Oh this is FUN... Equal opportunities objectification - The Hawkeye Initiative!

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Over on tumbr, a new series of post are taking what might be seen as... rather objectifies shots of female characters and replacing them with a male equivalent....

And as the name The Hawkeye Initiative suggests, it's the same male equivalent EVERY SINGLE TIME



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There are many, MANY more at the tumblr site, so please, go, enjoy, participate, whatever! :)

Comments

[aeka]

You didn't even post my favourite one! :O



Significant because I can't get over the hilarity of the "All Ages" label on the original!

[icon_uk]

I was worried that if I started I wouldn't be able to stop, though that IS a classic. LOVE Clint's pose in the meme version!

[lencannon]

I love this one because it is JUST on the right side of plausible. I could see Hawkeye jumping into action EXACTLY like the edit and regretting it the entire way down.

[brooms]

that was my favorite as well. main reason why i wasn't salty they picked the ugliest avenger for this meme.

[sianmink]

I can't believe nobody's posted this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBMWHATAHtA

[rebecky_mo]

Now this is a meme I can get behind! Clint's behind! I had to bring this icon over from my LJ account; I couldn't NOT use it for this post!

I'm loving the Chun-Li redraw and the 70's!Hawkeye pic in Starfire's pose. The bathrobe!Clint you posted...is too well drawn, it's too hot to be funny. ._.

[icon_uk]

Well I was smiling at it, more out of a sort of mildly blissful reaction than humour, but a smile's a smile! :)

[thanekos]

I'm surprised the first Before/After didn't keep the dialogue bubbles.

(And I can't help but think "Hawkyoken!" would parse better..)

[auggie18]

These poses hurt me artistically. Every time I try to parody them, I push it as far as I can and even then, it isn't exaggerated enough. Body distortion is not sexy! It's creepy! (No offense to people with body distortion fetishes, but I don't think y'all are the best audience to go after.)

[darkknightjrk]

Huh. And here I thought it was going to "censor" body parts with the Byrne Hawkeye head, ala in #3 of the on-going...

[zapbiffpow]

Holy crap, this is hilarious! I wish they could make one for Nightwing too.

[icon_uk]

That was raised in one of the tumblr posts and my response is that it's TOO easy with Dick as Robin or Nightwing, as he has plenty of canon shots of him in what can be viewed as sexualised poses. Hawkeye encourages fanart because there isn't as much of the "real" thing to go around.

[zapbiffpow]

Yeah, now that you mention it...
I wonder who else would make great subjects for this thing?

[icon_uk]

Given some of the poses, Plastic Man would perhaps be the only one they could look natural on.

[lieut_kettch]

Spidey is usually drawn in contorted poses. Some of these "I'm checking out my own ass" poses would actually look plausible on him. Same goes for Daredevil.

[agharta75]

And Dick could actually do most of those contortions :-)

[icon_uk]

The Black Widow/Hawkeye covers that aeka posted are a classic example methinks, because Dick in that pose is pretty much perfectly plausible and probably not hard to find somewhere in an actual issue. :)

[bruinsfan]

David Aja is doing his best to correct that, but there's only so much one artist can do!

[onceaskrull]

Going through that tumblr and cannot...stop...laughing.

[majingojira]

This meme brings a smile to my face.

[autohobbs]

I actually find the Wolverine running into Domino's butt quite funny. I think it's simply because of his expression.

[leoboiko]

I like to picture him as a gay bear and annoyed.

[bookish_dragon]

That does explain why he's blushing when it's Hawkeye instead of Domino.

[minyandu]

Have to stop read that tumblr cause continuing like this I won't be able to get enough sleep ....:D

[sinisterlink]

Some of these are so funny. As additional fun, I'd also like to point out that Hawkeye's actor Jeremy Renner is fully capable of doing the chest and butt at the same time pose.

http://gingerhaze.tumblr.com/post/18584935556/so-you-know-that-pose-that-comic-book-artists-are

[ablackraptor]

I don't think I've laughed at fanservice this much for a long time.

Amusingly, whoever designed the Hawkeye figure for the Marvel Diamond Select figure seemed to also like Clint's bottom.

[stolisomancer]

I can only look at that Tumblr for so long before I see too many thong poses and my balls try to retreat into my chest cavity.

I applaud the project and respect what it does, but some of those outfits would render Clint a castrato almost instantly.

[greenmask]

Kinda the point, innit.