- Sep 28, 2020
- 405
- 969
I, for one, got his lines permanently burned in my mind.Bruh, he's not that interesting compared to other x-men characters, especially male cast.
To be fair Jubilee had little else to go from, a quick lookup and reading would do.All we have left is to believe that he will remember about her existence soon. I mean, he even add vampire Jubili. Thing that not everyone outside comics fandom knows. It cannot be that he did not know about Magik.
Yeah, Bendis.Bendis? The writer?
The Bendis who writes.
First name Brian.
He writes comic books.
You know, like superhero stories.
I like superheroes.
It's complicated. Ultimate Peter was originally supposed to die in Ultimatum, then that was denied and Bendis came up with that crap, but he always had Miles in mind and, well, he's a dogshit character to be blunt. Forced as not-Peter when he should be a significantly different cape in every way like other Spider-People before him, sucked up and pampered by everyone for no reason when Spider-Man was the original go-getter punk with a chip on his shoulder against the world, zero social life to explore, no memorable stories, can't establish a single character of his own besides the fat asian friend and his evil uncle, frequently given power gimmicks in an attempt to forge an identity - from being known to one-tap defeating opponents, among his victims fucking Blackheart, to firing electric kamehamehas - and yet every single beat of his is just echoing Peter's for no fucking reason, down to receiving his own set of clones including a Spidercide.To the point the only likeable series of the lot seemed to be Spider-Man, and apparently they decided to give him a dignified ending through a glorious death in battle where he died but happily because he ended up succeeding in saving who he wanted to protect?
Miles Morales was born in that mess. I honestly can't see how he is so offensive you can stand the rest but not him. Unless it was the last straw.
Or... his worst issue is how bland and generic he is as a character, and in that madness...
Of course, if you see Peter's death as caused to make him take his place he does become much worse.
...At least it was Ultimate Peter.
Not like Ironheart, which was basically brand name Iron Man as a black girl while the original, MAINLINE one was dead and an AI copy was basically made to be hers what JARVIS was in the movies.
This would be fine and dandy if he just stayed on Ultimate, which as you mentioned is just the 90s on crack universe, but in 2015 he was transplanted over to the main continuity and he's constantly portrayed as this good friend of Peter when the two hardly ever interact, not even within the context of his vague migration retcon. Reading Miles feels like being on drugs, developing dementia and not having read significant arcs that were never written in the first place, all at the same time. Riri Williams is a great character comparatively for not being forced as intensely and just quietly fading into obscurity. Incidentally, they're both Bendis creations.