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Eat nuts, kick butts: Marvel's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

Nightowl1701

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This one-time total joke of a character's been operating under the radar for almost 25 years now. But with Anna Kendrick's recent public interest, scene-stealing appearances in Marvel video games/animated shows and her increasingly visible status in the comic Avengersverse (both U.S.Avengers and Great Lake Avengers comics are forthcoming, in addition to her wildly popular series), it sure feels like Doreen Green is thisclose to blowing up and becoming the Marvel Cinematic Universe's family-friendly alternative to Deadpool.

Or is that just too nuts?
 
i never understood how the character went from nothing to super popular almost overnight. i will admit i wasn't crazy about her showing up everywhere...but her recent solo comics have been hilarious. Anna Kendrick would be great as Squirrel Girl. i'm still waiting on them to make a Marvel Legends figure of her.

(waits for 5s to show up to proclaim his hatred of the character)
 
I found the first two Unbeatable Squirrel Girl trade paperbacks at the library, and reading them was exhausting -- because I was laughing uncontrollably at practically every page. Just hilarious stuff. I love it that the TPBs even include the letter columns, which are a hoot.

As for Anna Kendricks, she certainly has the voice for Squirrel Girl, but I think she's too conventionally pretty and slim. What's cool about Erica Henderson's version of Doreen is that she isn't your typical sexy superheroine, but has a more "ordinary" look and a strong, stout physique -- yet also has enormous self-esteem and body positivity, and subverts conventional definitions of female attractiveness (e.g. being proud of how big her butt looks with her tail tucked into her pants). I think that sends a good message to the younger girls who are the target audience for the book, and it'd be disappointing to see her movie incarnation forced back into the standard hot-skinny-babe mold.
 
I've heard Mae Whitman ('Independence Day,' the voice of Disney's 'Tinker Bell') suggested as a possible SG. She certainly fits the Henderson mold you're talking about.
 
Christopher said:
and subverts conventional definitions of female attractiveness (e.g. being proud of how big her butt looks with her tail tucked into her pants). I think that sends a good message to the younger girls who are the target audience for the book
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Haven't you heard? Big butts are in.
 
Christopher does not look at pretty girls close enough.

Anna has an over bite, not that there's anything wrong with that.

"A superhero with an overbite!!! JUST LIKE ME!!!" Anna said "DESTINEEEEEEE!".

I didn't like, or laugh at the new book, do I have to give Squirrel Girl another go?

####.

Stoopid peer pressure. :(
 
Nightowl1701 said:
I've heard Mae Whitman ('Independence Day,' the voice of Disney's 'Tinker Bell') suggested as a possible SG. She certainly fits the Henderson mold you're talking about.
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I thought of that too. (They were both in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, by the way. That's the only thing I actually know Kendricks from.) Whitman's already played her share of comics heroines in animation -- Batgirl in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and DC Super Hero Girls, Wonder Girl and Stephanie Brown in Young Justice, and April O'Neill in the current TMNT series. Plus Katara, of course.
 
Saga said:
i never understood how the character went from nothing to super popular almost overnight. i will admit i wasn't crazy about her showing up everywhere...but her recent solo comics have been hilarious. Anna Kendrick would be great as Squirrel Girl. i'm still waiting on them to make a Marvel Legends figure of her.

(waits for 5s to show up to proclaim his hatred of the character)
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I really liked Squirrel Girl from the first time I saw her all the way until issue #1 of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. I still like that Squirrel Girl. If she ever comes back and replaces this in-name-only "Unbeatable" squirrel Girl, I'd read whatever she's in. She used to be an awesome, funny, unique character. Then, some yahoo (who had obviously never read a single one of Squirrel Girl's appearances, at least since she joined the GLA) gave her a horrible redesign (which looks basically nothing like the old design, so much so that they really can't be the same character at this point), and decided to put her in school, because...reasons. SG is also completely different from a character standpoint. She's been rebooted more thoroughly then the average New 52 character, and she came out just as bad.

So, yeah, in my opinion unbeatable Squirrel Girl is one of the worst books Marvel is currently publishing (at least when it comes to ongoing books, and not counting events or mini series), and "Unbeatable" Squirrel Girl is a terrible reboot of a classic comedy character. But, I don't hate Squirrel Girl in general. I really enjoyed the real one, and hope she comes back from limbo once the SG reboot runs its course. I doubt it will happen, but I can hope. DC brought back the classic Superman, so its possible that Squirrel Girl could be awesome again.
 
Not much to add except that I agree that Anna Kendrick isn't totally right. She'd be pretty disappointed at not getting the part though. That and I'm surprised that she's been around for 25 years. Never heard of her until recently.

As for an appearance in the MCU, maybe she can appear on Jessica Jones.
 
kirk55555 said:
I really liked Squirrel Girl from the first time I saw her all the way until issue #1 of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. I still like that Squirrel Girl. If she ever comes back and replaces this in-name-only "Unbeatable" squirrel Girl, I'd read whatever she's in. She used to be an awesome, funny, unique character. Then, some yahoo (who had obviously never read a single one of Squirrel Girl's appearances, at least since she joined the GLA) gave her a horrible redesign (which looks basically nothing like the old design, so much so that they really can't be the same character at this point), and decided to put her in school, because...reasons. SG is also completely different from a character standpoint. She's been rebooted more thoroughly then the average New 52 character, and she came out just as bad.

So, yeah, in my opinion unbeatable Squirrel Girl is one of the worst books Marvel is currently publishing (at least when it comes to ongoing books, and not counting events or mini series), and "Unbeatable" Squirrel Girl is a terrible reboot of a classic comedy character. But, I don't hate Squirrel Girl in general. I really enjoyed the real one, and hope she comes back from limbo once the SG reboot runs its course. I doubt it will happen, but I can hope. DC brought back the classic Superman, so its possible that Squirrel Girl could be awesome again.
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nah, i get it. she has underwent a kind of reboot since her ongoing began. i guess with all the other changes Marvel has been making lately it didn't really register to me.
 
Christopher said:
Well, if we want her in the MCU, then it's a good thing that she's medically and legally distinct from being a mutant... :D
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More retcons from "The House of Ideas".

Captain America is a HYDRA Agent.

Tony Stark is adopted.

Wanda and Pietro aren't mutants.

Cyclops is a terrorist and now his younger self is being labeled as "kid Hitler".

Nick Fury is a murderer and assassin.

Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn had a secret affair when Gwen was with in Peter, while they were in college. Resulting in twins she never told Peter about.

Peter and MJ's marriage never happened. Thanks to OMD and OMIT.

The Terrigen Mists are fatal to mutants and sterilize them. Where before they either enhanced or caused no effect to mutants.


There are more, I'm sure. What won't Marvel change in order to squeeze a story out of their characters?
 
Squirrel Girl had a filthy affair with Wolverine that finished terribly.

Use your minds eye to visualize Anna Kendrik and Hugh Jackman necking.
 
Is Squirrel Girl's tail a part of her body or her costume? I wasn't clear on that. Plus, I really haven't read any of her own books. I'd like to see her around somewhere, though.

And Speedball, too.

Not the new ruined one, the original bouncy one that tried out for the Avengers and Cap had to hold him down to keep him still.
 
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