Marvel getting desperate

sammymvpknight said
The problem is that male superheros have been the best most beloved Marvel characters. There is a lot of lore and history that goes into this. Just just can’t force people to suddenly love a woman equivalent to Black Panthers or any number of Miss Marvels. They are secondary characters that not many people actually love. You can’t force cannon and lore on everyone. Perhaps a generation from now people could care about those characters…but right now they don’t. Ironman is no Spiderman when it comes to lore…but that was overcome by casting Robert frickin Downey Jr. I think that the Spiderverse stuff was creative and Miles Morales was really solid. But the sequel just wasn’t near as good, mainly because it’s no longer novel. Trying to move everything over to Miles Morales is predictable but it’d be a mistake…but one that will inevitably happen.

Cmon this is a cart before the horse argument- ‘a black qb won’t work bc all the best QBs are white’

60s & 70s saw a proliferation of straight white make heroes bc that’s who was telling the stories and the made heroes in their demo for an audience they assumed looked like them (but later found that the audience was broader than they assumed)
So the overwhelming storylines to pull from are from this era
Had that era been more diverse and inclusive there’d be more diverse and inclusive heroes- it wasn’t
We are now in a (theoretically) more diverse and inclusive era - the heroes should reflect that
And i categorically rebuff a ‘what about squirrel girl?’ argument as non-serious