I don’t hate teen superheroes. I grew up loving Spider-Man and Teen Titans, but I’m just tired of them. Comic characters never age, and every reboot resets them back to high school. Spider-Man’s been rebooted over a dozen times, yet he’s only been an adult in two animated shows. His best stories are when he’s in college or older, but studios keep him a teen to appeal to kids.
It’s not even just him — Ms. Marvel should be 28 by now, but she’s still 16. There’s no middle ground anymore. You’re either a teenage hero or in your 30s. What happened to heroes in their 20s?
That’s one reason why I really liked the PlayStation Spider-Man games. He’s already been Spider-Man for almost 10 years and has an established career and enemies. We don’t need to see all the stuff that came before because we’ve already seen it plenty of times, and that’s not the story they’re trying to tell.
But also more to your point, in DC they’ve artificially aged up Jon Kent and made him Superman II, while Damian is still a teenager and still Robin. Plus, apparently they’ve given a kid to Wonder Woman in order to round out the Big Three’s kids with Trinity (that’s her actual name) who’s yet another Wonder Girl alongside the other three or whatever that are already in existence.
Are you referring to the modern Spider-Man games? I seem to recall the first one going over the radioactive spider bit, no?
Yeah, the ones from 2018+
There aren’t any flashback sequences with Peter until Spider-Man 2, so the only radioactive spider bits we see are Miles’ transformation.
For some reason I can picture the sequence in my head when they go on the class trip… Unless I’m thinking of Spider Man 2.
Maybe I’m combining it in my head with Spiderverse or something.
lol, I thought you meant this game at first: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(2000_video_game)
Your original comment is accurate for that one, too.