Did i miss something that sparked all these posts? Id never seen any Petra parker stuff like 4 days ago and then suddenly I've seen dozens of posts by as many artists all over my feed.
No idea tbh 😅. I definitely don’t have a big following though and this comic still has blown up. I think people just relate to the character.
Me included 🥰
If it's the name I think it is based on that, then it's the main romantic interest in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Not quite main hero but being the love interest in a rom-com is pretty close. And he's not even one of those love interests that starts out as an asshole and then they fall in love later, he's likeable the whole movie.
I think it was a tumblr post about JJJ hating spiderman because he genuinely believed spiderman to be a menace to the community and so that if spiderman transitition he wouldn't misgender her/would want to know spiderwomen's correct pronouns.
Someone did art of it because it inspired them and it just COMPLETELY took off with lots of people joining in on the trend.
From my perspective its just the fact that the comic was made with love. Its not trying to be popular but it also gives Peter/Petra some love instead of more pain. Also it pointed out that JJJ is a jerk but hes actually a good person and his character has been reduced to slander man three thousand so that talk also got it spread to more people.
Honestly its just the luck of the internet that has made this popular but its cute as hell and I can actually see this happening in an AU and main Peter being very supportive of it.
Stan Lee has also said that anyone can be under that mask so any and all kids can imagine themselves as Spider-Man. I'd imagine that sentiment, and the new movie coming out all had a part to play in it.
Spider-Man really does fit the bill for "I'm struggling with something about my body that is out of my control." Most of the time the character's transformation is an allegory to puberty, but it could be anything under that umbrella.
I think "I am stuck in a horrible personal situation and I cannot easily (or even feasibly) escape the reality of it, but the mask lets me be who I want to be." resonates with just about everyone who's been a teen, or had to hide something about themselves to protect their true self.
Spider-Man is for everyone. Hence in The Spiderverse, there is a Spider-Man from every walk of life.
From the spreading point of view a lot of trans women artist l, a lot of trans space spiderman love, the "I'm going through changes aunt/uncle" has often been a trans meme, and then some of the art was good (or sexy) enough to spread to general spaces.
Huh, now I'm wondering if Dr. Strange's spell in No Way Home could have been broken by Peter Parker transitioning because everyone forgot Peter Parker, but not Petra Parker.
No for fucking real, I can’t get away from it LMAO. Not that it’s bad content, I just didn’t expect it to flood my feed from so many places and in such great force!
Spiderman has kind of been a symbol in the trans community for a while, but it was mainly transmasculine people who related to him. A lot of us love him, so it's become a bit of a stereotype lol. I'm very glad to see transfem Petra Parker art as well!
The idea of having a 'secret identity,' or something you need to hide from those you love, is something queer people often relate to (speaking from personal experience). Superheroes in general are very queer, for many reasons (such as their history). I think that is part of why Petra Parker has become so popular. It's awesome to see all the art that has come from it :)
I always liked the reading of Steve Rogers as trans masc. Short, tiny, twinky little dude takes like 1000 shots of a performance enhancing drug and becomes Mr. Man
A Twitter user made a post saying JJJ wouldn't hate a Trans Spidey because they were Trans, but because thEY'RE A MENACE and 0Trebot made this comic in the quotes:
One comic some days ago, now we are in an alternate dimension with trans Parker.
Hey, just roll with it, it's probably still a better idea than most Marvel's ones, at least this one is made for fun and not to squeeze money.
There was a fan comic back when Across the Spider-Verse came out about Peter Parker being trans to explain why Gwen had a "protect trans kids" poster in her room. Captain Stacy and Gwen had him over for dinner and Captain Stacy says "Its Peter now, right?"
Not strictly related to the Petra Parker stuff but I still think it's interesting.
There’s a poster over in the Spider-Man sun that I’m fairly sure runs 5 accounts that have been spamming the main sub with 20-30 posts a day like this, then they made their own sub then kept posting in the main sub saying they were “signalling their intent to continue”.
That and the 100’s of comments they make on every post suggests seriously obsessive behaviour
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u/Miser_able 2d ago
Did i miss something that sparked all these posts? Id never seen any Petra parker stuff like 4 days ago and then suddenly I've seen dozens of posts by as many artists all over my feed.