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Arcade is one of the most dangerously meta characters out there right now, mostly because some writers are simply not aware of how meta he is.

Every trap he creates, every game, every situation is a showcase of the writer's own creativity. If they are not creative, or intentionally uncreative, they drop the story's esteem, and thus the writer's as well.

Arcade IS the writer. And not everyone knows that.

And that's BEFORE that travesty Arena.

Now, now Arcade is literally toxic. Hell, the writer of Hellcat even complained in a tweet about him when she saw his profile on Wikipedia. She saw a fun villain with a goofy 60s Batman level aesthetic turned into something dark and serious.

And even she couldn't dig him out of the whole Arena/Undercover left him in, because that racist, sexist, ableist, contrived, agency-less idiocy left that big a stain on every character involved, and none more so than Arcade himself.

The really sad thing is, the civilians in this series got more pathos than every non-OC in Arena.

Sorry for the rant, but I have been holding that one back for a while. I probably would have picked this series up, but then I saw Arcade was the featured villain and noped right the hell out. He is literally toxic.