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For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The original, too? He was the epitome of the necessary sidekick, and have Batman an external voice, other than just growing at criminals.

I love the classic TV Dynamic Duo.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't like robin but was collecting comics when he took on the nightwing persona and that sorta coincided with teen titans being pretty awesome and suddenly I liked the character. It made me actually like more of the robin characters including dick before the change.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I went through a goth phase, too; I liked the Nolan reboot, and Nightwing was sufficiently angsty; now I'm just tired of it. I think it peaked in Game of Thrones - you can't get much more depressingly negative than that - but I hope it swings back around to the golden age of optimism. You see signs, in movements like Solarpunk, but we've got a long way to go.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

not sure I even went through a goth phase. its a lot like my music tastes. what society calls it has changed but it feels all the same to me. dork, geek, nerd, hippie, hipster. ok a bit of a change from childhood and adulthood there :). I am a doomer though but the must try kind. So pretty negative in that way but I still follow reduce, reuse, recycle

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Don't you think all of the grimdark/cyberpunk/Dark Night stuff that started happening in the 90s is essentially goth ~~leading~~ leaking* into media? It all started happening in the same decade, and has been pervasive since.

Edit fscking autocorrect

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

I likely do not have a good perspective of that as it basically is when I went to college so I did not have the time I had especially when you take early career as well especially because I went an extra year, did one year in a PhD program and then after a year of work started looking to switch careers By the time I was back into things video/audio/gaming media got so good that text went the way of the dodo for me but even with that I have a good like decade of being not very plugged in.

[–] Toes@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

The Adam West version is all good, I forgot about that one.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The live-action TV series was kind of like some of the early comic books I've seen -- the characters tooling around openly during the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjIEBCVFaGM

I think I prefer the darker approach, where stuff happens at night.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

They're almost different characters, aren't they? I'm fond of the original shows, but that's nostalgia.