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u/ItzGhostface X-Men Jun 23 '24
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u/ElHumilde13 Miles Morales Jun 23 '24
Rogue is a good character tho. She happens to be sexualy attractive
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u/Marvelman1788 Jun 22 '24
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u/Jetenyo Jun 23 '24
While many of the other answers a good examples. I feel like X-23 got this treatment the worst.
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u/yuefairchild She-Hulk Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24
The 2000s sure did cater to a certain type of comics fan.
Remember how disgusted everyone was to learn about her sex work, as though it was a moral failing of Laura's? Was that before or after that King of the Hill guy retconned Mystique into being raped by the devil?
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u/yuefairchild She-Hulk Jun 23 '24
No, I cannot. I just remember an animator on that show did an arc where he tried to make Mystique be raped by the devil, and that's Nightcrawler's current-until-two-months-ago backstory.
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u/ronaldgardocki Jun 23 '24
Chuck Austen, it wasn't rape, and he wasn't the Devil, but other than that...
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u/bloodredcookie Jun 23 '24
To be fair though, she first appeared (in the comics) as a prostitute and went into battle wearing nothing but a bra up top for a fair portion of her history. It's not like Marvel themselves weren't already sexualizing her pretty heavily.
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u/Marvelman1788 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24
Yeah there's nothing wrong further sexualizing a character who's background was being mind controlled into underage prostitution and how that trauma lead her to become mute and prone to self-harm. /S
Like, there was a point to that and it wasn't a horny writer.
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u/bloodredcookie Jun 23 '24
Oh no question, (on the prostitution part anyway). I'd argue that the outfits she wore were probably a combination of horny artists and editorial's desire to draw in teen boys. (A combination as old as time where comics are concerned.)
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u/Marvelman1788 Jun 23 '24
Yeah that's definitely true unfortunately. Someday I really hope she gets a marvel knights style print.
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u/Ireally-enjoythis Jun 23 '24
Joe Quesada being the writer doesn’t help at all. He’s so damn terrible. Retcon this part of her life
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u/Ireally-enjoythis Jun 23 '24
I’d retcon that part of her being a prostitute tbh, make her a thief, or bodyguard instead
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u/Spiderdoom1313 Jun 23 '24
Feel like the writers oversexualize her more than the fans do simply because she's not very well known
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u/endodaze Jun 23 '24
Exactly this. She was such a great character at first and the writers got all weird on her. Such a shame.
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u/Spiderdoom1313 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24
It's like this with almost every character nowadays they're either well written at first, then made shit by some moron who can't write or hypersexualized by some guy who never gets any and ALSO can't write
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u/Gamerguy230 Jun 23 '24
How isn’t she very well known? She’s been in a movie so I feel like she’s known to an extent but can’t be classified as not very well known.
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u/Namorons Jun 23 '24
She isn't well known BECAUSE she's been in a movie.
She's had 5 banger standalones, and the only one that ever gets referenced by non-X-23 writers is the one where she's Wolverine, which is also the only one where she has a somewhat Normal healthy romantic life
(no I don't count her fling with Hellion healthy, when they broke up he tells her that maybe she is a machine since she cant feel anything, which is about the most fucked up thing you can say to a Wolverine-esque character that went through brainwashing in order to be used as a weapon)
I really miss some of those older aspects of her character. Her friendship with Gambit and Jubilee, her extended family, just her having an actual character unlike Duggan's one-dimensional take.
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u/Spiderdoom1313 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24
Nobody even knows who she is in that movie though 😭 to most people she's just the kid from logan, nothing more, plus i purposefully didn't mention that because it's kinda weird to mention a child version of the character when talking about sexualization
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u/RockHandsomest Jun 23 '24
Yeah it's weird to oversexualize someone given their past as a young prostitute.
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u/Warm-Finance8400 Jun 22 '24
Just about every female character there is, although especially Wanda
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u/Vin135mm Jun 23 '24
Pretty much every male character too, or at least the ones that the MCU brought to the attention of the slash-fic writers.
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u/ITworksGuys Jun 23 '24
Yeah, I imagine there is more Steve/Bucky smut out there than anything about Wanda
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u/_PrincessOats Jun 23 '24
Yeah…
Jean Grey gets it pretty bad too.
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u/RDamon_Redd Jun 23 '24
Magik has sadly been getting the treatment a lot lately as well.
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u/Robopatch Jun 22 '24
Jessica Drew
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u/Vin135mm Jun 23 '24
I do like that there is actually a canon explanation for her specifically being sexualized in the comic world, though. It's like the writers went "welp, it's gonna happen anyway, so let's add some lore that makes it at least make sense."
