To the Vato-Mobile!!

Recently we've had a string of comic book heroes tales translated into the big screen.  Thor, X-Men, Green Lantern and the upcoming Captain America.  Being the comic book junkie I am it hit me, what do all these characters have in common?  Super powers?  Capes?  Bad ass gadgetry?  Nope thats to easy.. All these dudes fit the profile for Hitler's master race!  Blonde hair, blue eyes, tall and muscalar..  Im done, where the Latino heroes at??  Lets explore the last few decades or so to see where Marvel and DC have gone with this demographic..  I mean hell, they even did a Steel movie with Shaq.. 
  WTF?

Lets start with this dude.. El Dorado..  Any of you remember this guy from the Justice League days of the 80s? 
  He had the bad accent, looks like Ponch from Chips and unlike other Justice League members who had episodes devoted to their backstories this guy was just kinda there and there was never an explanation of who he was, what he could do and how he came to be.  Shady? 



There's this guy Tarantula from the Marvel universe who is a bad guy in the Spiderman world, powers comparable to Spiderman but this dude had knives on him (Imagine that, a latino having a knife on his person) and a really thick accent.  Im betting most of you dont ever remember this guy, do you get where Im going?  Lets move on shall we?

Im gonna move on to probably the most well known Latino character (cause he's not really a hero) in Comics.


BANE!  An absolute badass of a villian and I like the respect he gets that he's not all braun, he is on Batman's level intellectually.  He is actually the main villian in Christopher Nolan's final chapter in the newly rebooted Batman series starring Cristian Bale.  As long as we dont go back to Joel Schumacher's version of the character Ill be happy.



See though, that kinda makes my point.  Take what I described above and then forget about it.  Mr. Schumacher thought it was to unrealistic to have a latino villian who wasn't a complete buffoon and actually carry on a conversation with our hero George Clooney aka Batman..  Total disrespect..

Ive scanned the internet and the list of characters are so obscure and so random that its not even worth diving into further.  It just seems like its a big joke.



See what I mean?  This was a real dude..