LurkerJ said:
JWeinCom said:
LurkerJ said:
JWeinCom said:
4. Since you went with a complete non-sequitor instead of addressing the point regarding the human torch, I'm going to guess you have nothing intelligent to say on the matter. Skin color and sexuality are not the same thing. One has an inherrent impact on how you act, and one does not.
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I was actually making a serious point, you never heard of someone like different things as they grow up? Well, that was an example of how it may happen.
As for skin color not being as impactful on someone's life as sexuality, well, here is a scenario. The love of the black Peter Parker is a girl who isn't attracted to black people. So she rejects him over and over and he is depressed because of that and wished he was gay and never loved her.
Seriously, who is to say what will impact his life more? We don't know.
As for the rest, I am not that invested anymore. I just don't think someone's sexuality is a big deal. I stand by what I said.
Changes happen. We don't always like them but wait until the movies are released to see how they incorporated before we judge them as "Bad-writing". That's all.
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I thought you were being flippant about that. If you weren't, that would be one of the worst scenese in movie history :-/ I mean... Spider-man just landing in a guy's lap and turning gay?
You're talking about changes that may happen if Peter Parker were black. Those are maybes. But, if he was pansexual there is by definition a difference in his personality. Black people do not all act a certain way. Pansexual people all share at least one personality trait.
If sexuality is not a big deal, then changing it serves no purpose. If something in writing serves no purpose, that's what is bad writing.
I'm also going to add that your comments seem to imply an skewed view of sexuality. Spider-man being the kind of guy that jokes around does not mean he's "that kind of guy" or that he's likely to be gay. Having never been attracted to a man, I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing a guy in his 20's just doesn't fall in a guy's lap and suddenly realize he's gay. And having a lot of experience being rejected by girls I never thought "man I wish I were gay".
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That's just my shitty writing though. You can definitely judge it and label it as "horrible".
How about being bit by a second gay spider and that gave him gay powers, better? 
I know I didn't give the best examples, I am just saying, it's not uncmmon for someone to expand their sexual interest as they grow up. A complete switch? Never heard of that, and I definitely think it will sound lame if they decided to build up on the source material. Becoming a bisexual? Very common, and it can happen to Spidy, that way you build up on what you have and not re-write everything from scratch and just ask the audience to completely forget about his previous love interests.
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I'm totally down for a series following the adventures of a Spider-man bitten by a gay spider. The Fabulous Spider-man.
Again, you could make Spider-man bisexual, but aside from pandering to an audience, what is the point? I get it might create buzz, and it'd be nice for gay people to have a hero to look up to, but from a storytelling perspective what would it accomplish?
They're better off doing what they typically do with these situations and having another character take over the role. They did this with a lesbian Batwoman, Miles Morales as Spider-man, Pakistani Ms. Marvel, girl Thor, Sam Wilson Captain America, and so on. It allows you to have the name recognition and the media attention without alienating fans who want their characters to be as close to the source as possible.
