"Needy," to me, means something unhealthy, along the following lines: "I need you to be with me 24/7, I need you to constantly reassure me that I'm all that matters to you, and I need other people to tell me how devoted you are to me." Needing to be with a loved one who has gone through a trauma and seems to have withdrawn from the world? That seems pretty normal to me.
Even non-realistic fiction, full of fantasy--which I love--typically reflects and comments on the real world in some way. And even Marston's original Wonder Woman comics, which few would accuse of excessive realism, had "rapey" moments: Hercules' deceptive seduction of Hippolyta and conquest of the Amazons, Dr. Psycho's mistreatment of his wife, and even the ancient Amazons' hunts for men. But these were treated as problems to defeated or remedied, and I hope that this will also be the be the case with any rapiness in Doomed as well. "Rape culture," as I understand it, is culture that treats rape or "rapey" behaviors and attitudes as somehow acceptable or no big deal. I'm not seeing that here yet.oh realism!!!! in a world with flying heroes, spandex, aliens they can do very well without the rape cliches. They are exactly whitewashing the "rape culture", much worse they are part of the rape culture. they will say that Superman was under the doomsday virus and no consequence. It's just the writer tryoing to be edgy and end up being lame