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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?"
All Kwik-E-Mart employees must be skilled in the deadly arts. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
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.
"My movie went to India and all I got was this stinking t-shirt"
The cows will be grateful
He would swing from the trees, like the monkeys do.
They would have to change his name:
Bhandri-Man!
But can he dance like Shahrukh Khan?
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.
Maybe he can use human pyramids of well-wishers instead? Plus there has gotta be some good use for several cows looped together with spidey-thread.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
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.
I thought that issue where Mary Jane was raped by that tentacle creature was particularly disturbing.
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
Im still waiting for Spider-Man in Canada eh! with his super hockey powers and lumber-Jack Strength!
now wheres my Beer ya hosers!
I'm kind of worried about people living around Mumbai airport in tin-roof huts and stuff. I wouldn't want Dhoti-man or his evil nemesis jumping on those. Besides, dhotis are not meant for high-velocity displacements. They tend to be left behind in such cases..
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.
They want to capitilize on the name recognition of Spider Man while at the same time making a superhero that more Indians can relate to culturally.
So in their version, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are going to almost kiss each other and then spin away from each other and spend the next twenty minutes singing and dancing?
He's going to swing on the hundreds of thousands of outsourced jobs, broken promises, and shattered dreams of American tech workers. Oh wait Spider-man? I thought we were talking about George W. Bush's re-election.
Is this to make him look more Indian or would there be a cultural backlash against tights?
I imagine it's similar to how most female comic book superheroes have extraordinarily large breasts. It's best to appeal to your target demographic.
Of course, it sounds politically incorrect but no Japanese show can be complete without a robot.
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
Just what I've been wishing for all these years.
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!
If it were being remade in PAKISTAN then he could swing from minaret to minaret. In India guess he'll have to settle to swinging from US call center communication towers...
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
Out of curiosity, do most Indian comics have names that sound like Linux distros?
That's gotta fit into your schema somewhere
>>Explain to me why we're re-doing comics for
>>other locales? Can't they make their own comics?
India is outsourcing it's superhero development and comic book writing to the US. I don't see a problem with it?
If you're swinging from the Taj Mahal, where on earth are you swinging too?
"Hey, look at me. I'm on the Taj Mahal. But now. . . I'm on the Taj Mahal.
Now, for my next magical trick, I have to change into my Batgirl outfit and fire up the Royal Enfield, because I'm really getting sick and tired of going in circles."
KFG
Thats not a mass on skyscrapers, its more like a high rise area.
"Sir, he's getting away!"
"Its okay I have these four blocks staked out, after this he has a few semi's and a mosque. He ain't going anywhere"
but then, to an Indian, NYC is an exotic, far away place of strange excitment.
Wrong, it's a shit whole, everyone except for New Yorkers know that, including Indians.
So STFU!
:)
j/k
"...who do a far better job of creating characters that Indian language readers relate to."
My favorite character is Outsource Man! He can do any job any American can, but cheaper!
Spider-man Australia: 10 times more deadlier then before, 100 times more drunk then before.