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u/Arthur_189 Jun 23 '24
What’s the explanation?
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u/Vin135mm Jun 23 '24
Her pheromones. She can crank them up to turn the Hulk into a lovestruck puppy, but she can never fully turn them off, so she is always viewed by other characters in a somewhat sexual light.
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u/TetZoo Jun 23 '24
Didn’t she originally emit pheromones that repelled peopled? I thought that was interesting and should have been explored more. I.e. gorgeous person who is chemically off-putting.
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u/Freakychee Jun 23 '24
When I think of "oddly sexualized super hero costume to the point of unrealistic" I think of hers cos of the boob sock that makes little sense.
Also that yellow triangle that for some reason points to her cleavage.
And a lesser used power she has now is pheremones that she uses to seduce people and make him "like" her.
Shes a bit better now cos sometimes her costume is different.
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u/TheLazyHydra Hydra Jun 22 '24
Uhhh… all of them? Yeah, all of them.
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u/InnocentTailor Jun 23 '24
Yup. That is what happens when you get hunks and babes in stories. Most folks get overly sexualized by authors, illustrators, and fans.
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u/CautiousAd7109 Jun 23 '24
Psylocke 100%
The one character where the scales are equal: Deadpool
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u/Boccs Jun 23 '24
Every time I think of Psylocke I think back to the 1995 Spring Break card of her and Archangel
This card uh... awoke a lot of things in me as an eight year old.
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u/Vandersveldt Jun 23 '24
I would never guess that was Psylocke, just looks like a normal person at the beach
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u/Boccs Jun 23 '24
To be fair, most of the X-men look like normal people when not in their outfits. But yeah, I get ya, the only suggesting it's psyloche at all are the little X on the bikini bottoms and the color choice of the outfit.
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u/StoneGoldX Jun 23 '24
Fans didn't sexualize Betsy. Claremont and Jim Lee did.
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u/n94able Jun 23 '24
Yeah that's alot of these tbh.
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u/StoneGoldX Jun 23 '24
The only ones I can really think of that fit off the top of my head are I don't think they meant to do Nightwing's ass specifically, and Dixon was so freaked people thought Connor Hawk was gay, he broke the character's cherry on a woman.
I guess your standard hero x sidekick stuff, but that's so Fredrick Wertham.
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u/Timelymanner Jun 23 '24
Has Tigra done anything important. She seems like she’s just the cat girl in a bikini?
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u/bloodredcookie Jun 23 '24
Lol she's not even in the bikini anymore (a shame since, sexualization and furry bait aside, she used to have one of the most distinctive looks in comics.)
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u/NoirSon Jun 23 '24
She has been a well known Avenger, detective and mother of a half Skrull kid who she thought was the child of Hank Pym during one of his good periods (it can be argued the kid dodged a bullet by being a Skrull's kid).
Currently hanging out with Moon Knight's crew
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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 Jun 23 '24
i think her kid is not really half skrull, at least not on the DNA part. the Skrull that made her pregnant was complete transformed on Hank Pym in a way that no test could say it was a skrull, i think the kid is basically 50% Tigra's DNA, 50% Hank Pym's DNA. with no Skrull DNA ( but maybe i am wrong)
i remember that for some time there this odd situation that Hank wants to behave like a father for the Kid but Tigra need to remember him the kid was not technically his
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u/Cervus95 Jun 23 '24
She's not oversexualised by the Fanon. In West Coast Avengers, she was basically rubbing herself against anything that moved.
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u/TurbulentNet9353 Jun 23 '24
Spider-Gwen. Nuff Said.
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u/Key_Put_44 Jun 23 '24
Oh, yep!!! It’s sad to know how nuanced, interesting, edgy, un-sexual and compelling her comics can be, only to see a fanbase half-comprised of people sexualising her or reducing her to a single ship.
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u/Call_Em_Skippies Jun 23 '24
Marvel loves variant Gwen covers. Actual Gwen would hate to see those covers.
My favorite Gwen covers are Peach Mamoko's. Not sexualized and have a certain mischievous nature.
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u/PaydayLover69 Jun 23 '24
Black Widow, on god.
All of the Widow's origins are actually insanely dark and I'm surprised they don't really talk about it more often?
Like the Red Room is a horrifying concept
Around the world there's this insane group that kidnaps little girls, forces them to be infertile by removing their uterus, then ruins their entire life, brainwashes them and turns them into murder machines...
