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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
That's ridiculous.
It was Gert who did that, not Nico. Nico just started attacking him, then put him to sleep with a spell.
Edit: Dammit Slim!
Edited by HandsomeRob on May 19th 2021 at 12:00:51 PM
One Strip! One Strip!The Runaways becoming yet another super group doing superhero stuff is funny considering how dismissive they are of superhero tropes
And too cool for school attitude does not sustain a book
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe new run is excellent though I'd say. Simply because it leans into this problem with the premise. The runaway are now (mostly) a group of directionoess young adults who only really have a nostalgia for a traumatic time in their lives. And it's made super explicit that they're not super heroes, and on the whole they don't want to be super heroes either.
Which means the comic is free to just focus heavily on the soap opera.
Evangeline Lilly may have accidentally spoiled the return of
Yellowjacket in Ant-Man 3.
Edited by comicwriter on May 21st 2021 at 11:23:07 AM
The context is
◊ Spider-Man is advising the kids to lay low and let him handle the current crisis. Victor protests, saying he has powers (being a robot) and cites that Spider-Man's motto is "with great power comes great responsibility."
...which, I get the point Gert's making and even agree to some extent, but it's based on a misunderstanding. The motto doesn't mean "power leads to being a responsible person", it means "if you have power, you are morally obligated to use it responsibly". Spider-Man, oddly, misses this misreading, complimenting Gert and saying one day she'll be an Avenger.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on May 22nd 2021 at 3:03:55 AM
Oh I always read Spider Man’s reply as sarcastic
Because of the bolded totally
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI recently saw Spider-man 2 again and I can't help but think that "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" is a bad thing.
Basically Peter Parker's life is hell because of this.
- He can't be with the girl he loves.
- Can't keep a job
- He cannot attend the theater
- He has bad grades in college
- He has to sell pictures to a guy who slanders him.
- Not being able to keep a job, he has almost no money so he is behind with the rent and he cannot help his aunt.
The week he lost his powers was probably one of the best weeks of his life.
Basically the real moral is: If you have powers you must ruin your own life and turn it into a personal hell.
You also can't take Spidey's life as the fruits of his efforts since the universe (i.e. Marvel editorial) conspires to leave him in a miserable (and thus "relatable") state.
Actually one of the bigger things I'm critical of of Slott's run: he fundamentally believed Peter's best strength is his endless determination to do right even at his lowest moments, which left Parker in this constant cycle of fucking up, learning some lesson about responsibility from his fuck-ups, bending the earth backwards to fix them, and earning some solace in his life...right before he fucks up again.
In Civil War, Peter says something similar to the "Great responsibility" line to Tony. Something like, "If you can do things I can do, and the bad things happen, that's on you." I also noticed when rewatching it a few weeks back, that when asked why he does it, he says the syllables or something to Ben's name. Which I didn't notice before, and just might be me hearing things.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI mean I agree, and want Uncle Ben in the next Spider-Man movie. Most casual audiences seem okay with it, though. For instance Irondad does Stucky numbers in fanfiction, which doesn't mean it's universally loved, but that is mostly unheard of for a platonic ship.
Edited by Bullman on May 22nd 2021 at 2:11:09 PM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread

That was Gert, Gert was the one who butchered Spider-Man's motto in her vain desire to be seen as some kind of rebel.
Hilarious in one future she's the leader of the Avengers.
Edited by slimcoder on May 19th 2021 at 5:00:34 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."