Marvel made a change in #1 that robs her of her mutant roots. With her appearing primarily in Avengers titles all loopholes were closed.
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Anna Kendrick Wants to Play Squirrel Girl
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Marvel made a change in #1 that robs her of her mutant roots. With her appearing primarily in Avengers titles all loopholes were closed.
Give Squirrel Girl a chance, guys!
I think generally, there's a common tendency among people to feel rather wary of the character on account of the well-known long-running gag in Marvel Comics that sometimes like to depict her as the bewilderingly undefeatable heavy-weight champion of the Marvel universe (having easily taken down characters such as Thanos, Doctor Doom and Galactus). Personally, it's a gag I've actually always really liked, seeing it as something of a light-hearted stab at the nerdier aspects of comic book fandom when it comes to memorizing superhero fighting stats or debating amongst our friends which superhero could beat which in a fight. Oh, Doctor Doom has a genius intellect and untold mystical abilities that rival that of Doctor Strange? Yeah, well...Squirrel Girl has squirrels.
Of course, I think the gag has been going on for so long now at this point...Squirrel Girl's reputation as an invincible villain-slayer is at risk of being entirely synonymous with the character. And there's definite danger there. But what's important to remember is that there's actually a hell of a lot more to Squirrel Girl in the comic-books than just occasionally beating up Marvel's greatest super-villains. It certainly isn't the secret ingredient to just why the character works the way she does.
A lot of people (including myself) like Squirrel Girl because in many ways she's irrelevant. No-one in the superhero community really knows her personally, she hasn't got very impressive superpowers, she's got a weird gimmick...she's a superhero who always exists on the side-lines, the under-study who never gets called up to the spotlight. She's not so much as superhero, as she is one of us. And not only is that always actually really, really great comedic potential to play up with with any kind of superhero character, it also makes Squirrel Girl rather refreshing in comparison to the multitude of superheroes who exist around her in Marvel. For one thing, Squirrel Girl is never usually drawn like a super-model like pretty much how every other female superhero in comic books is drawn, instead she usually appears to people as rather homely and awkward. She doesn't have an angst ridden comic book origin, she's not really a member of any of the big superhero groups. She's just a weird, eccentric girl who doesn't quite fit in, but doesn't allow the fact to deter her boundless optimistic and energy. At the end of the day, Squirrel Girl is just a fun, ridiculous character who's a loving throwback to the fun and ridiculousness of superhero comic-books past. And that's wonderful.
When Avengers: Infinity War or whatever it'll end up being called finally comes out on BluRay, I want to see the officially return of the Marvel: One Shot's, with a ten minute short film starring Kirsten Schaal as Squirrel Girl. That's all I'd need. Maybe it could revolve around Squirrel Girl trying out to be an official Avengers member in front of an increasingly bewildered Falcon, or something. It would be great.
I love you, Squirrel Girl.
I think generally, there's a common tendency among people to feel rather wary of the character on account of the well-known long-running gag in Marvel Comics that sometimes like to depict her as the bewilderingly undefeatable heavy-weight champion of the Marvel universe (having easily taken down characters such as Thanos, Doctor Doom and Galactus). Personally, it's a gag I've actually always really liked, seeing it as something of a light-hearted stab at the nerdier aspects of comic book fandom when it comes to memorizing superhero fighting stats or debating amongst our friends which superhero could beat which in a fight. Oh, Doctor Doom has a genius intellect and untold mystical abilities that rival that of Doctor Strange? Yeah, well...Squirrel Girl has squirrels.
Of course, I think the gag has been going on for so long now at this point...Squirrel Girl's reputation as an invincible villain-slayer is at risk of being entirely synonymous with the character. And there's definite danger there. But what's important to remember is that there's actually a hell of a lot more to Squirrel Girl in the comic-books than just occasionally beating up Marvel's greatest super-villains. It certainly isn't the secret ingredient to just why the character works the way she does.
