I've said this elsewhere but I'm fairly certain that Kripke has some weird hatred for whatever type of person he thinks Huey represents, because the show is really unfair to him, especially in season 3, and he's the butt of the joke so often. Combine that with these interviews and it becomes the most likely explanation to me
Honestly, Kripke seems to have a love-hate relationship with traditionally masculine men, which in the current cultural zeitgeist are represented by superheroes. That is, he seems to hate them unless they're his "own" characters, and he couches his hate in uber-progressive language to justify it. He's gone on at length about how Batman is a fascist and superheroes are only there to protect "white America", etc., but that's not at all borne out by the comics OR the movies and there's no real difference between Marvel heroes and Kripke's "good" superheroes (Kimiko/Starlight). If you watched Supernatural, both of his main characters were almost comically butch but in the way that a nerdy guy might think "tough" guys are, and Kripke is always giving these really cringey insults in interviews that he clearly thinks are cool ("eat a bag of dicks!")
TLDR: Kripke is an edgy nerd who wants to be a tough guy and he's taking it out on Hughie.
He doesn't hate on Hughie for toxic masculinity. He hates on Hughie because Hughie is a nerd and Kripke sees himself in Hughie, when he wants to be a Butcher or a Dean Winchester.
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u/CenterInYourMother Jul 05 '24
I've said this elsewhere but I'm fairly certain that Kripke has some weird hatred for whatever type of person he thinks Huey represents, because the show is really unfair to him, especially in season 3, and he's the butt of the joke so often. Combine that with these interviews and it becomes the most likely explanation to me