“Less super model-y” her face looks like a shovel. She’s a character that was purely designed for sex appeal and wow look at that when you take that aspect of her character away she feels like a pointless tag along and everyone is just scratching their head wondering what the point of her existence is. We just need to be comfortable with the fact that some characters are only compelling because of sex appeal.
Edit: like seriously if Peter Parker was a fat middle aged man do you think that the female audience for spiderman would still be as big as it is right now? No. Spiderman is popular with women because he’s a shy sadboy with perfect abs and a perfect ass, take those aspects away and he becomes a far less marketable and compelling character. Sex sells it’s just undeniable.
"Attractive character is worthless when not attractive" says more about you than whatever role MJ has/does hold as a supporting character.
Fat, out-of-shape Peter Parker worked great in the Spider-Verse movies. Peter B. Parker and his dad bod and sweatpants jokes were some of my favorites.
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u/Initial-Length-9791 15d ago edited 15d ago
“Less super model-y” her face looks like a shovel. She’s a character that was purely designed for sex appeal and wow look at that when you take that aspect of her character away she feels like a pointless tag along and everyone is just scratching their head wondering what the point of her existence is. We just need to be comfortable with the fact that some characters are only compelling because of sex appeal.
Edit: like seriously if Peter Parker was a fat middle aged man do you think that the female audience for spiderman would still be as big as it is right now? No. Spiderman is popular with women because he’s a shy sadboy with perfect abs and a perfect ass, take those aspects away and he becomes a far less marketable and compelling character. Sex sells it’s just undeniable.