>I was denied entrance to a good school because I lost a lottery
>Therefore, I will become a super-villain and ruin Miles Morales' life for daring to be the one who happened to win the lottery I lost!
This has got to be the dumbest villain motivation I have ever heard. It gets even worse because she's a prodigy with actual tech superpowers, she should be able to get admitted to a good school or get a high-paying job based on her own merits easily if Riri Williams and other prodigy characters are anything to go by.
I could at least maybe sympathize with her or understand her if instead she went after the wider system/society and not Miles, and Miles blamed HIMSELF once he finds out her origin because that's what Spider-Men do, and the only reason they fight is because Miles is stopping her from blowing up the school or whatever, but this is just stupid. They tried giving Miles his own personal villain, and they fricked it up.
Who is this, the female thinkerer?
Even worse, Miles' kidnapped girlfriend points out how it would be far more reasonable to try and target the system instead of attacking a teenager who did nothing wrong and his friends. So the writer is aware of how stupid this is and did it anyway.
She's based on the Tinkerer from the PS4 game, yeah, but she's called Rabble here.
What is this, some capeshit Loud Family? Some capeshit Waynehead? Some capeshit Fat Albert?
>What is this, some capeshit Loud Family? Some capeshit Waynehead? Some capeshit Fat Albert?
She's got a point though. If she attacked the system, then Miles would be coming after her. Makes sense to target him down first.
>She's based on the Tinkerer from the PS4 game, yeah, but she's called Rabble here.
Heh
>remove pieces one at a time
>so let me start by charging a rook head on instead of rattling a few pawns
But anon if she attacked the system the writer wouldn't be able to make her a villain in good faith.
>the granddaughter of a supervillain would rather have some angsty teen take her anger out on some people she doesn't care about instead of her her and her boyfriend
>I felt crossed for being rejected by chance.
>Therefore I'm going after this guy because he won purely because of... chance.
10/10, elder god tier villian here.
Everything is so fricking melodramatic these days
Superhero stories in general have always been melodramatic.
This was the2nd best selling comic in December? How embarrassing
i don't believe it
The one site that claims to track it said it was number 2, which I chalk up to it being a number one. I assume that it’ll shoot back down out of the top 50 by issue two
To make matters worse, I could easily fix this. This could work if and only if it turned out that this person did in fact originally win the lottery and went to the school, but one of the few changes made to the 616 timeline to accommodate Miles Morales being copy pasted was making it so that Miles won instead so that he could go to the same school he did in Ultimate. Her powers allow her to be aware of this change, she suddenly found herself in a shitty school with none of the friends and teachers she used to have, so she now has a reason to blame Miles specifically, as far as she's concerned Miles did in fact personally steal what was hers, he's an invader from another universe who shouldn't be here.
>It wasn't me! I didn't mean for this happen! I gave the Molecule Man a stale hamburger and he thought he was being nice!
>You expect me to believe that shit?
Do peter and miles even remember that?
Peter wishes he could forget.
Miles had a Philly cheese steak up his ass during Absolute Carnage.
>Irrational villain acts Irrational, and it's pointed out.
>this is bad writing.
Bad guys should be allowed to be bad. Otherwise you get situations like Madeline Pyror who kill people and get away with it.
Frick off with your fake outrage.
the only people that are mad is OP and you
Having a villain whose motivation is stupid and nonsensical is bad writing. We just got over this with Chasm
She's leaps and bounds above Chasm. Unlike Peter, Miles can't give Rabble what she wants to instantly resolve the issue. It's systematic and complex. She's anger and attacking the only thing she can. Get fricked Wells.
They’re both the same level of shit
she is a psychopath, she was simply waiting for the slightest excuse to justify herself and not feel bad.
