What is with black superheroes and electric powers?

>>86531500
Yeah, and what is it with white super heroes having flight, super strength and durability?

>>86531500
It's because white heroes came first, so when they started making black characters more common, there just weren't that many powers left.

>>86531500
Well, most are too smart to get bitten by a radioactive anything, and most stay away from crazy school science projects.

Since they don't go swimming much, and they don't go outside the city, this leaves them with a limited opportunity to take on characteristics from their environment. Or for comic book companies to see the common black person being able to fantasize about being half atlanteen and swim to the bottom of the marianis trench, for instance.

>>86531500
Niggawatts.

>>86531500
They are all Black Lightning, expys of Black Lightning, related to Black Lightning, or deliberate takes on the "black superhero with lightning powers" trope

wool-like hair is better for conducting electricity

>>86531500
As a nigga I can say electricity powers are fucking awesome

>>86531562
this
Black Lightning was the first
He had two daughters
There were rights issues with him so he has a couple expies
Static is a shoutout to both Spider man and Black Lightning

and now black guys with electric powers are a thing

>>86531500
Other than Black Lightning, Static, and Storm, who else has electric powers?

>>86531500
There weren't that many, but because there were so few black characters altogether they stand out.

There's an Irredeemable panel about this

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>>86531605
Does miles venom blast counts.

>>86531605
Black Vulcan

>>86531706
He wss a knockoff of Black Lightning due to rights issues

No idea but my black OC who I plan to pitch to Marvel if they're still around in the future has lighting powers.

And no, I'm not changing him.

>>86531500
It's a stupid pun on the phrase "Black Power"

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>>86531500
It's a meme it's not nearly as prevalent as implied but people joked/made a big deal about it enough that people bought into it. Like the Hank Pym is a Wife Beating Supervillain who just so happens to be a hero or Jean Grey dies all the time.
Only a few are strictly Electric, a few more have indirect electric powers/motifs.

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>Trying to make a character
>His shtick is he has electric powers but likes to make them appear like fire powers
>Envision him as a black guy
>Realize that'd make him a black guy with electric powers
>Now I have to choose between my vision and avoid feeding into a corny stereotype
You fucking people did this.

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>>86531605

Coldcast.

>>86531847

Do it anyway. If it's a good fit for the character, you can make it work.

>>86531605
Volt the character referenced here >>86531644

The joke behind that character was great.

>>86531816>>86532005

>>86531605
If villains count, Electro

>>86531553
Kelek

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>>86531500
It was bound to happen eventually.

>>86531562
For a guy who basically launched a stereotype all by himself, I'm kinda shocked Black Lightning isn't more well known.

>Chronicle
>Black guy gets killed by lightning

>>86532059
Pun not intended.

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>>86532099
GENIUS
MAX DOES IT AGAIN

Color contrast. Same reason for asian chicks with a strand of color in their hair.

>>86532036
I thought that was only in the movie though.

All black people are robots.

>>86532059
Not being able to appear in any other media due to licensing issues is a big part of that.

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AY YO
HOL UP

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>>86531605
Wally West

>>86531500
brown skin goes nicely with dark blue and purple
dark blue and purple go nicely with yellow, bright cyan, or white
it's the same reason they often give them white or blonde hair. nice color contrast

>>86531562
or Storm

>>86531605
Shocker

>>86531847
That's actually funny. he prefers to make them look like fire because he hopes to god people think of him as the fire guy

>>86531847
Embrace it, man.

>>86532607
Does she really count as having lightning powers though? I mean yeah it's part of her arsenal but she controls the weather, lightning isn't her whole powerset

>>86531500
tasers

>>86531605
Jakeem Thunder doesn't have electric powers, the Thunderbolt is an all-powerful genie from the 5th dimension. Still, it really looks like he just has lightning powers.

Thunder and Lightning, Black Lightnings daughters who may not exist anymore, both use electric motifs, even though Thunder's power is density manipulation.

New Aqualad has water manipulation powers as his main skill but can do electric eel type powers and can shock you also.

New Spider-Man can do a venom blast that comes off drawn like electric powers pretty often

Black Wally has extra electric powers.

