To be honest, I’m a Marvel fan. Ever since I was a child, his heroes have captured my heart. But I have to admit that in recent years, the company has started to shrink a bit. Perhaps the narrowing of the fantasy world or the growth of human consciousness is an example of this! But, in my opinion, Marvel has lost its previous position a bit! Granted, I can say that the “Avengers” version came out a little lucky, but it didn’t last long either! I mean, prototypes of these two new heroes have been created before, by some company or studio! What's the use of pouring the same amount twice? I do not know...

I would say to Marvel:

"Stop being arrogant and conceited, and have a sample or announcement or contest for comic heroes from people!" I know it's hard work! There are a lot of people who don't understand comics, but they still have to work a little.

"Be interested in people's opinion! Use different innovations and innovations!" Unfortunately, many comic book companies are limited to creating heroes. But you need to come up with ideas that are more fun! Now people can’t be fooled by fiction! The current generation is not simple ...

I know no one will hear my thoughts anyway. Fiction has become so prevalent today that as a result, people have started to get bored. Just the same things everywhere: “ant man” “bee man” “sand man” “rock man” “water man” “snow man” and so on! (I wouldn't be surprised if "mood man" comes out soon! By the way, it's also created)

In general, today we need to get out of the old mold! There are many heroes, but their theme is the same:

“At first the two groups fight with each other, but suddenly a third person appears and the two groups unite and start fighting the third person” Same scenario! (script) I think Marvel should focus on the scenarios, not the characters! The identity of the hero needs to change! I went to Marvel’s official website several times and wanted to get in contact with him. I couldn't even find the email address! It’s like a closed prison! After all, who is the company working for? Is it for us?

Marvel, please! Don't hurt my feelings...

So not too long ago Marvel made an annoucement about a new comic line for The New Warriors, which is an actual team from the Marvel Universe. My only knowledge of the New Warriors comes from the event comic Civil War, where the team was a reality show and their careless actions basically kickstarted the Superhuman Registration Act, thus resulted in a civil war betweeen our favorite Marvel heroes with Iron Man leading the Pro-Registration movement and Captain America leading the Anti-Registration movement. And yes, a similar concept was adapted (and presented much better) in the film Captain America: Civil War.

Well according to Marvel, it’s time for a new generation of heroes, written by Emmy-nominated writer Daniel Kibblesmith (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and and the art is done by Luciano Vecchio (the artist behind Marvel’s Ironheart aka Riri Williams). In their new comic book line the original team members (consisting of Firestar, Speedball, Night Thrasher, Rage, and Namorita) are going to train five young new heroes. Alright let’s break down each of these five new heroes:

-Screentime: a meme-obsessed teenager whose brain is connected to the internet

after being exposed to “experimental internet gas”.

-B-Negative: a goth teen with the powers of a vampire due to a blood transfusion

from Morbius, the Living Vampire.

-Trailblazer: an obese teen with a magical backpag that has its own pocket dimension

for infinite space.

-And finally Snowflake and Safespace: a pair of non-binary twins with Snowflake

having the ability to make snowflake shaped shurikens and Safespace having the

ability to create force fields around others but not himself.

And of course, there’s some big controversy behind these characters. Much of the media seems to highlight Snowflake and Safespace as a major source of controversy (which is partially true but we’ll get to that in a bit). In a surprising turn, it seems that factions of the Right and Left both heavily dislike Marvel’s new team. Who would have thought that a comic could unite everyone?

Okay, bad jokes aside, how do I personally feel about these new characters. Honestly this all reminds me of DC’s short lived comic series the New Guardians. Who were the New Guardians, you ask. Well they were originally a superhero team that first appeared in 1988. It consisted of a diverse cast of characters, ranging from a Japanese cyborg named RAM, a chinese woman with the power of the elements, an openly gay magician, and a walking & talking plant man who was initially a villain. But the big catch behind these characters were that the Guardians of the Universe, the beings that created the Green Lantern Corp, chose these individuals because they “believed” that they were the ones that were going to breed the next generation of humanity.

Yes you read that correctly and no I’m not kidding.

