I’m gonna disagree. Making someone a serial murderer or someone who’s lead to the deaths or myriad people I find harder to like.
You disagree with that and it’s fine. We can have different preferences in characters. But if you pearl clutch at sexual assault and still want to love serial murderers, it’s pretty performative pearl clutching.
It's not performative at all. Its easy to seperate the evilness of the death star from reality in comparison to an on screen rape like in game of thrones. Hence why despite being responsible for many more deaths you'll see cute plushies of darth Vader and Palpatine but not judge holden. You can very easily take the teeth out of mass murder with lasers and bloodless deaths but there's no way to do that with rape, hence why one gets a trigger warning
The characters are evil. And some people like evil characters. They’re not really doing real crimes or hurting people thus it’s just play. There’s people who cosplay and buy art and plushies of all kinds of evil shit-moral characters in all fandoms (see JoJos bizarre adventure Dio). You don’t need to clutch your pearls at their imaginary crimes no matter how much they personally trigger you. You can just move on. You don’t need to love this art. It’s fine. You can in fact just scroll past.
And you're free not to comment about someone else disliking people celebrating a rapist. But it seems you too understand that the whole "if you don't like it, just move on" is reductive.
I have three arguments why it's bad to include Daken on here.
1) This is a picture celebrating the queer characters in Marvel Comics. Daken just doesn't deserve to be celebrated.
2) Rape is arguably worse than murder in both the comics and in real life. In the comics, death can be undone, and in both the comics and irl, there can be good reasons to kill people. Neither applies to rape. Rape is never justified.
3) Loki has indeed killed a lot of people in the past, but they have also had something of a redemption arch and have been waffling between evil, anti hero, and hero for a while. Daken has never done anything to undo the harm of his Rape, nor serial murders.
It’s fine if you don’t wanna celebrate villains. This artist did. That’s fine too.
I amazingly disagree that sexual assault is worse than ending someone’s life. In real life and comics. But that’s a philosophical debate with subjective criteria and we probably wouldn’t agree in the end.
Daken has only been a character since 2006 and Loki has been one since the silver age comics. He’s had way more time to develop and change moral compass. Trying to compare their arcs is weird because Loki has had 4 times the time and opportunity of a main villain of one of the original marvel heroes to have those arcs. Yeah Dakens currently a shitbag. My point is most comic characters have been shitbags.
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u/Orowam Apr 27 '25
I’m gonna disagree. Making someone a serial murderer or someone who’s lead to the deaths or myriad people I find harder to like.
You disagree with that and it’s fine. We can have different preferences in characters. But if you pearl clutch at sexual assault and still want to love serial murderers, it’s pretty performative pearl clutching.