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Spider-Man in India
Lord Omlette writes "I'm really surprised no one else has mentioned this, but Spider-Man is getting redone in India! As an Indian-American, I'm quite excited. (Let's get it out of the way: even our comic book heroes are being outsourced, wtf!) The manga version of Star Wars was pretty good, but off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?"
And what's with the bottoms? American spiderman doesn't ware suit pants. Is this to make him look more Indian or would there be a cultural backlash against tights?
All Kwik-E-Mart employees must be skilled in the deadly arts. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
In Japan, they released manga versions of Spider-man and the X-men. And when I say manga version, I mean manga version--the stories were all redone, with new characters, character names, and written and drawn by manga artists. Japanese Spidey had very little to do with American Spidey if memory serves.
Given the problems Stan Lee has had with getting paid for his creations in the US, I dont think he's too pleased about this.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
That's Truth, Justic, and the American way!
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
enough said...
"My movie went to India and all I got was this stinking t-shirt"
Explain to me why we're re-doing comics for other locales? Can't they make their own comics?
That said, its pretty much a non-issue. There have been several alternate spider-man styles over the years (most recently the on-going Ultimate line), so its not like this is anything special.
The only thing I find really that stupid is that they're going to have to completely reinvent all the relevant characters to fit this 'new' spider man, so what is the point? Why not just make a new super hero?*
*: obviously, the Ultimate line isn't vulnerable to the same criticism, because the entire point of it is to provide an alternate take on a hero that is already popular. Spider Man, however, isn't popular in India.
"Stumble before you crawl"
Was on MetaFilter a few days ago.
Now we know this outsourcing thing has gone too far.
The cows will be grateful
Who gives a fuck?
I mean *really*.
But can he dance like Shahrukh Khan?
I can't wait to see Spider Man versus Monkey Man!
More info on Monkey Man who has been attacking people in India:
http://www.strangemag.com/monkeyman.html
As long as Aunt May doesn't get suttee, that is.
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Now instead of saving new York city, Spiderman dances around buffet trays for 3 hours while the wedding guests clap in unison!
I object to the punjabification of our super heroes.
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
For ages, due to censorship law in Turkey, the locals who want to watch American import have to make do with the next best thing, local remakes. If you can find it on sale online, it's well worth the effort to find the Turkish remake of Star Wars. Same story, no effect budgets...
During WWII, Canadian publishers revamped several US comic books, creating a Canadian spin.
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...was remade my a different culture. The original British comic strip was excellent IMO, it actually made some very interesting points about both the future and human nature. Then it was remade by hollywood and sucked beyond belief.
This looks like a job for Dharmaman! Faster than a swinging monkey! More powerful than an Elephant! Able to leap Mount Meru in a single bound! Truth, Justice, and the Bharati way! With lots of singing and dancing!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
"They're outsourcing our super heroes to India too?"
On the plus side, Bruce and Clark are quite active in the Open Source Community now.
There's a Manga version of the Marvel universe. I saw it in a bookstore the other day.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
So if they were to outsource Captain America, would he be renamed to Captain India? (Would he sport orange, white and green? Would his shield have a huge Chakra design on it?)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
One of the regular sketches involved a very patriotic Indian man and his young son. Whenever the son mentioned something, the father said it was Indian, had been done first in India, or was done by an Indian.
In one sketch, the small boy was reading in bed before going to sleep. His dad was watching over him. He was reading about Superman.
"Indian," his father kept saying.
"Superman can run faster than a train!" enthused the boy.
"Of course he is Indian," exclaimed the father, "Where else can you run faster than a train?"
I'll get my coat....
Stick Men
When they have the Monkey Man!!
Actually "outsourcing" would mean that the US comic was being created in India which it clearly isnt. In effect India is "outsourcing" its superhero culture by importing one from the states... GYFSA (Get Your Facts Straight!)
Of course, a movie called "Constantine" that's loosely based on this character has a September release in the USA. The character of Constantine has been changed; now he's from California and Keanu Reeves is playing him. Ack. Find out more at a partially official page where they say Alan Moore doesn't like what they've done and doesn't want to be credited. Shrug.
