ITT: Characters with virtually no fanbase. Not many people care for the Eternals to begin with and even fewer care for individual members. Sersi is in the same boat as Crystal of the Inhumans, she was an Avenger for a long time but absolutely nobody loves her for it.
ITT: Characters with virtually no fanbase...
Nobody likes Barbara as a character. She's a projection screen for whatever writer's pet cause is, or politics, or for someone's fetish, or a piece of shipping bait.
Actually I really liked her as Oracle.
And her identity as Batgirl is something like Robin Grayson, a thing of the past.
Cass has always been the Batgirl of modern time to me.
Black Marvel
Wanda replacement is what runs through my head whenever I see that outfit.
No wait I mean blue marvel. I just had this dumb page on the brain.
>Over powered
>Goes crazy and almost kills the whole team
close enough
Less powerful than Wanda and not an introvert wilting flower.
Sersi was the only one of the Eternals with some fans.
Jack of Harts. Literally never met anyone who liked him.
For a character created by two big name comic writers (Grant Morrison and Mark Millar), it's pretty impressive how much of a literally who Aztek managed to be. I've read his ongoing and it was actually pretty good.
We've had multiple threads discussing Barbara as a character in her own right and the issues with her presentation.
>Eternals
Oddly enough the most compelling characters are Deviants, namely Kro, Karkas and the Reject. The latter two (pic related) are pretty cool snd represent an untapped resource.
I fucking love Karkas and the Reject
also the Kro/Thena romance
Aztek was great. I'm glad they got to roll him into Morrison's JLA.
And he was on JLU all the time.
He was created to be a single-run character but because Aztek sold so poorly they finished his story in JLA. But he was always intended to only last those 3 years.
I love Crystal at an almost autistic level just hate how modern comics treat her
honestly it wouldnt surprise me if he's just a meme at this point
I guarantee no one cared for this guy until the Tom King book
Crystal was an Avenger for so long and did a lot of great stuff but the moment they put the backpedal on her character and confined her to just the Inhumans books and events it killed her. She was regressed back into the childish, naive woman she was in Kirby's Inhumans stuff, even to the point of Hickman having her act like a little kid around Sue and ask what it was like being a mother. People talk about infantilizing characters and goddamn this happened to Crystal so hard in the 2000s on.
Avengers comics used to be the comfiest, I hate modern Marvel so much
Crystal and Sersi on the Avengers were in personality replacements for Wanda and Jan, but both in a love triangle with the same man. Sersi had the Jan role, but was a lot more powerful. The real Wanda and Jan were both on the West Coast Avengers at the time.
The MCU has created more new Vision fans than King's book. Vision does have older fans, he used to be very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, before they started trying to make readers dislike him.
I really like early Crystal, I see her as one of Stan and Kirby's best female characters. It's a bit upsetting that people like Englehart and Bendis did her so dirty.
I'm not her biggest fan but I liked her and her crush on Cap was cute.
>and the issues with her presentation.
This somehow always seems to dominate Babs threads. Editorial really has it out for Batgirls, even if she's being pushed above the others.
It's been a problem ever since Bendis, really. Hickman could have fixed things but he doesn't give a shit about characterization since he's too busy with his Big Concept Stuff so he just writes characters as powersets.
Wanda hadn't been on the east coast Avengers for over 10 years when Sersi came along so that's a bit of a stretch.
He is in-universe, the whole meta-plot is a writer (Barbatos) coming over with his bad ideas. (BwL, etc.) The bad ideas then stuff Supes into their machine and use him to power their entry into DC proper.
It's Bendis. I'm trying to say that he's a metaphor for Bendis.
>Less powerful than Wanda
Sersi was far more powerful than Wanda usually was until her power creep over the last 20 years.
>and not an introvert wilting flower.
In fairness, that all depends on how much Wanda is wearing.
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