Thanos: "I am...inevitable." Snapper: "Scope those digits again, Grape Ape! Your omnipotent oven-mitt is now warming the frosty-cool fingers of Mama Carr's little boy Lucas. So sad, dad! Consider yourself SNAPPED."
Starro is a big retro giant monster starfish, and I wouldn't have it anyother way, he's both silly, yet can be easily unnerving, that's a winner of a idea that gets used sparingly, plus he gave us Jarro too. I'll save my Snapper Carr comments for a full on video, but from then, to current versions now, he's got a glow up... Except for CW Supergirl's version,dude erases fun.
@@johnyshadow IIRC he still had the Snapper nickname but he was a grizzled veteran reporter who was now the head of the newsroom at CatCo and served as a grumpy antagonist/mentor to ideallistic junior reporter Kara in the second season.
Supergirl was a great show. I loved her boss Cat of CatCo. Just, good character all around. From evil villain to strong ally. I wanted to see her and more of her every time she showed up.
@@zachwise476 yeah I loved that version of Cat Grant. Kind of an enemy and a mentor at the same time. They should have given Flockhart what she needed to stay on. When she left I left.
@@sleepinggorilla i mean i doubt there was anything that could just get someone to all of a sudden be fine with living in a different country for a decent chunk of time
Starro being both silly and menacing is everything I love about superhero comics. Where else can a purple starfish be a terrifying threat? Also, Jarro.
I distinctly remember watching The Suicide Squad with my family, and my mom, who knows nothing about comics, busting a gut laughing when Starro was fully revealed because of how goofy the giant starfish looked. That's a precious memory.
The 1981 Starro story was one of the first comics that I read and it made a impression on me. Seeing everyone in the world, including our heroes, enslaved by the mini-Starros clung to their faces had an eerily horror effect, even it though it sounds dumb at first. If I recall, Red Tornado was the only one not affected because he was an android and ended up saving the day in the end. I hope you are able to feature this 2 part story in a future video.
Starro is AWESOME. He posses an incredible threat to the entire Universe. The fact that he is a giant silly starfish just makes him even greater. its the full fun of comics on display and I love it!
I have never viewed him as silly or ridiculous at all. I've always found him seriously disturbing. Both visually, and conceptually. Am I alone in this?
I want the Snapper Carr resurgence with a catch phrase, “Oh Snap!” Also Sasha your Starro voice is all seductive & alluring like you’re trying to control a mind or two.
Make it a double legacy hero and have the new one not actually be the same guy _and_ have a genie like Johnny Thunder whose name sounds like that but needs a snap to create a sound human language lacks.
Snapper Carr did appear in Supergirl, as the newspaper editor after they had to write out Cat Grant because Calista Flockhart is expensive. There his name came from the fact that he's just a very short-tempered man prone to outbursts.
As a fan of eldritch fiction and b-movie sci-fi , I’ve found Starro fascinating in concept, but as a someone who is generally not a fan of deep water, I’d probably flee in terror from a giant starfish Also, I really appreciate the voice over for Batman and the hip editorially mandated relatable guy P.S.: I’d like to think that Batman was trying to stop Condiment King and The Penny Plunderer from pulling off a heist that would rob Gotham of all of the small ketchup packets that fast food places serve
5:33 Batman's true secret, he chose Gotham so he would always have built excuse for not doing "League nights". Also Gotham has plenty of cell dead zones, so he can "lose" call
Starro was pretty menacing in JLA/Avengers, and actually controlled most of The Avengers, including Thor. Only Scarlet Witch disrupting its ordered mind could drive it away.
I absolutely love starro as a villain and think how they use him is usually very good. The fact that he gets used so sparingly really helps sell his impact and prolongs his shelf life. He also for me really represents most of the best comics can be when you dont get bogged down in "realism". This is a world where martians are telepathic shapeshifters, aliens and magic both exist, men can fly and women use bondage to catch criminals, a giant purple space starfish is perfect. Hes fantastical yet believable in the world, so stupid but incredibly freaking threatening, iconic but never to oversaturation, its perfect.