Give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe.
Wow. You repeated a joke already made in the blurb and got modded funny for it?
Im still waiting for Spider-Man in Canada eh! with his super hockey powers and lumber-Jack Strength!
now wheres my Beer ya hosers!
Apu: Today, I am no longer an Indian living in America. I am an Indian-American.
Lisa: You know, in a way, all Americans are immigrants. Except, of course Native Americans.
Homer: Yeah, Native Americans like us.
Lisa: No, I mean American Indians.
Apu: Like me.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
spiderman was traded to india for cobrawoman, mongooseman and baloo from the jungle book in april of last year
considering that spiderman is getting older and cobrawoman's amazing batting average, i think that the usa made out ok in that trade, but spidey is a different story... i mean, i hope he likes cricket, i hope he learns what a wicked googly is...
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I think it's better that this sort of thing adapts to regional tastes. Sesame St. is available in many different languages, for example. You should never underestimate the importance of local knowledge. The HSBC bank have a good series of ads going in the press that emphasise this point. There's one that shows three footballs, one Australian [labelled 'Football (Australia)'], one soccer ball [labelled 'Football (England)'], and an American football [labelled 'Football (America).]'
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Are the comics going to reek like my Engineering department did back in college?
First off, looking at the picture, all I have to say is, "Nice shoes." Next, I feel that it would really establish him as a true savior of India if this Indian version of Spider-Man, in his first issue, were to save several sacred cows from the clutches of their version of the Green Goblin, who would no doubt look very similar to Ronald McDonald.
Ganesha being the only eight limbed super(natural) being in India who squashes green guys.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Who modded this a troll? How can you not make fun of Bollywood?
Hopefully it be four hours long and have lots of silly duets and dances between Spiderman and Dr. Octopus... otherwise I am not renting this one.
I believe I speak for us all when I say "WTF?"
Okay, maybe I'm reading in to this *waaay* to far, but in a universe where superheroes could exist, wouldn't it be concievable that two different average joes could suddenly have similar freak occurances happen to them, causing very similar powers? And perhaps, these two average joes get the same idea for their superhero identity, what's to stop them from both being [insert superhero name here]?
Now, continuing this reasoning, could superhero A sue superhero B for copyright infringement? Or does superhero law decree that they must fight to the death? Or... some... third option.
The Sacred Chao says, "MU".
while I can't say I know jack shit about India (other than I'd like to have nuke insurance if I lived there) I spoke to an Indian friend of mine about this and he thought it was a cool idea. He even said the dudes name isn't that unusual and yes there are large buildings to swing around from in India's big cities. He figured they'd probally give it an antinuclear swing too for the "radioactive spider" part. Spiderman was always about ambiguity and with all the class destintions and cultural limits in Indian society I expect they can make it fairly interesting. Given how ravenous a lot of eastern countries are for classic US culture like this I'd expect it to do fairly well. Having Spiderman fight demons seems like a big far fetched to me but we'll see how it goes.
I can only imagine how they're going to make Mary Jane look. Those poor Indian bastards will never get to see her in a bikini. Oh well. That's what they get for stealing our jobs. Thppppt!!!
"Let's get it out of the way: even our comic book heroes are being outsourced, wtf!"
So, instead of having this comment appear where people may or may not read it, you put it on the front page where everyone will read it.
Just let the readers speak for themselves and let the moderators do their work. You may be suprised at the results.
Another US superhero to get offshored, but in a bad way. The URL says it all:- indian .html
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/s/superman
"The manga version of Star Wars was pretty good, but off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?" Well, all sorts of japanese media has been redone for America. Remember Power Rangers? The whole plot was completley different for the US and Japan versions. In fact, they just used fight scenes and such from the Japanese version of the series, and created a series with a new, completley different plot. Actually, I recall the Japanese version being better (Being relativley young, I remember watching it). Also, anime can sometimes be redone. Following along the lines of young, child fads and franchises, the Pokemon movies had seperate plots. And the series was reformatted to be more US friendly I think. So, while I'm sure the US has done it's share of "outsourcing" of it's pop culture, we're readapting other culture's pop culture to be more US friendly. [ Reply to This ]
what about the flies? :)
The above is a joke, whoever is not getting it, will probably mod me down :)
The guy's link is INFORMATIVE, not redundant! Sheesh!
