Uncle Ben: No Way Home

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From Chip Zdarsky.

Comments

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Some heroes work with "special family." Tony Stark, for instance, because Howard Stark was already basically Howard Hughes. But I'm still not fond of Nathaniel Richards being a time travelling adventurer in his own regard.

But if we learned that Steve Rogers' father was a super-spy or maybe a patriotic hero in WW1, that would be at odds with his own depiction as an everyman representative of (a certain segment) of the American population. (And shut up, the idea that there was a Revolutionary War ancestor of Steve Rogers who was ALSO named Steve Rogers and dressed up like a Colonial version of him should be stricken from the record... poppycock!)

If a hero already comes from a legacy family, that's one thing... easier by far to create them with nearly a century of comic books to work with. But just like learning that Thomas Wayne was a "Batman" before Bruce ever got the notion to fight crime... (

Some characters just work better on a conceptual level if they're not bogged down with extra bits and pieces of continuity baggage.

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