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a critique that always irks me a little is when people say a fictional gay male relationship is actually being written as a lesbian relationship, like first of all what does that even mean and second of all a good chunk of the time it seems like people are only saying that because the men are emotionally vulnerable with each other
many out there, even among my fellow lgbtqs, seem to hold a “hotcock” view of gay relationships
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This cutie popped up while I was reading Siege (2009) :) 🩵
Bonus Peter being so done with everything (and cursing because I like it when he does that):
Wha hey and you’re not gonna share with the class 😔?
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💬 1 🔁 42 ❤️ 149 · Peter Parker swearing: · "Holy @$#%%" - ("Holy shit") (Amazing Spider-Man #597) — "@☆xxx%#@ bureaucrats!" - ("Goddamn/
Personally, I'm a big fan of "you selfish sonova -- bus!" (ASM #205)
And in TASM, Peter's go-to curse word is definitely "motherfucker." He cuts himself off from it once ("Mother -- Hubbard.") and you can see him mouth it in another instance.
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maybe this was funnier in my head
#johnny running whining to sue who could legitimately be evil if she cared
YES, Sue would be a really good villain, I wish the FF had more female villains.
I just finished reading Invincible girl arc and the ghost spider villain Sue and she is soo good, i think my favourite was Sue in Ghost spider, she is a menace and is cunning and I felt her and Johnny relationship there so good, you can clearly see the different morale of the Storm Sibblings
I love when they let Sue be a little bit (or a lot) villainous, I think it's really fun. I also think it's interesting and underexplored that Sue is the most brutal member of the team, even with the new Invincible Woman arc, which is such a fun throwback to Fantastic Four #31-32.
I also really like the Death of the Invisible Woman arc (Fantastic Four #558-562) from Millar's run. The whole run is such a mixed bag for me because I do not, in general, think Millar is good at writing women. Understatement. I'll never forgive him for what he did to Alyssa Moy. But I think he presents really interesting ideas, and a far flung dystopian future Sue who is willing to sacrifice anything, to the point of putting Johnny in danger, to secure her own future is just so interesting. Fun stuff.
I'm planning a little something with a villain Sue in a fic, too, but I don't want to say the details yet.
Wondering why Marvel is so obssesed with making Peter a teengaer/child to be protected while they have never give Johnny an opportunitiy to show his origin story as a teenager/ child being raised by his old sister
Yeah, I think there's a couple of reasons why, for both -- and not that I agree with these reasons so much as that I get why it happens, and it's not because Marvel hates me specifically. This time.
I think with Peter at least Marvel is, to some extent, always chasing that initial high of success. It doesn't matter that Peter only spent an initial 28 issues in high school and that Spider-Man has largely seen success as an independent, adult hero -- and that part of that fame comes from his very successful and popular romantic relationship with Mary Jane. What matters is that Peter initially became wildly popular as a teen hero, as a high school kid, and so I think Marvel continually traps themselves in that cycle where they need to revisit those high school years again and again.
And there's problems with that, because most of the popular Spider-Man characters weren't in that high school cast. So they reinvent MJ and Harry and Gwen and force them into boxes they were never meant to fulfill. You know, MJ has to become the literal girl next door, or a high school best friend. And I think it also ignores what made Peter so wildly popular as a teen hero -- that independence. Peter did everything on his own. That made him appealing to readers. He didn't need to be apprenticed to an adult, or follow in someone's footsteps as a sidekick. Spider-Man was always standing on his own two feet, without any help from anyone. That's how he broke that teen hero mold.
And I think you see that to a certain extent in how audiences are excited for the new MCU movie, because people want to see Peter stand totally on his own. I have no interest in the MCU, but I think it's interesting to see people commenting on that just from the perspective of seeing how fandom reacts to things. People want that independence from Peter. They want to see him as a solo hero.
Johnny, by comparison, is not a solo hero, and at least in 616 continuity really can't function as one on a permanent basis. He can have solo adventures, sure, but part of Johnny's character has always been a social animal. He's a heroic person on his own, but he's a spacefaring superhero adventurer because that's what his family does. Left alone, Johnny tends to spiral. But that's kind of beside the point. The point is, why, when Johnny's origin is just as rooted in his youth as Peter's, do adaptations consistently erase the age gap between him and the other three? Why do they always either age him up or age the others down?
