ROUND 1 — Match 42 of 138
Problematic because: "Alcoholic who builds an entire career out of lying and manipulating people, who steals and steals and it’s never enough, who is so obsessed with justice and revenge. Maybe he didn’t personally kill anyone, but he sure put a lot of people into positions to be killed, and felt no remorse over it."
Propaganda: "Most of the people he was manipulating and stealing and (indirectly) killing were rich ceos who had already stolen and fucked over people who couldn’t fight back. He’s Robin Hood, so that makes everything he does okay! If he’s helping the little guy then it doesn’t matter if he gets bad people killed along the way."
vs. Scott Summers/Cyclops (Marvel)
Problematic because: "on a personal level has been kind of a deadbeat dad/abandoned his wife/has had affairs at various points in his history. Has also been a morally dubious revolutionary/kind of terrorist. at one point killed his mentor. debatably justified or not justified or on occasion not even fully in control of some of these actions depending on who you ask"
Propaganda: "scott summers my goat. I always feel bad that the 2 main live action versions of him designated him as the kind of "boring square" when he's really not that at all in the comics (at least when well written lmao) - he's often very serious and intense but definitely not boring, and I honestly think the fact that he's gotten more morally grey and kind of personally messy over the years makes him a more interesting character and is also kind of fully understandable. What if you were an autistic teenager with abandonment issues and a traumatic brain injury that made you continuously and uncontrollably shoot energy out of your eyes and you could hurt and kill people if you literally just looked at them without a protective filter on your face at all times and then your mentor/father figure (who can read your mind) put the weight of the world on your shoulders and made you lead a team of other kind of messed up teenagers, including your girlfriend (who can also read your mind). Would be hard not to become a kind of messy adult."
Who should advance?
Nathan Ford
Scott Summers/Cyclops
Remaining time: 1 day 1 hour
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