#e88

"Every time I go on patrol, you get caught committing petty crimes. I'm starting to think you like this."

Like it is wild the lengths WB will go to to “no homo” his way through the work.

This is a world where people with traumatic experiences get superpowers

And you’re telling me the vast majority of those people are cishet ? And white ? If Brockton Bay is even half as bad as it seems, it should be swarming with queer, POC capes

But it isn’t, and while I don’t quite remember the number of POC, I know that the majority of the cast is cishet with the exception of five characters, one of whom isn’t even FROM BB, one bisexual rapist “hedonist” and one very hamfisted depiction of a “gay predator”

There’s a goddamn NAZI gang !! And you’re telling me that NO queer person has ever triggered because of them??? Pull the other one why don’t ya

And for that matter - the NAZI GANG. Who the main cast teams up with !! To defeat a gang comprising mostly of POC !! Holy fucking shit WB was “generic Russian gang” beyond you or something?

Is that supposed to be a “morally ambiguous thing” ? Fine !! But fucking show that then !! Have the characters introspect about how they just teamed up with Nazis !! Have them regret their decisions !! Brian is a black man !! You’re telling me he felt nothing about teaming up with goddamn NEO-NAZIS ?!!

The story seems to think that moral ambiguity only refers to the act of having a good guy do something bad. “Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons” as the tagline says

And it does, yes, but it just stops there ? Like it never re-examines the character’s actions, never lets them reconsider or regret.

Hate to break it to you but someone who does something bad and never regrets or thinks back to it is not a grey character. That’s just a villain

Like I said - emotional depth of a wet sponge

And don’t even get me started on the goddamn Merchants like what the fuck why do you hate addicts so much Wildbow

It’s ridiculous. The Merchants are villainised to hell and back (more than the goddamn NAZIS let me remind you) and are given absolutely zero characterization

For context - the most characterisation out of the three gangs I’ve mentioned is given to the Nazis. Then to the ABB - the POC gang, and then, and THEN and only then - the Merchants

Oh, and did I mention its leader is a black man ? Whose introduction has him basically act as Kaiser’s - Nazi boss man’s - mini-demonstration of power ? And how the main cast backs him up on it ?

Sure the Merchants are shit, but characterisations don’t exist in a vacuum. These people are not real. WB sat down one day, and went, very deliberately, “I’m going to make this addict gang utterly irredeemable”.

That is a level of vitriol towards addicts I have scarcely seen from someone who isn’t law enforcement

And I think that says more about him than it does thee Merchants

But then you have shit like how unique all the power sets are !! The goddamn Endbringers and their unique origins and descriptions !! Fucking SCION and his shit !!

And sure most of the S9 arcs read like an edgelord fourteen-year old child throwing as much gore at his audience as physically possible, but looking beyond that, it’s good too !! Jack Slash is a creative villain !! Bonesaw is genuinely scary !! Fuck Hatchetface that man is shit !!

Matt, with literal hearts and stars in his eyes, that absolute nerd: "I can,, MAKE one,,"