This makes me wonder why there aren't more ugly characters in team superhero movies.
I mean, yeah...I get it. No one goes to the movies to watch ugly people, so I totally understand that even the ugly people in movies usually tend to be Hollywood Ugly.
My question is, why aren't there more characters that are at least Hollywood Ugly? I mean, I guess there's that new Fantastic Four movie coming out, and The Thing would technically qualify as ugly, but he's also built like a badass and can Clobber shit like you wouldn't believe.
But that sort of brings me to my point. Yeah, The Thing is "ugly" and a "freak", but he makes up for it by being able to clobber shit really well. And if that ain't enough, he's part of a team. The rest of the Fantastic Four are pretty damn attractive, so it's sort of okay to have one dude on the team who sort of looks like a piece of shit.
Or let me bring up another example. Has anyone here seen Nightbreed? It has a fairly forgettable Clive Barker "horror" movie with the catch that the protagonists were monsters. And the plot sort of revolved around a community of monsters being attacked by humans and having to slaughter humans for their own survival. So, basically a "monsters killing humans" movie, except that the monsters were "mostly" (sort of) the good guys. But my point is this...the lead monster was a pretty good looking dude. i mean, granted it was the 90's so we'd probably laugh at his clothes and hair now, but he was a pretty sexy dude. And making the main monster a sexy dude allowed the filmmakers to make some of the other monsters even uglier. If I recall, there actually was a monster on "the team" who literally WAS a pile of shit. And I mean LITERALLY a pile of shit. When our Hot Human Protagonist finds out he's a monster and meets the crew, we're introduced to a guy who is LITERALLY just a big old stinky pile of literal feces. And...that's okay. Because it's okay to have the token ugly guy, as long as it's working within a team dynamic.
So here's my question...with "expanded universes" being the hot thing right now, shouldn't we have more ugly heroes?
And yes...I totally understand why the ugly guy wouldn't be able to carry his own movie. But, like, think of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are already so many heroes there, that it wouldn't hurt to have ONE guy (or gal) who is just plain ugly as shit and still manages to be likable either through personality or ethics or just having badass abilities. As much as people always complained about the "token black guy", at least that trope recognized that black people EXIST and can actually not be evil. Sure, Token Black Guy usually gets killed off (though it's been less common that he dies pointlessly, or is the first one to die), but it's a SMALL victory: a black guy can be on the good side, and a good guy can be black (even if he's the first to die).
But somehow, we just don't see that in modern superhero movies. I mean, look at Blade. That was a while ago, but one thing that bothered me was when Blade discovered the fatass Vampire and totured him for information. And then the fatass Vampire gave up the information and then Blade continued to torture that vampire anyway, just for shits and giggles. It's like, vampires were built up to be this big threat (otherwise Blade would have no reason rto kill them all). Then our hero meets te ugliest fucking vampire in the entire movie and it's okay for Blade to torture that vampire just for fun just because that vampire is ugly as shit.
But I mean...look at the Avengers. Or more appropriately, the X-Men. Especially X-Men. Given that X-Men are mutants and have their powers imbedded in their genes, doesn't it stand to reason that some mutants with fascinating powers or stories would just plain happen to be ugly as shit? Oh, it's okay for the VILLAINS to be fucking ugly, like MODOK or the Blob. But the GOOD GUYS? You're either not ugly, or you're ugly and made absolutely useless so that we can use your uselessness as a way to get rid of The Ugly Guy. We RARELY get a "Fantastic Four" situation in which one of the heroes is just a butt-ugly monster. Which seems kind of weird. Because expanding the cinematic universe SHOULD allow the ugly people to plkay off of the pretty people, which SHOULD allow us to at least ACKNOWLEDGE that sometimes the butt-ugly people can actually be the good guys.
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