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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Jessica Jones strikes me as kind of aggressive and abrasive from what I've seen of her in the comics though.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt's not necessarily about masculine roles. I remember back in the heyday of Metroid: Other M's fallout there were people going way too far in the opposite direction about Samus's portrayal, who were nonironically insisting that she should have just murdered Adam's squad and blown the shit up out of everything in order to not be a weak and submissive lead.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!That was a consequence of both Samus's atrociously submissive portrayal and the fact that Adam was an unlikable Creator's Pet who everyone wound up hating more than Ridley.
<.< I will never forgive him for stealing the final level.
edited 7th Oct '15 1:07:22 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Yeah, Jessica Jones is not a nice person. She's an alcoholic who will throw you through a window if you piss her off. She got slightly nicer in the comics when she had a baby (because, you know, she had to take care of the baby), but this a quote from her:
"You shoot that gun at me—I will pull that bullet out of my ruined four hundred dollar leather jacket...and I will shove it up your ass with my pinky finger. And which one of us do you think that will hurt more?"
edited 7th Oct '15 1:13:06 PM by higherbrainpattern
Its only cool to steal segments of a game if you're Toriel
Adam is no Toriel.
Not even vaguely if you squint while drunk. He is about as far from Toriel you can get while still bipedal.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersTo be fair, we kinda already knew Jessica was going to be violent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw7lAFlCSlY
Elizabeth Olsen’s Dream Scarlet Witch Storyline? “House of M,” of Course
I don't really see how they'd be able to do House of M in the MCU. No more supers? They've been in the no more mutants-verse all along? Especially since her powers here are far less massive and more defined so that she's not an utter story breaker.
edited 7th Oct '15 3:11:26 PM by Tuckerscreator
Re: Jessica Jones and female characters. the trick to this is balance. You can show a female character as flawed but you don't have to make her so unlikable to the point the audience utterly despises her. I definitely agree about writers overcompensating by making female characters utterly loathsome. It's especially bad when writers basically ignore all the ways the female characters flaws are problematic (the David E. Kelley Wonder Woman pilot is a good example of this).
I wouldn't say her powers are more defined here, just that they've been depicted in a more restrained fashion by the writing. Her definition is that "she's weird."
She's behaved like a Jean Grey Expy in the one film she's been in thus far, but that doesn't mean the possibility for a future writer to go crazy with her powerset doesn't exist.
edited 7th Oct '15 3:22:34 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I wonder how well Furiosa would fit into MCU.
Probably not very well, but it is an amusing imagery.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Right. If It Makes Sense in Context and doesn't feel like it's trying too hard, I'm not gonna complain.
edited 7th Oct '15 4:46:43 PM by nervmeister

Oh, jeez. I hope they don't do the whole "We have a female protagonist now, huh? We'd better make her a violent and abrasive sociopath to overcompensate away from the stigma of female leads being too soft and submissive" thing. I've seen that before.
Though I suppose Daredevil had some sociopathic traits too, he was just better at reserving them for asshats he needed information from.
edited 7th Oct '15 12:31:44 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!