A lot of people (including myself) like Squirrel Girl because in many ways she's irrelevant. No-one in the superhero community really knows her personally, she hasn't got very impressive superpowers, she's got a weird gimmick...she's a superhero who always exists on the side-lines, the under-study who never gets called up to the spotlight. She's not so much as superhero, as she is one of us. And not only is that always actually really, really great comedic potential to play up with with any kind of superhero character, it also makes Squirrel Girl rather refreshing in comparison to the multitude of superheroes who exist around her in Marvel. For one thing, Squirrel Girl is never usually drawn like a super-model like pretty much how every other female superhero in comic books is drawn, instead she usually appears to people as rather homely and awkward. She doesn't have an angst ridden comic book origin, she's not really a member of any of the big superhero groups. She's just a weird, eccentric girl who doesn't quite fit in, but doesn't allow the fact to deter her boundless optimistic and energy. At the end of the day, Squirrel Girl is just a fun, ridiculous character who's a loving throwback to the fun and ridiculousness of superhero comic-books past. And that's wonderful.
When Avengers: Infinity War or whatever it'll end up being called finally comes out on BluRay, I want to see the officially return of the Marvel: One Shot's, with a ten minute short film starring Kirsten Schaal as Squirrel Girl. That's all I'd need. Maybe it could revolve around Squirrel Girl trying out to be an official Avengers member in front of an increasingly bewildered Falcon, or something. It would be great.
I love you, Squirrel Girl.
My first post on this thread is literally saying she'd work in an animated movie.
You guys need to read. Not everybody in the thread is a "hater". Jesus.
BronsonLee
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I am a full fledged hater
illmatic22
Banned
Can you guys give some examples? I love Ryan North but the art turned me off the series after like four issues, so I saw the bit with Kraven but nothing else.
Fun fact: I share a name with Squirrel Girl's father. Not a very common name so I emailed North about it, since we exchanged a few emails some years ago, but unfortunately it was completely unrelated.
Give Squirrel Girl a chance, guys!
I think generally, there's a common tendency among people to feel rather wary of the character on account of the well-known long-running gag in Marvel Comics that sometimes like to depict her as the bewilderingly undefeatable heavy-weight champion of the Marvel universe (having easily taken down characters such as Thanos, Doctor Doom and Galactus). Personally, it's a gag I've actually always really liked, seeing it as something of a light-hearted stab at the nerdier aspects of comic book fandom when it comes to memorizing superhero fighting stats or debating amongst our friends which superhero could beat which. Oh, Doctor Doom has a genius intellect and untold mystical abilities that rival that of Doctor Strange? Yeah, well...Squirrel Girl has squirrels.
Of course, I think the gag has been going on for so long now at this point...Squirrel Girl's reputation as an invincible villain-slayer is at risk of being entirely synonymous with the character. And there's definite danger there. But what's important to remember is that there's actually a hell of a lot more to Squirrel Girl in the comic-books than just occasionally beating up Marvel's greatest super-villains. It certainly isn't the secret ingredient to just why the character works the way she does.
A lot of people (including myself) like Squirrel Girl because in many ways she's irrelevant. No-one in the superhero community really knows her personally, she hasn't got very impressive superpowers, she's got a weird gimmick...she's a superhero who always exists on the side-lines, the under-study who never gets called up to the spotlight. She's not so much as superhero, as she is one of us.And not only is that always actually really, really great comedic potential to play up with with any kind of superhero character, it also makes Squirrel Girl rather refreshing in comparison to the multitude of superheroes who exist around her in Marvel. For one thing, Squirrel Girl is never usually drawn like a super-model like pretty much how every other female superhero in comic books is drawn, instead she usually appears to people as rather homely and awkward. She doesn't have an angst ridden comic book origin, she's not really a member of any of the big superhero groups. She's just a weird, eccentric girl who doesn't quite fit in, but doesn't allow the fact to deter her boundless optimistic and energy. At the end of the day, Squirrel Girl is just a fun, ridiculous character who's a loving throwback to the fun and ridiculousness of superhero comic-books past. And that's wonderful.
When Avengers: Infinity War or whatever it'll end up being called finally comes out on BluRay, I want to see the officially return of Marvel: One Shot's, with a ten minute short film starring Kirsten Schaal as Squirrel Girl. That's all I'd need. Maybe it could revolve around Squirrel Girl trying out to be an official Avengers member in front of an increasingly bewildered Falcon, or something. It would be great.
I love you, Squirrel Girl.
