I need to get this out of my chest
Iâm incredibly pissed at young justiceâs treatment of mâgannâs character, i have always been, but i canât even stay pissed bc this is the only appearance we have of young naive ââsweetâ megan so ugggggggggggh here me out while i try to explain my toxic relationship with yj.
So is 2010, yj comes out, alright everyone liked that, but season 2 comes around and we miss martianâs fans found out that sheâs been acting like a fuckinâ psycho frying peopleâs minds⌠okay i said back in the day, they are just givin her a little something, a lil drama, action whatever⌠but nobody liked that. Everyone started hating on her more than they already did (for whatever reason they hated her before. I have many things to say about that but thatâs not the point of this rant, i can make another one for that) and started saying how she was awful and how she did not deserve to be forgiven and you know what more, we all know.
Fast forward to some years later, when i was finally old enough to read comics without having to change the screen everytime my mom walked in my room, i started reading teen titans and shit like that bc oui. So, i got to know mâgann better, and this whole âmiss martian frying brains and trying to erase her belovedâs mindâ did not sit right with me anymore. Wtf was that about? what was that for?????? In teen titans (2003) she has codes and rules that she sticks to when it comes to using her powers on earth. Sheâs very concious that sheâs an alien and only breaks her rules when itâs EXTREMELY necessary (like when they visited her in the australian dessert) soooooooo????? nevermind.
Then we got the amazing news that yj was coming back!!!!! yay i was super excited i thought ânow is the time for mâgann to be explored and redeemed and understood. Fuck That, they said, because my girl got like 5 sec of screen time and i know she was a leader this season, thatâs something, but most of the time i saw her being connerâs fiance than anything else. Not that i complain, and problably it isnât true but thatâs how i percieved it bc i expected more of her on season 3. I wanted her to be a BAMF like she is in the comics, AND THATâS WHAT PISSES ME OF!
In the comics we have this beautiful sweet, naive alien girl whoâs just so delicate and sensitive that even quit the teen titans after a fight! AND WOULD NEVER HURT ANYONE!!! in fact, in one of her first appereances in the teen titans comics sheâs fighting against a thief (idk i donât remember very well itâs been YEARS) and sheâs like âpromise you wonât do it again i donât want to hurt youâ âif you promise youâll never do it again i wonât hurt youâ and at the end she just gives the guy to the police! we only got to see that in s1 and still she was hated (ugh again, so many thing to say about that too) so it wasnât really⌠joyful.
In yj itâs clear that mâgann has great power, that sheâs increadibly powerful, even Jâonn mentions it and then???? itâs forgotten for the rest of the series????????? noooo, the only time when we see how powerful miss martian is is when⌠u guessed it⌠she goes full psycho mod and starts attacking minds for no apparent reason beyond âthey are the bad guys and we need the info idcâ. WHY????? In TITANS (2016) we see how wonderful of a âleaderâ Mâgann can be and itâs AMAZING. Not only that but we see her being true to herself: she still has secrets, but sheâs her sweet self and not some mind-intruder monster, plus sheâs a lot more mature.Â
In both Teen Titans (2003) and Titans (2016) we see her as we know her: kind, loving, caring, fun but serious when needed. Itâs shown that she can cope with great responsabilities and we can see also how willing she is to sacrifice herself for others (i mean she doesnât even think twice before projecting her astral self to save the rest of the titans even though it leaves her in a coma, a BAMF) and this is precisely why sheâs my fav<3 why canât a sweet girly girl also be a leader and one of the most powerful heroes of the world??
I see what yj tried to do: they wanted to give her sometnig more i guess⌠like what happened when she killed the Manhunter in teen titans and was kind of evil but fighting against itâŚbut it ended up going in all the wrong directions. I feel like what happened with her in s2 was made just for the general plot and not really for her character development. People already didnât like here as much as the rest of the characters in s1, so for the second they were like âah whatever they dislike her already, whatâs a little more going to doâ. As each season passes i see her fading more and more to the background and itâs not fair:( bc yj is the most important and big Miss Martian appearence outside the comics, and still in the comics sheâs not that studied. So now i fear iâll never see the Miss Martian at her full potential outside the comics bc yj made everyone dislike her.
THIS is what i mean when i say that Miss Martian deserves better. I want to see her fighting villains with her 8 arms and laser vision, not being a âliarâ and fainting everytime thereâs fire near or yes GIVE ME SOME FUCKING ANGST! so we can see the team caring for her!!! bc wtf??? you see your friend doing a villain move and you are just âoh never mindâ i mean Nightwing hears that Mâgann, sweet naive loving im- going- to- bake- you- cookies -bc -i -love- u Mâgann, fried Kaldurâs mind and he just goes :o WHAT? or Artemis being like âNow fix what u did and hurry upâ when they were in Mantaâs ship I MEAN????????? do u really not care??? Ur friend is going through some shit right now, pulling a whole âI might turn evilâ stunt and u are like âŚthatâs something. Shouldnât hey be asking like??? what happened to make her go like that???? they all just let it pass i mean CâMONNNNN
Okay so, what i mean is that i want to see the REAL Miss Martian, The Hello Kitty Martian, who asks what buttonâs for hugging when playing Playstation, but that can also kick your ass into another psychic world and then ask you if you are okay bc she didnât mean to hurt you. THATâS my Miss Martian. I guess I just stick around with yj bc 1. Itâs fuckin great canât lie (plot, animation, the rest of the characters, etc) 2. bc s i said before, itâs the only chance to see mâgann outside the comics.
Give me the Mâgann I know and love, and give Mâgann the chance to have fans who love her and get to know her.