because the wheel keeps turning, unless the comic gets cancelled

[beccaelizabeth]

Ugh, my endless daydream of doom, where I am most awesome and marry all the villains and get them to go good ish and kind of conquer the world but without the hard work parts and so on and so forth, the daydream where the cast changes every time I have a new fandom and I get new superpowers and stuff to fit the setting, the daydream that is supposed to be all awesome good stuffs?

I just thought things through to a logical conclusion and really depressed myself.

I mean, I'm making up the rules here, so *obviously* I can make everyone secretly unaging immortals who never get sick and use comic revolving door rules for 'death', but, however setting appropriate that would be, I'd still know I got everyone out of the corner by going lalala my rules all good again.

The logical consequences of most of comics are painful and depressing, especially just thinking about how many teenagers are getting in how much deadly danger. I am no longer equipped to identify with the young heroes, I just feel like I've failed as a grown up whenever they get into stuff again.

Also it's all very well daydreaming the getting married parts but logically if you start adding decades together you end up running out of years before the til death bit.

Or go to comics sliding time.

Or just go with the version of canon where everybody's powers make them pretty much unaging anyway, that being a thing already. Except there's the other version where they age super fast instead. Comics do all the things.

And the other problem with comics is if you have some nemeses and one has a child and raises them and everything's going great, even if they are married to each other and raising the kid together, the only Comics reason for said kid to exist is to break the feud open again and make all the bad things go another loop. Like, either they'll get hurt and the nemeses will blame each other, or one nemesis dies and their child takes up their cause with added vengeance. You do not get a happily ever after in comics. Because the story is ever hungry so all things are... not circular but like a slinky, like years and seasons, power loss and power ups. Cyclical. The best you can hope for in comics is this iteration moves things slightly towards the better. It'll all come around again.

Comics rules for kids are depressing. Like, they don't get to grow up to be a dentist, even if that's what they dreamed of. They might qualify and even start, but sooner or later it'll be reduced to a gimmick in their backstory, for all generations are locked into the spandex life after the choices of their elders.

Really there should be more kids with less powers and more choices.

Except genre.

*sigh*



So, the daydream that depressed me is really easy to get out of, because comics, but impossible to avoid for long, because comics.

Having kids with supervillains probably isn't a good idea from any angle anyway.
Supervillains tend to be terrible people.

... some of them are really hot though.

... and who doesn't like the power fantasy hiding as a redemption plot?




I get fed up with comics stories because nobody acts the way I would or considers obvious the things I consider obvious. So obviously I should write my stories instead.

... except they're usually either really light on plot, or shadowing the existing seasons plots but all changes because of comics me. so they'd fail at being original and at being fanfic.

boo.



still, not the most useful set of thoughts at this time of night.

Comments

[ironymaiden]

have you read Runaways? It explores these issues (in the first couple volumes, anyway).