Gamergate Triggerhappy: Marvel comics
In recent years, Marvel comics has started a spiral of self destruction, in which they attempt to pander to the kind of people who don’t actually buy comics; tumblerites, feminists, social justice warriors, etc. To do so they have done story after story where they bash white males, calling them racists, sexist, etc, while at the same time introducing token characters, whose only characteristic has been “woman” or “gay” or “black”, because they are very badly writen. Take Thorina as an example. I didn’t care about her at first; it’s not unnusual for someone else to pick the hammer of Thor and get his powers temporarilly. But the comic itself is written like shit, with a lot of nonsensical stuff done with the sole purpose of pandering to certain groups. For example she has to fight Titania and her husband, and while they’re fighting, completely out of nowhere, the husband begins to talk bad about feminism, for absolutely no reason besides showing how “bad” he is because he’s against feminism. Of course Thorina is a feminist, but whats more ridiculous is that Titania beats her own husband and surrender because …she respects what she’s doing fighting as a female…and because girl power…. WHAT?. First of there are thousands of female superheroes, and second, she surrenders because girl power? so the way to defeat her all along has been to just send a female officer to ask her to surrender?… what a wonderfull writing.
Then we have stuff like the “unsolicited opinions about israel”, a comic where a villain is portrayed as saying “evil” stuff, like defending men’s rights or talking about Israel (though we’re not informed about what he says about israel). Or the “ask me about my feminist agenda”, or the continuous references to “the patriarchy” or “mansplaining” or using Red skull to portray the common Trump voter as a nazi, or directly showing Trump as the villain, or using Kamala Khan to get votes for Hillary… among a lot of stupid political stuff that has made Marvel sales go lower and lower, until sales are showing that DC is completely destroying Marvel comics. I wonder why. It couldn’t possibly be bashing your core readers to pander to people who will not buy the comics anyways because they’re always triggered by something in them.
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I had to check that bit about Thorina girl power; But holy shit that is cancerous writing.
Sales of print comics have already taken a large hit because of web comics, they need every single sale that they can get to stay financially viable. So scraping off the few rusted on, die hard fans they have (who are mostly older men now) is not the smartest business move. And professionally offended tumblrinas will not take their place, they will move on to the next issue once they have the changes to comics they want and they will not buy the adjusted politically correct comics.
Nice post. Speaking as a guy born in 1979…I will say that if Marvel didn’t behave this way, then I would be spending a lot more money on their products. I’m much older now and have a deeper wallet than I did when I was in college, but I spend less because I don’t care to have writers call me “racist-bigot-homophobe” for no reason.
Perhaps one day they’ll learn that alienating loyal readers is not a sound business model.
I bailed with the reboots. I didn’t like investing in a story only for them to ditch it and start over. Then the Thor thing, I’m not against someone else taking the mantle of any other character as long as it makes sense and the character is good and it doesn’t feel like a diversity hire checklist.
I like characters who are great who happens to be XYZ. Not them being XYZ first then things built around that.
I can’t even make fun of Marvel, DC isn’t doing well either.
Hot off the press! America, Iceman and Gwenpool got canceled, and Dan Slott is being booted from the Amazing Spider-Man.
How about making a sequel to this comic celebrating the SJW collapse?