THE ONI wrote on Aug 1
st, 2009 at 8:37pm:
I bow to your comic book relationship wisdom. Your insight is impressive.
In another life I was a marriage counselor to super-types. A recurring them among Marvel women is that they fall for emotionally unavailable men ... or they talk themselves into see potential in men who really don't have that potential.
Wasp married Hank Pym only after he lost his mind and became volatile Yellowjacket. That excited her. Then he settled down and became the same studiously self-conscious man she'd known all along. Friction that contributed to their ongoing strife.
After her estranged childhood, and the overpowering influence of evil Magneto, Scarlet Witch longed for a conventional homelife ... and settled for a man who half the time claimed he didn't even have emotions. She was so terrified by strong/unstable emotional crisis that she settled for Vision's coldness.
Havok and Polaris made a good match back in the day. Too good a match for comics, which is why Marvel had to make Polaris go bad. That's what Marvel always does w/its intelligent and strong women: makes them go crazy or lose their powers. Blah, blah, blah. It's sad, really.
And don't me get started on Hellcat. I mean, how exactly was marrying the self-described Son of Satan a good idea? ????
Over at DC, Ollie and Black Canary may have a chance at a happy marriage. Marvel Comics was founded under the sexist shadow of Stan and Jack (no offense intended). DC's women have always been about a decade ahead of Marvel when it comes to equal rights.