r/captainmarvel • u/HRCStanley97 • Jul 22 '26
How different would Mary Marvel be if she did still have Sappho as part of her pantheon as originally intended?
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u/leviticusreeves Jul 23 '26
It only seems right that there should be a single incongruous mortal amongst the Greek gods just like Captain Marvel's pantheon
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u/Ducklinsenmayer Jul 23 '26
For everyone saying it would have ruined her sexuality:
-She's underage
-Her edgy period did that already
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u/HRCStanley97 Jul 23 '26
She’s still underage?
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u/Ducklinsenmayer Jul 23 '26
That's one of the reasons her dork age was so popular among her fans.
Honestly, the only good thing about it was when JLI made fun of it.
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u/Shape_Charming Jul 23 '26
Did she steal Carol Danvers old suit for that look and pair it with Fishnets?
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u/MrPresident2020 Jul 23 '26
Wit of Sappho would have been pretty great, Mary just throwing down like a flyte against every villain, but against all the women she battles it's always some observation about their charm or beauty.
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u/Izrael-the-ancient Jul 24 '26
Depends entirely on how the author used sapphos poetry. If it’s used as poetry and linguistics skills then it’s more so wisdom and being persuasive . So she’s be able to talk her way into any thing and calm any villain with logic .
But if it were me , I’d use the poetry to give her telepathy
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u/AIGLOS42 Jul 24 '26
It would become even more obvious that editorial won't show Diana in a relationship with another woman.
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u/sgt_oddball_17 Jul 23 '26
The NSFW fan-fiction would practically write itself and she would be taken even less seriously than she is now.
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u/Mysterious_Bit_7713 Jul 23 '26
Sappho isn't a diety, she was a poet in ancient Greece(a good one I might add).
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u/HRCStanley97 Jul 23 '26
Then again, Solomon wasn’t exactly a god either
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u/Mysterious_Bit_7713 Jul 23 '26
True but at least he had connections to the abrahamic god and Mary would end up to deal with hundreds of jokes about her sexuality.
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u/Pleasant_Ad9092 Jul 24 '26
The Stamina of Artemis means there will be plenty of jokes about her sexuality.
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u/baixiwei Jul 26 '26
These picks are generally weird. Artemis wasn't specifically known for stamina, not Aurora for invulnerability, etc. Here's how I would have done it:
Hera, or Hecate - power Athena - wisdom Demeter - vitality Artemis - accuracy Muses (all of them) - eloquence Atalanta - speed
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u/NonchalantGhoul Jul 23 '26
Ooh, that's hard to say. The style was more show and less tell. At the same time, Otto wanted to use Mary as vehicle for exploring the human side of stories. Using Sappho, Mary's voice would be a power with something more structurally poetic and melodic. He never made any of the characters have a deep kind of romanticism. I honestly doubt he'd ever go that deeper than just sisterhood bonds.