>Also, who gives out a scholarship through a lottery? Wouldn't it be better to give it to the student with the best score?
the world of marvel comics is a dystopia
Remember when they decided to register superheroes and that changed into registering all superhumans? They had an entire war over it. Then when the civil war ended they started conscripting children into the military, trained them to kill, and on the very first training session decided to pit the girl with the mysterious alien super gun against the boy with the power to scare the shit out of people, and another one of their newly conscripted child soldiers (who wasn't even superhuman) died. Then they covered up his death and even the superheroes present played along. And then they cloned the dead boy four times, lied to his father, made one of the clones think he was the original and sent him home, and conscripted the other three clones. Then when it was finally revealed absolutely no one involved except Henry Gyrich got in trouble for it, even the camp instructor just got sent back to his job in Afghanistan which was what he always wanted anyway. And then the replacement for Henry Gyrich was literally the Green fricking Goblin, who proceeded to hire all the supervillains he could, then ran a false flag operation in America, killing a stadium full of people, in order to run a campaign of genocide. And after the whole registration thing was shut down and Captain America was put in charge, what support did they give for teenage kids like Cloud 9 who were groomed into killing people? Absolutely nothing.
i blame Bendis
She would get into college just cause she's black anyway, they have quotas to fill
The problem is that the way the story is framed, you're clearly supposed to feel bad for her.
>you're clearly supposed to feel bad for her.
Are you.
I mean, I'm not reading this trashm but is that how it's actually supposed to be framed?
Ehhh considering starling called her out on the bs I doubt it
You missed the previous pages that show the sad backstory of her poor immigrant parents struggling and later died.
>who gives out a scholarship through a lottery? Wouldn't it be bette
Feels fair. I mean you graduate highschool good grades, did sports, but really what separates you from every other kid that did that exact same thing. Picking at random seems fair, considering not every kid can is top of the class or Asian.
With her skills she should really have been given a scholarship and gone straight to MIT or something. Tech genius+technopath is an amazing set of skills.
You know what else would make it harder to get into a good school. Being a marvel villain and doing crimes which will get her arrested and thrown in jail.
As far as villain origins go, it at least makes some sense that a villain would hyperfixate on something like this.
People actually read Miles' book?
Not the people who come to these threads but they do like finding pages to complain about like most outragegays here.
>I dress up as a goblin cuz I'm crazy!
>I'm a rhino man
>I'm old. Better be a buzzard!
It's a goofy cape book about spider-people whopping bad guys. Relax.
Its dumb, but it fit completely with the classic spider-man villains.
>she should be able to get admitted to a good school or get a high-paying job based on her own merits
This is the same Marvel universe that didn't see any practical applications for web fluid where Peter Parker is a fricking poor bum relying on the kindness of his friends to get by. Like half of all their villain origins are corporations were too dumb to realize they had a super genius on their hands.
Miles reality warped himself into 616 after this lottery. It's not inconceivable that she won in the original timeline and he legit fricking stole her spot with fricking magic. She has every fricking right to be pissed.
Imagine if every asian giganerd in 616 threw a b***hfit like this whenever they don't qualify for college because they didn't tick the right quota boxes
How is this worst than I scared my face I must be evil now. Or I have daddy issues and magic gem I must be evil now.
Or ever popular I'm filthy rich. I must be evil now
She has good motivations to be a good villain, you just have shitty media literacy.
She feels like she's lost the lottery in multiple ways. Not only did she lose a literal lottery for college, she also lost a metaphorical lottery for superpowers. Yeah, she's smart, but how many smart people are there in Marvel? Tons. Lets look at some of them. Riri initially got noticed because she had Tony Stark privately endorsing her. Or what about the kids in the FF? It exists to find prodigies like her, but she's looked over because she's not like a skrull or something. Or what about the X-Men? An entire island of geniuses doing whatever the frick they want but she's not allowed there because she didn't get the genetic lottery of being born a mutant.
She's smart, and everyone around her knows it, but she's constantly looked over-- either because she's not exceptional enough like the alien children in the FF or out of sheer-dumb luck like with Miles or Riri. The college lottery breaks her because it was supposed to be an even playing field and the people that are already ahead still win.
Her motivations are much closer to Syndrome. She's an average person in a world of superpowers and she's pissed about it. She leagues better than the type of villains we have been getting for Miles, except maybe Prowler, Marvel just has to resist the temptation to memory hole her as soon as the run is done.
sure whatever you say, tumblr refugee
>petty, personal, and almost entirely misplaced
That's the perfect supervillain orgin you fricking sperg, Straight Outta Latveria.
>maybe sympathize with her or understand her if instead she went after the wider system/society
Pretty much these, she should b blaming the education system or that particular school board, but not Miles, the staff and students, they have nothing to do with what happened, it's bullshit