Cyborg, Steel, Mr. Terrific, Hardware, and probably a few others are all tech-based heroes so they'll do electricity based stuff too sometimes.

I'm sure there are more that I'm just blanking on.

>>86532431
>How do we separate black Wally West from the old one?
>Give him a new power
>Yeah, but what?

The black guy in the Ben 10 series has fire powers if I remember right

He has part fire alien hybrid

>>86532655
storm clouds produce lightning and rain
she can control the weather, but she's more aligned with lightning and thunder

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>>86532655
Yes, she can actually shoot lightning out of her hands.

>>86533999
Ah yes.
Palm lightning is my favourite meteorological condition

Basically three or four different versions of Black Lightning were created to get around copyright disputes and then it just became a meme.

As for Static, the creators of the original show clearly wanted to do an inner city black kid superhero show. Lightning powers could be just a coincidence, but based on future episodes with the Black Lightning tribute guy, it was probably more of an homage.

Black people have more bio-electric energy due to all that 'fast twitch muscle fiber'.

>>86534213
They also have denser muscles and skeletons, meaning they can swim better in salt water.
Electricity conducts easier in salt water.

>>86534329
>Black people swim better
Ok, now I know this is fictional

>hero named Dark Lightning
>wears a full-body suit/mask
>everybody assumes he's black
>he's actually Filipino
>gets tired of it
>changes his name to Thundercracker
>now everybody assumes he's white
would you read it?

>>86531847
Do it. Need more super heroes who don't broadcast their super powers.

>>86534378
In salt water, AKA the ocean.

>>86534577
Ask South Africa if blacks can swim well in the ocean

>>86532332
I like to call him black blue man, or dark blue man.

>>86532036

Electro isn't black.

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>>86531543
>most are too smart to get bitten by a radioactive anything, and most stay away from crazy school science projects.
>smart people stay away from science and discovery

>>86531894

Coldcast's powers are radiation based.

>>86531500
You can impress all the niggas at the anime club

>>86531529
Because no matter what, the white man always wins. We take the beatings of war, have the best genes for sucess

>>86535456
You're right but I think he was reffering to the AS-M2 movie.

>>86535469
But what does it look like?

>>86534378
Dude, a lot of black people can't swim because our grandparents were denied access to pools during segregation, then after that ended, the whites hauled ass from the cities to the suburbs and the cities didn't see fit to maintain the pools since us "dirty niggers" were now using them, so they were soon condemned and closed, so not many black people learned to swim, and were taught to be afraid of water by their parents. Learn some history, Pinky. We can swim just fine once we learn how, but due to so few opportunities for us to learn in the past, it wasn't enshrined as a pastime as it was for whites, and thus seen as not importanbe for parents to teach their kids...because the parents themselves never learned. We just had basketball and football (surprise, sports we dominate...it was all we HAD) as pastimes in the cities, where the majority of us were. To this day, swimming is still seen as a "white thing" to most of us. Glad I fucking learned how to swim, though.

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Jamie Foxx Electro

>>86531672
yes desu.. interesting point

How about an electric guy with black powers

>>86535995
>pure energy shows up
>"HOL' UP"

>>86531500
Black Lightning is a really fucking cool concept.

Then again, Cole Mcgraw broke that mold.

>>86535588
>WAAAAAAHHH DAMN WHITEY

>>86531745
Dude
Please change him
Give him plasma powers at least it's almost the same thing

>>86531500

Because your average black man already has super strength.

>>86535588
is any of that true?

iirc a cartoon wanted black lighting but couldn't use the name so he was something else people didn't realize it was a pastiche and the snowball rolled

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>>86531605
Even Japan is cashing in on this

>>86536276
You're on fucking 4chan in a racial thread. What do you think? I'm pretty sure I've seen that paragraph posted several times before.

Besides that, arguing that you can't swim well because your grandparents can't swim is like someone arguing that they don't need to learn to read or write because their grandparents wrote their entire lives. It's pure retardation meant to attract (you)s, don't fall for it.

>>86536276
Yes. There's a reason why black people arent as evolved as the rest of the world. Whites didnt let them evolve. I honestly believe this should be studied.

