Originally Posted by
Lukmendes
I have more of a mild interest in Anya than being a fan of her, but if I was a fan, I'd be just annoyed at how Marvel treats her so poorly, they slowy but surely took most **** that could define her, such as:
The "Hunter" power, which was gone as soon as she left the Spider-Society, cutting off her connection with it counts too.
Her Carapace, and eventually the rest of her powers (Since as I mentioned a few posts above, it's pretty vague if she did lose all of her powers after losing the carapace).
Her costume, which is now just Julia's costume which was just a modified version of Venom's, and then a few months later her own super-hero name.
And then, her own father, who was supportive of her being a hero and him being a reporter could help out to tell some stories, and he was killed by some forgettable super villain group.
And of course, Spider-Island, which gave her new powers which were just Peter's with invisibility and organic webs, hell, she basicaly became Venom without Venom while being dressed as Venom, and that also made her lose her Bola, also how the hell did she keep those powers anyway? She was given the antidote, and that would remove anyone's powers, including Peter's...
Combine all of that with her becoming way quippier when dealing with villains (She wasn't originally, only really joked among friends), and now she's basically Peter-but-a-girl-and-Mexican, and without a supporting cast, and being seen as more of a sidekick if we consider her appearance's in Carol's comic and her being briefly the protagonist of some Avengers run counts too.
It's honestly sad, she had a lot of potential, but Marvel just removed most of the stuff that could define her, so now she's a generic Spider-Person, and with Miles and Gwen being around, there's little chance that Marvel will bother with her, 'cause they have the "generic Spider-Person" traits, but are more popular for reasons, and she's not the only one suffering either, Julia being a Madame Web with other Spider powers had great potential too, but she's mostly in limbo, even more than Anya, and Prowler's tie-in to Clone Conspiracy made her powerless for whatever reason.
So yeah, at the very least Anya has those shorts and that Spidey cartoon, but who knows what'll happen once those are gone...