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Hated Tropes Things meant to be progressive just end up being incredibly offensive

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What If - In one of the comics Miles becomes Thor, and it's full of stereotypes about black people such as the Mjolnir having graffiti on it and the infamous "by Odin's fade"

Emilia Perez - Everything about the movie

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u/Alreadsyuse 12h ago edited 12h ago

The cancelled 2020 New Warriors Reboot written by Daniel Kibblesmith and Luciano Vecchio. The plot was going to include the og New Warriors mentoring a new generation of "progressive" heroes. However, it was clear the writers only had a stereotypical idea of the characters they were writing, with the most notable example being the names of some of the heroes in the group, like "Snowflake" and "Safespace" and their designs reminiscent of ones made by Tumblr users to seem progressive, such as adding meaningless neon colours.

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u/Lord_of_Seven_Kings 12h ago

And the dude who gets his powers from his grandpas “experimental internet gas”

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u/MusicHitsImFine 12h ago

Is this an actual thing?

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u/DIOsNotDead 12h ago

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u/Crusaderofthots420 12h ago

Wait wait, he can't just Google any fact, he can also see augmented reality. So he is effectively just wearing those dumb-looking Apple glasses or whatever they were

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u/aNewPattern 10h ago

Kid basically huffed the exhaust fan from an old PC or asbestos or something and then bought the Google Glass/Meta Glasses lmao

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u/Differlot 8h ago

Check the steam deck subreddit. A bunch of them like to huff the exhaust because they think it smells nice.

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u/Baron_Beemo 6h ago

.... until they develop dust allergy and/or asthma.

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u/ChiefsHat 4h ago

Yeah but for free. Which is… actually interesting, if executed correctly.

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u/Thundersting 12h ago

Now I kind of want this to get made so we can learn what the hell "internet gas" is.

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u/congradulations 12h ago

Gramp's THC vape, has the kid thinking he can see in maps and shit

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u/Chedderonehundred 11h ago

just a regular ass burnt asf geek bar

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u/SquidTheRidiculous 11h ago

Finally, an excuse when someone yells at me for vaping on their baby.

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u/Chedderonehundred 11h ago

"dont worry bitch its internet gas its gonna make this thing smart asf"

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u/alpharaptor1 11h ago

And a bottomless pit of Dunning-Kruger to draw his "Google results" from.

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u/RModDogWalkerTyRANNY 11h ago

Lil bro hit a blinker and now thinks he's a super hero.

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u/tsian 12h ago

Do you really, though?

If he can google anything instantly, you know he can pornhub anything instantly too... in "augmented reality".

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u/Wardock8 11h ago

He stops villains by creating realistic holograms of their mom getting fucked.

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u/ItsTheDCVR 11h ago

"It's over, Magneto; I'm looking at 4k leaks of your butthole as we speak"

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u/Wardock8 11h ago

"Ultron's gonna destroy the city! What do we do?!"

"Don't worry guys, I got this."

Uploads 10 terabytes of furry porn to his servers

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u/tsian 10h ago

Why would you think that would dissuade him?

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u/FallingP0ru 12h ago

Just go to your local AI data center, I heard it's heating up the planet too. So cool!

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u/Chedderonehundred 11h ago

i took a sip of the ai data center water and lost 3/4 of my iq, I can't read now. I just have to do a speech to text and hope that it's right.

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u/FallingP0ru 10h ago

Can you see real time maps yet? Maybe you need to inhale it through your lungs?

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u/Shnicketyshnick 12h ago

Mostly Cheeto farts.

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u/WillWillingson 12h ago

I'm not sure if I want to know what grandpa needed it for.

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u/LoopStricken 6h ago

Instead of smoking PCP, he's smoking PHP.

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u/lacegem 11h ago

It's magic smoke. Do not breathe the magic smoke.

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u/MyFartsAreStolen 12h ago

Wow, he can google ANYTHING?