(I'm not really clear on how old he's supposed to be in First Steps at the time of the accident, but it didn't look like 16.)
So I think in adapting the Fantastic Four, the original origin story always seems to present a problem. I think because, first, it requires the Fantastic Four to steal that spaceship. This is not a government-sanctioned flight. They stole that thing. Second because it requires Reed to be wrong.
Fantastic Four introduces us to the smartest man in the world and then it tells us that in his hubris, his first act is this terrible mistake that changes his family forever. Now what he does after that -- I think that really does show that Reed is a genius. But that's not the narrative movies want to go with, generally. They would rather skip the theft, save for Fant4stic, a movie that has a whole host of other problems. And even in Fant4stic, Reed and Sue and Ben are aged down closer to Johnny, and absolved of some of the responsibility of their actions because of that.
Basically, I think no one wants to try to explain why three smart, competent adults went "this is fine" and brought a 16-year-old on their dangerous space flight theft mission. There's other issues here. I think that nobody wants to make Johnny 16 for reasons besides that, like Fantastic Four (2005) and its decision to play up the skirt chaser reputation, or not wanting the team to look unequal. I think there is worry about the teen sidekick aspect always -- I mean, look at Batman adaptations. Peter, being a solo hero, I think largely escapes this, although it does make me kind of side eye some of the earlier MCU Spider-Man choices more, particularly in how they utilized Iron Man.
I think the closest we get to teen Johnny in a live action is the unreleased Roger Corman Fantastic Four film. You do see him there as a child while Reed and Ben are boarding at Johnny and Sue's aunt's house. (And there is a very cute scene in the beginning, if you've never seen it, where college Ben is playing video games with itty-bitty baby Johnny, and where Reed later picks him up.) The downside there is that they were leaning into Byrne's origin story, which aged Sue down considerably.
But I also feel like this is generally a problem where Marvel doesn't want to really dig into Sue and Johnny's backstory, and it's just kind of a shame. I think there's a lot to get into there that outlines who they both are as heroes, where Sue is used to shouldering immense amounts of responsibility, and feeling unseen, and Johnny is used to pretending like everything is okay, because he and his sister need to stay together. I would love a limited comics series about it, honestly, but I don't think Marvel would be interested in it.
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havent read the comics, what is the backstory behind johnny’s red and gold suit??
The red and gold suit first appears in Fantastic Four #132 as a gift from the Inhumans. This is the start of Medusa's tenure on the team, with Sue having taken a leave of absence during a bad patch in her marriage with Reed.
"Because, Reed Richards, Blackbolt wishes me to visit the out world for a time, as his special emissary..."
Johnny got an upgrade in uniform, too. He credited the red and gold look to his love for the original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, who wears red and gold. He wore it for a little while, including to Crystal's wedding to Pietro, until Sue rejoined the team in Fantastic Four #159 and Johnny went back to the blue. The siblings have to match.
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johnny looks so cute in that fruit pie panel
He's very cute in the red and gold suit era. 🧡❤️🔥🔥
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heylo again traincat! bl rec anon here. i'm halfway through revenged love now and am LOVING it! the dynamics between the lead cast are so fun, especially the rivalry thing with guo chengyu and chi cheng 🤌 AND THE SNAKES!!! i don't even care i just need more snakes. can't wait to work through the rest of the list! thank you so much for the recs!! and with links too?? damn, you're a real gift <3
Chi Cheng and Guo Chengyu are so much like dynamic of all time. If you're about halfway through then there's some stuff coming up that made me screech. And I love Wu Suowei and Jiang Xiaoshuai's chaotic friendship, too -- the dynamics between all of them are so good. AND the snakes. Little Jealousy. ❤️🐍
I hope you find a lot of stuff you enjoy, anon! Feel free to keep me updated! I enjoy hearing your thoughts!
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Real argument Spideytorch has had on a mundane day: Johnny trying to convince Peter that Johnny could totally be an evil mastermind, he could be so bad, he could be worse than Doc Ock or Green Goblin Peter why are you laughing it’s not funny he can definitely be a villain the worst of the worst stop laughing at him he’s being so serious right now Peter Peter please
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