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For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago

Tony Stark - oligarchic propagandist for normalizing the myth of exceptionalism

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 20 points 5 months ago

I like him because he would loudly agree with you, then let you pick one of his sports cars for having the balls to call him out.

[-] Stardust@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago

The thing about his movie is that he was like, almost okay. Iron Man I was about him learning that selling weapons = bad. He could have continued his moral development.
Instead, we got him fighting Captain America over a very stupid implementation of 'oversight' (coming from the guy who refuses to let gov. oversee his iron man development), being creepy to some random boy he just met (actually twice - first Peter and then some kid I don't remember; in a better set of movies I don't think Peter would be very thrilled to realize Iron Man was advocating for Peter to get outed in a national registry), and having a snit fit about how he doesn't want to help Unsnap people who died because he personally is OK with his future with his daughter who may or may not be a robot he built to mime having humanity.

What makes him really insufferable for me is his fans who think Captain America is EVIL for daring to snub poor Tony, and that Tony should go date Loki (no I'm not kidding; while I am happy with Loki being queer, I really can't see the Marvel Universe Tony being a good date for, well, anyone ever, nor Loki being a good date until he works out his genocidal tendency issues at which point he threatens to become alas a much less interesting character).

[-] KillingAndKindess 18 points 5 months ago

Eh, people only fawn over him because RDJ is just perfect in the role, and in a way marked his comeback from some really public struggles.

Chris Evans is great (and a huuunk!) but he's was/is much younger and plays the role of Government-BrandedHeroWhoIsBasicallyJustSoldierWhoAteHisWheaties.

Chris does the job well, but I mean, RDJ kills, and IMHO is a massive reason marvel got to continue making movies.

[-] Uruanna@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I found that Tony's slide to fascism following his PTSD and thinking he knew better than everyone else was a good character development in a show where he's not the hero. What we're missing is a 4th solo movie where he faces his fuck-ups and his selfishness, but no, he went out like a hero through sacrifice after causing it and blaming the rift on Cap (when returning from Titan).

I also found that early Steve really needed to get a better angry face, but that evolved well between Infinity War and Endgame.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 5 months ago

his daughter who may or may not be a robot he built to mime having humanity

First time I’ve ever heard of this. It it alluded to in the film? My initial reaction is that it couldn’t be true, simply because Pepper wouldn’t be willing to play along.

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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Stark was literally written to be a character that people should by all rights despise but was nonetheless a hero. That was entirely the point of him.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Also Batman.

[-] TheAlbatross 45 points 5 months ago

Superman. He just does everything and wins. Unless you show him a green rock.

It's stupid. I don't understand how it ever interested anyone.

[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 30 points 5 months ago

First, the appeal of Superman is his heart more than his strength. There's one comic where he fights a giant robot and stops a runaway train, but the scene everyone remembers is when he talked someone down from the edge of a building.

Second, Superman may be invincible, but Lois Lane isn't. It's easy to defeat a villain, but much harder to defeat them while also keeping Lois safe. And she actively invites danger, so it's always tricky keeping her safe.

Third, not every problem can be punched. Luthor's greatest weapon against Superman isn't kryptonite; it's Public Relations. You can punch a monster, but that won't help you stop a smear campaign.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 5 months ago

He's OK if you stick to classic Superman. He wasn't a god, back then. Couldn't turn back time, out-speed The Flash, or fly into the sun and pupate for a hundred years into some ultimate being.

He became increasingly absurd over the years.

[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

I’m a big fan of Supes myself, but it depends on who’s writing him and what the goal is.

He is at his best when it’s a problem he can’t punch away, it’s about courage, and honor of defending others. Superman without powers is still the same stand up powerful character, that is crux of what makes him interesting.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

It's stupid because you don't understand it? Aeems like you are the dumb one then.

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[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 33 points 5 months ago

Jane Foster when she was the wielder of Mjolnir. Not for anything about her personally, but the fact that Thor was treated as a codename. It's the dude's actual name, it'd be like if Sam Wilson went around introducing himself as Steve Rogers when he took the Captain America mantle. It's happened a few other times like with Eric Masterson, but at least he had the excuse that for most of the time he used the name he and the actual Thor were sharing a body.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

I think it's both, his name and his power. In Thor 1 when Odin sends Mjolnir to earth he whispers to it something like "May he who's been worthy possess the power of Thor".

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

The Flash.

Not because I don't like the character but because he honestly should be one of the strongest characters in DC but they constantly nerf him in the writing because they realized just like superman he could literally just show up and fix everything before anyone else even realized there was a problem

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

This annoys the shit out of me. I don't care if you nerf your speedsters, at least make them consistent.

[-] Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Batman, tries to solve the cities problems by getting himself a load of expensive toys.

[-] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Rich man who could do more good by not hoarding wealth plays dress up instead.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 20 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, the good old take from people who never read a comic book

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, the Batman apologist

[-] Stardust@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago

While arguably Batman could use his wealth better (especially in versions where he's richer than Luthor, because you don't get to be richest guy without being a major asshole who does things like force workers to pee in bottles), the other guy/gal also has a point. The comic book universe isn't our universe, it has aliens invading and Spwecial People who have to be fought by other special people. Batman is basically super-powered the way he can run a marathon, run a chemical analysis and synthesize a new cure for something overnight, and jump 10 feet, they just pretend otherwise.

