So uhhh would you like to hear about how i kinda see electro as a kind of zombie. Like in general, most iterations of electro are technically undead in the sense that the accidents they have kill the person they used to be leaving them to be reborn with a new identity. This can kinda count for tssm electro in the sense that he might eventually feel like the name max just doesn't belong to him anymore. The max their talking about is the one before the accident. The one that was human. The one who wasn't so angry and distraught. But the person their talking to now isn't max anymore. They died long ago. Max is dead, and all that's left is electro.
In a way you can kinda compare electro's rebirth and rejection of his previous name to how people in zombie movies will often rationalize killing zombies with the fact that they're loved ones are dead and no longer the living people they used to be, husks that just hold on to their old faces, reborn as monsters no one wants to be around for their own safety.
Maybe electro gets this crawling feeling under this skin whenever people call him by Max. The name doesn't belong to him anymore. It belongs to a dead man. And he knows it.
Idk the earliest version of electro i was exposed to was the live action TASM version who is peak zombie to me so that's probably why it stuck to me.
Sorry if this is alot or incoherent I just wanted to get this out cuz it was on my mind.
HOLD ON UR ONTO SOMETHING.. WAITTTT
Also ooh that zombie bit it’s actually really interesting, honestly I see it…
I def have always thought of how electro feels max is dead after some point. Max is dead and Electro killed him. (Also sorta relates to a trans metaphor tbh…) like I think I even had this one drawing idea of electro being caught red handed with blood and there being text reading : Max Dillion’s Murderer has been Caught Red Handed ! Like agrhhhhh that version of him is dead and a part of him killed him.
But like I def see where you[re coming from, I have always associated electro with death (I always think of him when I hear the bit of lyrics from Vampire Reference in a Minor Key” that goes like “ If you need me, I'll be in my coffin. You could come knocking, and I'll raise hell for you”)
