Showing posts with label Black Cat. Show all posts
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Tuesday 27 March 2018

The Brady Family Tree

I'm going to try to turn in a post every week at least for the foreseeable future. Fingers crossed, people! Today's post covers the Brady Family Tree. That's the family of the MC2 supporting character Meagyn Brady, before anyone mistakes this blog for one about the Brady Bunch or something.




Meagyn Brady first appeared in the fan favourite story An Invisible Girl! from Spider-Girl #53. In the issue we are introduced to Meagyn, a lonely girl with low self-esteem and very little confidence in May's year who goes unnoticed by her peers and has no friends or admirers. The only person in Meagyn's life who truly saw her for who she is was her father, who encouraged her to have faith in herself and fostered her love of superheroes, fantasy and role-playing games.






Unfortunately, Mr Brady (first name unrevealed) became ill and died. Mrs Brady (first name also unrevealed) sank into depression after burying her husband, and stopped acknowledging her daughter. Left with no one, Meagyn began to feel as though nobody saw or noticed her, losing her self-esteem in the process.






Meagyn sensed a kindred spirit in Felicity Hardy so after overhearing a conversation between Mayday and Hardy, attempted to join in with what she assumed was a role-playing game. In actuality Felicity was helping Mayday with some Spider-Girl-related business. Following the pair, Meagyn ended up at the scene of a super-battle. Believing the fleeing villain Quickwire would pass her without noticing, as most people did, Meagyn did not move, inadvertently preventing Quickwire's escape when he collided with her. 




Praised for her apparent act of heroism, Meagyn went home reinvigorated. Excited to tell her mother of her adventure, Meagyn began to energetically recount her story, only to lose confidence and become invisble again when her mother continued to not notice her.



Although Meagyn's story ended there, she does appear a few times in later issues, usually with useful information overheard covertly. While it's obviously used as a metaphor in the issue, it is also entirely possible Meagyn also has genuine super powers which manifested after the loss of her father.

Until I run out of interesting characters from the MC2 to explore and discuss, I remain

frogoat

Saturday 15 July 2017

The Hardy/Thompson Family Tree


Here's another brief entry in what's become a series of MC2 Family Trees. It's worth noting that following their divorce parents divorce, Felicity has her mother's surname while Gene has his father's surname. I'm slightly curious as to whether Felicia kept her maiden name, hyphenated or simply reverted back to Hardy after the divorce. Which leads me to Felicia's current partner, Diana, who's surname is never revealed.



Before anyone points it out, yes I am aware both Flash Thompson and Felicia Hardy have extended family trees in the main Marvel Universe. For the moment I am focusing solely on the MC2 and as none of them appear or are referred to in the MC2 books, I am leaving them out. Rest assured, I didn't forget Walter and Lydia Hardy nor the entire Thompson clan. I just omitted them.

Until I discover a better Family Tree generator which will allow me to expand the family trees more than a few branches, I remain

frogoat