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I don’t hate teen superheroes. I grew up loving Spider-Man and Teen Titans, but I’m just tired of them. Comic characters never age, and every reboot resets them back to high school. Spider-Man’s been rebooted over a dozen times, yet he’s only been an adult in two animated shows. His best stories are when he’s in college or older, but studios keep him a teen to appeal to kids.

It’s not even just him — Ms. Marvel should be 28 by now, but she’s still 16. There’s no middle ground anymore. You’re either a teenage hero or in your 30s. What happened to heroes in their 20s?

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I disagree. Its in the spirit of the genre to keep a consistency in its identity and to explore themes around it. Having occasional runs with a different age is that very exploration but in those cases other parts of it's character anchor it, but that can only happen if the character has fully been fully absorbed by audiences.

We can create an interesting batman story with his parents alive bc we've seen all the iterations of him with his dead parents. We would be able to explore the idea of whether that trauma was truly what changed him so dramatically or if that's who he was always gonna be, perhaps with a different reason as motivation.

I could go in depth but I've got icecream to eat and its beginning to melt.

Edit. Even when i disagree I'd like to say thank you for starting an interesting conversation