mean autistic who bites people out of fear posting 4 a mo here ahem. um.Look i know most of yāall donāt give a shit abt anything that wasnāt published in the last decade but. you all DO, like. realize that miguelās origin story is a rape allegory, when youāre talking abt th character and how āpossessive,ā and ādominant,ā and āobsessive,ā and super-duper-heteronormatively hypermasculine he definitely totally for sure absolutely is for sure even though those are traits he does not and never has had, ever, but the god-forsaken Latin Lover clichĆ© Does have, right-?
like. god heās not some tony stink Playboy Guy who willingly did designer drugs one day for funsies or whatever the fuck (which would have been, and Still Is, a consciously bad writing decision for This Specific Character, considering the racist stereotypes + baggage that comes with that; miguel getting drugged in issue #1 of the comics is functionally equivalent to a roofie, and both the characters & narrative generally treat it with the seriousness of such throughout the entirety of the run) or who was messing around giving himself Fun Superhero Powers just because he could. miguelās powers horrify him his transformation is painful and only happens because a coworker who hated him saw an opportunity to hurt him and took it. like. sm2099 is directly inspired by The Fly (1980) okay they directly reference it in the text of issue #1 so from the jump there is body horror nd themes of personal identity nd autonomy and navigating them as a lifelong abuse victim disconnected from ur Flesh in this spider-man book Spider-Man is the vessel through which miguel is able to take ownership of his own self and body after a violation that shattered his āoldā self You Guys DO Know That Right
miguelās insanely isolated in his day-to-day life the only people outside of his familyācounting lyla as family lmaoāthat he Regularly Interacts With are his fiancĆ©e (who is dismissive of him at very very best. but. this is Not About Her) and. well. tyler. the guy who drugged him. because tyler is his boss. and he owns the company that owns miguelās apartment. and the rest of the apartment building. and the city. and most of the eastern seaboard of the former united states of america in the year 2099.
like. ok. in the Text Of SM2099 during the catalyst scene to miguel eventually getting his powersāhis racist uberwealthy boss tyler stone spiking his drink w/ Rapture, a highly-addictive fantasy drug that causes intense hallucinations + a seeming lack of coordination/motor control that ābonds to the hostās DNA in 24 hours,ā (and is only legally supplied, of course, by alchemax)ātyler Brags To Miguelās Face about having groomed him just seconds before roofieing him because miguel dared to Try and quit his job at alchemax instead of doing Evil Fucked-Up Comic Book Science on human test subjects, and tyler is a rich creep who thinks that he Owns his offspring nd can do whatever he wants with him. the main villains of spider-man 2099 are Parental Abuse and Capitalism and tyler stone is a textbook patriarch figure who perfectly embodies both of those ideals y/k
marvel 2099 is cyberPUNK, written during the CYBERPUNK BOOM OF THE 90S, evil rich villains who r for all intents and purposes just average white-collar Douchebags with more power and money than any one human being should ever have is like. genre convention
