Why does Hank Pym get so much crap for hitting a woman when loads of other superheroes have done the same thing under similar circumstances?
Why does Hank Pym get so much crap for hitting a woman when loads of other superheroes have done the same thing under...
Ian Turner
Anthony Reed
Because Pym never really went beyond that.
William Wilson
>a mentally ill man accidentally hitting his wife is a bad thing and makes him a bad person even though he got help afterwards
>a Muslim man hitting his wife on purpose when he is of sound mind is no big deal and it's just their culture which is better than western culture
I don't get progressives.
Hudson Adams
What the fuck are you talking about?
Jayden King
Don't feed the trolls, just let them be edgy.
Camden Miller
>being critical of Islam is edgy
You meant rational*
Uncalled for on the thread at best.
Thomas Diaz
she was in a teddy which at the time that was risky lingerie and was seeing him for sexual reasons. His smacking her over the face was seen as sexual in nature and charged the whole scene.
Also over half of your examples are mind control/evil twin which doesn't hold the same weight as aware of what you are doing.
Austin Collins
deep down they like that culture because it lines in the same goal as theirs: Destroy western culture. They are just to short sighted to see how that will end.
Kayden Perez
Brody Cruz
from left to right
mind control, breaking mind control, evil double, imposter, breaking mind control, evildoer actions, imposter,evildoer actions, evildoer actions.
Now let's look at Hank's smack:
>newly weds
>coming in to be romantic/see what he's up too
>it's evil shit
>tries to talk sense into him
>smack occurs
>basically pulls a "back to the kitchen" spill and go's back to normal/with his plan
tldr: why don't you read the comics in question?
Jason Walker
>think it would be interesting to chase down how this characterization has persisted despite being dealt with multiple times in text
>shitposting thread
welp!
Hank is bipolar and having a breakdown. He's sick.
the slap isn't good btw but it's not black and white
Blake Long
The way they brought it up in the Wasp Jr. book this week was so damn cringe-inducing. And the fact that it's somehow public knowledge and she changes her name to Van Dyne because she thinks all of the sudden that her father who didn't know she existed who she never met is scum.
Henry Bailey
reed really over here snapping his own kid's neck, damn
Connor Hughes
He had lost his mind, you asshole. Hank Pym's entire charater arc up to that point was a series of mind-breaking and mental breakdowns, repeatedly. The arc where he slaps Janet is the same one where he builds a robot to attack the Avengers so he could "save" them from it, but it's the slap that becomes his defining character trait for the rest of his character's existence?
John Turner
>but it's the slap that becomes his defining character trait for the rest of his character's existence?
Yes for the context given. Again, everyone in the OP was either brain control, an imposter, trying some attempt to break mind control or they were villains. This was a wife coming to seduce her husband and discover he was doing something evil/wrong and was trying to talk sense into him. His response was to smack her to the floor and tell her to get in line. Unstable or no, that is some pretty dark shit. To be honest it's amazing it didn't get him killed off/full villain.
Nicholas Collins
Jose Baker
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Joshua Reed
This. Thread ain't about muslims. It's about how everyone in the 60s was written weird as fuck.
Angel Jones
Jesus that's salty.
Jacob Collins
OKAY - okay - okaaaay...
You spousal abuse advocates have finally won me over,
from now on we'll just remember him as that mad scientist that created the murder robot that will one day destroy all human life!
Parker Carter
That's all I ask.
Sebastian Thompson
Anthony Jackson
so why the sunglasses and the black eye later in the comic?
Thomas Brown
I don't know. You'd have to ask Shooter.
Alexander Torres
Literally because it's a meme.
It was a very important and famous story so for a long time everyone who was interested in Marvel had read it. Originally it was a very shocking moment; whether you believe the claim that it wasn't in the original script or not, it was something fans continued to talk about for a really long time.
Eventually, years later, among fans it turned into an in-joke, like Gwen Stacy jokes and Jason Todd jokes. Then in the internet age you had a lot of people become aware of the joke without having read the story or understanding what the context of it was, and Millar and Loeb made it worse with Ultimates.
People continued to parrot the joke without knowing what they were talking about for years and now you have people who actually are getting upset about the fact that it happened despite not reading the story. And the funniest part is, it's ALSO a meme that "in the context of the story it's not bad", because even though that's true, most people who say it haven't read it either.
Other in-jokes that got turned into pop-cultural mush by people parroting them too much are Deadpool breaking the fourth wall and Squirrel-Girl being able to beat Thanos.
Carson Nguyen
The slap wasn't in the 60s. And characters are being written a hell of a lot weirder now.