Marvel's newest heroes: "Snowflake" and "Safespace." - 2020-03-19 5:21 PM
Not a joke, not a South Park parody: Introducing the New 'New Warriors'
The reception online is...not great from both the left and the right. The right's reaction is pretty much what you'd expect. The left's reaction is that this is terrible pandering to the point of perpetuating stereotypes.
And who thought hiring another "TV comedy writer" was a good idea after the complete disaster that was Ron Zimmerman?
- SCREENTIME
A Meme-Obsessed super teen whose brain became connected to the internet after becoming exposed to his grandfather’s “experimental internet gas.”
Now he can see augmented reality and real-time maps, and can instantly Google any fact. Does this make him effectively a genius? He sure acts like it does.
"I wanted to have teen characters who felt as "now" as the New Warriors did in 1990,” explains Kibblesmith. “The New Warriors have been zeitgeist characters from the beginning, you get edgy skateboarding Night Thrasher in the '90s and the Reality TV team in the 2000s, and now in 2020, we have New Warriors who have never grown up without the Internet, and one character who appears to essentially live inside it.
“The word ’screen time’ is only ever used in a sort of restrictive sense, and because we’re doing a story about teenage rebels, a lot of the names are about teens fighting against labels that are put on them. So with Screentime, we liked the idea that he has infinite screen time.”
SNOWFLAKE AND SAFESPACE
Snowflake, a cryokinetic, can materialize snowflake-shaped shuriken projectiles for throwing.
Safespace can materialize pink forcefields, but he can’t inhabit them himself, the reflex only works if he’s protecting others. They’re hyper aware of modern culture and optics, and they see their Super Heroics as “a post-ironic meditation on using violence to combat bullying.” They're probably streaming this.
"Safespace is a big, burly, sort of stereotypical jock. He can create forcefields, but he can only trigger them if he's protecting somebody else. Snowflake is non-binary and goes by they/them, and has the power to generate individual crystalized snowflake-shaped shurikens. The connotations of the word 'snowflake' in our culture right now are something fragile, and this is a character who is turning it into something sharp.
B-NEGATIVE
A teen “living vampire” exposed to Michael Morbius’s blood as a child in a rogue, but life-saving medical procedure. He still ages like a regular kid, but has all the abilities of Morbius. He’s also obsessed with all the music and attitude of “classic” long-past decades like the '90s, and the '00s. “The world is a vampire…and so am I.”
TRAILBLAZER
A regular kid scooped up into the world of teenage Super Heroing. Her “magic backpack” is actually a pocket dimension with seemingly infinite space, from which she can pull out useful or random objects—it’s not always under her control. She claims to get her power from god, but “not the god you’re thinking of.”
The reception online is...not great from both the left and the right. The right's reaction is pretty much what you'd expect. The left's reaction is that this is terrible pandering to the point of perpetuating stereotypes.
And who thought hiring another "TV comedy writer" was a good idea after the complete disaster that was Ron Zimmerman?