Yes those are their actual names, after the backlash they never appeared in published comic(these are from sneak peaks at a then unreleased new New Warriors series) apparently their origin involved inhaling ‘internet gas’
AI could never make something this funny
In a better timeline, “Snowflake” and “Safespace” would be names of two characters in an ultra-meta-post-ironic MS Paint looking parody fanime by a non-binary person satirizing liberal satire of chud onejokes while also satirizing the chud onejokes themselves. Unfortunately, in this timeline, Marvel got to the idea first.
100% would have been the names of bit characters in The Boys had Marvel not actually tried this for real
They would pilot a sentient Apache helicopter
Who used to be a human but just decided they would become an Apache
Well, I’m pretty sure Apaches are humans and you can’t just decide to become one, there’s a whole enrollment process with the tribal governments and everything.
(Clarification of intent)
(I understand that “Apache” in the comment I’m replying to refers to a type of attack helicopter; my deliberate misunderstanding is meant to be humorous while also highlighting the tensions between Native people and the Seppo military as exemplified by the latter’s naming practices.)
The bit would be even wilder if a white person decided to become an Apache helicopter and an Apache person
there was this bizarre period of time in media where the right wing was crying about woke but the liberals had not fully internalized woke.
as a result we have this very funny tragicomic age of things that you are not quite sure if you are looking at a stealth way to make fun of young people or a failed attempt to related to them. its like brainworms of all kinds collided in the big corporations in such a passive aggressive way that nobody on the teams fully understood which of them was the white supremacist all along.
liberals had not fully internalized woke.
They still haven’t, the only woke liberals are those that are part of a marginalized group themselves and most of them are exclusively woke about their own marginalized identity without a shred of being intersectional, and without the faintest awareness how easily they can be thrown under the bus when they become inconvenient to their supposed allies.
Breaking down the gender binary by flipping the stereotypical colors and doing literally nothing else, outstanding work
On the one hand, non-binary people don’t owe anyone androgyny: my own non-binary OC reads as pretty fem-presenting outside of xyr own fictional culture, but goes by xe/xem, You Can Just Do That. So if these two characters were real people, we hopefully wouldn’t be complaining about them not looking “enby enough.”
On the other hand… It really does feel in context like they just took a stock woman and man, gave them both short hair, and gave the woman the boy color and the man the girl color, and called it a day. It feels like a pretty cringe forced insertion of the gender binary, I guess.
On the one hand, non-binary people don’t owe anyone androgyny: my own non-binary OC reads as pretty fem-presenting outside of xyr own fictional culture, but goes by xe/xem, You Can Just Do That. So if these two characters were real people, we hopefully wouldn’t be complaining about them not looking “enby enough.”
This is always the difference between writing a character in a particular way and a conscious human being choosing to act in a particular way. A character has no agency, so they’ll be a collection of ideas that the creator has about that group, and if they aren’t a part of that particular group and don’t actually bother to research them and try to understand them, it will most likely end up with the character just being a bunch of stereotypes.
It’s really frustrating, I apparently put more effort into researching and writing characters for fucking porn games than big projects with huge budgets like this do.
fucking porn games
As opposed to non-fucking porn games, of which there aren’t very many.
I meant fucking as in emphasis, there is actually no fucking in this porn game, it’s all tasteful fades to black.
Yeah, I’m just pullin’ yer leg, yankin’ yer chain.
Don’t forget the haircuts
That shit 100% got created without consulting a single non-binary person.
Removed by mod
This has to be a bit.
No, bit’s are binary
Oh, it was absolutely real
The reaction was so bad that they scrapped the entire thing and tried to scrape it off the internet
Wow. Seems like deliberate sabatoge.
I think Marvel hasn’t come out with a good idea in the last 15 years and this is just the pinnacle of their creative process
I think there are a lot of good ideas present in Kamala Khan, I’m just not sure they’ve been executed on well. I haven’t read any of her comics though, just some posts about her and then the Disney+ stuff.
That’s on me
I forgot she only debuted back in 2013
Beating my theory by two years, consarn it
Fwiw, she is the only one I’m aware of. People seem really fond of Gwenpool but she seems way to “lol random” to me.
Yeah, Gwenpool is basically just “What if there were a 2nd Deadpool who was just as fourth-wall breaking, but also, she’s a girl!”
At least Deadpool gets some pathos on occasion
apparently their origin involved inhaling ‘internet gas’
Iirc that was actually from another character from the same document called Screentime. Whose whole power was he could Google things with his mind.
ChatGPT the Guy
Are we talking Google 2016 or Google 2026
I remember seeing a video about this. The designs of these 2 aren’t the worst thing in the world but the names are so bad lmao. It’s the perfect corporate
while having no understanding whatsoever of these words and how they were/are used. It feels like out of touch at best and parody at worst.This might as well be a slur
They were also on a super team with Teen Morbius, Adult Dora the Explorer and the boy with the entire internet in his brain
The author of dorohedoro makes way better non binary character designs just by making every woman shredded and huge
I mean are you going to tell me im wrong
Been a while but from what I recall she’s also extremely nice and kind but not in a way that reads particularly femme. I seem to recall liking the character.
Could be wrong, it’s been well over a year.
You’re not wrong but also she dooo love killing people
a Seconds From Disaster episode where they analyze the sequence of compounding safety failures, negligent maintenance, and tragic coincidences that allowed this to occur. Interspersed with mournful interviews. “You know, it’s funny. You don’t think it can happen, until it happens. I look back on myself and I shake my head. We were so naive.”
This shit doesn’t communicate anything. I can Google “nonbinary people” and come away with a better understanding of I read a single SEO optimized whatever on the subject.
What power do they have? General ice and maybe some kind of beam? There’s no subtlety or implication of anything about them? Inclusion should at least mean making the heros distinctly like those people and then preferably make them look capable of doing something cool.
Or even give it some humor! What if it was a closeted hero who had a rivalry with Mayhem Magnet? They have to learn from a Trump-monk at the top of a mountain that magnets stop working if you put them in water. So they embrace their identity as a genderFLUID hero, douse the magnets, destroy the dipolar menace, and save the day?
Their story continues when they have a checkers guy they have to play chess against (the villain comes back playing chess so they have to learn 4d chess). They have a computer programmer (binary babe) they have to go into the quantum realm to expose her weakness.
All the while they’re trying to reconnect with their estranged nonbinary sibling who they shunned while they were closeted and they’re looking for redemption.
God forbid you make a fun story instead of reskinning formulaic bullshit
Not sure with snowflake but yeah probably some sort of Ice based powers, or if Marvel was cool they’d make them the equivalent of DC’s Snowflame(who is awesome)
Safespace could create forcefields but only if they were actively using them to protect people
Or even give it some humor! What if it was a closeted hero who had a rivalry with Mayhem Magnet? They have to learn from a Trump-monk at the top of a mountain that magnets stop working if you put them in water. So they embrace their identity as a genderFLUID hero, douse the magnets, destroy the dipolar menace, and save the day?
They start the climb in full Juggalo makeup which the reluctantly have to remove after learning the secrets of magnets
Even the outrageously bigoted and straight up awful backstories were still considered “too woke”, we truly are fucked as a society
That was like a gift from god for the young chudlings that spawned after Gamergate happened