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u/JGuntai24 12h ago

Now he just watches porn ALL the time

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u/usagizero 12h ago

Ultron: "Can we rent a porno?"

iykyk

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u/AHRogue 12h ago

His power is having a phone.

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u/MusicHitsImFine 12h ago

Oh... oh my

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u/And_Yet_I_Live 12h ago

He's the least worse honestly

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u/randgan 12h ago

He's the most interesting because he would constantly get fake information that he treats as facts. And bots would convince him the rest of them are the enemy.

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u/SoupmanBob 12h ago

No, least worst is the only one of them to actually survive and make it into canon; B-Negative aka Twink Morbius. Second place is Cyberpunk Dora the Explorer. I'd place internet gas dude at the shared bottom place with the buzzword twins.

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u/BlaakAlley 12h ago

His name. . . .is Screentime??????

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u/alpharaptor1 11h ago

Does it have to be Google. Is it the verb usage? What if Google specifically has an outage? Can he use other search engines? What's his range, connection speed, network provider? Can he get rate limited for going over his data limit? Can his ip be blocked? What if they don't let minors access the internet where he is? Does he have a parental block on content or free access to all porn all the time?

They clearly didn't think this through.

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u/East-Specialist-4847 11h ago

Jesus Christ that's a hero name for South Park Fractured But Whole

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u/Chedderonehundred 11h ago

bro is Mr Quirk Chungus

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u/GranolaCola 11h ago

God, this could work so well ironically.

Imagine a super team of teenagers that constantly remind you of why teenagers fucking suck lmao

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u/Baron_Beemo 10h ago

Isn't this basically Freakazoid but taken seriously?

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u/UnquestionabIe 9h ago

Freakazoid was from a much more quaint era where we thought the internet was going to make people smarter. Hell the first season was basically nerd culture deep cut references and reskinned Monty Python sketches

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u/_JR28_ 8h ago

He looks like if you tried to draw Kyle Rayner from memory after a knock to the head

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u/____-_______-_--_-_- 6h ago

I can also instantly Google any fact

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u/Mindless-Internet978 12h ago edited 12h ago

It was cancelled before it could be released, but the characters were announced and the book was shown off beforehand to drum up hype (hah). One of the characters was Screentime, a screen addicted teenager who was exposed to his grandpa's experimental internet gas...That was his officially planned backstory.

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u/skivian 5h ago

internet addicted Asian kid, just for that little extra racism

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u/CallMeIshy 12h ago

what does that even mean?

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u/JellyRollMort 12h ago

He had the power of google. Thats literally it.

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u/CallMeIshy 12h ago edited 12h ago

is he now stuck with ai overviews?

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u/Wrong-Mouse-6499 12h ago

fate worse than death

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u/Nick_the_bunny 12h ago

actual torment nexus.

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u/Wrong-Mouse-6499 12h ago

I have all knowledge and I must scream

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u/TotalBlissey 10h ago

Knowledge and a whole lot of AI airbrushed fruit people

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u/MuchachoMongo 12h ago

And gets all the abilities of a child with an Ipad.

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u/Possible-Resource781 12h ago

I mean compared to some other superhero origins, Internet Gas ain't that weird

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u/Lord_of_Seven_Kings 11h ago

Maybe in the 70s, but this was like less than a decade ago

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u/Funkycoldmedici 8h ago

In a comedy miniseries. It’s not like this was some gritty stop-the-terrorists long-running thing. A joke is a joke.

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u/Extension_Pack_6734 10h ago

I love the wacky silver age throwback of it. 

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u/Funkycoldmedici 10h ago

Exactly. It’s got that mongoose-blood-transfusion craziness.

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u/Passing-Through247 6h ago

It just occurs to me a guy with an internet connected brain should have been something from the 90s-2000s but here we have someone with 'browses the internet' as their power in the age of the smartphone. He's just a guy.

