Fact is that it's there for the taking. Susan Storm's profile -- blonde, matronly, suburban housewife -- is almost a platonic ideal of a female conservative voter.
It was completely out of character for Doom to possess her and send her brother to hell given that he midwifed Val's birth and is his godfather...but hey Mark Waid gonna Mark Waid with his poor misinterpretations of creator intentions and proprietary relationship to his '60s comics reading.Val living with Doom was a stupid story in terms of characterization. Its completely out of character for them to leave her with the man who possessed her and literally sent her brother to hell.
A white American going to a foreign country and making a scene and expecting the world and rules of that country to bend around her is kinda classic neocon American attitude. Not quite as brazen as "Does this A stand for France" by Millar's wretched Ultimates comics, but in the ballpark.Sue going to Latveria to get Val back (while Sue's emotions are being manipulated by Psycho man) makes no sense as being Republican coded. It's a bad example.
Attacking people who come visit when they walk down a street (which Susan Storm does not in fact own) and later using powers first and then asking questions and then fulminating about Krakoan values and so on, is again classic.The recent X-Men/Fantastic Four is also a bad example as saying you don't want your underage child to be taken to an island you can't access isn't unreasonable.
Yes and my post has issues because it's kind of whitewashing and misrepresenting the comics of that period and potentially give a false idea that these characters back then were shining liberal icons and on the right side and so on. Fantastic Four in the 1960s never had any characters platform having such big shining liberal moments. The big liberal moment in the Stan Lee era was Amazing Spider-Man #91-92.Then there are the many times that can interpreted as her being "Liberal coded". The very story this thread is about has a big one.