I wish I didn't

  • vertexarray [any]
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    4 years ago

    YES LMAO what a time to be alive. Imagine doing gay representation in the 50s by naming a superhero Queero.

  • Qelp [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Reminds me of this banger I posted to /r/transgendercirclejerk when this first popped up

    Marvel introduces new superhero to appeal to lgbt readers called “f*ggot”. they don’t have any superpowers their just queer or whatever. Give us money

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Be sure to tune in to the adventures of Soyboy and Betacuck

    How lib twitter poisoned must your brain be to think this'd be a good idea

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors

    Mar 17, 2020

    they tried to launch this the week after the COVID shutdown started

    • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Screentime - A Meme-Obsessed super teen whose brain became connected to the internet after becoming exposed to his grandfather’s “experimental internet gas.”

      Wow

  • RowPin [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Probably a good thing for aspiring LGBT+ artists when the first thing publishers think of for a good transgender superhero are two characters named Snowflake & Safespace rather than fully developed heroes (who happen to be trans). Probably.

    • kuttarbaccha [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      There is no such thing as a fully developed superhero. This stuff is design-by-committee products aimed at children, not supposed to have complicated themes and ideas.

  • ToastGhost [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    this is definitely made by a chud who rammed this through approval as fast as possible before anyone who cared enough noticed.

    • dave297 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      that or the company was being lazy and trying to cash in on "the whole woke thing" without any real understanding of how it worked

        • dave297 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I just think corporate environments are more prone to greedy and apathetic than open maliciousness mainly because of how draining they are

  • mittens [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Safespace [...] can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else.

    They had to know there's no way they didn't know.

  • duck [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    This is official? I was convinced it was some onion shit. :bordiga-despair:

    https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors The names and concepts are so bad and "They’re hyper aware of modern culture and optics, and they see their Super Heroics as “a post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.” They're probably streaming this." What?

  • camaron28 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Wait, Safespace is just Steven Universe

    Shields, pink, woke

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        4 years ago

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    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Marvel was gonna reboot the New Warriors (basically their version of the Teen Titans) with heroes like Snowflake, Safespace, Screentime, B-Negative (he's a vampire) and Dora The Explorer (not the actual one, but an amazing simulation)