1) Megamind is defending Metrocity, but he's not an official hero until he gets his hero insurance! While a representative from Justice Inc comes by to make sure that Megamind fits the proper hero mold, he, Minion, and Roxie have to collect the stuff he sold at his evil Yard Sale before anyone is hurt.
I'm torn on the "Peter ignores the guy/Peter lets him go because fuck everyone else" point because I get that they should be diffrent things but they also just feel like two ways to get at the same thing to me. What I think sometimes gets left out of the origin is it's not just "how could I have been so selfish?!", it's the irony. The thief could've killed anybody after that night. But he killed Ben.
So as much as "screw you, promoter guy" kinda is a way to tack on some extra pathos and tragedy, sure, it just always feels as bad as "idgaf, lmao" to me.
You wanna be technical, Rami/Ultimate/Spectacular are tapping into something very key to teen-Spidey with that twist on the premise: you can have a plan, do everything right, and nothing will work out for you. Peter's destined to loose his uncle as good as by his own hand, but what's worse: that he got high on his show biz career or that he tried to cash in on his powers, the thing that put him in a position to ignore the man with a gun in the first place...and it was all for nothing?
5600437 I guess it depends on if you prefer the Parker Luck to be an outside force ragging on our Charlie Brown-Esque hero or if you see it as an extension of his trouble anticipating consequences
I'm torn on the "Peter ignores the guy/Peter lets him go because fuck everyone else" point because I get that they should be diffrent things but they also just feel like two ways to get at the same thing to me. What I think sometimes gets left out of the origin is it's not just "how could I have been so selfish?!", it's the irony. The thief could've killed anybody after that night. But he killed Ben.
So as much as "screw you, promoter guy" kinda is a way to tack on some extra pathos and tragedy, sure, it just always feels as bad as "idgaf, lmao" to me.
You wanna be technical, Rami/Ultimate/Spectacular are tapping into something very key to teen-Spidey with that twist on the premise: you can have a plan, do everything right, and nothing will work out for you. Peter's destined to loose his uncle as good as by his own hand, but what's worse: that he got high on his show biz career or that he tried to cash in on his powers, the thing that put him in a position to ignore the man with a gun in the first place...and it was all for nothing?
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I guess it depends on if you prefer the Parker Luck to be an outside force ragging on our Charlie Brown-Esque hero or if you see it as an extension of his trouble anticipating consequences