Almost as if the "ecstatic" supporters don't read comics or buy games.
When I think about superhero games, I always think they'd be improved with a teenage mary sue following the interesting characters around, lecturing people on shit. /s
Another example of sjws approving things from a distance with no feel for the subject matter. If lots of people like it, it must have a redundant subject-irrelevant social message parasitically attached to it. Superheroes are never known to actually do the right thing unless pestered to, right?
It's the fanfic writer part that ruins this archetype. Agent Coulson owning Captain America trading cards or a young up-and-comer telling Dr. Reed Richards that they wrote their doctoral thesis about his work is very different than writing Real Person Fic and boasting about this social faux pas to the subject of your RPF.
I hate the "hero-worshipping hero" archetype that tries to be meta, the character who grew up reading Superman and writes Superman fanfiction and one day buh-wuhhhhhh lookitmeeee, I've got superpowers dropped into my lap! I'm just like Superman now!
This is opening of My Hero Academia, except My Hero Academia is shonen manga/anime and therefore knows that the most important thing to do is make the protagonist start at rock bottom and then work and sufffer to gain mastery of their power.
I honestly cannot think of any Western capeshit where someone has to be physically fit enough to use their powers and thereby spends a lot of runtime working out at the start.
Most of the times they are get their powers and their body just morphs into ripped god, or skinny ripped god.
The only people that earn or develop their powers in western comics are the villains. Heroes just get them and never have to work for them with only a handful of exceptions.
Outside of being super wealthy batman had to actually train to be batman and iron man actually had to build and maintain his suit. Otherwise characters are either born that way or gifted with superpowers.
I would absolutely fucking love it if they did it well. Like to show even heroes need to work on themselves, there is a temptation to be self-serving shit and power is just a tool and you have to do your thing to become The Hero.
Not just two minutes of UWU whoopsie, but also automatically accepted and loved and better than the established guy.
We've been saying this shit for years, yet look how far the diversity police have come. Is there even an end point? Every time you think "corporations have gotta see that this shit isn't profitable", and yet they continue on.
It's only going to happen through violence or the credible threat of violence against political and corporate leaders. Hard to organize such things when they've gotten really good at keeping people disconnected.
The shit of it is that this cycle is going to repeat itself with the Ms Marvel movie. It will perform well below their expectations, they'll blame toxic fans or anti-muslim sentiment, and never once consider that their idea flat out sucks. They'll shove the blame onto fans while ignoring the irony that their own writers hate what the fans love and are constantly shitting all over the brand.
Almost as if the "ecstatic" supporters don't read comics or buy games.
When I think about superhero games, I always think they'd be improved with a teenage mary sue following the interesting characters around, lecturing people on shit. /s
Another example of sjws approving things from a distance with no feel for the subject matter. If lots of people like it, it must have a redundant subject-irrelevant social message parasitically attached to it. Superheroes are never known to actually do the right thing unless pestered to, right?
It's the fanfic writer part that ruins this archetype. Agent Coulson owning Captain America trading cards or a young up-and-comer telling Dr. Reed Richards that they wrote their doctoral thesis about his work is very different than writing Real Person Fic and boasting about this social faux pas to the subject of your RPF.
This is opening of My Hero Academia, except My Hero Academia is shonen manga/anime and therefore knows that the most important thing to do is make the protagonist start at rock bottom and then work and sufffer to gain mastery of their power.
I honestly cannot think of any Western capeshit where someone has to be physically fit enough to use their powers and thereby spends a lot of runtime working out at the start.
Most of the times they are get their powers and their body just morphs into ripped god, or skinny ripped god.
The only people that earn or develop their powers in western comics are the villains. Heroes just get them and never have to work for them with only a handful of exceptions.
Outside of being super wealthy batman had to actually train to be batman and iron man actually had to build and maintain his suit. Otherwise characters are either born that way or gifted with superpowers.
I would absolutely fucking love it if they did it well. Like to show even heroes need to work on themselves, there is a temptation to be self-serving shit and power is just a tool and you have to do your thing to become The Hero.
Not just two minutes of UWU whoopsie, but also automatically accepted and loved and better than the established guy.
We've been saying this shit for years, yet look how far the diversity police have come. Is there even an end point? Every time you think "corporations have gotta see that this shit isn't profitable", and yet they continue on.
It's only going to happen through violence or the credible threat of violence against political and corporate leaders. Hard to organize such things when they've gotten really good at keeping people disconnected.
The shit of it is that this cycle is going to repeat itself with the Ms Marvel movie. It will perform well below their expectations, they'll blame toxic fans or anti-muslim sentiment, and never once consider that their idea flat out sucks. They'll shove the blame onto fans while ignoring the irony that their own writers hate what the fans love and are constantly shitting all over the brand.