SERIOUSLY! Contains Trigger Words Behind the cut

[shadowpsykie]

Okay so I was thinking about reading some more of the Ultimate Universe comics despite my aversion to them, mainly due to how excellent Ultimate Spider-man has been... Now I had some issues with the Avengers/Ultimate Avengers/Ultimate Ultimates Ulitmization...

Part of those issues were that I though they were too... how do i put this... Perpetually stuck in the EXTREAM! 90's! if you get what i mean... exsesively violent, some what sexist (im Looking at you Ultimatum!), and just not too many likeable characters, admitedly Cap had his moments, some very good moments, but some how those moments were always counter acted by some thing else. But I have hear on here some good things about the Ultimate comics and have decided to maybe give them a try... so i did some research.... and I found this out....


I found this Entry on the 2nd version of the Ultimate Wasp... you know... after the first one was EATEN by Blob!....

In the Ultimate Comics: Avengers a new Wasp appears (called Red Wasp). She is revealed to be a former Liberator soldier previously known as the Insect Queen, now reformed with an obedience chip and serves as a member of the Avengers. In Ultimate Comics: Avengers #5, a flashback reveals that she was Petra Laskov, the wife of a Georgian activist. One day the Red Skull kidnapped them, held the couple's child at gunpoint, and forced her to kill her husband to save her child. She does so, only for the Red Skull to throw her infant out a window, and then order his men to rape her. Along with the rest of the Avengers, she fights the Red Skull only to be overpowered until he was fatally injured by Captain America. A short while later when the Red Skull was in the hospital, Petra, dressed like a doctor, walked into his room and shot him in the head, killing him.

SERIOUSLY! She was Kiddnapped, tortured and RAPED! REALLY? can some one please tell me ANYTHING good about the Ultimates that would counter act this? or that would out weigh this? Anything that would make this worth reading?


For Legality The Red Wasp/Wasp2




if this was an innappropriate post, Or i posted the Trigger warning Wrong, please let me know....



She appears to have the same powers as her predecessor.

Comments

[sherkahn]

I think that's part of the point.

Someone trying to better themselves and the world after much trauma had been done to her on all fronts. Either Marvel Ultimates gives her story a chance to better herself and the world around her, or they continue to propagate the vicious cycle of "eye for an eye".

It's Ultimate, so I am going with the latter. But the possibility is there.

[icon_uk]

Someone trying to better themselves and the world after much trauma had been done to her on all fronts.

Doesn't the fact she has an "obedience chip" implanted sort of suggest she might not have any choice about "bettering" herself?

[sherkahn]

do we know it's still in her at this point?

[icon_uk]

I have no idea, I know nothing about the character, but from the way I read the description it sounded like she was only on the team BECAUSE of the chip. Sort of like the Suicide Squad explosive bracelets.

[valtyr]

The impression given in the books is that Hawkeye had one for a while, too, but he eventually... served out his term, I guess, and became a normal black ops dude.

[whitesycamore]

Someone trying to better themselves and the world after much trauma had been done to her on all fronts.

Like Batman!

Except that he's a man though. And you can't give a man a gory gang rape backstory for motivation. That'd just be sick.

[blackruzsa]

It may be sick but if it happens, I'd be cheering.
Not because rape is good or anything, but because someone had the sense to stop having it happen to a women.