>>86536332
I thought this was how Static was born. They wanted to use another electric superhero, but couldn't, so they made a budget brand.

>>86532048
They're called electrolytes for a reason after all.

>>86532048
How can anyone seriously like this shit? It tastes like malted battery acid.

>>86536323
>Theres a reason blacks do more ape-like things, like showing off their abs when they're about to fight.

White people do this shit all the same. /pol/ get out of here.

>>86531745
Give him a skateboard, too.

>>86536376
Yes, DAMN WHITEY

I CAN FEEL THE GHOST-CHAINS OF MY ANCESTORS KEEPING ME DOWN.

>>86536395
he actually is a really shitty teacher

>>86536462
Some of pol believes this too and blames white libs

>>86536468
It's always either a sucker punch or they get six of their friends to beat up one guy.

>>86531543
>most are too smart
>most
>smart

>Old lady down the street gets robbed
>dude gets caught
>"he a gut boi"
Every time

When will they learn?

>>86534411
I would.

>>86536323
>Being this stupid

>>86532332
SO YOU SAYIN
WE WUZ EELS AN SHEIT?

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>>86531543
I wanted to be half Atlantian. I still do.

>>86535588
All that. You didn't think any of that was stupid, either. Interesting.

>>86535588
>kill whitey

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>>86536175
Holy shit

>>86536335
>one black guy has electric powers
>another black guy is a rapper

naruto just didn't care

>>86536506

Mentioning race =/= Racism. OP is black.

>>86535588
Science has proven that depending on where your midsection is, which varies for different ethnicities, that you maybe be better at certain physical activities. People from Africa are better at sports that include running because of it, and Europeans are better at things like swimming.

>>86536323
>>This is what racists actually believe

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>>86531500
Does Infamous count? I know it's a Vidya, but....
>Electric White guy
>Ice Asian chick
>Fire/Napalm Black chick
>Psychic homeless people that make trash golems

>>86536416
BATTERY ACID FOR ELECTRICITY

>>86536773
>another black guy is a rapper
Killer Bee was the best character in that entire series because he felt so pulled from a separate series entirely.

>>86536410
Evidence for that? I'm pretty sure all evidence we have of neanderthals show that they were just as capable as modern day humans.

>>86532626
SHOCKER!!!!!!!!! I'LL CHASE YPU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

SHOCKERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Mods wtf, this thread is overrun by /pol/.

Also, Baal in Wicked and the Divine.
Also, there's a TVtropes for this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElectricBlackGuy

>tfw black young man
>tfw loved the static cartoon and wanted to be like virgil
>tfw aware of the black/electricity power trope
>don't care because electricity is the most based power of all.

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Why do you fags always turn shit into a white vs black situation?! You fucks are no better than the Tumblrites turing shit into a Men Vs Women situation.

>>86538754
This. He was ridic tier in the batman beyond episode.

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>>86538702

>>86531500
bad diet
they eat too many salty and fatty food stuff

How do you make a young black male superhero with dreads who isn't mistaken for Static? Everyone thinks Aqualad is Static.

>>86539202
different body type? Really muscular? Fat?

>>86538702
Weird, they way it's spoken about makes it seem like it's everywhere. I've often joked about it, but I can only name 3 bla k dudes that fall into this.

>>86532059
At least he was fairly prominent in BtBatB

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Hmm

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>>86539202
>young
Screw that, make them old.

>>86533753
Did his mom fuck a fire alien? Jesus Christ she must be ruined.

>>86537950
Did you forget his older brother exists?
>Raikage was officially the most badass character
>bullshit eyeball fire that's a one hit kill
>chops off his arm and keeps kicking ass
>never stops kicking ass

>>86531605
That one black guy from Irredeemable.

>>86536544
Don't. The males carry the children through the second and third term.

I'm actually making a story with a black guy with earth powers. Hes not the main guy though.

>>86536773

And you know what the beauty in that is? I bet you anything that Kishimoto was trying to be inclusive to his black fans.

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>>86536175

My sides

>>86539629
>Hes not the main guy though.
boo

>>86531500

Honestly I think it's a meme that spread itself naturally.