Just what I've been wishing for all these years.
It's all we have left!
buy it here
What I never understood is why bother to dub a movie/cartoon, from say Japan, into English and then not bother to change/translate the character names? It's all well and good that now I can understand what they're saying up until someone's name is mentioned.
Yes, I like original language movies. I'm just pointing out that this Indian remake rather than a simple translation seems like a step in the right direction for people who aren't interested in seeing the original.
Joseph Elwell.
Constantine is a chain-smoking, sarcastic, bastardly magician from Liverpool.
I think you mean Michael Owen....
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
With great curry comes great responsibility!
...as making Jimmy Olson black.
If people like Spiderman, then let them watch Spiderman. If they can't relate to it by virtue of the particulars of it's setting, then write something else - just don't call it Spiderman.
Coming up next, Batman becomes a singapore prostitute who turns tricks by day and fights crime by night...
I guess my seeing this as totally pathetic and nerdy exempts me from being a geek. And what the hell is "manga"? It sounds like a foot infection.
There is an example vice versa, the Japanese manga Fist of the North Star was remade into the fscked up live-action movie version. I assume Hollywood has many other things it "smuggled" into the US from around the world (if you don't stick at comic books, there's the recent rush of the US remake of Japanese movies, such as "Ring" or "Shall We Dance?").
but most of these comments really toe the border into racism. Yeah, i understand that many people in the slashdot community have lost jobs to india, and i realize that there are many that are comic purists (for whatever that's supposedly worth). But honestly.
The reason they don't "come up with their own heroes" is because the US comic companies would sue the new artists out of business in an afternoon.
Why can't you guys be happy that someone else is going to enjoy a character you like? Or do you guys just really get off more by pissing in someone else's coffee?
Hmmmm.....That costume says... NOT GAY ENOUGH!!!
"You know Myra, some people might think you're cute. But me, I think you're one very large baked potato."
Well with super villians that have all sorts of shapes and abilities. It may be rude to suggest, but maybe each character might remind the audience of some Hindu God.
"Please do not offer my God a peanut" - Apu
Don't waste your time flaming me.
Japanese, British and Australian, and German comics redone for the US of All of us? Certainly sounds cross-cultural to me.
Subject says it all!
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
He's gonna have to ask Homer to give him a ride to the Squishy Girl's house.
I had heard that the Barbie(TM) doll from Mattel had been modified to suit the Japanese market years ago. If I remember correctly, she was made a little shorter. Never did confirm it.
Captian Britian is pretty much Captain America with a Union Jack splashed on his chest. I don't know if that counts.
Maybe in this culture Spider Man will actually have some extra limbs. Like Vishnu
As an Indian, this is my official take:
This is gay.. seriously gay.
I'm at a loss for words. Someone needs to find the focus group that came up with this, and remove them from the gene pool.
Spiderman with a dhoti? What the fuck? What is wrong with the world today?
-Laxitive
"Doctor Octopus, you are a BAD MAN!" (waves finger in air)
"People" using "unnecessary" quotes should be "shot".
From the article, it looks like he'll be Indian - not Indian-American.
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I guess Captain America and Wonder Woman are still safe...
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Damn, the moderators (or
Saying this is representative of Turkish cinema is like saying the Star Wars Kid is a good example of Canadian acting skill.
Turkey has some good filmmakers. I recommend Yol and Vizontele.
"Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries!"
I agree. But hey, the article was posted by michael.... explains the meta-mod.
I've been living in the US for the past 15 years but I grew up in India. As a child I read a lot of comics, both Indian (Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha etc) and Western (Asterix, TinTin, Superman, Spiderman etc).
I loved the Spidey comics and the cartoons on TV and enjoyed them just fine the way they were. Why the hell do people have to try and "Indian-ise" American cartoons. There is a certain context that is inherent to them which immediately becomes ridiculous in any attempt at translation.
