LogFAQs > #979972003

FortuneCookie posted...

Some producers are probably stuck on a power trip like that. Others probably feel there's a difference between what works in a comic/novel/cartoon/TV series/etc. and what works in a feature length film.

There is a difference, but it's a pretty overstated phenomenon.

One good example is the Green Arrow villain Onomatopoeia. Screw Batman; he was a GA villain first! The guy is pretty much just a normal thug with pretty conventional weaponry, who somehow manages to mow down a bunch of superheroes serial killer-style.

The one noteworthy thing about the guy, aside from accidentally setting up an interesting story through no merit of his own, is that he speaks exclusively by mimicking the sound effects drawn on the page (with the exception of the one time he said his own name). It's not clear whether he imitates the in-universe sound perfectly, or if he just approximates it with an onomatopoeia, but neither would make any sense with actual audio. For example, if the author used BLAM as the gun sound effect, the villain can just say BLAM in a speech bubble and it's perfectly clear that he's mimicking the sound. But a gun in a movie isn't going to make that sound exactly, so it might be lost on the viewer why he's saying BLAM, or in the opposite case, it might not be clear why the sound effect was played twice.

But this does nothing to explain the dystopian world where dinosaurs evolved into humans in Super Mario Bros.