Is it even possible to have gun wielding heroes these days without having some hang up about them using guns? Like not exactly gloryfying them like a maniac nor shunning them ala Bayman. Just using them as useful extensions of the character's arsenal? Because they seem to not be a thing in comics. Pic sorta related.
Is it even possible to have gun wielding heroes these days without having some hang up about them using guns...
David Campbell
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Juan James
Just do what Spider-Man the 90s animated series did and replace them with laser guns
Elijah Wood
I would say Punisher, even though some people make the argument he's a maniac. He only kills criminals so I don't see a problem. Now if he did collateral damage tier shit and got a whole bunch of innocent people killed then maybe I would label him a maniac. But I think he's a good example.
Blake Sanders
At least in comics, the backlash to the Nineties' "Dark, Edgy & Full of Guns" era hasn't died out yet. So it's jus a matter of time.
Elsewhere, like in cartoons? AFAIK, only Looney Toons ever had guns used on-screen not censored in a way or another.
Colton Flores
Phantom uses guns
Cameron Scott
I wanna write a comic about a black girl who gets raped by a bunch of gangbangers and then carves a path of destruction through the hood shooting all the thugs
Liberals won’t know what to do
Austin Peterson
I would argue that Tommy Monaghan fits that description. Yes, he's a hitman and he stays afloat by shooting people to pieces with guns, but that's not the reason he's an asshole. That goes down to personality issues, but when Tommy kills somebody he's in the right. He only kills 'bad' guys, and as someone who lives on the underbelly of the crime world, he's the tries to be the best possible person someone in his position can be. Kind of a Spike Spiegel situation. I'd also say Ennis makes the comparison with gunslinger characters in that neo-western annual.
Charles Morris
You're not wrong, but Tommy doesn't exactly fit in with the "nowadays" part of the OP.
Dude's been dead for two decades
Zachary Stewart
Isn't there an episode of regular show that featured guns getting fired?
Asher Butler
Joshua Carter
Damn, you're right.
Ethan Bell
>you will never chou henshin with kuuga
Jace Price
In America? I don't know.
In Japan almost every Toku hero uses a gun. Even Super Sentai which is made for literal kids use stylized guns that they sell as toys.
Cameron Williams
One could go down for a more classical route and use them in non lethal combat for disarming opponents like moonlight mask does. Although you don't really see much of that anymore
Robert Davis
Gotta have mooks he can use them against that we don't feel bad about. Toku/Sentai use machines, aliens, and other faceless things we don't care if the hero kills en masse and in fact we cheer them on when they look cool doing it. In America, Storm Troopers in SWs do this, as do Parademons when Darksied shows up.
Isaac Hughes
Cowboys?
Jason Jenkins
Hell this was in the first episode of Zero One.
Samuel Hall
i like how in the tintin movie he uses guns to just cut ropes or knock stuff over. as long as the protagonist isn't aiming for the head or hits a vital organ they're golden.
Nathaniel Martinez
They're gonna bitch about using rape as backstory.
Lincoln Bennett
I remember Kamen Rider Drive having detective sidekicks who got special ammo that damaged the monsters.
Glad to see that tradition hasn't changed, even though these monsters seem way more brittle.
Nicholas Adams
Moralizing and politics aside, guns are kind of boring in a cape setting. At least with arrows you can have them fire a net or a boxing glove or something, but gun heroes tend to just be good at shooting and use regular ammo.
Hudson Johnson
They'd compare it to Kick-Ass (volume 3 I think?) and then anons here would complain about it being about a tranny SJW.
Camden Barnes
Who's supposed to be the bad guy here?
Cameron Russell
I'm fine with that. Actually, I'm more than fine with using the gun via non lethal methods, but western heroes these days would rather pretend that they don't need a gun than actually be practical with it.
Even Bruce Lee, the guy whose martial arts influenced most media, orefers using a gun if you have it.
Dominic Baker
Both
Angel Ramirez
Both. The robot in this case is malfunctioning, and the leader's putting it out of its misery.
Juan Scott
You better make her cute or appealing and not a nigger caricature. The idea is pretty good
Nicholas Watson
I Spit on Your Grave in the Hood?
Nathaniel Ross
Some of those Toku Weapons though, they're really pushing it. They can range from awesome to retarded, sometimes both.
Eg. Kamen Rider Saber's weapons.
Zachary Clark
>moonlight mask
So THAT's the name of the Hero that Nobita cosplayed as.
Easton Gutierrez
Guns have only one setting: kill
Heroes typically don't kill their enemies, that's for anti-heroes
Nathan Garcia
Like the thread said, Classical Heroes had guns, and they weren't killers.