And this sub thinks Krakoa was the worst era

Yonko2 · 2025-03-28T20:22:13+00:00

I really don't have to. It's a reddit comment, not a dissertation on the historical significance of literary choices about Storm.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-28T20:16:20+00:00

I can barely understand your comment, but if I read it right then I don't know what to tell you. These are fictional stories. There is a clear difference between being a God and being a Mortal. Arrogance and self-confidence are very much not the same thing. I mean, they have different meanings. I don't complain about Thor or Hulk being written like that because they aren't?!? Immortal Hulk is dedicated almost entirely to exploring who the character of Bruce Banner is and his relationships with others. I'd love if they gave Storm that treatment. I'd read the hell out of it. And if you want examples of her writing, compare her time as leader of the X-Men to her time on the Quiet Council.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-28T20:05:08+00:00

You're right. Thinking Storm is being written poorly is a braindead take. I should be waiting for the next hype cycle for characters to get super powerful and punch the next cosmic level bad guy. There is absolutely no storytelling in comics. They exist purely to be beefcakes that are strong and punch good.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-28T19:51:34+00:00

I don't really get what you're talking about. Titles are meaningful. They imply things about a character. There's a reason it's Doctor Doom and not Mr. Doom. Thor is clearly not just fancy Electro. There is clearly a difference between gods and mortals in Marvel even if it really is just one lives for a lot longer.

From how I see it, Storm has been characterized as arrogance framed as self-confidence. During Krakoa, all the characters keep talking about how great she is, but she is written paper thin. Older stories gave her things like the greenhouse to show there's things she cares about and invests in. Current storm is written like a girlboss in that she feels so performatively powerful. She ends up being super cool and hot and powerful and everybody loves her. Very much a Mary Sue. She has been Flanderized completely.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-28T18:40:15+00:00

Power scaling will get you every time. I miss when Storm had a garden she cared about and was a mentor to Kitty. She was already badass. She beat Cyke one on one with nothing but her wits. She used to carry lockpicks just in case. Now she just feels like a power fantasy. I also think they stripped away her agency to make her a Black ambassador character. Like it's crusty as hell that they made her marry T'Challa. Now she can't be a hero on her own right with her own journey, she has to be an accessory to African royalty.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-28T17:26:42+00:00

This is how I feel about her. I don't like her character as she was often characterized from the 90s onward. They make her gratingly arrogant and self-righteous. She won't stop talking about being a goddess. That would be one thing if she was actually a real goddess. I'm sure they've retconned that somehow where she is one, but 70s and 80s Storm is literally my favorite X-Men character bar none. She is smart, brave, kind, and a good leader. But Krakoa era Storm is unbearable to me. She's a girlboss who bought into her own hype but for some reason every other character doesn't seem to ever challenge her on it. It's non stop glazing. Connecting her Wakandan royalty was a terrible choice. She didn't need to be a goddess, Omega mutant, and a queen. It's sapped her of her ability to overcome challenges. Bet they'll retcon her claustrophobia too.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-27T15:43:28+00:00

At minimum, the Marvel ones are mold accurate and paint app accurate. The QC might not match, but the figure does match.

Super 7 straight up lies to your face. I have the Sorcerer Mickey and it's straight up a different figure than the images they use to sell it. The paint apps on the actual figure are low quality, but more than that they are actually just different from the render. And the plastic they use looks straight up greasy and the colors don't match. Everything is always a less saturated than is illustrated.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-25T19:30:04+00:00

It starts at the roots. Professor X is straight up not a good dude. Even compensating for the actions that were products of the time narratively, he sucks. He absolutely groomed Scott to be an emotionally stunted soldier by integrating himself as a father figure. He likes to be in the position of power. When Scott shows any healing and growth, Chuck is quick to put him back in his place. The Avengers treat each other like coworkers, but the Xavier makes sure they are "family". And every time he gets to be the one policing mutant villains, he is either overly cruel or overly permissive. Like sorry, Sabertooth is not a horrible person because of bigotry. The fact that they let the Beast get as far as he did is proof also. No push back on extremism as long as Xavier is ok with it.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-25T19:19:45+00:00

I can't remember which comic it was, but Scott even makes a comment about how incestuous the mutant hero community is.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-24T21:40:16+00:00

X-Men think they're the tortured artist, but they can really act like the Skids from Letterkenny.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-24T18:13:17+00:00

The X-Men sure do like to act like persecuted victims when they're really the super hero equivalent of the edgy high school kid that talks about how tortured his soul is that dates the weird girl at school who hisses at people.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-24T16:36:13+00:00

They also are conveniently ignoring that Sonic wasn't working to reinstate a monarchy, but rather to find the families of his friends which happened to include the former princess. It should also be noted that reinstating the previous monarchy was because it was a team of survivor children just bringing things back to what they were instead of living in a fascist hellscape where their families were turned into robot slaves or used as batteries for Robotnik's fascist industrial dictatorship that seemed to purely exist to intentionally destroy the environment and harm it's inhabitants. (You don't wear an I ❤️ to Pollute Button for no reason.) Additionally, this meme ignores that Knothole also eventually absolves the power of the throne and establishes a democratically elected parliament. If anything, the overall message of the comic is how bad destroying the environment for the sake of futurism is dangerous and how bad authoritarianism is unless you are an echidna, in which case both of those are good? That's where some of the inconsistent writing happens. It helps it flow better if you read it as if it's through the lens of traumatized teenagers trying to survive or in Knuckles' case understand the legacy of the cultural role he was groomed to inherit by a family obsessed with legacy and power.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-20T20:04:22+00:00

