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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
i dunno who this Moon Knight/Marc Spector fella is but he seems like Batman if Batman was actually insane and not just Batman insane
“If you have a message for the devil give it to me and I’ll take it to him.”Marc Spector's got a bad case of DID and he may or may not be the avatar of a Mad God.
Disgusted, but not surprised"Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good..." *splits into clones*
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Nov 27th 2019 at 12:36:18 PM
Moon Knight actually pretty much IS "Batman, but actually crazy" - he's canonically mentally ill. At least one arc had an "asylum breakout" arc where the "reveal" was that the God Khonshu was fucking with him - but even right at the end it was left unclear just how much of it was real or just his imagination.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."That said, a case could be made that Bruce Wayne is suffering from a lifelong case of clinical depression, if a high-functioning example. His dressing up in a batsuit to beat up crime and save lives could be considered sublimation: taking unwanted impulses and turning them into something good.
Edited by M84 on Nov 27th 2019 at 6:30:11 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI'd tend to agree with the interpretation of Bruce Wayne as having some sort of mental illness but it's never been canonised whereas Marc Spector is officially a sufferer of D.I.D (though how accurate a representation tends to depend on the writer.)
Watchmen (the graphic novel, and to a lesser extent the new TV series too) goes as far as implying that ALL superheroes are to some extent mentally abnormal. I don't know if I would go that far but the psychology of people who dress in costumes and beat each other up is certainly an issue that tends to be ignored.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."Bruce has never been diagnosed...but considering how many psychiatrists in Gotham are examples of the Psycho Psychologist, maybe that's for the best.
Disgusted, but not surprisedSo I can be pretty bad at identifying the themes of a story. Since the people here are a lot better at it than me, I figured I'd ask.
When I watched Thor: Ragnarok, my main takeaway was thinking that I'd like the story a lot more if it focused more on one of its two main plots; the Hulk and Grandmaster stuff, or the Hela stuff on Asgard. To me they felt like two differnet stories stapled together and I thought they interrupted each other.
Was there some thematic overlap between the two that I missed? When I was learning about storytelling, one of the big things I took away was that side characters should generally serve the themes of the story. They can have their own arcs, but those arcs should weave into the overall tapestry of what the film is trying to say. They represent an aspect or an alternate offshoot of the dilemma the main character is facing. Was there anything like that with the Hulk?
Kaze ni Nare!I think it would have worked better if Sakaar was the place Hela had been imprisoned. She created a hellish torture realm filled with gladiator combat and slavery... and then when she left, the Grand Master prettied it up but otherwise left it exactly the same.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.The events on Sakaar and Asgard are mostly disparate, but the side characters’s arcs do mirror Thor’s. Valkyrie wants to bury her past in drinking and crime rather than acknowledge the warrior she is. Loki keeps in his old ways of deception, making him all too predictable. Hulk and Banner refuse to cooperate. All of them are, like Thor, hindering themselves by denying the “less appealing” aspects of their person and become stronger when they do.

Honestly, if we're going to that well of metaphors, then Wanda would be Ultron's father (she provided the impetus for his creation) and Tony is his mother (did most of the actual work). Bruce and Thor would be doctors and nurses who helped.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.