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ParanoidObsessive posted...

(except for the Ted Kord fans who hated how DC completely fucked his character over simply to make way for a new iteration of Blue Beetle, but that's less about Jaime and more about how badly they mistreated Ted, who was a fun, popular character).

I didn't have much of an attachment to Ted, but that was basically my gripe with Miles. Ironically, had they introduced him as Spidey from the beginning of the Ultimates continuity, I probably wouldn't have had much of an issue -- after all, I probably like Miguel O'Hara more than regular-continuity Peter Parker -- but instead not only did they kill a version of Peter I liked more than the normal comics version, they added insult to injury by announcing a replacement almost before the ink dried on the comic where he died. And then, of course, I've been irked that Miles has been pulled into the mainstream in a way that Miguel O'Hara hasn't (although at least he's had a few games now... that I haven't got around to playing despite owning some of them for years now >_<)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It definitely seems that the newer minority characters that actually catch on with a mostly positive reaction and not a ton of blowback are usually cases where they don't sacrifice existing characters to make them. A lot of Spider-Man fans loved "Spider-Gwen" right from the start, which was helped by the fact that they didn't kill off Peter (well, not main universe Peter) to justify her existence. Meanwhile, response to Jane Foster Thor was strongly negative, partly because of the phenomenally stupid way they handled it and completely fucked over original Thor to do it (but admittedly, partly because the writing in general was terrible).

That and people like Gwen Stacy thanks to how the character had been used in spinoff media like the Amazing Spidey films and the canceled-before-its-time Spectacular Spiderman cartoon


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