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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Which wasn't helped, I imagine, by his own groan-worthy attempt to write a Wonder Woman movie himself
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let see, MCU female heroes on film and sexual abuse.
- Black Widow: Was forcibly sterilised - Yes
- Scarlet Witch: No
- Wasp: Her long time boyfriend plotted to kill her and her father, and she had to maintain the relationship for her own safety - Yes?
- Valkyre: No
- Gamora: No (but did suffer abuse)
- Nebula: No (but did suffer bodily abuse)
- Mantis: No (but did suffer abuse)
I think the issue is that there's a lot of abuse, rather than there's a lot of sexual abuse.
edited 11th Apr '18 5:06:15 PM by Whowho
I feel like the problem is less that you shouldn't have characters have abuse in their backstory at all and more that female heroes have backstories and motivations disproportionately linked to abuse, sexual or otherwise, than men do. I mean, like in your list, you've got Gamora, Nebula, Mantis, and Black Widow all suffering various forms of abuse, but then when you look at Cap, or Iron Man, or Doctor Strange, or Spider-Man, it's true that most of them end up suffering some trauma in their backstory, but it's never because of a specific person holding power over and abusing them. If that makes sense.
edited 11th Apr '18 5:23:58 PM by unexplainedEnemy
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller listI'd love to have more stories which make the effort to give the topic of abuse the respect it deserves, but I also don't want it to feel obligatory, which currently it does.
Honestly I love Doctor Who, but I'd recently began to loathe it for all the trauma it kept putting it's characters through consistently. Character development is too often becoming traumatise by numbers.
Awww well this is so sweet.
Apparently Infinity War is having a collaboration event with superhero manga My Hero Academa.
Now you know you made it big when your working with a billion dollar franchise, am I right?
I'd love to see MHA crossover with Marvel.
Or DC.
Or hell, both.
edited 11th Apr '18 5:44:08 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Well the third season just started and the manga is ongoing, so. Can’t exactly “finish” it.
But, this is most awesome.
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyMind you, there's kind of a crazy irony that Jessica Jones had Rape as Backstory added to her story.
The comics making it clear she wasn't sexually abused by the Purple Man because Bendis didn't want to do that when he had a perfectly traumatizing non-rape story to tell.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.None of those characters are, or have any current direction to be (Valkyrie's actress' ambitions for the character nonwithstanding), headliners with developed arcs or stories of their own. Valkyrie's the closest, but she's more along the lines of the character whose backstory informs the hero's story.
Finally a manga crossover that makes sense
I have waited a long time for this since that Attack on Titan/Avengers thing
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI've been procrastinating on reading/watching MHA because I don't like reading/watching manga/anime that are still ongoing but dammit it seems like every force in the universe is trying to convince me to watch it.
edited 11th Apr '18 6:33:39 PM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.Carol Danvers?
He is a fan.
(That's really his, right? Not a copycat?)
Oh God! Natural light!I mean, I've gotten lazy to catch up on it myself but waiting for it to pile up to binge it isn't a bad idea since that almost always feels better than waiting week to week anyways.
It's a pretty decent superhero story that avoids some of the more notorious pitfalls and its art is very, very strong and expressive. If you like the genre there's nothing to lose by checking it out.
Yep, it's his.
That crossover was really underwhelming. It didn't even make for a proper story IIRC, just a few spreads of the Avengers fighting the titans without much context.
edited 11th Apr '18 6:39:32 PM by Draghinazzo
Man, now I'm really thinking about a MHA/Avengers crossover.
Quick question - how long before the beginning of MHA's story did the first Quirks begin to emerge?
Oh God! Natural light!

Yes Fury Road is exactly how I'd want it handled.
And not just because I want to see Kate shoot someone with an arrow while doing car stunts.