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But now that's considered offensive, so it's more inclusive to have people in fucking wheelchairs
I can barely tolerate the Spider-Man clone swinging around with a wheelchair strapped to her back, assuming that she regularly gets her shit kicked in behind it. However, the rainbow dress is just so retarded. Seriously, I can't describe how glad that I never got into comics
 
Oh I remember the first character, people made so many excuses as to why getting powers didn't heal her condition, it was hilarious watching them go "well she can still use her legs just not for long" as if that means she should always be in a wheelchair outside of fights.
For the second character, the Sentry can fly so there's no reason for her to be in a wheelchair at all while in costume lol.
It's just dumb from an audience perspective, they always look ridiculous whenever you see that they probably could get away with being normal. At least with Barbara Gordon, she just transitioned to a support role and kept fighting crime that way (albeit now she's walking in current canon, forgot what happened there). Sure, the disability forced her to use a wheelchair, but at least back then the writers didn't make excuses, though some writers experimented with her being able to walk again while still using a wheelchair outside of combat. So even if you were disabled, you could still think "she's disabled/was disabled but she's still doing good even if she's not out there on the streets." And even now she's still in her support role (so the disability actually had an impact) despite being able to walk, she just also does the usual crimefighting.
The trope of "we need to inspire disabled people, so let's show disabled superheroes with powers/tech that completely nullify the disability while still showing that they're disabled" always makes me laugh.
The context of all this is that there was a contest where fans sent in their spidersonas to Marvel and the winner would have a comic made about them. The thing about Sun Spider is that I'm 90% certain the only reason her OC got approved over all the much better candidates is because the creator made it very explicit that they themselves have EMS and it would've been a shitstorm for Marvel if they passed her over.
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That's the problem with sweepstakes; easy way to damage your brand.
 
And yet, Mega Man managed to survive behind them
The main difference between Mega Man and Marvel is that the Mega Man sweepstakes were for designing bosses, they didn't have personalities or any other defining features (besides maybe weapons), so they couldn't be controversial in the same way that Spider-Man OC is. Even if you take something like Mega Man 6 where the submissions were international rather than just limited to Japan, the entries didn't have any information about the creators (beyond names for credits) so there wouldn't be a situation where somebody would say "oh this boss has a disability and so do I" to tip the odds in their favor.
 
The main difference between Mega Man and Marvel is that the Mega Man sweepstakes were for designing bosses, they didn't have personalities or any other defining features (besides maybe weapons), so they couldn't be controversial in the same way that Spider-Man OC is. Even if you take something like Mega Man 6 where the submissions were international rather than just limited to Japan, the entries didn't have any information about the creators (beyond names for credits) so there wouldn't be a situation where somebody would say "oh this boss has a disability and so do I" to tip the odds in their favor.
What is there even to say when designing a Robot Master that could really make them gain ground in the name of brownie points? The basic synopsis of most of them is always “here's what they were designed to do, here's how they fight and what power they drop,” with maybe some basic hints of a personality in their intro and defeat lines. It'd be hard to really run some scheme of “pick me because I’m a special snowflake who designed a special snowflake that looks like me” for something so flat that is supposed to be beaten up by players.
 
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