State Your Opinion on a Character!!!! (Reboot) - Part 4

[SymbioticToxin]

She was alright. I liked her more when she was connected to Flash during the Agent Venom stuff.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Like everyone else, she's alright but nobody really did anything interesting with her.

Peter David did.

 

[KevanG]

I liked how they used her to open up Peter to start becoming more confident around people. She was the first one who showed an interest in him and encouraged him to become less an introvert. She had some interesting development over the years and the bit with her brother dying and her blaming Spider-Man for it was fairly new for the time. All in all, she's not a bad character.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I liked how they used her to open up Peter to start becoming more confident around people. She was the first one who showed an interest in him and encouraged him to become less an introvert. She had some interesting development over the years and the bit with her brother dying and her blaming Spider-Man for it was fairly new for the time. All in all, she's not a bad character.

Ditto. I like Spidey's extended supporting cast, and Betty was cool, if not the most blow you away interesting character.

 

[CaptainWagner]

In my opinion, Betty's always been one of Peter's most boring romantic interests. She works best just as a supporting character at The Bugle.

Bamfometer Score: 5

 

[KevanG]

I liked how they had them both move on afterwards. They had them stay friends and he still helped her when she needed it but they never really got back together.

 

[The Hill]

I like in the aftermath of Peter's public unmasking, she admitted she still had a thing for him, but knew nothing could come of it because of him being married. Also like how she was one of the (very) few who didn't turn on him after said unmasking.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Hasn't that been reset by One New Day?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Hasn't that been reset by One New Day?

Yes.

 

[KevanG]

All the fun has been reset by OMD/BND. BAH!

 

[The Hill]

Hasn't that been reset by One New Day?

Yeah... all the cool character building undone.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Obviously, some good writers did a lot of work with Spider-Man to create interesting stories once his secret identity had been revealed. But I do wonder if the initial decision to reveal his identity was really one that made sense in story or if it was just to drive Civil War and boost readership.

 

[KevanG]

Done to drive Civil War sales up. Along with the rest of the idiocy in it.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Imagine taking that huge change and running with it though? That would have been brave. May dying finally would have been brave.

 

[KevanG]

Actually doing that would have been huge! But we just got a dumbass retcon a few months later with pretty much no in world consequences happening.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I am usually one to roll with "the illusion of change" that is comics, but not for Spidey. He should be a character that does have things change and he should have to shoulder the consequences of his actions, not have some supernatural force come along and "solve" his problem. That's never been Spidey's MO over the years.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Imagine taking that huge change and running with it though? That would have been brave. May dying finally would have been brave.

Eh, May died before.

Actually, I'd have no problem with change. I understand why they'd want to reset it, though. The thing is, a change in status quo should be earned. The death of Gwen Stacey was earned (the buildup with Green Goblin leading to that). I'm not sure Peter Parker being publicly revealed was quite earned the same way.

I think a good contrast was with Daredevil, which dealt with the unraveling of Murdock's secret identity for dozens of issues before it was revealed. That was well-handled and hard to go back from (it doesn't hurt that he's a lower level character people don't care as much about).

 

[WolfCypher]

Oh dear. Spider-Aziz has never let a day slip by. Where's the next character?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

RHINO​

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Cool AND dumb at the same time. He serves his purpose. Frankly I've found stories with him interacting with other super heroes that are not secretly Peter Parker more interesting than his with his usual nemesis. There is probably a really good story to be told from the perspective of a super powered villain that's always been more of a hired thug than a world beater type with Rhino. I hope someone writes that.

 

[Mike Murdock]

He's not the most impressive villain (in fact, I don't think he does anything impressive pretty much ever), but I always enjoyed him.

 

[KevanG]

Rhino had some great moments like during the Gauntlet and when he got super smart for an issue because he was miserable being dumb, then found he was miserable being smart so he'd rather be stupid and not know how bad it was. Dude became a supervillain to support his family back in the USSR and never really stopped. For a long time he couldn't even get the suit off so he was stuck in it for a long time. Gotta feel for the guy, he's been through a lot.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

dig Rhino! and yeah! you feel bad for cause he's so stupid and the others take advantage of him( even though dude should probably get a honest job.. but really theres not a big demand for guys with rhino hide stuck on them!) dude was in one of my all favorite books

Doc Samson basically beat dude by telling him how stupid he was! hahahaha love that book!

 

[WolfCypher]

One of my favorite C-listers, I like the Rhino, especially such moments such as in the SpecSM cartoon, when he played baseball against the Hulk, when Spider-Man and Silver Sable took on the Sinister Syndicate, and his return to being a villain during the ASM "Gauntlet" run. He's okay. You'd think he'd offer little to Spidey's rogues gallery, but he's been a fun character.

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[Spider-Aziz]

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I know, I did say I will bring back already done characters from time to time.
But I brought this one back a bit too soon.