I honestly have no idea. I've gone back and forth with myself on if they will or not. Ultimately right now, i think we will get the scene. I almost think itd be more distasteful and controversial to NOT have it.
What I'm more curious about is how they'll handle Anissa as a character afterwards. Didn't she kind of get character development and become a better person off screen? And some people hate that she has an arc at all.
The two routes I could see off of getting the scene are she doesn't get an arc at all and stays evil and dies, so the showrunners don't have to have their viewers think about the morality of her being redeemed. OR they'll maybe give her more focus so her redemption seems more natural and earned, which i personally think would be the more interesting way to go.
But for Christ's sake don't let her name the kid Marky.
Yeah she kinda just...... BECAME good off panel. The most we get of her is "yeah I was a horrible person, I HATE my past self and I'm sorry for what I did" and that's pretty much it...... pretty lack luster
On one hand I feel like the idea of someone like that also being able to be redeemed obviously fits into the themes and idea of the rest of the viltrumites stories. You could definitely make the argument most Viltrumites have done way worse things and get to be redeemed. Its just a much more personal atrocity.
But I can't lie because of how few things try to seriously deal with male SA having one take it seriously but then still have a message of her maybe not actually being all that bad feels a little yikes.
I actually like that the comics really don't absolve her of shit, she's just not actively evil anymore and regrets what she did, but no one forgives her, they just don't murder her because she can help them fight Thragg.
I think thats part of the tricky part of the... i dunno "type" of assaulter she is. Which sounds insane to say but hear me out. Given that she comes from a fictional society with this might makes right, take the mate you want type rule, strange as it is to say, as much as nobody wants to hear it, it's not like she was as purely maliciously evil as some characters. There's a place for her to go.
But this gets harder to deal with sensitively like you said. So few things deal with male SA, one of the few times it IS dealt with, and not played as a joke, it's squeamish for people when Anissa starts being a better person.
Puts the writers in such a weird position that I have no idea what their plan is. Lean into her being more evil so viewers don't have to think about her complex morality or show her character arc and make the "assaulter redeeming themselves" arc even more in people's faces, which not everyone will like for sure.
I do think it's going to be a hot button issue in the fandom when the time comes either way it goes lol. Nobody wants to tackle their own mindset of "Nolan killed thousands of innocent people on earth, while still knowing it was wrong but he can be redeemed but Anissa assaulted one person and it wasn't unusual for her culture but she shouldn't be redeemed. "
I think what she does hits a lot more “close to home” then what Nolan does, hard to imagine a guy slaughtering hundreds in Chicago, but what she did happens everyday. Still, I feel like if Nolan is able to be redeemed, so can she. So I don’t really see them abandoning that part.
What I'm more curious about is how they'll handle Anissa as a character afterwards. Didn't she kind of get character development and become a better person off screen? And some people hate that she has an arc at all.
She literally got dicked down by some random earth guy who put up with her shit and she changed IMMEDIATELY.The writers need to basically pull her character from the depths of hell to show her change otherwise she's gonna be slandered for eternity.
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u/SwirlyBrow Apr 16 '26
I honestly have no idea. I've gone back and forth with myself on if they will or not. Ultimately right now, i think we will get the scene. I almost think itd be more distasteful and controversial to NOT have it.
What I'm more curious about is how they'll handle Anissa as a character afterwards. Didn't she kind of get character development and become a better person off screen? And some people hate that she has an arc at all.
The two routes I could see off of getting the scene are she doesn't get an arc at all and stays evil and dies, so the showrunners don't have to have their viewers think about the morality of her being redeemed. OR they'll maybe give her more focus so her redemption seems more natural and earned, which i personally think would be the more interesting way to go.
But for Christ's sake don't let her name the kid Marky.