Both of these series are based on a comic book superhero created in the 1970s.
The main character is a black hero protects his neighborhood from evil.
He’s no normal man though.
He’s able to strike fear into evil villain’s hearts because of his super powers.
Jefferson Pierce aka Black Lightning got his powers when he was a little boy.
Carl Lucas aka Luke Cage got his powers during his adult years.
Luke Cage is bulletproof and virtually indestructible.
Black Lightning ain’t about that life.
However, he may not be bulletproof, but the people he uses as a shield basically make
him as untouchable as Luke Cage.
His suit could sometimes ricochet bullets and is allows him to focus his energy to fly
too.
Since Luke Cage’s skin is impenetrable, he is cocky and that’s probably why he doesn’t
train which explains why his fight game is so trash.
Black Lightning’s fighting sequences are more intense and it’s because he trains
hard so he doesn’t have to use his powers 100% of the time.
The women in both series are fine.
It’s mind boggling how any man would find time to fight evil, when it’s so easy to
get distracted by the females in the cast.
When the lady in the blue dress throws herself at Pierce, he’s all like no thank you, because
he has to focus on being the hero his city deserves.
When the lady in the blue dress throws herself at Cage, he wastes no time and takes her back
to his place.
The good thing is that not only do the female leads have beauty, but they have muscle too.
The pretty lady the hero slept with is liable to put a hole in your chest if you come at
her incorrectly and the dime piece in the show could probably kill man with her barehands.
With an a majority black cast, the series isn’t only focused on showing diversity
through race, but provides representation for the LBGTQ community also.
Even with the colorful, diverse cast, discrimination is a common thread for each episode in Season
1.
Tension is at an all time high because the cops are treating the young men in the city
like a piñata.
Warner Bros. makes a statement about the shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers
in this show.
ABC is owned by Disney and they typically tip toe around the subject which is why all
the police brutality scenes against young men are done by black cops instead of white
officers.
This may be a coincidence, but I doubt it because of the protest scenes.
The protesters in Black Lightning are model citizens while the protestors in Luke Cage
are gangsters which implies only hoodlums exercise their right to protest peacefully.
With corrupt law enforcement patrolling the city, the villains take over and have ties
with every local organization.
For example the bad guy works closely with the local undertaker to dispose of dead bodies
and erase all traces of the murders they perform.
The bad guys in the show are relatives and keep it in the family like the mafia.
One of the relatives is deep in the streets while the other has a political background.
The evil man is haunted by his childhood.
His flashbacks show that he never got over this traumatic experience.
The difference is, Cottonmouth will never get over his trauma since he killed his father
figure as a little boy.
As a little boy, Tobias never stood up to his father figure, but he gets over his trauma
in Black Lightning by killing him as an adult.
The protagonist of the series is having flashback horrors too.
His flashbacks are about his daddy issues.
The dream sequence shows the main character as a kid, but it gets weird when his present
day self shows up.
Black Lightning is suffering from daddy issues because the secret that his father kept, lead
to his death.
The secret Luke Cage’s father’s kept lead to his half brother’s life.
The ruthless bad guy shows no mercy.
He tortures his employees.
Over here the henchman are scared to death because he kills the employee that steps out
of line.
Over here, the henchman think it’s kind of funny because it’s obvious the gangster
was just playing.
The hero and bad guys cross bath at the gangster’s club.
The criminals own a night spot.
The club gets a lot of attention from the community because the gangster selects the
best acts to go on stage every Friday and Saturday, but in the backrooms, that’s where
they organize their evil plans.
No self respecting man would not be caught dead in a joint like that except Luke Cage,
I guess because he gets a job there to make ends meet.
Pierce earns a living working as the principal at Garfield High School.
What you do for a pay check could sometimes determine the respect you receive from the
neighborhood.
Ironically, the neighborhood respects Luke Cage more for his ties to the crime lord and
when he gives speeches, they’re locked in like it’s prime time.
In Black Lightning, it’s usually religious leaders that give the speeches to motivate
the community.
When ever Pierce opens his mouth, he gets booed like he’s performing at the Apollo.
The people start pressuring the main character to become a vigilante.
It sounds like an Everest Commercial (audio).
Since both of the characters are well known in the towns, they develop in alter ego to
fight crime.
