One of my great frustrations when it comes to comics is how little humanity and respect the characters are given. Marriages are broken apart with no regard, meaningful death is overturned in the name of nostalgia, Nightcrawler becomes a priest because Chris Claremont once showed him praying… To be honest, it’s one of the major reasons that I drop books, such as when I dropped my beloved ‘Legion Of Super-Heroes’ when the writers concocted a relationship between Shadow Lass and the homicidal lunatic called Earth-Man. If I had to choose which classic character has been kicked in the face the hardest, it would be tough, but I’d probably go with Storm of the X-Men, with back-and-forth on her power levels, arguments over whether she does or doesn’t have a mohawk and her editorially-mandated-then-editorially-divested marriage to the Black Panther. Both in terms of her character and historical importance, Ororo deserves better, which leads us to our disrespectful query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) misses the time and place where Storm was considered to be as dangerous as Wolverine, asking: Which classic character from anywhere in pop culture deserves a greater degree of respect then they are getting?
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Pretty much every character in Duckburg. Used to be Disney’s flagship characters, now its almost as they don’t exist.