Try to Coexist?

The main aspects of this comic that really get me going on a rant of questions is simply this…. how could two people doing close to the same thing have so much hate for one another? Everyone has different ways of dealing with life. This is seen between Daredevil and Punisher. No way is certainly right or wrong, but both hate each other for being different from one another.

As I was reading, I thought to myself that their actions against one another, for lack of better words, their actions were stupid. Now, imagine if the two forces teamed up together and fought against crime. I’m not saying that Daredevil and Punisher need to be best friends, they just need to coexist. As Mary writes in a letter to the Punisher, she mentions how the rate of crime has increased significantly since he’s been put into jail. She also mentions lists the forces that stop crimes in the city, which were the police, Daredevil, and the Punisher. With all of these forces being against each other, they are less focused on the defeat of crime but rather in the defeat of one another.

To me, this matter represents a poor allocation of resources around the city. As I said earlier, everyone deals with matters in a different way. I see where the Punisher and Daredevil are coming from, but they both need to learn to coexist. If they were to coexist, crime would decrease and the city would be a safer place. Both of their end goals are the same, to fight crime and to make the city safe. With this said, they are just making their job more difficult than it has to be. 

Picture: http://heroicuniverse.com/the-best-daredevil-vs-punisher-fights/

Possession

As I read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I was shocked by the outcome that the two characters were one in the same. I felt that in the beginning I tended to be a bit confused by the whole plot, I just knew from the confinement of Dr. Jekyll that something about him was suspicious. After reading the story, I was just curious to know what possessed him to take the potion to become Mr. Hyde in the first place?

The potion for Dr. Jekyll is like a drug for him. He just couldn’t get enough of it! When he wanted to stop, his body wouldn’t allow him to. This potion allowed him to turn into a completely different person, the opposite of himself. In this alter ego, he was a murderer and a wanted criminal. I compare the potion to a drug because as Dr. Jekyll he would never commit such crimes but as an alter ego he is capable of any extreme.

Yet again, as we have seen in class, science came be detrimental to humans. Just as Frankenstein created his monster, Dr. Jekyll created his own within himself. Dr. Jekyll tries to escape his creation as well and utterly fails. In his case, he involuntarily becomes the monster that he created, when he wakes up from his sleep as Mr. Hyde. At first Dr. Jekyll likes Mr. Hyde because he allows him to be completely different from Dr. Jekyll, for example less human with less moral standards. As the reader, I find Dr. Jekyll to be a coward… He thinks that he can do anything and get away with it just because he is in disguise.

The most interesting part of this story to me was when Dr. Jekyll confined himself away from his servant while he was transformed. At the time I had no clue what was occurring in the story, I just knew something suspicious was about. In hind sight, now that I know about Dr. Jekyll’s creation, the solitude of the doctor amuses me. He is hiding and sending his servant out to get chemicals because he has turned himself into his monster permanently. I couldn’t imagine creating a monster alter ego for myself and then being stuck. Although I have no desire to make a monster in the first place. 

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Astonishing Jean?

In the Astonishing X-Men issues one through three, I was shocked to see the leadership of Jean throughout the comic. This makes me wonder if there are subcategories of heroes. I would also argue the same for monsters. For now, I am focusing on the subcategories of heroes and specifically Jean’s standing in the hero category.

In my thoughts I would consider all of the X-Men heroes, but they are all different calibers of heroes. In the comic issues, Jean stuck out to me the most. She was the leader of the heroes and I would consider her the superhero of the group. She does everything in her power to help others, she is almost selfless to a fault. When the X-Men help Nina and the Mannites to protect them from the Death, she is willing to sacrifice herself in order for the Mannites to live long enough to “discover their powers and decide their own fate”.

Along with Jean’s selfless nature, she is the leader of the group throughout the comic issues. When an event arises or action needs to take place all of the characters look to Jean for instruction. For example in the third issue, Nate says “You call the shots, Jean”, Jean acts as the mission leader throughout the quest.

In class we’ve agreed that a superhero acts in a selfless manner and has some type of power that makes them superior to the average hero. As far as powers in the X-Men comics, telekinetic power is definitely the strongest of them all. Jean’s telekinetic energy makes her an obvious choice as a leader.

I feel like Jean’s role in the X-Men movies was underrated immensely. Why would such a central comic characters role be substantially diminished in the movie? Jean serves as the character that overshadows all of the characters to a character in the film that would show up everyone in a while. Does that make sense to anyone else? It sure doesn’t make sense to me!

References:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jean+grey&rlz=1C1OPRA_enUS594US594&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl8emm6pzPAhVD1CYKHZmZA4YQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=jean+grey+movie&imgrc=7iTfcwv_GysggM%3A

[Joss Whedon (w) and John Cassaday (a).] Astonishing X-Men, Vol 1. "Gifted" #1-3. (Dec. 2012). [Marvel Comics].