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

[freezer]

Someone posted the whole sordid Sadistic Choice/Rape scene a while ago. To me it felt a lot like Kingpin MAX -- trying WAAAAY too hard to show what an irredeemable bastard the antagonist was and just came across as snuff porn. (He wrote, trying to keep the TV Tropes refs to a minimum)

[biod]

Yes real Kick the Dog moments. :P

[auggie18]

Someone edited the pages so that after the Red Skull threw the baby out of the window, Petra beat him up and took out all of his men. The baby then randomly sprouted wings and flew away.


I know that it was just a fan-dub, but it made me feel better about the story in general.


Just stick to Ultimate Spider-man, though. Only read the books that you can enjoy.

[shadowpsykie]

they posted that here?

[freezer]

Indeed they did.

[shadowpsykie]

*sigh*

#sadforever....

[icon_uk]

I missed that the first time around... I wish I had again... WHY did I click on that link? WHY?

[shadowpsykie]

i know the feeling Icon, i know the feeling :(

[endis_ni]

Oh sodding hell, that was actually worse than I remember.

[cleome45]

"Tell, not show" is sometimes the right path for the storyteller to take. Having read that whole thing here, I don't understand why it was necessary for them to go into such loving and drawn-out (no pun intended) detail about RW's torture. Then again, I'm kind of skittish and rarely seek out "realistic" violence in media deliberately. Some things are better left to the reader/viewer's imagination.