I think that Starro's fear-factor was increased when he started using the face-hugger mini-Starros. In his first appearance he was just another supervillain to me, albeit one of a different shape.
I love how you represent his snapping as just several rapid fire snaps. In theory, he's supposed to be snapping to punctuate what he's saying, but like you, I have no idea where those snaps would be placed, so I think you made the right choice.
Whenever I see Starro, I can't decide if the idea is goofy or terrifying. Then I remember it doesn't matter better it's an alien starfish that's the size of a skyscraper and it can control your mind.
It is one of those characters that can work well either way. Suicide Squad will take a more humorous take, but horror take has worked will in comics too.
@@blackrazer22 I imagine that the guy who brought us Slither wont skimp on the horror potential Come to think of it, Starro could easily be related to the slugs...
@@CasuallyComics its amazing how man times comics and other media try to put a hip teenager in so the youths like it or somethign, cause nothing dates thing faster than those kinds of charactersXD and they tend ot get hated so often by the people from that time too, like, I love the 90s superboy and his leather jacket and sunglasses way too much tbh but im pretty sure people didnt like him back then right??XD
Off topic but can you someday do a video on characters that are seen generally seen as gimmicky, cute and obscure with weirdly dark backstories like Throg and Dexstar, I just find it interesting.
This was a brilliant era of the justice league right up until issue 200 loved the covers too around that time especially the three part supervillians team up and trap the jla and jsa
My first Starro story was in JLA by Grant Morisson. Where he wasn't named anything and was way more Cthulhu than alien invader. That story had Dream. But I had no idea the Snapper Carr thing was referenced it in with the one child who was unaffected because he remembered Superman. God I love that story. Starro puts the world to sleep except for one boy whose belief in Superman saved the world.
two things, first, I am a fan of starro and think he should have been the villian of the justice league film. second, I would love to see a full video on snapper carr. the fact that he betrayed the team to the joker has always fascinated me.
You dump the lime on the starfish and you render him inert you dump the lime on the starfish and you render him inert you dump the lime on the starfish, call the hip kid with the slang you say, "Snapper, why are you not hypnotized" you say, :"Snapper, just like all these other guys" Yes, yes...I know...Harry Nilsson just felt a cold shiver down his spine..
I discovered Starro when Adultswim made that awesome episode of the JL and the Legion fighting him hahaha, those were my first years as a comic fanatic, so he’s important to me lol
What a coincidence, I just saw a copy of Brave and the Bold 28 last Sunday. I've always loved that cover! I always thought it actually presented the League's origin though, I had no idea they were already a team in that story. Did we ever actually get a Pre-Crisis origin for the JLA then?
I always liked Snapper. Loved him since I read JLA: Year One where he was the League’s mechanic/tech guy. He was also fun in Tom Peyer’s Hourman, which DC really should collect in TPB.
I love JLA #189-190! Good stuff! That whole JLA era was great really. While I’m not a fan of Snapper Carr, I liked how they gave him teleportation powers during DC’s Invasion crossover event. But then they took his powers away in the worst way possible: by having his hands amputated by aliens! Ugh, the late ’90s/early 2000s were not a good time for comics, I feel.
I absolutely love Starro and am so happy he's avoided overexposure for so long. He works specifically because he's underutilized. Space is, realistically speaking, not the ocean. But metaphorically speaking, space is an ocean. Starro is a deconstruction of a Lovecraftian entity. He's too weak to count, but the mind-controlling sufficiently advanced alien who looks like sealife certainly rings some bells. But he looks like a giant starfish rather than some mismash entity, he's able to be beaten, and he's got a personality. Overused, he becomes dumb. It's an inherently silly concept because whether they meant to or not it's a parody of Lovecraftian nightmares who can still be a legitimate threat, just not on their level. If he loses too much, he becomes a joke. If he wins too much, he loses the deconstruction. He has to be underused and when he loses it has to be earned for him to work as a concept.
