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wearetheborg 05-25-10 03:53 AM

How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
How important was it that the child character was a girl ?

dx23 05-25-10 08:24 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
The schoolgirl outfit would have made hitboy look gay.

Hokeyboy 05-25-10 09:47 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
You really don't like female action heroes, do you? ;)

Ash Ketchum 05-25-10 10:12 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
If HitGirl had been HitBoy, none of us would ever have heard of that movie.

Nick Martin 05-25-10 10:28 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum (Post 10177777)
If HitGirl had been HitBoy, none of us would ever have heard of that movie.

There's probably a LOT of truth in that. It would have been a live-action "south park" character or Bart Simpson up there.

That it was a girl made it different enough, and probably shattered whatever stereotypes people have about these things.

RichC2 05-25-10 10:40 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
Every woman I know that saw this movie loved it in large thanks to Hit Girl. I don't see guys attaching to it more if it were Hit Boy. So in otherwords, it would have fared worse.

wearetheborg 05-25-10 11:05 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by RichC2 (Post 10177829)
Every woman I know that saw this movie loved it in large thanks to Hit Girl. I don't see guys attaching to it more if it were Hit Boy.

Isnt that creepy ?
Guys getting atatched to a 11 year old girl....

FantasticVSDoom 05-25-10 11:10 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by wearetheborg (Post 10177887)
Isnt that creepy ?
Guys getting atatched to a 11 year old girl....

Probably more creepy if they were getting attached to an 11-year old boy?

arminius 05-25-10 12:00 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by FantasticVSDoom (Post 10177896)
Probably more creepy if they were getting attached to an 11-year old boy?

You just burst his bubble.

wearetheborg 05-25-10 12:04 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by FantasticVSDoom (Post 10177896)
Probably more creepy if they were getting attached to an 11-year old boy?

True, if someone finds attachment to either gender kids to the exclusion of the other gender, its creepy.

DaveyJoe 05-25-10 12:14 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
Admiring and getting attached to a character has no sexual implications whatsoever.

toddly6666 05-25-10 12:48 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by dx23 (Post 10177581)
The schoolgirl outfit would have made hitboy look gay.

Robin?

http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_13robin_3.jpg

Put a female in that outfit and you get a hot superhero. Put a dude in that outfit and you have one of the lamest flamboyant superheroes ever.

cleaver 05-25-10 01:03 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
http://i47.tinypic.com/eqbc5x.jpg
It's amazing how fast that caught on.

toddly6666 05-25-10 01:11 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by cleaver (Post 10178184)
It's amazing how fast that caught on.

it did? By who?

Thrush 05-25-10 01:12 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by DaveyJoe (Post 10178045)
Admiring and getting attached to a character has no sexual implications whatsoever.

Is that what you told the authorities?

Groucho 05-25-10 01:49 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
How would The Blind Side have fared with Jeffrey Jones instead of Sandra Bullock?

toddly6666 05-25-10 03:08 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
No one wants to see little boys doing martial arts. It's just not visually interesting.

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/yysk7-sm.jpg

The coolest bad-ass little boys were the Shaolin Popey boys:
http://www.asiatorrents.com/imagehos...II%20Cover.jpg


I would like to add that the main little boy characters that do the cool martial arts scenes in THE LAST AIRBENDER and IRON MONKEY are played by girls.

DaveyJoe 05-25-10 03:53 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by Thrush (Post 10178207)
Is that what you told the authorities?

My rights were violated. How in the hell did they know what was going on in that trench coat??

danstheday 05-25-10 04:15 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
The movie would have been more popular if they would have marketed Hitgirl more. I walked away from the movie thinking hitgirl was the best part of the movie...and they hardly used her in promotions of the film. A girl kicking ass and stealing the movie probally would have sold more tickets to girls.

Solid Snake 05-25-10 05:50 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
Really? It wasn't that graphic. In the comic it was graphic. I mean, HG got her ass kicked. Though I do reel back a bit when D'Amico knocks HG down in the film, it just looked like it was really fast and very painful. Violence isn't pretty. Yes, we watch films that make it cool. But it's not wrong to be disturbed by violence. I think the violence was justified and needed considering that a lot of shit happened to everyone else.

RocShemp 05-25-10 06:46 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by toddly6666 (Post 10178143)
Robin?

http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_13robin_3.jpg

Put a female in that outfit and you get a hot superhero. Put a dude in that outfit and you have one of the lamest flamboyant superheroes ever.

And his name was Dick.

Solid Snake 05-26-10 12:58 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
why does he need 6 gloves and 2 eye masks? A bit overkill?

fumanstan 05-26-10 01:01 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by danstheday (Post 10178550)
The movie would have been more popular if they would have marketed Hitgirl more. I walked away from the movie thinking hitgirl was the best part of the movie...and they hardly used her in promotions of the film. A girl kicking ass and stealing the movie probally would have sold more tickets to girls.

I thought they promoted her quite a bit.

Solid Snake 05-26-10 01:09 AM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 
a shit ton actually. A bunch of people wanted soooo much more HG especially after the way they marketed it.

toddly6666 05-26-10 12:17 PM

Re: How would Kick-Ass have fared with HitBoy instead of HitGirl ?
 

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC (Post 10179274)
why does he need 6 gloves and 2 eye masks? A bit overkill?

...because Robin's superhero gear gets so sticky all the time whenever he "gives a hand" to Batman. Robin gets pretty messy after Batman's explosiveness: SPLATT! GOOP! FLURP! UHHGG! GLURPP!


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