What would be interesting is to see the development of original cartoon characters and series that are not an insult to one's intelligence. Any Indians reading this remember the horrendous Chacha Choudhary?
As an aside, Indians had some really colorful superheroes as far back as 3000BC. Read the Mahabharata and Ramayana for some mind-boggling and wonderfully entertaining action!
For a moment, I thought this going to be a line from the song the Simpsons sang to cheer up Apu:
Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Their clerks are trained in deadly arts!
Sadly, it doesn't quite fit.
Probably the best example would be Spider-Woman, as there have been no less than FIVE of them, sometimes operating simultanously, and until the fourth and fifth surfaced none of them had anything to do with each other at all.
Of course, with very few exceptions* most superheroes operate outside of the law, so doing anything about it legally would be like drug lords filing anti-trust suits against each other.
*Batman, officially a Gotham police officer, and Captain America, created by the US government, for example...
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The Turkish Star Trek looks to be an intentional parody. This would explain why the star of the movie is a comic in a black hat- he's the star of the series. Also why their Kirk is not a staight copy.
Xenophobic slashdotters?
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
Due that Quick E Mart like business are the first source of India's income, what better than have them protected by Spidey.
Thank your HP, IBM, (you name it corporattion) for let this kind of stuff happening, I mean the outsourcing nonsense.....
having been in bombay/mumbai I can imagine some of the super-hero stuff local spidey could do there 1. rescues local gal by getting her water from a mile-long water queue 2. gets a harried late office worked into the rush hour train But I think a lot of villains could embarass him by attacking his dhoti, though, not secure like tights... being an Indian but pretty much brought up on american comics (somehow the local comics lacked the graphics quality and imagination), I would be curious how sudhakarman..or spiderman develops :)
The gay version is called "Spidermen".
Funnily enough, both movies star Tobey McGuire.
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Because, as we all know, the number of h1-b visas didn't skyrocket during clintons term, and companies weren't outsourcing jobs to india then either.
Your troll would have been better if it were in any way accurate.
A pygmy called tarzan came to new york and ...and take the subway etc...
taught white folks how to drive
Back in 1969, Ryoichi Ikegami (of Mai, the Psychic Girl and Crying Freeman fame) wrote and illustrated a version of Spiderman. There were about 6 tankoban compilations of the series total, so it didn't run long. I used to own the manga. He didn't spend a lot of time in costume. Mostly dealt with yakuza and damsels in distress (that was an easy transition from culture to culture). The costumed villians and fights didn't seem to make the transition well. Overall, I found it rather dull and depressing. I wonder if the transition from color to black & white had more to do with those changes than the cultural differences between Japanese and American culture. Here's a list of issues that were translated into English with some pix: http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/title/spiderman_ma nga.html
I wonder how they handled the masterbation with porn scene in the first chapter? Right off the bat I knew this wasn't Stan Lee's Spidey! (-_-); The series wasn't heavy on nudity, but with mostly panels of talking heads I wondered if Ikegami was even familiar with the original story aside from the visual character designs.
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That the first villian will the Man-Eating Cow from the The Tick. I am sure that Indians would love the irony of that sort of villian. Especially if all the people that he eats are Westerns, *YUMM*.
This just furthers that point.
Can't they be happy with Curry Belcher?
Spiderman was in a 1990 series called "Skating on thin ice" It was comissioned to be an anti-drug keep-yourself-clean comic by some federal police group in Canada. Peter was sent to various cities to do some of photos and battled various villians dealing badness to the kiddies. Electro is in the first one, which is all I have since they handed it out for free. It was based where I live which is the only reason I kept it.
Readers of the new Spiderman: India comic were extremely upset and irritated when at the last page of the comic they were given a clifhanger "to be continued" and essentially put "on hold" for an entire week.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
There was a manga version of Spiderman produced for Japan a few years ago. I saw some imported copies in a comic book shop at the time, and it was plainly an official adaptation and not a doujinshi fanfic or anything like that. They seem to have been translated and released on the US market in a limited way, but I never saw any of those on the shelves.
And the brethren went away edified.
...he can have eight arms!
Best Buy can have you arrested
Yea let's kiss more ass and non-offend another whole race with good will that is the comic book!What is is his day job though,cab driver?
