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]

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.

[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."

[espanolbot]

"Tell us about the time your dad and one of your worst enemies kidnapped and drugged you into compliance for roughly two years, while your adoptive family abandoned you on the basis that they thought so little of you that they presumed you'd just gone evil on your own accord, Cass?

[runespoor]

That never happe--!

Damn, now I'm agreeing with the DCnU. ;_________________;

[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.

[auggie18]

To quote Rachelle from Living Between Wednesdays: "In this issue Daredevil throws a party! And all of his friends are there and they all have a wonderful time! Daredevil laughs and loves and dances and decides everything is going to be ok from now on.

Oh, I'm kidding. In this issue Daredevil continues to march in the endless parade of shit that is his life."

[silverhammerman]

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

[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."

[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."

[salinea]

I'm firmly with mrstatham on this, the exchange should have ended with Carol telling her "fuck you."
Oh, so am I.

[md84]

"Tell us about how your relationship with Karen Page panned out, Matt."

"Tell us about the time you killed Bullseye after he blew up a housing project, Matt."

Wow, Daredevil really does make this way too easy.

[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

[mrstatham]

"Tell us about the time your identity as Daredevil was made public knowledge, Matt."

"Tell us about the time you kicked the shit out of the Kingpin and declared yourself Kingpin, Matt."

"Tell us about that time Typhoid Mary set you on fire in public, Matt."

Yeah, far, far too easy.

[mrstatham]

"Tell us about that time you decided to jump into a supervillain and were basically only saved because Mister Fantastic's kid is that fucking smart, Avengers."

[mrstatham]

I think the 'fuck you' would have been more in keeping with Bendis' work on Alias, but given The Pulse basically ended up being a PG-13 take on Alias, we get this instead.

Edit: I mean, hell, even if it's more of a humoured 'fuck you' from Carol who knows what Jess is doing, that'd still work better.

[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"

[theflames]

These two share a love for dark humour... ? If thats not the case, then yeah, pretty messed up.

Though I've seen BFFs talk about things with similar nonchalant attitudes. Carol doesn't even seem that bothered here.

[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."

[mrstatham]

I don't know, there's that panel where she's saying 'I gave birth' and her eyes just suggest a 'why the fuck am I telling my best friend's boyfriend this' look going on.

[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."

[icon_uk]

Ah.... Air Wave (or Maser if prefer) he was cute... then got electromagnetically shredded in Infinite Crisis (During Donna Troy's spectacularly pointless jaunt into space with a bunch of folks) and never reformed.