forever.
KatieVick
Blankman?
allenCookieDiver
Meteorman
rando84
Do parody superhero films really count? Did any kids grow up reading Blankman comics?
Crunkmagic
I grew up thinking that if I was smart enough i could be like him, despite how dumb i was.... so kinda?
hypermarv123
J 5!!!!!!!
Chinwekewa
It makes me so happy to see that people remember Blankman.
Crunkmagic
I loved Blankman. Something about it was just more real to me
Sebabanana
Hancock?
thisusernamethingmakesnosense
Spawn?
HookerinaHandbasket
Antihero
thisusernamethingmakesnosense
Still a hero
EvilNapkin
Well slap me around and call me Susan!
ZooseKatz
What’s a Nubian?
Resz7
SHUT THE FUCK UP
baconandplagues
Pootie Tang.
vesuviusfurnace
Slippy Tao on the limme tey
MountMidoriyama
Truth. Ta da tay
mity0k23
But that’s a Louis C.K movie, and we don’t like him now... waaaahhh
Bbbrrr000ccckkk1
I know why we don't like him but I still don't understand why we don't like him.
mity0k23
We found out about his sad white fetish, and involuntarily imagined Louis hwacking it....
Bbbrrr000ccckkk1
Yeah and it’s not like he forced you to imagine it. You just did it all on your own. Don’t put that blame on him.
mity0k23
You imagined it too. I don’t give a shit. He forced somebody to see it, and they got uncomfortable. Hope to hear about in his next special.
Kresstro
Snipes actually wanted to make a Black Panther movie in the early 90’s but was denied. Wrote a script and everything.
iamthemadz
Its probably better than that god awful piece of shit Marvel just dropped on us.
IwishIwereKeithDavid
Age of Ultron?
ExaDeuce
You will have to be more specific
iamthemadz
More specific than how it has barely a story, all of the characters and their backstories are two dimensional and you can't criticize it?
nocturnalgenius
What is "it" my dude? You talking about black panther? Thor ragnarok?
iamthemadz
Now that you mention it, both kinda. Specifically I was talking about BP. Its storyline was about as fleshed out as Iron Man 2.
erischilde
I'm ok with that. He crushed blade, and #2, but marvel may not have survived the 90"s.
geraltbossing812
Thank you gif*
SugarTitillates
But blade is a Marvel movie.
SarcasticComment
It took them a while to find a grove. Their movies in the 90s to mid 2000s were hit and miss. Probably for the best it wasn't a 90s film.
Falanxzealot
*Find Robert Downey Jnr
bingtittletittlebong
I feel like no one is saying this... yet there are memes about it
AutomaticLynx
blade is an anti hero, he's been a bad guy a few times because he didn't know the hero was good.
dentd
Like every superhero at one time or another?
dargonfarce
Judge Dredd and The Punisher are also anti-heros (probably), but they're still classed as superheros too (probably).
Cassian
Ye, I'd probably go with Spawn. He is a superhero in that he's actually super-human, AND he's not traditionally heroic.
xrufus7x
Neither are superheroes unless you consider being able to kill lots of people a super power.
Simusar
The Punisher also has the power to not die.
xrufus7x
Most protagonists have that power. It is typically referred to as plot armor.
AutomaticLynx
they're classed as anti-heroes my dude
dargonfarce
My point is they can be both.
AutomaticLynx
they're situational heroes, they're good very rarely. they don't get involved in anything big.
Carmichael106
Nah. Heroes don't kill, certainly not to the extent of Punisher. He never has, and never will be a hero.
IOvercookedmyeggsagain
Opinions are like Assholes. Everyone's got one
Djehuty
Exactly. Blade was a man that wanted to exterminate vampires. He was on a path of vengeance etc, not one to save the world.
dentd
Like Black Panther in Civil War?
BaconFuzz
Spot on.
Dranton12
Buuttttttt he did save the world. That makes you a damn hero in my book.
GodSiege
But he did forget one vampire.. I'll give you a clue. His name starts with Blade.
Djehuty
I reckon he's saving himself for last.
Hitsuzen9
Blade is not a vampire he is a dhampir or a half vampire not a vampire.