Pat Lee and others have done Superman in the art style of Japanese print manga, but that was in english for American audiences. Was there an actual Superman created for Japanese audiences?
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I'm surprised that you mention the Star Wars manga in connection to foreign-localized American comic books, but don't mention Spiderman himself. This same thing happened a few years back when Marvel had Spiderman redrawn and rewritten by Japanese artists and writers in an attempt to break into the Japanese market. It didn't turn out to be very popular there, I've heard, however.
Bít, zabít, jen proto, ze su liska!
...now even our superheroes are getting outsourced to india. Maybe we can outsource our president next.
I haven't seen anyone ask the question yet:
How did they get the rights to reproduce both DC Comics (Batman, Superman, etc) and Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine, etc) or are they ripping them both off?
An I am Nagraj, the original Indian super hero. Check my bio. Spiderman beware, there can be only one superhero, not two...
"Actually "outsourcing" would mean that the US comic was being created in India which it clearly isnt."
That wasn't the joke. Imagine Spiderman sitting at home in his underwear reading the want-ads.
Ah never mind, i blew it.
"Derp de derp."
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Isn't this just another sad attempt from another American company to americanize yet another part of another industry in another country. It's sad to see one of my favorite industries stoop to this level, rather than create a super-hero that could be appropriate for the country and the culture from scratch... they mold an American icon to suit the countries needs.... Spiderman is American, and as unfortunate as it may seem to Indians and Marvel money makers no amount of Hindi culture and crazy shoes is going to change that. All this stands to do is fragment a super-hero icon in India... What happens when Peter goes to India and meets this new tool impersonator? I for one hope he beats him up!
Come on, michael.
This has happened many times before. Bollywood has copied, for example, the action hit "The Fugitive". They called their version "The Criminal". I must say it was pretty good, but they didnt have the giant sewer scene.
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Fricking great, now they are outsourcing SpiderMan!
They're taking our jerbs!! (South Park reference)
Actually it does look kinda interesting. Best of luck.
The Singhsons
I haven't fought crime in decades...
When looking over Manga titles I saw a very intresting Batman manga.
What did they do for cultral translation? Absolutly nothing. This was the American Batman in Hong Kong hunting down a hong kong villen.
I didn't get to read it but the discription leads me to believe Batman dosn't just have to deal with the criminal but that his detective skills don't work so well in an unfamilure culture.
Instead of making the hero match the culture for reader acceptence make him clash for a more intresting story. The readers will accept or reject the character eather way.
Each super hero is created by the culture and situations the character finds themselfs in. Superman was rased on a farm away from big city trubbles. (I object to the "Smallvile" series on the account that it trashes this point)
Batman however watched his parrents die at the hands of criminals.
The Xmen have a whole big "Evil mutants ick ick" thing going.
It completes the character and adds depth.
Else you have "Major Glory" (See Dexters Lab).
Ok so I find him really funny but try to picture any attept to make a sereous version of that guy.
Just make em american and give all the same problems. Superman might need permission to enter airspace for example.
And when a half demon hero trys to enter a cultre rich in spirital history (IE they teach there kids about demons) the story is ripe for possablitys.
(Storyfront has a counter demon spell becouse that's the cultral norm... Kid knows how to cast demons out of a building... and of course every culture casts demons as evil so there's no giving him a break)
And for goddess sake PLEASE consult someone who knows the culture. Don't make stupid assumptions.
I don't actually exist.
there was a moderation option "-1, Fucking stupid."
Must be another slow news day on slashdot....
3 guesses as to:
1) what "Indo" in the term "Indo-European peoples/languages"
stands for.
2) What country are the following names common in:
Arjen, Haidar, Savitri and Swasti
3) What language do you speak when you say the following
words and which country treats these symbols as holy ?
'swastika', 'shubhtika', 'laltika'
Um, this isn't manga, so you nerds aren't allowed to see it. It might make you broaden your perspectives a bit, and we can't have that. Sorry to break the news.
So STFU!
:)
j/k
So it's going to be a 5 hour musical epic then?
