[ SECRET POST #2084 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2084 ⌋

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Comments

[intrigueing]

Not saying his character was flat, far from it, and yes, his character arc was definitely well-done, but if you're going by multi-facetedness and layeredness, he wasn't nearly as complex as the four Avengers with movies under their belt. He's got more backstory than Hawkeye and Black Widow for sure. He's also probably more explicitly complex than them (although IMO, not as interesting).

And Black Widow was not a generic stock action girl archetype lol. If you found her character boring or flat or uninspired, that's totally valid, but "generic"? "stock"? You do realize "generic" and "stock" refers to characters who have been done a million times before, right? They're not synonyms for "boring"?

My mind would be boggling, but since you're clearly that exact same anon who was bashing her a week or so ago, I'm just giggling a little at your insistence that other people are not allowed to like a character you disliked and that they are not allowed to find complexity in her character because you didn't find it. You're as bad as those Loki-bashers who insist that Loki was nothing but a cackling dickhole who was evil for the sake of being evil.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not, actually. This is the first time I posted in an Avengers thread on FS period.

I could care less if people don't like him. But if they think that -- judging by the movies themselves and not fanwank or their comic counterparts -- that Black Widow is more complex than Loki, then they're objectively wrong. Maybe she'll get more development later on but now there's not a lot to go by.

And yes, I found the movie Black Widow to be a generic action girl that we've seen dozens of time now.

[intrigueing]

You're again confusing complexity with backstory. People can find a character who's had loads of screentime and done lots of stuff onscreen and gone through lots of character development one-note and boring and can't think of anything to discuss or questions to raise; and a character who's had not much screentime but a very ambiguous and question-inspiring hinted-at backstory very complex due to how the details we do know about her conflict or match up or connect to each other.

LOL. If you thought she was generic, you were certainly focusing on her job and her outfit, not her backstory.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is the 'bad guy turned good' is a really common trope. Maybe not in movies - I don't watch many, but in certain genres of novels I've read? It's actually pretty common. Common enough that there have been people who consider it over done. The same can be said about a character being a spy/assassin which is what she's been pretty much stated to be in the movie - and even within that, it's not uncommon for a character to have been raised to be that. It's also pretty common for someone's world view to change after a big event shakes up [in her case, someone choosing not to kill her, which given what else we know, would probably be a change for her].

So I could see where someone would think of her as pretty generic based on her backstory. It's stuff that's been done before a lot, and it's not exactly stuff that's rare to see done together.

Before you start accusing me of anything - that isn't my view of her. I just don't think she's had enough screen time to really develop much, and that with her stoic personality means it's easy to write the character off as boring as a whole. ..And in fairness, when it comes to Loki, his backstory isn't the most original thing to ever happen either.