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>>86539712
He's 2nd in command. Problem is, I'm still working on it on Tumblr and sjws got mad over 1 villian character that uses the power of seduction. Pic related.

OP here. There's probably less than 20 black superheroes with electric powers but there are so few commonly used black superheroes that makes it seem like there's a lot. The issue is why does the cliche exist beyond a few Black Lightning expies?

Tbqh, I want more fire power black characters. Dark skin + red clothes = Amazing.

>>86535588

Wha? No, I can't swim because I didn't go to the pool after age 8. They cost too much. I'm sure most people can float though.

>>86540036
Everybody floats...after they drown. The problem is when people can't swim, they thrash around when they can't feel the bottom, and that hinders buoyancy. Then comes the drowning. Pools cost money where you live?? What, you going to the YMCA instead of a public pool or some shit?

>>86540032
fuck them. do it anyway. It sounds like a power that can be done in a compelling way. Anyone is prone to seduction man or woman. Lust can override a person's basic decision making already, but if it's a power then it can be even more potent.
I like it anon.

>>86540160
I have very low bodyfat, I can swim but can't float.

>>86540190
same. I took a diving course so i could do stuff with the lake on my property and swimming up from like 15 feet down without buoyancy or visibility made me feel like i was actually going to die.

That fight or flight response taking over your body is a terrible feeling. Drowning is terrifying, I don't blame people for not wanting to swim

>>86540160

Pools are free? My town had a pool when I was a kid but it cost like $10-$15 to get it. I used to go to it every summer until one day my parents stopped. I haven't been swimming in years. Last time I heard the pool was closed down and transformed into something else, so there's not even a pool in my area anymore.

>>86536229
Hey, segregation had some generations-spanning repercussions.

>>86540032
That bullshit is why I'm hesitant to work on my comic.

>>86531601
>Static is a shoutout to both Spider man and Black Lightning

Now Miles has an electric sting.

We've come full circle.

>>86531500
Because a black guy with earth, or fire powers is racist and water powers is just breaking the suspension of disbelief

>>86540377
its gonna happen regardless. It happens to big name creators all the time.
Remember that a safe story is a boring story. Set out to tell the story you NEED to tell. One day you will die and your skeleton lie in the coffin hating you for letting other people's expectations guide or still your hand.

>>86540456
what about wind powers?

>>86537835
>Psychic homeless people that make trash golems
funnier than it should be

>>86540483
Micheal Jordan is an air bender

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>>86540163
Thanks senpai, thats her revamped style. This was the one theh complained about.
>>86540377
Sometimes you gotta deal with it anon. I cant even pull the race card because they're thinking Im brainwashed.

>>86540541
there's nothing wrong with this design. She has a pretty common bodytype (at least here in america) and the costume makes sense with the powers.

>>86540586
I decided to base her off of the episode of Fairly Odd parents when Trixie went crazy because no one but Timmy was around to call her beautiful.

>>86531672
Man I fucking hate Venom Blast, it's literally an I WIN button.

>>86531605
ASM 2 Electro.

>>86531990
>>86536416
it tastes like nice juice goy

>>86534378
Black people were thought of s natural swimmers during the middle ages, as the ones encountered were dhow sailors.

>>86540685
And when overmatched, make like Lisa Simpson and "Tappa tappa tappa."

>>86539314

I so wanted to post that

>>86531500

Because they fry so well?

>>86536773
to be fair black people in naruto tend tho be the best characters

>Sasuke acting like he's big shit
>bee outswordsman him
>comes at bee hand to hand with that same bravado
>bee craters his chest in.
Absolutely based

The higher your melanin, the better you are at conducting energy

>>86539456

Or a really commited human man with a really specific fetish.

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>>86539202
Different styles and length of dreads. Different body type. Different attitude.

>>86540685
I'm kind of hoping he tries it on the new Electro and she just giggles before lighting his dumb ass up.

>"How about a black super hero?"
>"Shocking!"

>>86535466
street smart, not book smart

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Black heroes always have electrical powers because their countries have no electricity, the people must power everything.

So they can be weak to water

>>86531583
Nigga also here, can confirm.

Super Speed is better, though.