Djehuty
True. (Comics) His mom was fed upon while he was born and some of the enzymes were passed on. Then her fellow whores chased off the vampire.
porpz
Why is this such a big deal. Like the BP is the first black character. And what about Spawn?
GrabherbythePuss
Just think about how many people are in the US, and then think about how many are diehard comic fans, one greatly outweighs the other
chrisdinhsk8
^^^^^yeah, what they said!
ChefMIKErowave
Media makes it way bigger then it actually is, "woah black cast huge deal IT'S A BIG STEP FOR FILM WOWWWWWW TOTALLY"
TehBox0rz
It’s the whole movie. Do you not realize how rare it is for a black person to have multiple characters look like them in a popular movie?
DimensionMaster
Spawn technically possessed the corpse of a white man.
HeadJamistan
Was hoping someone would mention Spawn! Noice.
chinho321
What about cool runnings?!
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LtKifKroker
It's nite a big deal at all. People just like being the person "pointing it out" to feel better about themselves
okiidokii
Blade nor spawn are heroes.
Tminus1622d
Rewriting the past is the first thing extremists/nazi's/everyone/whatever do. You should resist it where ever it pops up.
WildBluntHickok
Spawn debuted in the 90s. Black Panther debuted in 1968.
waitwhut
It's not the 1st. It's the 1st every Black kid wants to be. Not all of us was into Blade. And nobody wanted to be Blankman or Meteor Man
mynameisbarryallenandiamthefastestmanalive
That makes sense. Except the Blade part. What's not to love about a bad ass vampire-killing Snipes??
electrovirus
I wanted to be Blade, and I am not even black. Because Blade kicks ass.
Gayforbae
Blade's the first super hero to be played by a former drag queen...
WarriorFox
Best movie ever too. I love how he showed that young man to be respectful towards women
Goonit
people were basically arguing that spawn isn't really a super hero. Doesn't really matter to me but I can understand their reasoning
joecool2087
He's an anti-hero, technically. Kinda like the Punisher, Deadpool, Venom, or Lobo.
Mentok
It's only a big deal to dummies.
apercent
Can't people just enough things? Jeez
GdSvThQn
Apparently to you guys, too. I only hear about this from imgur bitching about it.
Mentok
I have the same issue. I am we and you are me, and we're all the imgur.
ceandros
The fact that the last black superhero movies date from 1996, with sequels going up to 2004 might be the problem.
Blundermore
I mean falcon was in avengers...
ceandros
And Black Panther was in Civil War. Neither were the main characters.
Blundermore
Not all of the white characters were main characters either. But they were still there doing their thing without issue.
ceandros
But the main characters haven't been Black since Blade.
Blundermore
And Iron man three, Iron patriot. Or was that number 2?
ceandros
That's weird, I thought the main character of Iron Man was Iron man. There are thousands of background black, female or gay characters, but
ceandros
very very little main characters. It's easy to add a token to the group. Hard to make them an interesting character.
Blundermore
It's still a recent super hero in a recent film title with a prominent role. Not every white character gets the main limelight either.
ceandros
Obviously. But you can understand the excitement to see a movie where the main character is not only a minority, but also a fan favorite
OopsImAPumpkin
To be fair, I'm pretty sure BP was the first Black Superhero in comics.
Textuality
Yep, in 1966. Then Falcon in 69, Luke Cage in 72, and Blade in 73.
troublecliff
I've heard it also has to do with BP being the first black hero who wasn't criminal, alcoholic, drug dealer etc.
DBlack
Abar and Cleopatra Jones have been on that list since the 70s.
dauberjagermonster
Blankman and Steel.
OopsImAPumpkin
BP was created in 1966 both Steel and Blankman (who shouldn't count) were made in the 90's
NauticalRimJob
Blade isn't any of those though, he's just a Daywalker.
PostNutDepression
I mean to be fair the guy that plays Blade is a criminal. Not really a dangerous one, but still.
NauticalRimJob
Snipes? Really? Well, it is Hollywood. Doesn't make it ok, but every big actor's got some shit on their record these days. How bad was it?
OopsImAPumpkin
He's not really some one little kids can look up to though.
troublecliff
Yea that's thing, T'challa is the first black hero who's just a straight up dude without any stereotypical flaws. He's a genuine role model.