So I read the Marvel Action Captain Marvel issue since they used Gwen for Wolverine Publicity and…my god they just shit all over her and two other heroes’ character. Carol runs into Gwen when they get attacked by Doc Ock and Mysterio. Gwen fights them off screaming hammy superhero shit the entire time and Carol offers to help…and Gwen says no? Huh?
Carol helps anyway then the character assassination is revealed - those two were actually Kamala and Squirrel Girl wearing diaguises in order to fake heroics. Are you fucking kidding me? Do any of these characters seem the type to pull off scummy shit like this? Even worse when Carol is obviously shocked and asks them about engineering heroics they just feebly defend themselves by saying they’re trying to up their superhero resume so people know who they are and to go to them for help.
Then it shits all over other teenage heroes by showing heroes like Miles Morales and Nico Minoru having fucking tiktok channels trying to garner views, cause apparently teen heroes care more about clout than just doing good for the sake of it? There’s something wrong when Captain Marvel has to tell these three heroes who’ve proven selfess time and again that being a superhero is about doing good and not getting likes.
Who in the ever loving shit wrote this and did any of them ever ready any stories about Gwen, Kamala or Squirrel Girl? Cause none of those three are every portrayed as clout chasers, even Gwen who was one of the main characters of Marvel Action Spider-Man. Her flaws there were deflecting blame and assuming she was right all the time, not being a Jaystation level scumbag hounding for likes. She was already flawed in an understandable way, you didn’t need to turn her into a Gen Z caricature.