He never had a noticeable accent of any kind, much less Cockney, in the comics. I know: I just read them! I repeat, the Cockney accent only appeared in a video game that featured Rocket flirting with Amaterasu, so that's hardly the most canonical version ever, and maybe an episode of cartoon Spider-Man. Maybe?
Furthermore, it was not Brian Michael Bendis who retconned Rocket's backstory, it was Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett who retconned it. I know: I just read it! Brian Michael Bendis did give Rocket a more Bronx accent, but that's because you're right about that, all his characters have a Bronx accent.
And Lanning and Abnett did not turn Rocket into a cybernetically enhanced killer; they turned him into a cybernetically enhanced nurse. Who happened to find a talent for blowing up stuff later. I know: I just read it!
This "he doesn't have a Cockney accent" thing might be stupider than the Iron Man 3 Mandarin thing; oh, noses, they changed Mandarin! Yeah, a character who sucks. A yellow peril character from the 60s, and we wanted this guy to remain the same? The only reason anyone gives a crap about Mandarin is because he is kinda/sorta Iron Man's main bad guy, and the only reason anyone gives a crap about Iron Man is because of the movies!
Seriously, at the time Iron Man came out, all the comic book nerds hated Iron Man for Civil War. And now we're angry about the most creative, interesting twist in the entire Marvel movie universe because they changed a character nobody would care about if he wasn't in the movie that changed him?
What is it with you people and Rocket's accent?
He never had a noticeable accent of any kind, much less Cockney, in the comics. I know: I just read them! I repeat, the Cockney accent only appeared in a video game that featured Rocket flirting with Amaterasu, so that's hardly the most canonical version ever, and maybe an episode of cartoon Spider-Man. Maybe?
Furthermore, it was not Brian Michael Bendis who retconned Rocket's backstory, it was Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett who retconned it. I know: I just read it! Brian Michael Bendis did give Rocket a more Bronx accent, but that's because you're right about that, all his characters have a Bronx accent.
And Lanning and Abnett did not turn Rocket into a cybernetically enhanced killer; they turned him into a cybernetically enhanced nurse. Who happened to find a talent for blowing up stuff later. I know: I just read it!
This "he doesn't have a Cockney accent" thing might be stupider than the Iron Man 3 Mandarin thing; oh, noses, they changed Mandarin! Yeah, a character who sucks. A yellow peril character from the 60s, and we wanted this guy to remain the same? The only reason anyone gives a crap about Mandarin is because he is kinda/sorta Iron Man's main bad guy, and the only reason anyone gives a crap about Iron Man is because of the movies!
Seriously, at the time Iron Man came out, all the comic book nerds hated Iron Man for Civil War. And now we're angry about the most creative, interesting twist in the entire Marvel movie universe because they changed a character nobody would care about if he wasn't in the movie that changed him?
God damn, comic book fans are just the worst!