Marvel Rising: Initiation

Marvel Rising: Initiation is a series revolving around teenaged superheroes, all mainly coming from more under represented groups and might not be the most well known. I find it good that they're trying to incorporate these characters as it doesn't seem like they're not represented a lot in much else. It started off being more about the story of Spider-Gwen in the first season with the short episodes. Honestly, I felt like her story could've been covered more in depth. As well, I felt like a couple characters were just dropped after not long since their introduction and not got any development since. I felt like all these characters had more development to get but just the development doesn't get touched on a lot. The action could be alright and some development is tied into raising stakes, though there should've been more to be done with the development, is what makes it average in my opinion and nothing too phenomenal. Though I haven't watched Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors as I didn't on the Marvel HQ YouTube channel. Overall , pretty alright series that could do more in the character development department.

The writing speaks for itself. Worse than most fan fiction.

There is nothing "progressive" about this. If by "progressive" people mean stereotypical, generalization and completely shallow characters, then sure, this is "progressive".

It's also not "inclusive". It doesn't include unique individuals and personalities. In fact, each character is merely there to represent the stereotype of an identity, and not an individual. This is the exact opposite of how I would imagine most parents want their children to see the world. No longer do we have individual personalities, but our personalities are decided by our ethnicity and other such representative traits.

Instead of giving the characters names, they might just as well have labeled them "Hot tempered Latina", "strong black female", "Kind and gentle red haired kid", "Crazy and quirky squirrel girl..." Ok, Squirrel Girl might be the one character who's comic version is actually MUCH MUCH better than the animated version. And of all the characters, Squirrel Girl might be the only one in this who actually has any semblance of individual personality. But my guess is because she has a giant squirrel tail, so they didn't know what stereotypical box to shove her in.

Really, if you want your kids growing up dumber and seeing the world as populated by representative stereotypes, then you will love this piece of hot garbage.

I adore Marvel Rising! It's such an interesting part of Marvel!

I think the voice acting for this show is pretty OK. But overall the Plot and Characters are terrible. No notable actions are ever taken to develop these lifeless characters.

Also during the show we hear a ton of background music which at times seems out of place. The music itself is not bad. But is terribly implemented. Its like the producers were trying to shoehorn a full soundtrack into a few episodes. Because of this the music starts and stops at weird times.

Overall this show is terrible. I spent the last twenty minutes silently cringing. To anyone who is thinking of watching this show or is planning to have their kids watch this show I recommend you just don't. There are plenty of better shows out there to watch.