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u/Chaosiumrae 12h ago edited 11h ago

Black Bomber 2.0

Context, A long time ago when DC first started headlining black superhero their main draft was about a white obese racist solider in the Vietnam war that transform into a black guy under stress or when he says the N word. Alter ego jekyll and hyde situation.

Everyone hated it.

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u/Forever_Man 10h ago

One reviewer said it was "offensive to anyone with any kind of point of view at all"

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u/NeezDuts91 10h ago

This some Billy Madison shit

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u/dead_parakeets 12h ago

I feel like I remember reading an article about that where the writer intentionally wrote the worst character he could think of and it got approved by editorial.

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u/PirateKittyMeowMeow 10h ago edited 10h ago

No, it was the other way around. One of the editors at DC comics back then (can't remember the name) came up with the character concept as a sincere but hopelessly tone-deaf (even by 1970s standards) attempt to create a black superhero, but the writer that was put in charge of the actual script, Jenny Blake Isabella, refused to write it because she knew that it was a horrible idea, and convinced DC to use her own creation, Black Lightning, instead.

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u/JSConrad45 10h ago

I completely missed that she came out last year, that's awesome.

When she was a kid, she ran a book club for comics in the local neighborhood. Most of the other kids in the club were black, and she decided that if she was ever able to make comics, she wanted to make comics for them and other kids like them. She did a lot of work on Luke Cage at Marvel, and created Misty Knight, before DC poached her to do Black Lightning. The terms of her deal with DC mean that she gets royalties any time they use Black Lightning, which is why there are a bunch of other electric-themed black heroes in DC: they kept making up new ones to avoid paying royalties on Black Lightning.

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u/PirateKittyMeowMeow 9h ago edited 8h ago

I knew about Luke Cage and Misty Knight, but I had no idea about her book club, or that her inspiration to work on and create black characters was the black kids in her neighborhood. That's really sweet, and shines quite a light on her refusal to write Black Bomber!

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u/GuardianOfThePark 5h ago

I mean, it also helped the fact that Black Bomber was the worst idea ever conceived in superhero history after Avengers #200.

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u/MrWaluigi 11h ago

What was with the editorials back then? This, Ms. Marvel’s relationship with her paradox baby, and the Punch Dimension. 

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria 12h ago

wasn't his name Brown Bomber?

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u/Chaosiumrae 11h ago

Brown Bomber is a parody callback of the Black Bomber.

The original luckily never left the draft / concept stage of production.

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u/VibeCheckingJumboJet 11h ago

There was a later parody of the debacle with Brown Bomber

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u/blah938 11h ago

I'd read it

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u/Animalia_Appreciator 12h ago

At least B-Negative made it in an official comic.

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u/Aggravating-Week481 11h ago edited 3h ago

Aka the only salvageable character from the roster

Edit: ok, maybe too harsh. The others just need A LOT of adjustments but B Negative is just the most salvageable

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 9h ago

Yeah, between the Lannister siblings, kid who's power is the same as a phone, and a character who bears WAY too much of a resemblance to Dora the Explora the brand new teen vampire who fell for the marketing and got his gear from hot topic is probably the only salvageable character.

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u/carso150 6h ago

kid who became a vampire and inmediately went to hot topic seems... yeah that seems like something that would actually happen

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 6h ago

If you haven't go watch What We Do In The Shadows. It's got stuff like that all the time, like a character gets turned and begins asking if there's somewhere they have to go to get gothic vampire clothes or if his stuff is fine.

It's pretty good.

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u/Eden_ITA 11h ago

B-Negative is cool.

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u/HMHellfireBrB 12h ago

Is he s good character?

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u/Animalia_Appreciator 11h ago

He's okay. He's mostly just a cameo working as a receptionist for vampire Kingpin in an alternate universe.

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u/jtlovato 11h ago

….huh.
Vampire Kingpin.
That’s a new one.

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u/Animalia_Appreciator 10h ago

Vampire Kingpin looks pretty cool.

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u/Agent_Ford_E_Seven 10h ago

Yo, I thought killed that guy in Hitman Contracts!