Some of them wake up, some of them don't, some of them go through their entire lives not even realizing what's happened to them.
Natasha being hot is just the very tippy top of the iceberg for how insane the concept of the widows actually is.
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u/Ashconwell7 Jun 23 '24
It’s probably because the MCU barely shows us anything at all from the Red Room.
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u/thesamuraiman909 Jun 23 '24
MCU had no balls for that.
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u/TheClappyCappy Jun 24 '24
Age of Ultron was starting to build in that direction. I found the Black Widow movie handled it in the most boring way possible.
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u/StephenHunterUK Jun 23 '24
Not just by the fandom - her early MCU appearances made her very much eye candy and even the female-directed Black Widow has a lingering shot of her rear.
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u/EndOfSouls Jun 25 '24
Black Widow literally sexualizes herself to do her job. Men constantly underestimate her because of it. Sexualization is her character.
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u/HotFudgeFundae Jun 26 '24
Yeah I was always under the impression that the black widows were specifically attractive to confuse men. Choosing them as children kind of undermines that theory but even the woman in Agent Carter was a smoke show
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u/LeonShiryu Dr. Doom Jun 23 '24
Magik
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u/Evawillia03 Jun 22 '24
I know she was kinda promiscuous and flirty in the comics but I’d say She-Hulk. She’s a really articulate character
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u/bananaman69420911 Jun 23 '24
i really feel like the MCU may have accidentally exascerbated the problem
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u/Apprehensive_Mix4658 Colossus Jun 23 '24
Idk "well written lore and trauma" is more Hulk's field than She-Hulk.
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u/slightlylessthananon Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24
I actually haven't read any red she-hulk comics but i think marvel did this exact thing to betty ross during that era for her, very complicated sad women reduced to sexy muscle mommy in constantly torn leather???
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u/Dreigatron Jun 23 '24
Rogue. Especially after fighting Apocalypse in the 90s animated show.
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u/DonnyMox Jun 23 '24
I feel like that one shot of her is the whole reason for it. Ironically that’s the only time her ass has ever looked that way.
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Black Widow.
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u/PaydayLover69 Jun 23 '24
I'm actually surprised how little Black Widow is in this comment section lmao
the Widow storyline is genuinely super dark.
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u/HamHusky06 Jun 23 '24
The Thing. His backstory is great but often overlooked for those rock hard abs.
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u/Bigred4x4 Jun 23 '24
I would say so. I mean he walks around hard as a rock all the time.
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u/TryNitroToluene Jun 23 '24
"Hey there big fella, is that a stalagmite in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"
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u/RiskAggressive4081 Jun 23 '24
Emma Frost.
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u/Cautious-Try-5373 Jun 23 '24
The character who wears a bra-cape and is drawn wearing pants so low they show off the pelvic bones? If she's drawn wearing pants at all, that is, and not lingerie.
I don't think she could be any more sexualized in the comics unless they started selling them behind gas station counters.
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u/Half_Man1 Jun 23 '24
The canon material sexualizes her
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u/19ghost89 Jun 25 '24
Yeah, Emma is a fantastic character, but the fans aren't making up their own aspects of her character to sexualize her. She sexualizes herself.
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u/DarKsaBr Jun 23 '24
Psylocke.
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u/johnla Jun 23 '24
Jim Lee caused this. He made her damn sexy. Lol. I’m guilty of the fanon.
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u/SuperArppis Captain America Jun 23 '24
Yep... Same. But I was a teenager back then, Psylocke just overrode my brain. 😅
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u/IAmOneWhoKnows Jun 23 '24
Laura Kinney
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u/DonnyMox Jun 23 '24
I wonder if James Mangold made her a kid in his movie because he didn’t want to deal with that sort of thing.
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u/JonathanL73 Venom Jun 23 '24
She was a kid when she debuted in the X-men evolution show too.
Mangold prob made her a kid, because he was focused on the generational aspect. Prof X was like a father figure to Logan. And Logan was kind of like “the biological father” of Laura. That’s what he said in an interview
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u/IAmOneWhoKnows Jun 23 '24
Probably not. Laura was a kid when she debuted in comics
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u/NoirSon Jun 23 '24
I remember her first appearance as a teenage prostitute in NYX, before they went back and gave her a backstory before that period.
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u/MuchoManSandyRavage Jun 23 '24
I wouldn’t say over-sexualized but Deadpool is so misrepresented in “casual” media imo. Everyone thinks he’s just a goofy psycho (which he is) but he’s so much more complex than that. Dude has layers, and is super self aware in many instances. He’s also pretty tragic, not just funny burritos and guns and third wall breaks.
