Quesada said:
Well, its not like Peter has experienced so much death in his life that hes unaffected by it. Any death is going to change his life. How could MJ dying not effect the character and who he is moving forward? I go back to the Speedball example I mentioned before. Fans want characters to grow? Well, death is a part of growing up and growing old, so whats left to complain about?
Just...shut up. Please, just shut up.
I am so sick to death of Quesada's stupid fan-baiting fetish. It might be overlooked if he were just another guy instead the
head of a company. It might even be overlooked if he were a five-year old child instead of a grown man.
NRAMA: If it is/was purely unintentional and you maintain this is fight with no right or wrong side, do you consider it a problem fans are still convinced otherwise?
JQ: No, not at all. This isnt something that surprised us in the least. You dont think we knew that more fans would jump on Caps bandwagon than Tonys? Of course we knew this would happen, we counted on it. That doesnt change the way we feel about it.
Look, for me, and this is just me speaking, my opinion - people tend to vote for things with their hearts, not everyone, but most. The Internet is the poster child for this sort of experience and behavior, it defines knee jerk reaction. Its this kind of behavior that Madison Avenue and politicians and yes, even storytellers, have taken advantage of. Its used in every advertising and political campaign, every politician, every party uses it; they pull at the heartstrings of the public because they know that for the most part well vote with our hearts before our heads. Readers are viewing this story and they see the little guys (Cap and crew) rallying against the big guys (Tony and the government) and the immediate impulse it to root for the underdog because we all see ourselves in that role. But thinking it through logically, I see that there are merits and faults to both arguments.
Also, many people have a tendency to want to root against the government, but take a close look, in the instance of Civil War, the government is acting responsibly as it is answering the will of the people of America in the Marvel Universe and isnt that what good government is supposed to do?
So, in the end, let the story play itself out, lets look back on it in a year when passions and tempers have cooled, and lets discuss it. Who knows, maybe some points of view will have changed, maybe even mine [laughs].
No. Just...no.
Ignoring for the moment that you just admitted to being a manipulative ponce who says one thing and means another, you would either have to be willfully ignorant or just flat-out oblivious to not see all the blatant negative portrayals that Tony and other pro-regs has been rammed through in this past year, ones that have
nothing at all to do with the actual pros and cons and debates of the SHRA itself.
Betraying friends at the drop of a dime? Check.
Cloning dead friends to attack betrayed friends? Check.
Working with murderous villains like Green Goblin, Bullseye, and Kingpin? Oh,
so check.
Flagrant disregard for human rights? Attacking a man in his own home? Ripping little girls from their mother's arms? Deliberately ignoring the one man who
actually caused the deaths at Stamford? Check, check, check.
Not one of those has a single thing to do with "Maybe this law is right/wrong because etc etc etc" and everything to do with "LOOK! This guys are PR!CKS!" You know the
real reason why no one's siding with Iron Man, Joey? It's not because you're so clever as to have masterfully predicted that people will side with underdogs against the government no matter what or some such. It's because you've
made it so they couldn't do anything else. No matter what you try to convince people of, there was nothing fair and balanced about this story right from the beginning and it only got far worse as time went on. And, frankly, you probably know it and are lying through your teeth.
Maybe people
would have sided against Iron Man anyway even if the story was completely fair to both sides. We'll never know, will we? 'Cause the story was anything
but fair.