Pierce becomes Black Lightning.
He uses his powers to mask his face so you can’t tell it’s him (audio).
Luke Cage does the same thing, but uses a hoodie.
Thunder did this in this show until she realized it was the dumbest idea in the world and common
sense made her find a different costume.
The criticism from the people gets to the main character.
He develops a heart for the youth.
One time, there’s this troubled teen that’s about to throw his life away.
The main character finds out he’s staying at this beat down hotel and meets him there
to try and talk some sense into him.
To be honest, after their talk, the kid dies so basically, the hero made the situation
worse, but the point is that he tried and that’s all that matters, I think.
The city’s crime rates are higher than a crackhead and the hero says enough is enough.
He starts targeting the bad guy’s places of business.
He barges into the crack house and starts dropping dudes left and right.
He also does the same thing at their club.
First he kills the power to the building and it’s low key funny since you can’t see
black people in the dark and it’s the perfect camouflage.
Bullets start flying when the dust settles, he’s the only one standing.
His random acts of kindness starts inspiring the black people in the community.
There’s a protest rally organized by a community leader.
When the bad guy shows up, instead of being a symbol for hope, he’s a target for death.
The gunmen shoot up the protest like ba da da da dat ba da da da dat ba da da da dat
dat dat and lots of innocent people are caught in the crossfire.
His vigilante adventures causes the gangs to lose a lot of money.
Since they can’t fight him, they frame him instead.
Both of him and his alter ego are wanted for felonies.
Pierce is wanted for drug possession and he’s innocent and Black Lightning is wanted for
murder and he’s innocent.
Luke Cage is wanted for murder and he’s innocent.
Carl Lucas is wanted for escaping prison and uh oh, guilty as charged.
He gets no respect in the big house.
His first day they give him a cavity search and his manhood is thrown in the garbage.
The most serious charge is the murder case.
The bad used a weapon that replicates the hero’s power so the dead body looks it’s
the result of the hero’s super powers.
Once the plan works and the good guy stops patrolling the streets, the criminals flood
the market with tech that levels the playing by making regular people strong enough to
face the superhero head to head.
In Luke Cage, the equalizer comes in the form of the Judas bullet.
In Black Lightning, they use a drug called Green Light.
If the users use anyone of these, they’re able to match up against the good guy.
The hero gets a low level thug to snitch and tell him everything he knows about the gangster’s
operations.
He then gives the information to the black cop.
The black cop in this show trusts him so when he gets arrested, he knows the charges are
bogus and tries to get him out.
The black cop in this show is fine, but she’s also an idiot and wants him behind bars just
as much as the bad guys.
She’s a poor judge of character with her fellow officers too.
Misty was partners with a dirty cop and when there’s mounting evidence proving he was
corrupt, all the other cops on the force believe it except her.
It’s the other way around here because Henderson is the only one that thinks the deputy is
corrupt while the other officers don’t suspect a thing.
The hero gets overconfident like the Golden State Warriors.
A thug pulls up on him and almost takes him out.
He starts losing his powers.
His DNA is all jacked up so he can’t just go into a regular hospital, his ol’ lady
is the only one that can take a look at him.
The neuroscientist has all this high tech equipment and she still can’t figure out
what’s going on.
All the night nurse needs is a middle school microscope and she knows exactly what time
it is (audio).
The medical lab gets compromised and a gun man tries to take a woman as a hostage.
Thickums tries to stop him, but fails miserably.
She gets knocked out by the gunman on this show and on this show, she gets knocked out
by her daddy.
They take the main character to the white man who’s partly responsible for giving
the hero his power.
I’m not sure he knows what he’s doing, but it doesn’t really matter at this point.
The hero starts having a cardiac arrest and they have to use shock him before he dies
which would we be extremely awkward since there’s a couple more episodes left to go.
He gets his powers back and a show down takes place at the main character’s job.
The bad guy gives him that work, but in this TV show, he cheats because they hand to jump
Black Lightning, Diamondback doesn’t even have powers and still gives Luke Cage dem
hands with no help.
And those are 24 reasons these are different so truth or dare, like and share, leave a
comment under there.
If you don’t that’s not fair, this thing took a week to prepare, but I’m not a rapper
though.