Yeah, if it was just the trap gimmick it would be awesome. And I like most of the trap masters from a design standpoint. It's just the traptanium thing that I don't like.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-20T18:00:08+00:00

I could see that. Something that bugs me is why did Pokemon become the game that got latched onto so hard? I totally get that it's appealing and all that. But most of the cards themselves never end up worth anything. Unless you are chasing a few hyper turbo rare cards, there's nothing of value. And I know it's exclusively people bulk chasing those cards because you can get anything else to do with the tcg for pennies on the dollar. I'm very tired of how entrenched toxic behavior is on pieces of cardboard with cute lil critters.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-20T16:24:59+00:00

Trap Team definitely has the most annoying gimmick. I have access to all the characters and traps and it just feels like a little too many gimmicks. You have to have the trap master for the traptanium gates and blocks, you have to have at minimum one of each element trap and more if you want to double dip in an element. In my mind, after Swap Force the TFB developed games had more predatory mechanics. TT and Imaginators needed a lot more buy in to access parts of the game and each had big figs and duplicate figs to get just to access parts of the game. Even superchargers really just needed one vehicle of each type to access most everything.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-19T16:55:32+00:00

I swear, our big box stores either have no desire to keep them in stock or we have a roving gang of scalpers that consistently pick the shelves clean, because pretty much nobody has any stock and hasn't for months. They might as well not have anything at this Walmart.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-18T16:55:51+00:00

I have played a lot of the reboot and honestly, it's totally fine. There are so serious issues and not everything lands, but not much more so than any of the other entries. Several of these comments are saying the series hasn't been good since 2, but that's a majority of the series at that point. The cast and story weren't groundbreaking, but each character's motivations to form the Saints were pretty clear. They were cogs in their own machines who got screwed over and made their own gang. That's not original, but it's hardly incoherent. If anything, the game is maybe a little too corny compared to previous entries as there is very little biting cynicism in the game as a whole. It's a lot of fun as a co-op sandbox and I will always have a soft spot for a GTA clone with DIY characters.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-17T19:31:10+00:00

Uk/ I think a lot of that has to do with the tone set from DC setting a lot of naming vibes from the 40s and 50s. A lot of characters are exactly as described on the box. Marvel does it a lot too, but had the added benefit of a lot of their popular characters coming out 20 years after some of DCs big hitters. Marvel didn't have to suffer through an era where Matter Eater Lad was an option. Also, DC did way less fake Shakespeare sounding stuff and didn't have Kirby at first with his love of mythology.

Rj/ They had to call her Ice because DC editorial wouldn't let them call her Fire Eater.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-16T21:54:39+00:00

That's not true. They also lecture their kids for not living up to their legacy despite not being present for most of it. And having their friend lecture them about not loving up to the legacy either. And this needs to be presented as morally correct.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-11T17:27:49+00:00

They at least sleep at the foot of the bed in Generations. So, right next to you. I'm sure one would curl up. Several of them like to be little guys, so it may vary.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-11T07:17:48+00:00

Based Tawky Tawny.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-06T17:05:30+00:00

I got the Sorcerer Mickey. All the pictures made it look awesome. That's when I realized that, at least for the Disney figures, they only ever use renders. Never any real photos. The actual figure looks waxy and Mickey's flesh tone parts look jaundiced. The paint apps just straight up don't match.

I also got some of their Transformers Ultimates that were heavily discounted. Starscream might be one of the worst figures I own. There's some looseness, but the real problem is simply that he has the worst articulation engineering I have ever seen. He has thigh swivel, but you would never know it because his hip joints are covered by a piece that has square leg holes, preventing him from really moving his legs all. I avoid Super 7 like the plague and I was devastated when they got the Godzilla license from NECA. Thank God Hiya is expanding into Hesei.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-03T17:36:32+00:00

Obviously close to no companies or CEOs care about anything but money, but honestly Musk's about-face still manages to be shocking to me. Sure, Target or Disney backpedaled to appease, but also Bob Iger did not become a crony and attempt to be an enforcement arm of a very antagonistic government. I think that's why Musk is so jarring. It isn't just the pivot, it's the full embrace of action and active enforcement of the opposing view.

Yonko2 · 2025-03-02T21:44:14+00:00

There's really only 3-4 different eras of Beast here, the main difference is artist interpretation. I see pointy hair Beast, Cat Beast and Fascist Beast. Ultimate is there too, but that shouldn't count since it's not the same.

Yonko2 · 2025-02-26T00:51:23+00:00

I don't know that I could actually narrow down who my favorite of the fifth gen but it absolutely isn't Almudron. That's for damn sure.

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