SpideyInATree said:
He's not being mischaracterized.
He is.
When Tony Stark passed the idea by him and Peter Parker immediately said, "Yes, Tony, I'll do it"...THAT would have been out of character. But he thought about it for quite some time and was about to flee the country with MJ and Aunt May.
And that's exactly what the REAL Peter Parker would have done. Rather than put his wife, Aunt, and every friend he has on a silver plate to be a ripe target to any super villain, or piece of scum that decides to get revenge on him.
And then Aunt May stepped up and did what any good mother figure would do, help him make the decision that needed to be made at that moment, knowing full well the amount of pressure that he had come under.
Another mischaracterization.
Aunt May would never tell Peter to do that.
Yeah, I'm sure Peter was factoring in every single thing that happened to him in his past. His dead ex-girlfriend Gwen Stacy. Norman Osborn. All his insane, over obsessed rogues.
That threat was obviously not of any major significance to him. And all that happened when his identity was known by a very select few. Now he goes and tells everyone.
And I remember how he, MJ and Aunt May were scared $hitless when Doc Ock tried to force Spidey to unmask himself in Times Square. And Ock had a threat of war hanging over him. Peter unmasks himself so Tony Stark and his goverment cronies won't come after him.
What an idiot.
With a superhuman registration act being passed. Pressure from Tony Stark. A freakin' line being drawn between superheroes, what the hell was Peter going to do?
He should have done what was best for his loved ones, his friends and himself.
Outing himself to the world is not it.
It's really easy to sit outside the comic book and say, "THAT'S OUT OF CHARACTER! Because in issue *insert issue number of his mentioning how much his secret identity means to him here* he told himself that he could never give up his identity!" That's really easy to do.
I'm not really sure what you mean by this. The Peter Parker we've known for over 40 years would rather die than put his loved ones and friends in a danger like this for the rest of their lives. Always looking over their shoulders when they set foot outside the door etc.
It is out of character. Plain and simple. And no bloody registration act, or Tony Stark and his goverment cronies, would make Peter even consider it.
No one is taking into account the stress that is laid on him, namely because Tony Stark has his own agendas to make this thing work with the government. Or the amount of pressure because the man who asked this of you has done so many things for you in recent months, especially after you died and were reborn (despite the story sucking).
Nobody is taking into account Tony Stark's BS because it means nothing. If Peter was half the man he's been shown to be, he would have told Tony to go and take a flying f**k rather than put his family and friends in danger.
Should their lives be put in danger just because they know Spider-Man?? Peter is a friggin' MORON for doing this.
Peter isn't the type of person to just abandon someone because something is important to him, he's about repaying his friends the best way he can.
Oh yeah, that's really been shown here hasn't it. He stays true blue to his buddy Tony by putting all his other friends at risk by unmasking himself.
What a guy.
And in one of the issues of Amazing Spider-Man, AFTER he revealed his ID, he told Tony that if anything happened to his Aunt or MJ he was holding HIM personally responsible.
So??
What does he want a pat on the back?? Nobody forced you to do it Peter. You had a choice. You could have taken your family and fled.
And did you notice the absolute CRAPPY mood that he was in during that limo ride?
So what??
That doesn't mean jack. He unmasked himself. His moods, facial expressions and little dramatic speeches don't mean anything. He did the unthinkable.
Probably thinking that he didn't make the right decision
He's got that right
but it was something that had to be done.
He's got that wrong.
But Peter Parker hasn't been taken out of character.
I swear to god I don't know how you can think that. It boggles me, it really does.
*Shrug*
People just seem to want to justify they're feeling of anger toward it by coming up with every little detail of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's past that they can to show that he didn't make the right decision.
And they're right.
Right to be angry, right about how Peter's past characterization shows that what he did was completely out of character.
And I think that every Spider-Man fan knows it wasn't the right decision because we're not in that characters shoes and understand the amount of pressure that he's under.
Horse radish.
We're right here reading it, watching the emotions, reading his thoughts etc. We have front row seat where we see every angle of what is going on.
And that's how we know our Spidey is being mischaracterized.
And, honestly, the past few years of Spider-Man stories, namely Sins Past and The Other, do not help in the feelings of most Spider-Man fans when it comes to his unmasking.
And you know why?? Because its ample PROOF that Marvel are just on a ride of cheap shocks with Spidey. One after another. Doesn't matter how badly the characters are written to try and pull it off.
So the negative feelings from the Spidey fans towards this is 100% justified.
They blame Quesada...hell...I even saw people blaming BENDIS! And he didn't even have ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!!! Heh.
Queseda is in charge. So it's valid to blame him. He's the idiot that comes up with or gives the green light to these lame brain ideas. But blaming Bendis is stupid.
But I'm giving you valid reasons here.
You're not SIAT. If anything you've just proven just how weak this whole unmasking thing is.
It's whether you want to put aside your anger toward the unmasking or not.
Anger has nothing to do with it.
Logic is what it's all about. And what Peter has done is illogical, idiotic, and out of character.