This is a really nice post, and one of the reasons why she resonates with me so well. The book is incredibly sincere and silly, and she's a great role model. Her adventures offer something counter to whatever crossover or event Marvel is running in their other books, and it takes me back to the days of reading old newspaper shorts but in a 23 page format. Henderson is a lovely cartoonist, and her characters are always very expressive and silly.
Manmademan
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Minor Nitpick: Squirrel Girl is on the roster of New Avengers, and is confirmed for USAvengers which will pick up right after that.
Megadragon15
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I want Gal Gadot to play Squirrel Girl. She is way more suited for that character than Wonder Woman, where she is an abomination.
You want to go to war Bronson? Because no one puts squirrel girl in a corner.
Allison Brie is not "homely", nor is she perky.
CaviarMeths
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Runaways movie from Disney Animation is something I need in my life.
HOLY CRAP YES
when has Squirrel Girl ever been described as homely?
homely does not mean "not a supermodel". It used to be an insult not an adjective for "cute". Are people trying to "take it back"?
V
Squirrel Girl retcon about her mutant-ness was the best retcon ever in the story of comics in terms of execution.
"And I can never take this back" made literally lol.
Not even close to my favorite thing about this retcon ... the note at the end of the page
We have Rat Man Renner
Quickest thing I could find. It's naturally skewed towards being friendly to younger readers, but it's a fun read for any age.
V
Not even close to my favorite thing about this retcon ... the note at the end of the page
Yep. The notes are 60% of the charm of this comic. And it's a comic with over 10.000 degrees of charm, so the notes are a lot of charm.
Don't work like that
The "half goth half hipster" line SLAYED ME when I read xD
Maybe they Retconed so that people stop asking ... because she totaly belongs to marvel considering how she is appearing in every game that fox proprieties are forbidden
Just makes me want to drive down to my local comic shop and buy some Squirrel girl comics tbh. All that front page hate.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
truth
super-famicom
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My favorite articles are actors saying they'd like to play roles nobody offered them yet
especially Anna Kendrick, who is just wrong for that. It should be somebody almost insufferably bubbly and optimistic.
Damn this would be perfect.
Starphoenix
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Honestly I'm not sure Squirrel Girl would work as a live-action MCU property, but I think she could do extremely well in an animated film like Big Hero 6.
kunonabi
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Squirrel Girl is pretty homely bordering on ugly in her current comic.
lol thats just the way the artist draws people, dude. She's not supposed to be "ugly in real life".
so who are some homely actresses that are sort of chubby but have really big butts that could also play SG?
i don't know of any
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
cloud 9 would be depressing, but could be done well
LordRaptor
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You're right.
Deadpool is shit-tier Rob Liefield Original Character Do Not Steal quality.
Squirrel Girl is a Steve All Time Legend Ditko creation.
Suck it haters. SG is right there alongside Spider Man, Dr Strange and The Question
Squirrel Girl too real for hollywood.
LordRaptor
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That panels 100% true - Marvel aren't throwing away any Ditko stuff any more than they're discarding any Kirby storylines.
At best you can no-prize it
For the people suggesting Kristen Schaal or Elle Kemper, Anna Kendrick is probably the only famous enough to make Squirrel Girl happen in the MCU. It's not like Thor or Cap where they can go with an unknown; no one in the general audience knows who Squirrel Girl is or why she should have a movie.
See Paul Rudd as Ant-Man or Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange. Already decently famous when they got their role. That's who Marvel is going for from now on.
See Paul Rudd as Ant-Man or Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange. Already decently famous when they got their role. That's who Marvel is going for from now on.
Are you just counting physical?
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
thats a nice way to try to spin her relevance. but what is she known for? gla? unbeatable? shit on waypool and liefelds arcs all you want( and you are more than entitled to. straight trash shit) but hes still more known and relevant than your girl is, and probably ever will be. and hes got good series to back it up with. ditko cant hit them all out of the park after all, which is obvious
LordRaptor
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You're saying this while presumably in full knowledge they're trying to make a Carol Danvers movie
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
its a question i ask to danvers fans too. except i know why shes getting a push. theres no pretense behind it
Subpar Spatula
Banned
That's a pretty shallow reason to dislike her.
K. This means it can't be a good movie... why?
and here we go....
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