Cringeworthy Comicbook Moments: Jessica Brings Up An Unfortunate Part of Ms. Marvel's Backstory

[espanolbot]

Possible trigger warning for discussion of rape

From the sequel to Jessica's solo series Alias, she's beginning to give birth to her and Luke Cage's baby. He feels that this is a good time to bring up her friend Carol Danver's last pregnancy, much to the discomfort of everyone of the room.





And I swear that I'm not posting this just because of that Todd Akin guy's moronic comments a few days ago.

Carol, this might not be the best time, but is your superhero outfit really the best thing to be wearing in a hospital?

And it just occured to be that getting mysteriously pregnant is something that she has in common with Power Girl, who pre-Crisis (I think) she was impregnanted by the universe for some reason (yeah, really). Since this was shortly after she slept with Hal Jordan, he naturally decided to act like an ass and start yelling at her for denying that it was his baby.

Comments

[stolisomancer]

I wonder if Carol's powers would let her bathe herself with ultraviolet light and kill off all her surface germs. That'd mean that she could wear whatever the hell she wanted in a hospital.

[mrstatham]

"Tell him how you were pregnant, Carol,"

"Fuck you, Jess,"

Is how I could see this story going in actuality.

[espanolbot]

Trying to think of other moments like this.

"Tell us about the time you got drunk and yelled at a bar of people, Tony."

"Tell us about the time Black Mask cut your brother-in-law to bits and feed them to your sister, Selina."

[md84]

"Tell us about the time the Joker beat you to death with a crowbar, Jason."

"Tell us about the time you were possessed and murdered the entire Green Lantern Corp, Hal."

"Tell us about the time Major Force murdered your girlfriend and stuffed her corpse in the fridge, Kyle."

"Tell us what it felt like being impregnated with a Brood parasite, Kitty."

[mrstatham]

"Tell us about the time Bullseye killed your true love, Matt."

"Tell us about the time Mr Fear made your wife go nuts and you bunked up with a hot redhead, Matt."

"Tell us about that hot Greek chick who promptly got killed by Bullseye, Matt,"

"Tell us about that time you thought you could make the Hand go straight and ended up nuts and possessed, Matt."

"Tell us about that relatively normal chick you were with who promptly turned out to be a supervillain working for Kingpin, Matt."

Shit, these write themselves, when it comes to Daredevil.

[cainofdreaming]

"Tell us about the time Kang messed with your history and turned you into a homicidal thug. And then your friends replaced you with your younger self. And leave no sordid details out, Tony."

[gamerguy]

"Hey, Hal, remember that teenaged cousin you have who shares your name and idolized you because you trained him for a time? Yeah, I didn't think you did."

[shadowpsykie]

"Tell us about the time the ex wife of one of the world's heroes orchestrated the murder of your father via a D List Flash Villain, Tim. And while you are at it tell us about the time Black Mask tortured and killed your girlfriend, after Batman trained her then left her out to try all in an effort to get YOU back."

wow poor Tim....

[llei]

This is the greatest thread that has ever happened

[theflames]

I've always wanted Emma Frost to do this nonchalantly to Jean Grey.

"Hey Jean! Remember when your mind housed that epic cosmic entity and I helped screw with it until you became so evil that that's the only thing people really remember you doing? Yeah, that was crazy weird :D"

To which she replies;

"Tell everyone about the time I put you in a mental home, Emma. :D"

[mrstatham]

"Tell everyone how you were carrying the consciousness of Cassandra Nova and beat the shit out of the X-Men using illusions of Sebastian Shaw, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, yourself and Cassandra Nova herself, Emma."

[md84]

Every time I'm reminded of that story -- and the fact that it somehow got past editors -- a little bit of my soul shrieks and dies clawing its metaphorical eyes out.

[silverhammerman]

That is incredibly messed up. I don't even..... What the fuck is wrong with Jessica?

[salinea]

pregnancy? It's very very douchy, but perhaps while you are scared out of your wit and in the process of giving birth, you're not in the right state of mind to realise that making someone tell about their rape to amaze your boyfriend isn't something you do to your friend. I dunno.

Or just.... BENDISED!

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, pregnancy and everything makes it understandable to ask I guess, but it's still an unbelievably stupid thing to bring up.
I'm firmly with mrstatham on this, the exchange should have ended with Carol telling her "fuck you."

[brooms]

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'

Beverly Johnson

[yvonmukluk]

Isn't she Veranke here?

Mind you, even so, it make no sense.

[sir_mikael]

Wrong Jessica. Veranke was Spider-Woman.

[skemono]

And it just occured to be that getting mysteriously pregnant is something that she has in common with Power Girl, who pre-Crisis (I think) she was impregnanted by the universe for some reason (yeah, really).

I think that was around Zero Hour, actually.

[philippos42]

The real reason may be that Bendis somehow got that story in his head and couldn't just let it go.

[jaybee3]

I really thought that Claremont (?) issue where Carol returns and tells off the Avengers for not only letting all that happen but cheering on her rapist (one of the best "Take That's" from any writer to another") would be the end of this story ever being mentioned again. Why the heck would Bendis bring it up, why at that moment, and what does it say about Jessica that she wants Carol to relive it?

Todd Akin?

[jazzypom]

Am I missing something here? What did the American GOP politician do/say now? (It always seems to be the GOP when these things come up)

*clicks to research. comes back*

Ooooooooh.

Re: Todd Akin?

[blackruzsa]

And the best part is?
EVERYONE HATES HIM FOR IT.
Well, not hates, but really, we've found the one thing Republicans and Democrats agree on: That was some stupid-ass shit you pulled, Akin.

The GOP are only kvetching because it makes 'em look bad

[jazzypom]

I'm sure they believe the same thing too. In which universe is that right? We in Britain have Galloway over here trying to defend asylum beauty Assange with the whole, "Sex when the other partner is sleeping isn't rape."

*side eyes EVERY MALE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW*

[blackruzsa]

ACTUALLY to be fair the way Jessica goes into it isn't as insensitive as it seems after Carol confesses. It seems as though, in fact, that Jess is saying "well THIS PREGNANCY HURTS LIKE HELL BUT OKAY LET'S THINK OF CAROL, THINK OF CAROL, THIS CAN'T BE AS BAD AS WHAT CAROL WENT THROUGH, BUT DAMN THAT GIRL ONLY GOT A FEW WEEKS BUT STILL, THINK OF CAROL, THIS CAN'T BE AS BAD AS CAROL'S SHIT"

Okay but then she goes on to say "I want him to hear this" so let's just ignore everything I just said and say Jess is a douchebag, with labor leeway, but still pretty high on the douchebag scale.