Little things that only bug you.

[Anthony W]

What little things in Marvel Comics only seem to bug you? The thing that bugs me and no one else is She-Hulk wearing glasses. The character doesn't need them. The senses of a Hulk aren't enhanced to the level of Wolverine or Daredevil but they are still sufficiently enhanced to the point where she shouldn't need glasses. Is it just force of habit because the character wore glasses for years before becoming She-Hulk?

[Ascended]

I dont think Im alone in this one, but one of the semi-recent things about Marvel that really galled me was replacing Richard Rider with Sam just as Nova's profile was starting to rise.

I got nothing against Sam, this isnt a "hate on the new guy" post. But DnA set up a great status quo for cosmic Marvel and Rider was really starting to come into his own. People were starting to become aware of who Nova was. I feel like with just a little more of a push he could've really started to become a serious player in the MU. Sure, his solo book had declined a little in quality, but that's when you bring in a new creative team, not totally replace the hero!

I feel like bringing in Sam sort of just put the franchise back to square one and the IP's popularity had to start building up all over again. If they had used Rich in AvX and all the other stories and events Sam was a part of, I think Nova might be a much bigger deal than he is now. By all means bring in Sam too, but taking Rich out felt like a really questionable call at that particular time.

[PCN24454]

Excuse Plots. Especially ones that involve MacGuffins.

The Lifeline Tablet and its expies were really cool plot elements to include in Spider-Man mythos which makes the fact that it’s simply used as something for gangsters to fight over really disappointing.

[Snoop Dogg]

where are the web wings
where do they go
they should be standard

[Michael Watkins]

Characters like Squirrel Girl, Gwenpool, and to a smaller extent Deadpool. They would be fine in their own universe. But, imo, they cheapen the 616.

[shooshoomanjoe]

No continuity and having so many non 616 characters running around the 616 U.

[Conn Seanery]

Likely not unique to me, but it always bugs me when the X-Men are playing baseball on an off day and either the artist has no idea what baseball is or they're forced to draw a compacted version of the field where they're all ridiculously close to each other.

[MyriVerse]

Characters like Squirrel Girl, Gwenpool, and to a smaller extent Deadpool. They would be fine in their own universe. But, imo, they cheapen the 616.

This is probably my biggest. I don't even mind them doing their own thing off in some stupid corner of MU. But in "MY" MU, Squirrel Girl was squirrshed in her first story by Doom.

And squirrels, in general, are just evil as heck. Suffer not one to live. I want to bring Mad Dog Baxter back just so he can literally wipe the floor with Doreen. Ptooey.

The destruction of Atlantis(insert other fictional cities) in one issue and then in the following issue or the next time it shows up its magically put back together with no explanation.


(a few other people have already mention here)

Destruction, in general, tends to get me mad, because it's never ever done in a good way (it's always a stupid gimmick plot, and yeah, I'm including Annihilation in this). And it always forces a future writer to bring it back. See Xandar-- it's been destroyed and brought back like half a dozen times, at least.

Likely not unique to me, but it always bugs me when the X-Men are playing baseball on an off day and either the artist has no idea what baseball is or they're forced to draw a compacted version of the field where they're all ridiculously close to each other.

Well, the idea is that they're playing in their backyard. Sure, they live in a mansion, but they're not going to concern themselves with these things anymore than street kids do.

[J. D. Guy]

I dont think Im alone in this one, but one of the semi-recent things about Marvel that really galled me was replacing Richard Rider with Sam just as Nova's profile was starting to rise.

I got nothing against Sam, this isnt a "hate on the new guy" post. But DnA set up a great status quo for cosmic Marvel and Rider was really starting to come into his own. People were starting to become aware of who Nova was. I feel like with just a little more of a push he could've really started to become a serious player in the MU. Sure, his solo book had declined a little in quality, but that's when you bring in a new creative team, not totally replace the hero!

I feel like bringing in Sam sort of just put the franchise back to square one and the IP's popularity had to start building up all over again. If they had used Rich in AvX and all the other stories and events Sam was a part of, I think Nova might be a much bigger deal than he is now. By all means bring in Sam too, but taking Rich out felt like a really questionable call at that particular time.

This is just from my understanding, but from what I know, them bringing in Sam was mutually exclusive from them choosing to retire Rich. Who knows why they did the latter, but the former was done sometime after and independently of the latter. It is a misconception among the Nova fans who sling hate at Sam.

[Ascended]

This is just from my understanding, but from what I know, them bringing in Sam was mutually exclusive from them choosing to retire Rich. Who knows why they did the latter, but the former was done sometime after and independently of the latter. It is a misconception among the Nova fans who sling hate at Sam.

Really? I did not know that.

Not throwing hate at Sam either, I just figured the two events (Rich being removed and Sam arriving) were connected.

Still makes no sense to me to write off Rich just as the property was starting to be a little more popular though.

[DragonsChi]

Here' s a few more... books that have three or four pages of characters eating but only one real action sequence in the whole book.

All the women in todays books who have nothing in common and some who have literally been seen hating each other suddenly becoming or acting like they are best friends. (It's past being very weird) (I'm at the point of waiting for either Captain Marvel, Domino, Mockingbird, Ms. Marvel or any number of heroines to start sporting a shirt that says "If you have a V you must love me!" )

Another that is beginning to bug me , because it's starting to happen more often, is there seems to be less and less clear villains. "Heroes" either let the villain get away or side with them for some bizarre reason. Or the good villains become Anti-Heroes or full fledge heroes. It's getting silly with how many "bad guys" are teaming up with heroes or straight up on major superhero teams now of days.

[Steroid]

What has really been bugging me for the last decade or so is how annuals pretty much are meaningless. I miss the days where Annuals actually mattered. Either as part of an important event of the final chapter in a big story arc. Nowadays pretty much every annual is worthless and most of the time not even written by the series writer. And if it is written by the regular writer there's like a million guest writer's as well contributing comedy stories.

[J. D. Guy]

Really? I did not know that.

Not throwing hate at Sam either, I just figured the two events (Rich being removed and Sam arriving) were connected.

Still makes no sense to me to write off Rich just as the property was starting to be a little more popular though.

It's been awhile, but I do recall reading that the two events were, indeed, mutually exclusive. Mostly, as I recall, the time gap was too large for one thing.

It's still an easy assumption to make, especially for those who don't like Sam, which, I remember, was the context this clarification was given under.

[BlueElf94]

What little things in Marvel Comics only seem to bug you? The thing that bugs me and no one else is She-Hulk wearing glasses. The character doesn't need them. The senses of a Hulk aren't enhanced to the level of Wolverine or Daredevil but they are still sufficiently enhanced to the point where she shouldn't need glasses. Is it just force of habit because the character wore glasses for years before becoming She-Hulk?

I know this is stupid, but the MCU changing "Infinity Gems" to "Infinity Stones" really bugs me, because it seems such an insignificant change that I can't figure out why it was even made (other than some marketing person deciding it just sounds better). Gerry Duggan did his best to explain the name change within comic continuity, but it still annoys me, particularly when my friends who are only familiar with the movies act like I'm calling them the WRONG thing.