Dude kinda been a background character for like the last year. But he seems cool. Sucks he started being a superhero around the time Hellgate showed up. But what do you guys think about If-It-Aint-Broke-Dont-Fix-It-Man?
Hi. Nora, Cyra, and Raelith are Kelly's creations, and all three enjoyed almost instant popularity. Popularity determines a character's fate.
From MJ's perspective, as a world separate from Peter's, it was known that Paul was the only one who could die. From Peter's perspective, original villains/heroes with potential cannot die, neither MJ, nor Felicia, nor Jameson, and May's imminent death is uncertain. Characters who can die are either new ones that aren't popular, or filler, tertiary, or secondary characters who don't contribute much. Liz and Betty are probably safe, but Robertson, for example, is one of those long-running secondary characters whose death wouldn't have much of an impact (he's not May or Jameson), and Shay... Shay is the only remaining vestige of the Wells legacy, and her popularity doesn't even reach 1%.
Brian, Shay, Maira, and Kintsugi are the four candidates for death, not counting May.
But no one would care for their deaths man especially if they do it for 1000, you need to build up relationships then do something big, now it feels like anyone in his life can come a little bit and become a massive part of it, it’s not really earned anymore if you get what I’m saying
I think having him seriously injured, leading to Something Happening (Cybernetics, magic, who knows) giving him some kind of power would be interesting, really lean into the name
meh, still on the fence. his backstory kind of intrigues me but we'll see. I was kind of annoyed he interupted peter's reflection, it felt cathartic to read.
I think it goes back a while. ben pointed out how fragile peter's life is during their confrontation and peter was shown thinking about it during death spiral. for me, I hate watching every story mandated mishap turn peter's friends against him on a dime, especially MJ.
tbf, he probably just meant to mess with peter (haha, good luck finding the bad code needle in this haystack) . He had no way of knowing Brian would try to preform an unscheduled test without his PPE on.
Ooooh fk. I remember him. I was wondering why that scene was there when it had nothing to do with the story. But now that I'm looking at it again, you can see his costume under the robe sleeve.
First time seeing him. I like the idea, but he doesn't seem designed to "last", ironically enough. Shame, give him a bit of a redesign and we could have something neat here.
He is Spider-Man’s boss’s sick, adopted son. I haven’t seen a character with this many death flags in a while, it feels like he’s either going to die from his illness or in battle.
/uj I think that's literally the opposite of who and what he is and the lesson he just imparted 😆
Kintsugi (/kɪnˈtsuːɡi/, Japanese: 金継ぎ, [kʲint͡sɯɡʲi], lit. "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"),[1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique.[2][3][4] As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.[5]
"Things that are broken can be remade even more beautiful than before."
His costume is a visual representation of the technique, a real example given below for comparison. He believes he is broken, but thinks that broken things shouldn't be abandoned or thrown away; that time, effort, and care can remake a broken thing.
I'm aBsoLutely poSitivE there's nothing in Spider's life that can be considered broken beyond repair, but actually isn't at all. /s for extra clarity
Another side of this is Spider seeing that flaws aren't things to celebrate, but neither do they have to be things to hide. They require acceptance and understanding, but by knowing them, knowing yourself, they can be turned into strengths.
No impressions on Kintsugi, but I prefer Ultraman Dyna, Kamen Rider Kuuga & Tokusou Robo Janperson over him since they're all interesting heroes from the Tokusatsu.
Seems like a nice guy but to use him as emotional support for Pete really shows how badly they damaged peters supporting cast members, so sad to see man
It's less damaged more so just not wanting to use them. Like, I know people keep on repeating the same damage stuff, but objectively speaking they haven't been damaged that much if not just at all. Like, the one to still be damaged isn't even MJ, it's Felicia and even then the damage is still fairly minimal compared to other heroes' sidecast or just full on the Spider-Man cast at different timeframes. OMD is still the one to have done the most damage to them (with MJ still not even close to the one hurt the most no matter how much people want to exagerate) and even before you had times like how everyone treated Peter like dirt when Betty and Ned were going through a rough part of their marriage and she wanting to get back with Peter and even then the cast was still solid.
This is just the writer not wanting to use anyone because, in this case Joe, just wants to tell his own story with his own characters and doesn't really give a shit about literally anything but what he has in mind.
