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brevoortformspring:

It’s always frustrating when you guys don’t really read what I say, but just take some form of the essence of it and then run wild.

There’s nothing wrong with established relationships.

But I think it’s smarter to move forward than it is to revisit relationships that have run their course.

So of the ones you list, Luke and Jessica is a current relationship. It’s clicking along fine, and people like it. Right. Box checked.

Clint and Mockingbird is a past relationship, one that’s been long concluded, but has come back up again with her resurrection. And a number of iterations have played out since then, which again seem to more or less have run their course. Time to move on? I think so. You may disagree.

Scarlet Witch and the Vision are a relationship that’s been concluded since before some of you started reading comics. It’s well-remembered by the readers who experienced it in real time, because it was a vital part of AVENGERS during that time. But it’s been done pretty well since John Byrne worked on WEST COAST AVENGERS and took the Vision apart and reassembled him. That was 1990. So yeah, well past time to move on in that instance. Again, you may disagree.

And polls like the one you’re talking about are going to give you a skewed sampling. How many people responded? A hundred? Two hundred? Drop in the bucket where the audience as a whole is concerned. And those respondents are all hardcore-enough readers that they frequent the CBR boards and respond to polls such as this one. This isn’t a true accounting of how the entirety of the AVENGERS-reading public sees things.

This deserves a standing ovation!

The CBR readers who answered that poll are a bunch of nostalgic conservatives who can’t accept change no matter how much better than what came first those might be. Not only that, but the poll itself was the problem, since it mostly listed long-standing Avengers couples, not who people would like to see together or those couples that also happened but weren’t given a true shot at development yet.

So, in a list of couples that lasted a year, or several years, how can you expect people not to choose exactly that? Abandon your sophistic ways, anon…