BDSMKane posted...
I honestly never played it, but I get what you mean. If its inline with the status quo, but still feels forced, does it get the same criticism? The simple answer is no, because the mainstream culture is adjusted to it. Its not fair by any stretch, and an example I could give would be the original romance in Eternals. Zero chemistry, completely forced, but the only complaints I saw were some on the Movies board upset about a conspiracy; not sure how many different users, I just remember the basic premise.
Speaking of such, one of my favorite examples of Marvel screwing up Pre-2016 or Pre-2010s is the Spider-Man story One More Day.
Even if Anti-Woke people concede it is bad some insist it's still tolerable than any diversity based decision in comics. Yeah story which even if undone has been kept in place for a decade and then some, further infantized Spider-Man and had him making a very unheroic choice is seen as the good old days to some.