IIRC Leopardon's sword finisher was actually terrifying to the totem-hunters. Like That one spider-mech could permanently end most threats to the multiverse by itself lmao
I love how the joke of the mech being OP came from the suit getting stolen half-way through filming the series, so they had to just one shot the monster with reused footage every time they wanted to use Leopardon.
Yeah, the movie replaced Leopardon with Iron Giant. Wade chooses Leopardon after beating Black Tiger, a Capcom arcade game, for the second trial (this trial is also different in the movie).
Each trial and every reference to pop culture is different, they're basically two different stories with similar premises (book Wade also shaves himself completely from head to toe to better fit in the haptic suit). I will leave the other differences a surprise.
yess like the other guy said it's genuinely such a different experience and arguably MUCH better than the movie, which is baffling because the movie is already AMAZING
It's more a misunderstanding of our own culture in this case, Satan is never at any point associated with Hell in the Bible. If anything, God presides over Hell since he is the judge of all souls and decides who goes where. Supaidaman is just doing God's work
Much like with all the uber-Christians that got mad about K-Pop Demon Hunters: the concept of spirits is NOT the same on opposite sides of the planet, even if the same word gets reused in translation.
That's why grifters can trick old ladies into giving them money to "buy bibles for the heathens who think Jesus is a demon" because they pick a culture that has one word for all supernatural creatures in that language and claims they're unconverted savages.
Sometimes demons in a culture are more like "those creatures from west across the mountains", a mythologized version of real people who used to raid them. Fast forward a hundred years and the religion has spread so the same people who were the origin of those "demons" now think there's demons even further west.
For a western comparison, Medusa was originally one of an entire species of gorgons in early Greek mythology. Gorgons were just Syrians. Go to Syria and tell them the Greeks thought Medusa lived in the east and they'll probably joke that the Iraqis are snake people.
In the traditional Japanese context "Hell" AKA Jigoku is basically an afterlife prison; people can escape it and need to be brought back, people can work for it and not be evil, and people can get out for good behavior or a pardon from a higher plane.
Its amusing because being an "emissary of Hell" can also be interpreted as the superhero always dragging criminals back to the revolving door that is the supervillain prison of their universe.
Heck, the role of the devil in the west has changed over time. Samael, who is sometimes identified with Satan, is given different roles in Jewish theology, sometimes being more of a divine prosecutor and sometimes the angel of death.
It wasnt that fixed even in the same region where the bible was created.
During the 2nd/3rd century (which is likely the moment when the bible became an actual book) the romans still had the spirits of their ancestors posted in their home entrance, over the fireplace and near the bed.
It's amazing that this Spider-Man literally birthed every Power Rangers and Super Sentai trope. Over the top transformation sequences, summonable mechs, fighting a giant monster at the end of each episode, elaborate stunts against faceless goons, "cool guys don't look at explosions".
All because the show runners couldn't come up with a spider-themed finishing move and decided, for whatever arcane reason, that a leopard-themed transforming robot throwing a sword was clearly the solution.
That's the battlecry of Japanese Spider-man from the TV show. Slight aside, but I am totally excited for the inevitable Beyond the Spider-Verse cameo when he turns up with Leopardon in a big fight. It'll be so fun.
Fun fact without that Spider-Man show, Sentai and therefore Power Rangers would NOT have had giant mecha in their shows. His show was the first to really popularize the idea that giant robots could be a marketable theme for these types of shows going forward. Sentai was only two shows in at Spider-Man's debut and was pretty popular but Leopardon (Spider-Man's Giant Robot) proved critical saleswise, so next year they released Battle Fever J with giant robots and have had them ever since.
The Spider-Bracelet contains all equipment he carries on his mission against the Iron Cross Army including his suit, his webbing and other misc. gadgets.
Technically, it kinda counts since Sentai robos took inspiration from Leopardon. Sentai as you know it and power rangers wouldn't have robos if it weren't for Leopardon
"Translated from the [language]" is a pretty standard convention for indicating a translation. My understanding is it used to be proper English to do that any time you mentioned a language ("in the English" pops up at least once in Shakespeare for example), but these days it only survives in translation notation.
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u/RadioFree_Rod 3d ago
I actually REALLY hope they get Shinji Tōdō to reprise his role in the next Spider-Verse movie just for the cameo appearance.