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u/Taweret 9h ago

That's just Pearl from Blade

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u/IndieMedley 5h ago

White Jabba

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u/FlameThrowerFIM 7h ago

I mean, hey, work is work, as long as the pay is good :/

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u/mononcfleche 12h ago

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u/MrWaluigi 11h ago

I knew this would show up. 

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u/thenoble117 10h ago

Only redeeming character from the team. Glad they kept him around.

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u/SpeeeedwaagOOn 8h ago

Wasn’t it implied that he was murdered by Blade?

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u/jul55555 6h ago

He gets killed in that same page iirc

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u/Animalia_Appreciator 5h ago

He gets killed off screen. This is his last page.

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u/Wrong-Mouse-6499 12h ago

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u/Nick_the_bunny 12h ago

thanks, I hate it.

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u/Responsible_Bar3957 10h ago

“Where yo clothes at”

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u/Wrong-Mouse-6499 10h ago

Clothes dilute the internet gas

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u/Silent_Biscotti_9832 12h ago

I don’t think I’ll ever forget snowflake and safe space, not with drip like that

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u/skeletaltrombone 12h ago

Designs so forgettable that they wrap back around into being memorable for how bland they are

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u/NyraKyle01 12h ago

Also why are the two siblings characters hugging like that xD

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u/MuchachoMongo 12h ago

They're Tumblr stand-ins, you know why.

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u/SteampoweredFlamingo 10h ago

They're siblings!?

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u/NyraKyle01 10h ago

Yup lol, which is hilarious considering they look like a couple in that cover

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u/OkMention9988 9h ago

In a Game of Thrones twink kind of way. 

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u/YamatoIouko 11h ago

Alabama-rama!

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u/Character_Growth_397 12h ago

This is the most "how do you do fellow kids?" thing I've ever seen.

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u/ICanSeeYourFuture 12h ago

Nah, this is some mean spirited incel shit.

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u/SedesBakelitowy 12h ago

don't attribute to malice what is easily attributed to stupidity - that's just some comic book writers idea of what the kids will surely like, it's no different from how they wrote in the past eras.

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u/YamatoIouko 11h ago

Hanlon’s razor

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u/Infamous-Warthog8555 11h ago

Yeah, I always understood it as well-intentioned but comically out of touch.

Marvel has a long history of progressivism. This one just wildly missed the mark.

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u/ThisIsFrigglish 12h ago

That really is just the most deracinated "people I don't agree with" word now, huh.

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u/bucket_o_chickn 12h ago

I'd never seen/heard the word deracinated before, thanks for the new entry into my vocab journal, friend!

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u/ThisIsFrigglish 11h ago

Always glad to foster a little more love of language.

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey 8h ago

Racine means root beer in French, so now I'm just picturing them sucking root beer out of him

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u/Invisible-Pancreas 12h ago

...

Okay, just Wikipedia'd their names. You guys ready?

Screentime, Snowflake, Safespace, B-Negative and Trailblazer.

I swear I am not making that up; that's their names.

These are names a Republican cartoonist on Twitter would decide are a little "on the nose".

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u/YamLow8097 12h ago

Trailblazer isn’t too bad, at least.

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u/The-Fomorian-Ray-682 12h ago

I don’t see the problem with Trailblazer, sounds cool imo

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u/Ditzy_Dreams 4h ago

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of characters whose power is basically just plot convenience.

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u/SlobZombie13 9h ago

it's a woman whose power is breaking glass ceilings.

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u/WingedSword_ 9h ago

Ahhh, there it is. 

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u/netcereal 11h ago

My favorite model of Chevy

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u/Gigantic_potato 5h ago

People said it was too stereotypical for a native American hero, but her main issues were definitely looking like Dora and saying that her backpack came from god "but not the one you're thinking"

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u/SoSeriousAndDeep 11h ago

I quite like Safespace as a name, and think it would work for a paladin-type defensive character.

