But whom does Jessica Jones vote for?

[selenak]

Because US politics provide less angst for me than European politics: on twitter, JMS (i.e. J. Michael Straczkynski, for you non B5lers) has not only urged anyone who ever liked one of the shows he's worked on to vote for Bernie Sanders, but has enlisted fictional characters as well by pointing out that Peter Parker and Superman (he said Superman, not Clark Kent) , both of whom he wrote in comics, would most definitely vote for Bernie.

Great Maker, as Londo Mollari would say. Whose endorsement wasn't offered, undoubtedly because Londo's political choices are, err, not of the type that you'd want in rl. Anyway, I can't decide whether I'm more amused or more inclined to face palm. Not that I'm not prepared to believe Peter Parker would vote for Bernie Sanders, but I could be mean and point out Peter Parker (comics book edition) is canonically vulnerable to Daddy figures persuading him into endorsing major political decisions he later disagrees with. During JMS' run, no less. (And that's the first and last time anyone will compare Bernie Sanders to (comic book) Civil War era Tony Stark.) No, but seriously: I'm all for urging people to vote and for expressing one's beliefs about a candidate. Drafting comic book heroes into it, though, has to be a new one.

Though now I want the fanfic where Peter votes for Bernie while Aunt May votes for Hillary. Meanwhile, MJ (still married to Peter at the time of JMS writing him) is of the "anyone who can stop Trump or Cruz" persuasion and is amendable to either candidate, but that's not what Peter and May want to hear, who try to convince her she HAS TO MAKE A DECISION.

Meanwhile, J. Jonah Jameson is writing an article of how Spider-Man is stealthily supporting Trump. Why? Because he hates them both. Since when has he ever needed another reason?

Comments

[aris_tgd]

Unfortunately in US politics, arguing that fictional characters would TOTALLY support a given candidate is a long-standing tradition, and I'm pretty sure that major comic book heroes have been brought in as proxies in op-eds before. But yeesh, JMS. (Though I would also argue, having seen and loved a lot of his work, that that's also a total JMS move. ;)

[selenak]

Oh, it was TOTALLY a JMS move, and I wasn't surprised, either. Amused, but not surprised.

[lilacsigil]

You are completely right about J. Jonah's article. TRUMP: THREAT OR MENACE?

If Jessica Jones got as far as thinking about voting (the comics one might if there was something related to Dani's future) she'd take one look at the voting line and go punch someone instead.

[selenak]

I can so see that article. In fact, I want to. Alas. :)

Good point about Jessica.