You might enjoy Harley Quinn where Batman gets arrested for tax fraud.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 13 points 5 months ago

He also does put money into trying to fix the city. Gotham is canonically cursed like five times over. No matter how much cash you mainline into the city it's not going to get better.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

He spends a lot on "normal" help for the city, but people don't know this because they don't read the comics.

[-] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Don't hate spiderman. Hate the writers roughly since 2000 that only let him have a break from misery when he's in an alternate universe where he never became spider man.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Having been introduced to Spider-Man through comic books, I always disliked him. And the comics came out well prior to the 2000s. I always just found him obnoxious.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have to assume you've only seen the Spider-Man movies of recent years and not the comics, the original live action show, or the 90's animated series.

All of those go well into Peter Parker's adult years and he's a much more likeable character. I don't particularly like what they have done to him in the modern stuff (outside of Spiderverse since Miles is a totally different person anyway). It doesn't help that it's been rebooted 3 times so all they've shown is his origin story a bunch of times. I can't stand modern Spidey, either. And it's extra infuriating because Spider-Man is my favorite.

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[-] poo@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

All of them. Can't stand the superhero-dominated media market.

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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Batman. He's a billionaire playboy living in a city full of poverty. He may not kill but he has no problem crippling someone for life. And the fact he apparently learns nothing about the joker over the decades has resulted in so so many people dying to the joker's schemes.

And the reality is that he's still that same child in that alley but in an adult's body. He takes on different child robins because he never grew past that. He has trauma that was never treated and one of the main symptoms of trauma is being stuck in the time period that the trauma happened. He doesn't really have a personality beyond the trauma.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

The Flash. No list of reasons. Just never appealed to me at all.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Specifically Ezra Miller. God damn, fuck that guy.

[-] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I really can't stand Damian Wayne I just find him annoying and bratty.

If anyone has any good story recommendations with him I would like to hear about it.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

At first I thought you said Damon Wayans, and for the first time in ever, I thought about the movie Blankman.

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[-] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

I can't think of the name, but that one superhero that wears the funny outfit.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago

A superhero who can't stand? The Christopher Reeves Superman.

I'll see myself out.

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[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

She-Hulk, read a few of the comics, saw another version, I don't get the appeal. So she's a lawyer, so is Daredevil, it's a job that doesn't lend itself well to perilous adventures. Filing a brief....at the edge of madness! She forgot that the county clerk's office is closed on Memorial Day (US observed)!!! Dun dun duuuunnn

[-] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

I kinda hate all spin-off superheroes. Supergirl, Superdog, Batgirl; although it's mostly _Girl versions of _Man. You never see WonderMan. WhitePanther wouldn't get much love. It just feels like wringing the ol' franchise of every last drop of blood.

Sometimes it bites me. SpiderVerse is supposed to be good, but it breaks my spin-off Rule.

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[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago
[-] TheMinions@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Did you ever watch the Spiderverse movies? I feel like you’d appreciate Peter B Parker a lot.

Personally I don’t really hate any superheroes. I never fell in love with Wolverine like most people did though. My first experiences with X Men were the first two live action movies, however.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Hulk. He's an angry green guy with muscles, created with gamma radiation, nothing special. After a while, he feels less like a super hero and more like a Super Smash Bros fighter.

[-] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

For this same reason, he's one of my favorites.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

All of them.Deadpool was kinda funny.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Modern Batman and Modern Superman.

I won't go on my 2 hour rant off everything wrong. But a short version is the writing for them is lazy and undeveloped. Both of them represent the most uninteresting form of a power fantasy. The modern Batman of 'having a plan for everything' and being this overburden angsty character is just awful. If Batman was a d&d character, he has loaded dice and is throwing that 20s on intimidation. And for Superman he's just not interesting, because with the amount of power he's been given and the amount of abilities he has the fact that lex luthor is somehow a villain of his is laughable.

Batman used to be the world's greatest detective. And for me the last time I saw Batman be Batman was the '90s animated series. And frankly the most recent movie The Batman also did a very good job I thought in that regard.

Superman used to have limits. He was fast but not infinite speed fast. He was strong but not infinite strength.

In both cases it feels like the people who write for these characters use one simple rule... This my favorite character so he win. Neither character feels like their struggles are earned, because the writing is forced. Like it used to be if Superman needed to save somebody you weren't 100% sure he'd be able to get there in time, stop the bad guy save the people! Modern Superman is like, a being a hundred light years away, tripped and their falling! They need your help before they get a boo-boo and I have no doubt Superman would get there somehow and then save a hundred worlds along the way. (An over-exaggeration I know but I want to get the point across at how lazy I feel the writing is). Or the fact that anybody fears Batman when most of his villains barely fear him. You have members like Green lantern, Martian manhunter, Superman, and Wonder woman who act like in any way Batman is a threat to them.

I'll stop ranting cuz I can honestly go on. But I will say with the massive decline for me personally with these two, I've been far more receptive of some of the other DC characters that I used to overlook when I was younger. I can't believe I 100% slept on the flash like that dude is straight boss. Or plastic man! So at least some good came of it.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Iron Man.

The guy supported Yellowjacket joining the Avengers.

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[-] Toes@ani.social 5 points 5 months ago

Robin from the batman franchise, his character seems so extra and forced.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

The original, too? He was the epitome of the necessary sidekick, and have Batman an external voice, other than just growing at criminals.

I love the classic TV Dynamic Duo.

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

Are you judging by the movies, or the comic books? The movies keep him a perpetual teen; he's way more sassy and adult in the comics.

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