Supergirl and Mon-El from the CW show. Don’t get me wrong, anyone who’s seen enough of my comments probably knows I have a heavy bias toward Supercorp (Kara and Lena), but that doesn’t change the fact that Kara and Mon-El’s romance was absolutely horrible in its own right. How anyone ever thought that paring up this incredibly noble hero w/ a misogynistic slave owner was remotely a good idea is completely beyond me
The most common defenses I’ve seen of Mon-El is that he wasn’t actively contributing to the slave system on Daxam and that he ultimately became a much better person by season 3. But my retorts to those are that he still benefitted from Daxam’s slavery and never even recognized how wrong it was while he was there. And as far as his character “development”, sure, we do see him make some decent improvements over the course of season 2, but he still has a ways to go. But rather than taking more time and effort to truly redeem him, they just take 7 years’ worth of improvements and sneeze it out via a time jump for him. I could never buy into his full heroic change as Valor because we didn’t get to see any of that transformation, and that’s key for getting invested in a character. So even after his big status quo chance, I still hated the idea of them getting back together. I’m glad they at least recognized he still wasn’t working and kicked him to the curb after season 3, but I’m also still bitter that so much screentime was wasted on this jackass
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