Pulptober Themes Elaborated, Part 6: Days 24-31
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Once again, thanks to @maxwell-grant who once again helped me with assembling the lists of alternate examples. Characters who have a plus sign (+) next to their names were suggested by him. Characters with an asterisk (*) are ones where I have not consumed any source material (note that I'm including tie-in or revival media as source material).
26-Red Sonya and Red Sonja/Not As We Know Them: It's inevitable that, through the adaptation process and the passage of time, people's ideas of what a character is changes. This is for characters where this is...particularly drastic such that the way people envision them is often radically different from how they were originally. Alt. Examples: Sherlock Holmes, Buck Rogers.
27-The Sandman/From Pulp To Super. Another straightforward one. The line between "Pulp Hero" and "Superhero" is often blurry, so it's not surprising that characters originally created as one have a tendency to end up as one the other. Alt. Examples: The Green Lama, The Crimson Avenger*
28-Ram Singh/Servant of Justice. It's not unusual for Pulp Heroes to have sidekicks who are, in fact, salaried employees, to day is for these. Kato, Launchpad McQuack
29-The Punisher/Justice At Gunpoint. This one is pretty obvious, I don't think I need to explain. Edison Hark+, The Spider
30-Bettie Page/Hero In Adaptation. So, yeah, lots of Pulp Hero stories are about people who weren't necessarily heroic in RL, or in the source material. This is for them. Wyatt Earp. Genghis Khan/Temujin+ (@maxwell-grant specifically cites The Three Palladins by Harold Lamb*).
31-Batman/Undying Heroes. Yeah, these guys? Despite the passage of time and the general fading of Pulp and Pulp Heroes from public consciousness, these guys stick around, even when the people creating them try to get rid of them. Alt. Examples: Sherlock Holmes. James Bond.