It's sad when choosing an installation directory on your own qualifies you as an "advanced user."
Screwing up a classic superhero like that is just wrong!!! Why can't they invent their own superheros.
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Look, I know I'm going to catch hell for this, but let's face it: the original of most films are good, because of the environemnt they were conceived in. Nearly all re-makes (including ones done by the film's original authors) are lesser by nearly every standard. And the resaon is that the film evoked specific reactions, and was tailored for the original culture/era. To try and adapt the full story to a different culture destroys the connection which made the original an interesting piece. (no Shakespeare arguments please, there are no oringial plots...)
When I watch films from other cultures, I watch them in the original language (subtitles on, of course), I take enjoyment in sharing a perspective of a different culture. I may not entirely understand it, but I think that trying to broadens my mind, and brings me closer to understanding a completely different way of thinking.
That being said, the masses (in ANY country) are not looking to broaden their horizons, only want to see things that relate to them, and are lucky if they speak their own language. (Americans, you know I'm speaking of us, too...) And the money-seekers will always produce to that common denominator.
Has anyone seen the Japanese television adaptation of Spiderman made in the late seventies? It has little to do with the original (the main actor was a typical Japanese "hero" type, showing none of the weaknesses of Peter Parker), but is interesting as a rare case of Japan importing American style comic heros.
if you are replying to this story.. you are twenty shades of lame
I don't understand why so many people here find this odd. How exactly is this any more odd than say Hollywood making versions of Japanese manga (or even video games) eg. Akira, Dragonball Z, Evangelion, Streetfighter 2, etc. and redoing them for mass-media American culture (as opposed to mass-media Japanese culture)? Yet that doesn't raise any eyebrows (plenty of comments about the butchering it is likely to get though).
possibly even Doc Octopus ;-)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Yes. Spiderman, in fact. It was made into a manga years ago and set in japan to appeal to japanese audiences. I happen to own the first issue and the changes are pretty significant.
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
Its not enough that they steal our jobs now they steal our super hero's??
Get your own identity..while your at it get your own companies too.
If his first enemy would be Monkey Man.
More here....
New Delhi residents fear 'Monkey Man'
New India's 'monkey man' branded imaginary
India's Monkey Man and the Politics of Mass Hysteria
Police suspect 'monkey man' is alien or remote-controlled robot
Possibly, but my money's on Mr. T over either of them.
> As an Indian-American
...
Which is it? Are you an Indian or American?
Get off the pot or
There was a manga Spidey not too long ago. It dealt with a student named Komori Yu who gets bitten by a spider and yada yada. Some things are similar to the American comic; others are not.
In the 70s there was a tokusatsu program starring Spidey. Again, he was Japanese. This version was given his costume and powers by aliens, I think, and drove a giant robot. Weird.
So... it's been done before.
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On the Allies of nagraj page, clicking on ngarjun returns an executable.
Which was annoying because I thought with the really big quiver it might be a character based on Arjuna and I was wondering if there were characters based on the other Pandavas.
Maybe the offshore force will be able to bring new meaning to this timeless riddle.
instead of webs does he shoot slurpees and lotto tickets?
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man, that's gonna rule. (link jacked from penismightier.com)
... IIRC The Magic Roundabout was all French dialogue and the English version was not a translation, just an entirely different script that fit along with what the wacky characters were up to onscreen.
So i guess that makes The Magic Roundabout a cartoon/animation that has been successfully ported to a different culture.
...will there be singing in it?
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Last of the Dogmen
3. Soldier Blue
It isn't as if Indians are begging to read Spiderman. Frankly, we don't even care. This is just being done because it makes business sense to the people at Gotham, which incidentally is a US based company
If these guys feel it's going to get their (consequently 'America's') cash reserves up by localising content, it's something they have done, not as if we asked for it.
Spiderman (the movie) was well accepted by Indians as it is. But these guys think differently and it really isn't our problem. We have enough Indian comics to read anyhow.
As gay as SpiderWoman?
