It may have been done to death recently, but when legacy characters were fairly rare, it could be pretty damn cool. Not to mention the concept of other Spirits of Vengeance and Hellspawn are both fairly well-established in the backstories of both.

I don't know about modern times so much, but it's no more or less than any other plot device. Used frequently, it sucks. Used well, it's awesome.

Spawn was actually pretty good up until issue 100. It should have ended there, as that was the big finale that the book had been building to since issue 1. But instead, they keep going, and it's all boring, as they can't possibly top the heaven vs hell war. That's when I really started to dislike the character.

Other thing I really hate about spawn is all the unnecessary text. I mean ffs, some issues were practically novels. And I have no problem with lots of text, as long as it's relevant, but 75% of this shit, we didn't need to read. I don't need to read about how dark and macabre spawn and his world are AGAIN.

Probably because people will use both anyway, so there's no point in a pretense otherwise?

One dude rode a motorcycle and had chains

The other ended up being more powerful than God and Satan, cmon.

Comic book.

Do I need to post the "armlock-in-space" picture again?

Comics are retarded sometimes.

And when they are, they deserve scorn.

What about him becoming more powerful than god or satan doesn't make sense?

Just sayin', nobody should be too surprised

To be fair, the "traditional" depiction of God is an entity that can literally do anything, be everywhere and know all things.

To be more powerful than the Christian God would require doing more than anything, being more than everywhere and knowing more than all. Assuming "more powerful than God" isn't bluntly defined as "can overrule God."

he was never more powerful than god... he just beat the devil. Who was a demon that beat the original devil, Lucifer, in the first place.

He ended up being more powerful than all the warriors god threw at him, but he was more of a good guy that the guys fighting for heaven so who knows

Why can't Spawn be more powerful than God and Satan for convaluted comic book reasons? God and Satan aren't given any better explanation as entities, and people actually believe they exist.

Actually in the comics There is a dude/entity called Man of Miracles (M.O.M) Who is resposible for the creation of both God and Satan he came to earth once as Jesus Christ.

And he gives Spawn powers greater than that of God and Satan who are basically squabbling siblings.


I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP

right but in the sense of what most people see as god, he is not more powerful than MOM

I hope you wrote that on your Mother's Day card.

Yeah forgot about M.O.M.

Yeah, that excuse is reserved for the bible only.

I'LL DO WHAT I CAN TO PLUG THE HOLE IN FOREVER

Because the conventional thought of god is not what god is in the comic. In the spawn comics, god isnt even a complete good guy. Its more like god and satan are equals who are fighting it out.

The actual creator who is all powerful, and spawn was/is/never will be as powerful as is the Man of Miracles, who gave spawn the power to be more powerful than his creator (malbogia [the devil] and god)

basically

Why is it stupid to change the mythology of God and Satan? It was simple, unexplainable, and childish to begin with

Well clearly you are arguing from a christian point of view because you want it to follow those guidelines. Whos to say the christian god doesnt have a creator? If in fact the christian god is real.

Also, if anything it was based on the Old Testament god, given what an asshole he is. Maybe we should get a jew in here to clear this all up.

Or not, since it is just a fucking fictional story. You can't say "oh well the bible says this" because, no offense to your beliefs but, there's about as much evidence of the bible being true as there are this comic book.

Because he's not basing his story on an entire mythos. He's only taking the concept of a god and a devil, and creating his own mythos from there.

Well, God of War and Clash of the Titans take a lot of liberties with greek mythology, so go pick on them for a while.

Also yeah, Zeus' dad did create some of the other gods.

I agree with BDC, though I have no interest in arguing as fervently as BDC does.

Am I clearly arguing from the Christian perspective? I'm just curious, since I normally get shit for being not just an atheist, but an antitheist.

Pretty sure you and a couple other of those guys arguing this makes sense have taken shots at, say, Stephanie Meyers for bad writing and not using traditional vampires. If you specifically have not, I apologise, but I'm pretty sure you have.

I mean, it's just fiction and whatnot, but it doesn't stop people from rawslobberbitchmoaning about it.