Just... Not the version they proposed. Because that was bad.

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u/Flesroy 10h ago

i can see the idea behind it working, but the word safespace is just not an option anymore. i'm sure there is a name that can convey the same meaning without making people cringe because of politics.

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u/Pero_Bt 8h ago

I've seen a fanart where snowflake and safespace are renamed to Hail and Haven

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u/Flesroy 8h ago

yeah that's pretty much perfect

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u/The1987RedFox 10h ago

Safe space is the only truly unusable name for those, Snowflake isn’t great but could be like a snow character I guess otherwise they could be used

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u/SpaceGiraffeInSpace 11h ago

Poor Trailblazer

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u/Funkycoldmedici 10h ago

That’s literally the gag. It was a humor miniseries by one of the Colbert Report writers. It was more of that, making fun of what conservatives say everything is.

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u/Theorist129 8h ago

Looked into it, Kibblesmith only wrote for the Late Show, not Colbert Report, fwiw. However, his history does fall into what you're talking about. He was a founding editor for Clickhole, the Onion's Buzzfeed parody, he ran a "GOP Teens" parody account on Twitter, and wrote a picture book about a black gay Santa Claus seemingly mostly for subversiveness' sake.

Well, I shall take up your banner, good Medici, and whenever I see it come up, I will note that it's from a founding editor of Clickhole, so the blatant absurdity is likely at the least not unthinking.

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u/ItsWelp 12h ago

Honestly I can’t bring myself to believe this was done in good faith. Safespace maybe I could get, but Snowflake has been an insult for progressives/"wokes" for a looong time. It felt like the kind of stuff Stonetoss would come up with.

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u/DinkleDonkerAAA 12h ago

The writer said the character was "reclaiming" the word when I don't think it works like that

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u/Crusaderofthots420 12h ago

Wait until they use that excuse to create "Captain Faggot" (mods I can say it)

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u/Infamous-Warthog8555 11h ago

Tbh, wouldn’t be surprised if that character existed. No bigot would write a comic about him. It would be made by the gayest dude you ever met.

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u/CommercialEstate4422 11h ago

I'd also unironically read that comic. One of my best friends would be laughing his ass off

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u/ukezi 9h ago

I imagine that with about the same tone as Nextwave from 20 years ago. That was quite a ride.

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u/Neolance34 9h ago

Is his power being able to control wood? Bundles of it by chance?

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u/Cas_The_Walrein 7h ago

nah its to generate and control offal meatballs obviously

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u/Feedback-Mental 9h ago

Thin cigarettes are out of fashion, so... No.

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u/ItsWelp 12h ago

It works when you use it within a community! You can’t just call yourself/your character an insult to "reclaim" it.

I guess in the end it’s hard to differentiate stupidity from malice.

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u/NatashOverWorld 12h ago

Yeah, I don't think comics are a medium that can meaningfully do that.

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u/YamatoIouko 11h ago

Comics have a full Randall Graves moment.

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u/bio4320 11h ago

I've always believed that it was intentionally absurd. The New Warriors have often been a commentary on "corporate" heroes, from having their own TV show to starting Civil War because of their recklessness to having their team basically usurped by Norman Osborn. I thought the New New Warriors had a lot of potential as an over-the-top parody of rainbow capitalism and could tell an interesting story on who the characters wanted to be past their corporate branding. Maybe I'm giving too much credit but with the team's history I can't imagine it was intended to be played straight.

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u/CourseSpare7641 11h ago

that would require marvel to actually write a good story

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u/Funkycoldmedici 10h ago

It definitely was poking fun at conservative fears. The writer did exactly the same thing for Colbert for years. This one was even right on the heels of a Great Lakes Avengers with a woman who turns into a blue-furred male werewolf called Good Boy. It’s insane how anyone thought this was anything but a comedy miniseries.

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u/switch2591 11h ago

See, that's sort of howni'd go with the idea: the hero identities and backstories are just lumped onto the kids by corporate who "test screened" the names, costumes and backstories etc.