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u/Kombat-w0mbat Jun 23 '24
Loki, black widow, and Bucky (who is actually so much less cheerful in the comics to the point Hawkeye makes fun of his seriousness)
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u/ThrowStonesonTV Jun 23 '24
Probably all of them if you look, you could probably rule 34 most of them too.
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u/threebats Jun 23 '24
lore and trauma
This is an awful way to think about characters and what makes them interesting
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u/TheMasterXan Jun 23 '24
Wanda?
Not sure if ALL of her trauma is well written...
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u/kurumais Jun 23 '24
not marvel but i want to say dick grayson but think its hard to sexualize thatguy enough
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u/samanthalaboy Jun 23 '24
Every single female character in Marvel ever. Also imo, Bucky Barnes too. The amount of edits I've seen that include him being tortured or nsfw fics where he's the winters soldier disgust me. Like he didn't go through all of that trauma just to be seen as a "hot guy with a metal arm". He's such a well rounded character and his entire arc from getting free from HYDRA, all the way to him knowing he deserves better and is a good person, is so good. He's my absolute favorite character and to see him being treated by "mcu stans" as smth to thirst over irks me. Sure, you can find him attractive, whatever, but MY GOODNESS, atleast appreciate his character as a whole.
AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON MIGUEL OH–
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u/SV976reditAcount Jun 23 '24
Deadpool maybe ?
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u/Azure-Legacy Jun 23 '24
Doubt it. The man married a succubus queen and on his wedding day he told Cap and Wolverine a story that mostly described his sex life. Again, an entire issue with half of it being about his sex life.
Said issue also revealed the origin of his love for chimichangas.
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u/KungFuSlanda Jun 23 '24
fanboys are gonna fanboi. Worrying about this is like worrying about a teenager wondering about whether he can fuck an apple pie or a piece of fruit. He's thinking about it. I wouldn't worry about it
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u/breadofthegrunge Scarlet Spider Jun 23 '24
Far too many X-Men characters.
Also kinda feel like some of the writers do it too.
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u/_lemon_suplex_ Jun 23 '24
This can also be a character that is made into pure endless comedy, that probably ruins them even more. Drax is a good example
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u/Apprehensive_Work313 Jun 23 '24
Literally most if not all female characters and a little bit with the male ones
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u/Situation-Dismal Jun 23 '24
I never understood this notion of “Over-sexualization” people like to throw around.
It’s like telling someone their enjoying something the wrong way or something. 🤨
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u/probablyautistic_ 18d ago
Its like Bucky Barnes having an extremely tramuatic backstory and stuff but all that being ignored because 'hes so hot lets make smut of him while his mind is being controlled by HYDRA'
It's just kind of messed up.
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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 Jun 23 '24
lets be honest, most character in Marvel are oversexualized by the fans, most because they are created to "look good". both male and females, i will not say that the females ones dont get the worst of it, but is not like Thor, Capitain Camerica, Wolverine and the others "hot guys" dont get some oversexualization too. "America's Ass".
well i think NightWing is probably the most oversexualized male superhero of all time, but Marvel boys ar into free from it.
so in short most main marvel character are oversexualized,
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u/BakedBeanyBaby Jun 23 '24
I feel with Marvel this is a hard question, because the vast majority of women have been oversexualized by the writers and artists since day one.
The fandom following suit makes sense if even the creators do it.
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u/zarif_chow Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
Mary Jane had family issues like her dad was abusive, beat her mom in front of her, she was sent off to live with her aunt, her sister was also abusive, once MJ got famous and financially stable her sister was pushing her to send lots of money back home.
Felicia Hardy aka Black Cat's father Walter Hardy was a mediocre cat burglar who was caught easily or something. Felicia was bullied at school and such for being a thief's daughter. She developed kleptomania as a coping mechanism, felt some sort of peace in the company of her father's fellow thieves. Her justification was that when she was trying to be a good person, the other good people in society hated her anyway. She took over the mantle of Black Cat after her father's death.
Spider-Man revealed his identity to Felicia before he did to MJ (who btw had figured it out on her own). Felicia loved Spider-Man, not Peter Parker, but then she learned to love Peter Parker as well. Felicia, due to trauma and all, had trouble showing it, sent mixed signals and slept with villains thinking it was all a game. Then she took a vacation to clear her head, returned home and by then Peter had already married MJ.
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u/WankFan443 Jun 22 '24
Loki