But the big idea was that this series of comics was meant to tackle a lot of social issues that most comics at the time wouldn’t dare cover, such as racism, drugs, and AIDS. The problem was for a comic book series that was trying to sound serious they’ve done a ridiculous job of portraying it like having a literal vampire infect people with AIDS and a comical supervillain named Snowflame who gets his powers from snorting cocaine.

Again, yes, I dead serious. This happened.

The series ran for twelve issues before getting cancelled in 1989. I feel that the New Warriors will share a similar fate. The biggest reason isn’t just Snowflake and Safespace, it’s the whole team. I feel like these characters are going to be isolating their audiences rather than investing them. You can tell there are problems established with their names alone. They don’t sound heroic or inspiring, or at the very least interesting. Their names sound a bit too on the nose on what groups they’re meant to represent in American society. And in doing so they’re doing more harm than good by, what I feel, enforcing labels on individuals. Sure Tyrion Lannister had once stated my favorite quote from Game of Thrones, “Wear it like armor. Then no one can hurt you.” But I feel like this may hurt individuals by having the audience see what each of these characters are rather than who they are as a person.

I get the idea behind the characters of Snowflake and Safespace. They’re meant to represent an orientation/gender identity that majority of people don’t quite understand, myself included. I’m all for LGBT+ representation in media. The Loud House and Craig of the Creek are prime examples of having positive LGBT+ representation on children networks, and they’re among my favorite shows. Even I have representation in my Sins of the Father stories with having different angel and demon characters be part of different sexual orientations. However, I don’t feel that these two are positive representation. They feel like parodies. Their names alone sound like parodies since the terms “snowflake” and “safespace” have been used to describe social justice warriors and other leftist extremists that have been highlighted by media.

If there’s anything I can say in their defense it’s this: it’s just too early to tell. The comics haven’t hit comic book shops yet. Honestly, who knows what they’ll be like. Maybe they’ll be good. Maybe they’ll suck. But for now we don’t know. I just hope Kibblesmith and Vecchio have an idea of what they want to portray in their comics. But all I see is history repeating the same mistake.

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I’m going to back track a bit here and note the entire lineup of ‘The New Warriors’ basically takes major generational tropes and hits people over the head with them. Let’s recap here:

“Screentime” = a superhero addressing the idea that the new generation is spending too much time online

“Snowflake & Safespace” = two superheroes addressing the idea that the new generation is overly sensitive / requires defending (as opposed to the old generation who, what, grew tough skin and stayed on the offense all the time?)

“B-Negative” = a superhero addressing the fact that 90′s children are trying to impose their generational pop culture references (some of which are actually from 80′s children) on future generations, as if the new generation doesn’t have valid pop culture references of its own

“Trailblazer” - a fat superhero, because 50% of America’s population is obese but only maybe 2% of our superheroes are; yet we’ll give her the weight-based power of hoarding infinite amounts of random crap because that’s also something most Americans do

I haven’t read the comics yet to be honest, but just reading the summary of the characters I’m not sure how these weren’t set up to fail. I could see them as a joke/farce comic commenting on societal views, but instead they’re pitched as serious supers. That’s probably Marvel’s issue. If people see them capitalizing on issues that drum up free publicity, rather than writing quality content that addresses the said issues above, they’re not gonna make it.

Here’s my example of adding diversity / addressing societal issues the right way: Valiant comic’s Faith from Harbingers. Honestly speaking she takes all the above and makes it work: She’s fat but her superpower is flight - not the power you’d associate with someone fat at all, just a random, regular ole’ super mutation. She’s a huge fangirl/nerd spouting pop culture references all the time, but that’s not her entire superhero identity it’s a charming personality quirk that makes her relatable. She can create “companion fields” around others, but it’s not a gimmick it’s simply another useful superpower. She’s also an online website reporter and uses a phone like any other normal, hot-thumbed young adult, but we don’t have to dwell on this we just incorporate it into our comic like normal people. The fact that her name is “Faith” sorta says it all - she gives hope to younger generations who fit her tropes by showing she has more to offer than just being a trope.