However, given the quick cancellation before launch due to Covid19, no attempt at brining the series back up (the marvel event in question ending), and only one of the character (BNegative) appearing in the pages of anothet series, i have a gut feeling that this entire New New Warriors set up was meant to be played straight and not as a commentary on rainbow capitalism.

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u/Funkycoldmedici 10h ago

The writer’s entire career has been making fun of conservative fears and accusations. There is no chance this was anything different.

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u/UnquestionabIe 9h ago

Personally I loved X-Statix back in the day. Great parody of both how Marvel treated the X-Men franchise as a cash cow and celebrity/outrage culture of the era. That it was in continuity made it all the better, with such classics such as "Being black while being a mutant is like being black with a little black on top" and of course the plan to have the late Princess Diana come back from the dead (per her mutant ability) and join the team!

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u/No-Scientist-5537 12h ago

The book never came out and those superheroes were meant to be corporate sponsored, so it could been meant to be oarody of corporate trying to appeal to "youth these days". We'll never know

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u/Kozmo9 12h ago

You'd be surprised to find that a lot of terrible stuff were done in good faith. That's because their definition of good faith differs from the normal.

Double standards especially in depicting racism is one example. "I'm going to make a show that tackles racism so as to make the whites realise how terrible they are! What's that? The black characters commited racism and are terrible characters themselves? That's BS because black on white racism doesn't exist! Oh and the black characters were terrible because of the whites! So they are not at fault!"

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u/Global-Gas-3520 12h ago

Internet gas!

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u/RedZingyHedgehog 12h ago

The rumour was, before it was cancelled, that these were kids brought in by corporations to appeal to the kids and they would eventually realise they were working for the bad guys and turn on them. As a commentary on how out of touch and faux supportive capitalists can be I think it could have worked. Shame, we'll never get to know as the internet reacted so badly.

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u/NWStormraider 12h ago

I mean, I don't think it being self aware makes it any better, just even more insincere. "Haha, get it, we are fully aware all of this is performative, isn't this funny?

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u/gzapata_art 11h ago edited 11h ago

I think the names were chosen to be made fun of though and was going to critique the performative capitalism of it all. Just what I heard though. Personally it seemed to on the nose to have been serious

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u/Karkava 11h ago

Sure, but the internet mob has a habit of slipping into Poe's law too many times.

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u/Jerswar 12h ago

This feels like a parody. Like a superhero team that would appear on a Family Guy episode, or something.

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u/StanleyKapop 12h ago

It basically was. The characters were kind of riffs on the way that comic writers used to take simplified versions of modern trends, and base characters off of them. Night Thrasher, Rocket Racer, etc. Online weirdos took them as completely serious, and still talk about them years later, as if they are A list superheroes with movie deals.

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u/JadedResponse2483 12h ago

And right wingers kept bringing this thing up years after to prove the wokrnesse is bad

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u/SillyNamesAre 12h ago

It honestly sounds like a plant by some right-wing nut at Marvel intending to discredit the "woke conspiracy".

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u/Soft_Self_6797 12h ago

Literally but all the "wokies" were also hating on this.

They hate it because it's woke

I hate hit because it's fucking stupid

We are not the same

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u/revbleech 11h ago

There may be more "how do you do fellow progressive kids" stupid stuff out there, but I ain't seen it. As it is I don't wanna see Screentime unless Night Thrasher is walloping him with his skateboard.

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u/Soft_Self_6797 11h ago

It's just the most cringe shit. I am one of the alphabet mafia and when this came out I was mortified. I am surprised they didn't name a character a slur.

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u/revbleech 11h ago

it just occurred to me that some clueless writer probably WOULD add a street gang called "the alphabet mafia" as an adversary eventually if the book had come out

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u/Puzzleheaded_Step468 12h ago

I still remember how many dislikes the trailer got because those are the lamest superheroes ever

"Internet gas" lol

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u/Tekki777 12h ago

Two words:

Internet gas...