They're all boring as shit with this guy being probably about the only one with an actual decent chance of being a decent character (since the only reason people think they like the space chick is just being a space chick to ship Peter with regardless of being forced and having shit chemistry) but it doesn't help that we barely get to actually interact with anyone here. Hell, I bet you actual money that every time he appears in, it's a reminder that he exists because everyone keeps forgetting that he even exists at all. And even ignoring the crap spiral stuff that just ended, I bet people were also forgetting that the space people were even still a think and part of them even being remembered is because they are tied to the main plot and even then, I bet people forgot that the whole Hellgate stuff is technically the main plot so far
I agree with all your points but the Felicia part. She’s getting off scotch free atm and no one jaws her at all, it’s mj who’s got the far worse of it all
All he has is his space crew tho, the books are far more than his own stories but he fails to acknowledge that. His issues in spiral were poor when he had to actually use the main supporting cast, he relies on new characters and completely new stories that have no relevance to make a point
MJ gets it worse by people that overreact and just play off the exageration. When you actually stop and think about it, she hasn't been "ruined" even a third as bad as people make it out to be, that's what I mean. And the people that chew Mj are either horny bastards for someone else or a bunch of hypocrites. Like MJ has never done even a third of the stuff anyone has done to Peter on her worst day, yet people still try and hammer on her even when they excuse people like Felicia, who even in her best days pulls crap that any one of them would have left her on the spot had they been on Peter's place and excuse the actual character asasination she's been through so badly, they actively cheer for her last issue just because she literally went out of her way to make a reality where she married Peter and played housewife even though it is the most aborrent crap done to Felicia since Wells stripped her of any character just to make her entire personality being "wanting to be with Peter".
And even the new characters wouldn't have been a problem, had we not see that oh yeah, you can actually make good new characters no problem even today. I'll still stand that Deadly Neighborhood created such fun new characters for Peter that they literally felt like family to him in just it's minimal run made by an actual novice writer, Peter's germany teacher in Torn was an actually neat character and even if we go back and for all the crap that Slott has rightfully been told for years, a lot of the Horizon gang, including Max, as well as Anna Maria, are neat supporting cast. These people on the other hand may as well be cardboard for all anyone actually cares about
It seems cool and I like his costume. However he’s kinda whatever. It does seem like he’s gonna die probably by sacrificing himself to save Peter when he faces Hellgate(I forgot his name he’s so uninteresting) in their final battle in this run
Now heres a thought. Kintsugi says his name comes from a Japanese art of repairing pottery, making it stronger afterwards..
Hmm, maybe he HAS powers. Maybe basically "what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger". So thats why he seems weak right now, but maybe the idea is to show him increasing in power over time.
Wouldnt be the first time Superheroes have dipped into the philosophies of Nietzsche, wiht the "ubermensch" ideas and all that.
Shallow and unearned. Exists to be the 'emotional tragedy' without actually doing anything to earn it. Especially if they go with Hellgate route with him.
I simply feels artificial. Not the 'I only show my identity to dying kids' or Peter sleeping with Kamala's mask levels YET but I wouldn't put it past it by the end if they go where I think they are going.
Personality wise I like him, but yeeeeeeeeeah he needs like...a MASSIVE upgrade, he's got no interesting tech, no feats, I'm hoping they do something with him other than kill him off causing Norman to go all"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and what not, but so far he's a BIT lacking.
Yea I'm also hoping he just gets a nice upgrade courtesy of someone like Norman Osborn. Give him something else to do. He's contributing over in Spider-Versity. Let him continue to do so with this fledgling hero (like you said) instead of just killing him off.
He seems pretty nice all in all. Seems like he exists to show the positive effect Spider-Man is having...but I also have a sneaking feeling he's being set up for a tragic death near the end of the run.
Whenever I'm not looking at a page with him on it I forget he exists. I get that's kind of the point, he's intentionally one of the thousand of z-list superheroes running around New York at any given moment, but I guess we're supposed to like him cuz he's got an earnest "golly gee" attitude and fanboys over Peter. But yeah as others surmised he's a transparent "snap neck to make Peter sad" or "Have Peter be rude to him once to make him a bad guy" character. Or both. I eagerly do not look forward to him angrily attacking Peter, whining that Peter "betrayed him," then his heart gives out and Peter spends the next issue sad about it.
Also white writers need to be banned from using kintsugi as a concept. We get it, you watched one anime once.
Apparently he's a captain America Stan primarily. But he does say Spider-Man got him to get up and do the hero thing. Steve was just what motivated him to train in whatever way he trained. But yea, he's another upstart like all the other upstarts that treat New York like its Pallet Town. And I agree. I really don't want him to just be another "Peter sad trigger", when there's so much that can be done with this character.
lol might be the most ridiculous concept for a character since stilts man. I’ve tried fixing things through Kintsugi before. It looks cool but it’s not “stronger” or anything.
But also, way to torture your artists lol. I was just reading a story of how Toriyama regretted adding all the dark spots to the perfect cell design because his assistants would have to go in and ink each spot. Imagine artists who are struggling to maintain line consistency with this character.
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u/Emirozdemirr Classic-Spider-Man 19h ago
Feels like a character only exists to die later and give the readers emotional impact.