Spiderwoman aka Jessica Drew also accidently got a spider bite, trully amazing to see the same effect in two people on diffrent sides of the US. To be honest I know very little about this character other then there was a comic and a short lived cartoon. I can read up on her and see references to characters i've seen randomly in the newer Spiderman cartoon that was on fox. I saw SpiderWoman as a blatent attempt to attract the women with balls market as Wonder Woman did, but alas the idea of being tied up by Wonder Woman with her magic lasso seems to be a hell of alot more plesent then being spewed with spidergoo.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Really, I think Slashdot itself has started getting off topic.
Spider-man Australia: 10 times more deadlier then before, 100 times more drunk then before.
I can't wait for that sambar eating guy doing
yoga!!
Of course, with very few exceptions* most superheroes operate outside of the law, so doing anything about it legally would be like drug lords filing anti-trust suits against each other.
*Batman, officially a Gotham police officer, and Captain America, created by the US government, for example...
Batman? Working inside the law? Not always, a few series have had him labeled as a "masked vigilante".
... the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
this is sort of non-issue for me. being of indian descent, but born and raised in the US, i spent some time travelling in india as a child, and spent most of that time reading asterix and tintin comics. those comics are both french originally, but published in something like 40 countries each. and they're only now readily available in the states. but i always bought the british localizations that would then be shipped to india. the point is, localization doesn't really hurt anything. if people in india want to read spiderman unaltered, they can import it. this will just expose them to it. how many people here got exposed to anime through the dubbed translations before deciding that they wanted to watch it with subtitles, allowing them to see it the way it was in japan?
please go back whence you came. Then you can take the American off of your classification.
Here's a direct link to the image.
Looks more like Irish-American-Indian-Spiderman to me. Is it necessary to make him look "American" to appeal to Indian lovers of American comic books? If so, doesn't this bring into question the entire concept?
Why is this better than just having Spiderman realize that there might be other places in the world in more need of super-hero assistance than the rich and powerful United States?
off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?
Yes. Oh, yes.
But you'd better hope it doesn't come out like this.
I'm sure that Spiderman did very well in other countries. Why don't we get to see other "re-inventions" of the character (using the worst cultural stereotypes)?
Germany: Same top, but with lederhosen
Japan: Bows to "Green Goblin-san" before proceeding to kick his ass.
Soviet Russia: J. Jonah Jameson really IS the good guy and Spiderman is a Russian mobster (Spiderkingpin?)
France: Runs and hides from every aggressor until he can work out the "conditions" of his unconditional surrender
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Hrm. You are right. I was just thinking "always works outside the law". Batman has kind of gone back and forth. Probably part of the reason the police gave him a badge was to make some of his actions more kosher.
Member of Orkut? Annoyed with spam?
That or they gave him the badge to cover up those stupid expando nipples seen in some of the later Batman movies.
Not really "redone" for another culture but the Tin Tin comic books seem to be the mother of all cross-cultural comics. Translated into 30-something languages, including Esperanto.
RoBin: Holy Krishna Cow, Bat.!..
.!..
...Look! ...Great Shit! ... Look again! ...Barnacles! ...Pikachu! BLAM BLAM, great tranquilizer-gun: Johhhh-kerrr! ...stuck in a giant strawberry-salami pie again, get my bat-spoon!
BaTman: Yes, he just traveled nowhere at an immeasurable velocity!
Rob1n: I don't think so, because if planet Earth rotates on its access at 1,000 MPH along the equator, then that realistically means he traveled in such a speed that would be offset by that 1,000 MPH and
BatMan: Great Gadsend, look Robin! Spiderman has found the secret hideout of the Salami Swami and his get-away is a cow!
Robin: Should we start a stampede, to extend the swing-zone of SpidermAn; he has nowhere to swing to.
Batman: That depends if SpIderman can keep from chaffing his genitals from swinging at such a low elevation, yet the natives won't mind being trampled; they think a cow is holy even when it tramples their own children or craps in their living room: execute stampede!
"What about Princes Charles, Dad?"
"Lives with his mum! Indian!"
Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling
Obviously Marvel have overlooked the obvious. Jackson Heights, Queens. Easy way to keep Spider-Man in New York, yet appeal to South Asian readers by interweaving traditional customs, cultures, and languages.