firebirdeternal:that-one-guy-that-one-time: mayflowers07:xphilosoraptorx:anarchyinblack:I&rsqu
firebirdeternal:that-one-guy-that-one-time: mayflowers07: xphilosoraptorx: anarchyinblack: I’m not crying, you’re crying INTHISHOUSEWELOVEJAMESON Friendly Neighborhood Reminder that J. Jonah Jameson hates superheroes because his foster father was a US Army Veteran, who was decorated as a hero, but also regularly abused both J.J. and his mother. That convinced Jameson that “No one’s a hero every day of the week.” Honestly, J. Jonah Jameson is only wrong within the context of the fiction that we’re reading. We, the audience, know that Spider-Man is a hero, and that we can trust him to do the right thing pretty much all the time. That’s one of the fundamental principles of the story, so it makes sense for JJ’s attitudes to be something we Disagree With as readers, because we know he’s Wrong.But from his perspective, without the extra context we have, he’s 100% in the right to be distrustful of a masked person enforcing vigilante justice with extrajudicial violence. He’s the Lone Voice of Reason asking “Who is responsible for the damage this person causes, what oversight do we have over how they engage in violence, what recourse do we have if these powerful people decide something is Justice that we the people don’t agree with” -- source link