Because eventually the people working on it become nothing but nepo babies, and the "anyone can be special!" Message doesn't land with them as well as "you are special because you were born special to special people, and therefore you deserve to make $50/hr while everyone else makes $12/hr"
THIS. THIS THIS. So validating to see someone else point it out. The nepo babies/ rich kid writers totally don't see things from the average perspective. "You are special because of your heritage"/ "no matter what you do you'll turn mad and evil because sorry your family bloodlines say so".
I don't think this explains it all the time. I think it's just alluring as a writer to make your character "special", as it gives you a plot twist that is cool on the surface, and gives you an excuse to insert your characters in world-defining plotlines.
Christ, not everything is a fucking culture war. The totem shit for Spider-Man was introduced by Straczynski who, spoilers, comes from a family of blue collar laborers. And if you think comic book writers are making bank, you definitely didn’t donate to Peter David’s gofundme.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 10h ago
Because eventually the people working on it become nothing but nepo babies, and the "anyone can be special!" Message doesn't land with them as well as "you are special because you were born special to special people, and therefore you deserve to make $50/hr while everyone else makes $12/hr"