>>86542663
>>86542619
Kek

>>86531562
this.

>>86532431
>tfw this shit and Barry throwing lightning on the TV show trigger you

Not muh Flash.

>>86535466
>>86542613
Wouldn't that depend on the individual intelligence and lifestyles of certain black characters?

>>86531500
They're supposed to be shamans, black people don't know electricity isn't magic yet.

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I guess it's euphemistic symbolism for black power. The same could apply for T'Chala and Cyborg.

>>86540541
What's your comic called, if you don't mind sharing? I'd be happy to follow it.

>>86531500
They often find themselves in racially charged situations.

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>>86536335
>>86536773
Naruto took "black guy with lightning" to a whole other level with that guy.

>>86543002
>The same could apply for Cyborg.
>Cyborg secretly has lightning powers, which he uses to power his cybernetics

>>86531500
Because lightning is cool and black people always seem energetic. Always.
>Was a black weeb in high school
>Wanted to make my own harry potter-meets-naruto esque shonen series
>Main character of course had lightning and stone powers, which was the coolest shit to me at the time.
>Still want to make it
Fuck, I should go work on my art or something.

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>>86541981
>mfw that happened

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>>86543371
Fucking black Kakashi

>>86543037
Im still working on the name and the story, the characters and some stories are there though.
http://thecomicguywhose19.tumblr.com

>>86531672
Mary Sue blast.

>>86540507
I'd watch/read that.

>>86543584
Do it, faggot.

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>>86535588
God damn that's fucked

>>86531500
Black superheroes either deal with electricity or technology(like Cyborg)

Either way, weak to water. Makes you think.

>>86544744
What about Aqualad?

>>86544766
Exception to the rule.

>>86544766
I thought he was part Atlantian and part human though.

>>86531500
Because its considered a superpower for a black guy to keep the electric on at his house

>>86531500
Because black people always resisting.

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DID SHE DESERVE THIS?!

>>86542666
Shouldn't electricity give you super speed in some cases too?

>>86531500
Is that a new static shock I see there?

>>86545651
He showed up for a few episodes in Young Justice.

>>86545373
ba-dun-tss

Electricity is the best power. I wish I was black.

>>86545633
Not really.

Magnetism, maybe.

But with magnetism, comes flight.

>>86545743
electricity IS magnetism though.

>>86531672
>ability called venom blast
>name means he should be discharging some type of nasty-ass toxin from his hands, somehow
>actually just a supercharged joy buzzer
This shit bothers the hell out of me.

>>86531500
>flashback to Static Shock
>only now realize he rode a trashcan lid everywhere like a hobbo

>>86531605
Darth Sithnegius

>>86531500
The blue/white color of the current contrasts well against their skin tone
>sad but true

>>86535588
Do you want me to pay for your pool membership?

Obligated
>https://youtu.be/4sFuULOY5ik

>>86535588
>To this day, swimming is still seen as a "white thing" to most of us.

This is so obnoxious. You DO NOT speak for all black people everywhere, whore

>>86535588
>not citing how your hair can literally start falling out

>>86535466
does that mean there is a black hero with cop powers?

because they got shot by a radioactive cop

>>86538836
It's only that way if you read it as such. For me, I just read all pro-black stuff in a white voice and all pro-white stuff in a black voice. Magic

>>86540190
>doubt.png
Also it's not like the rest of your "fatless" is more dense than water. That shit is dense as fuck.

Literally just fill up your lungs with a deep breath, then lie back and spread out your arms and legs. Ta-da

>>86545880
In the comic he even flew on the entire trashcan a few times and it looked silly as fuck
Both cartoon and comic gave him his own personal flying board eventually

>>86545545
She shouldn't have cheated with Bryan. He also sounds a little too kinky

>>86531500
The new static shocker is too white. Someone make me a petition

>>86531500
Wait they remaking Static Shock?

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>>86535588

>>86545997
Funnily enough, that is pretty much the origin story of everyone in Milestone
The cops were testing a new gas weapon and it accidentally gave superpowers to the rioting gangs they tested it on

>>86531500
CAUSE HE STATIC SHOCK, WOOP WOOP