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#infact i can't fall for him because of his actions and his personality periodt.
vampirevatican · 1 year
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Miguel isn't a villain. At most he's an antagonist, at the least he's a foil.
Yes he did go feral, batshit, insane even in that chase down with miles. Mfer was on all fours, screaming this kid's name, chasing him down the second he took off. Is that villainy? wicked, sure. criminal? no. That is a man hellbent on an ideal. A spiderman who had lost everything, can not face the fact that it was by his own hand, so he tries to placate it by saying that messing with canon fucks up the whole. A spiderman who fucked up, big time, and was AT FIRST trying to warn a younger spiderman to not make the same mistakes. To see his error and try to let it go.
That chase? Is the thread snapping. That choke slam, The panic in trying to get spiderbyte to stop the machine, Him clawing at the barrier? That is pent up stages of grief conforming into a ball of rage fuled by the determination to never have another world destroyed again, especially any world that could have his daughter.
No. I don't like Miguel's actions. Before the chase? I found him to be laughable, enjoyable in the sense that there is a spiderman that's basically fucking batman. His moments with Lyla, not having spidersense, his response to Hobie just in his presence? Are why I love his character, infact I appreciate that he tries to explain to Miles instead of just trapping him and putting him away with the other anomalies.
I need y'all to recognize he's definitely not the "good guy" but he's not the "bad guy" either, in the same way that gwen and peter are neither.
Miguel O'Hara, is the foil to Miles Morales.
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