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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4942680" data-attributes="member: 8158">True, it's a cliche. Heroic fiction inevitably breaks down into cliches, because audiences don't expect the comfort of familiarity when it comes to do-gooders who solve all problems with violence.Well, that's been done too. Spider-Man springs right to mind.Still don't see how you can say the guy we saw in the trailer doesn't seem to have much to do with the soruce material. Belts and buckles? Just seems like nitpicking. Then again, the character had no supporting cast, no recurring characters, no base of operations, no special talents, or any other elements that can really said to be character-specific. Take a tall lean man, dress him in black, put a pilgrim hat on his head, a sword in his hand, a flintlock on his belt, and slap a grim coutenance on his face. That's Solomon Kane (I guess you could subtract or add buckles as desired). People know who the Joker is. Solomon Kane does not enjoy that level of name recognition. Is an origin mandatory? No. Can it help audiences get into the character? Yes. Does providing an oriigin really amount to anything negative? Depends on execution.The long history you refer to ha less to do with taking liberties as it does with just not giving a damn about quality. Lord of the Rings took liberties for all the right reasons. Catwoman took liberties for all the wrong ones.</blockquote>