Avengers Arena 4: Chase Narrates

[wake_the_dragon]

Comments

[crinos]

Are those... do they have life bars? Did Arcade give them life bars?

[flint_marko]

It's basically a storytelling device to show the characters' names and for when they get injured or killed.

[aravis]

So, this is officially the worst comic ever, is what you're saying?

[crinos]

I was not aware that fact was in question.

Well, no, Cry for Justice is still pretty bad, but this hasn't finished yet, so it has room to get dumber.

[arrogantcur.livejournal.com]

After reading the summary...

DUMB THING #1: Arcade actually thinks that these people might kill one another to get out of Murderworld instead of trying to defeat him again. I don't know all of the characters, but it would be wildly out of character for the ones I do know to stoop that low;

DUMB THING #2: Some of them actually have actually proven him right by fighting one another, because...they were handed idiot balls, I guess;

The only deaths so far (and hopefully it'll stay this way) have happened because Arcade either personally killed one of the contestants or let somebody be killed by one of his traps.

Seems to me that this could have been written as another "throw the heroes in Murderworld and see if they survive" story, and not necessarily a bad one either, just by taking away Arcade's idiotic ultimatum.

[darkknightjrk]

With the dumb things--the first issue does address that. When Arcade appears, almost everyone tries to fight him but he's able to fight them all back.

[aravis]

...would that mean that they'd stop trying, and do as he'd say and start fighting each other...? Aren't these kids supposed to be superheroes?

[darkknightjrk]

Well, they were literally unable to actually touch him, at all. Because of that, many people, including myself, are thinking that the twist that will come when this story ends is that it's all been a VR simulation that they're hooked up too.

As for them being superheroes...well, the Runaways, from what I've read, kinda skirted or borderline that hero thing. Many of the Avengers Academy kids were once possible super-villains. X-23 can turn into a mindless killer if Arcade releases the trigger scent into the atmosphere. The Braddock Academy kids are just students with super-powers...so yeah, if pushed hard enough, I does kinda make sense, but YMMV.

[aravis]

And the twist to the twist that it was all a VR simulation will, no doubt, be that the ones who died in the simulation also died for real. This being Marvel.