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u/Purrczak 12h ago

Grandpas internet gas...

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u/Betelgeuse3fold 12h ago

Holy fuck I forgot about that....

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u/Tekki777 11h ago

I did too until I got reminded right now 🤣

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u/TheTooDarkLord 12h ago

I'm Happy this exists because i have an OC that's basically Screentime but not stupid as fuck

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u/Hunkus1 12h ago

I hope they have better powers than can google fast.

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u/NwgrdrXI 12h ago

Screentime IS cool looking, tbf.

What is bad is everyhing else about him.

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u/TheTooDarkLord 12h ago

I think the same, most of those designs are ugly as fuck but his design Is kinda rad

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u/Nick_the_bunny 12h ago

yeah but does your oc have internet gas?

that's what I thought, checkmate liberals /s

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u/TheTooDarkLord 12h ago

No, 5G Just gave him autism, like the good old times

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u/Ok-Transition7065 11h ago

Soo new type powers but with internet?

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u/memecrusader_ 12h ago

Snowflake might’ve worked in the hands of a better writer. They were non-binary with ice powers, so they could be reclaiming an insult used against them. But again, that would require a good writer.

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u/Loose_Translator8981 12h ago

Yeah, I think pairing them with someone named Safespace was way, way too much. Like. maybe if they were on the same team but unrelated it might be ignorable, but making them explicitly a pair of siblings with similar outfits and even hairstyles makes it impossible to take either of them seriously.

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u/NwgrdrXI 12h ago

Biggest problem with snowflake and safespace is that they're mean to be non-binary, but are clearly designed as male and female.

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u/Ambaryerno 12h ago

"Non-binary" is not the same thing as "androgynous." They can absolutely look male or female.

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u/memecrusader_ 12h ago

Snowflake is non-binary, Safespace isn’t.

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u/Purrczak 12h ago

Whenever I remeber it nearly existed I feel like everything before 2021 was one big fever dream.

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u/Kerl_of_Fox_County 12h ago

Similar energy to I Am Not Starfire which used the name of a beloved DC heroine for a story about, effectively, an unlikeable self-insert.. whilst trying to 'modern'.

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u/Acrobatic_Expert1372 12h ago

Which led to a hate campaign against the writer including death and rape threats

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u/MarcheMuldDerevi 12h ago

I’d be curious about it as a one shot? One of those look how progressive we are moments. That would be so on the nose it comes off as pandering. Lesbian Space Princesses?

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u/LeavesOfNonsense 11h ago

Wasn't it later revealed that the author intentionally made it as stupid as possible as a joke?

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u/Snoo_72851 10h ago

Being real, I love the cancelled New Warriors. I want them to get a run more than I care about the entire MCU.

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u/Wiinterfang 12h ago

The worst part is that without the culture war baggage, Snowflake and Safespace are cool superhero names.

Safespace is particularly great one for a rescue type hero.

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u/shadowsofpain 11h ago

So I know internet gas guy, the twins snowflake and safespace because Jesus those names, and morbious Jr that actually made it to canon, but who's the last one? I've never heard anything about them, they seems the most boring of all of them which seems conterproductive to whatever they were going for.

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u/MessageTurbulent7285 10h ago

The og new warriors did give us snowflame.

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u/Channel_el 10h ago

This will forever be one of the funniest things marvel has ever done

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u/Kazfiddly 9h ago

Jesus Christ. Snowflake? Safespace?

It sounds like a parody Matt Walsh's company would make.

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u/Canai97 9h ago

I get everyone's main gripe is with the twins but I still to this day can't get over the green visor guy's origin being that he got his powers from internet fart gas.

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u/Growka3 9h ago

I fully expected them to be the second slide of this post. Still not sure how this was possibly concieved without SOMEONE taking the piss.

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u/Funkycoldmedici 8h ago

It absolutely was. The writer has only done comedy making fun of conservative fears his entire career.

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