Isn’t it so interesting that Miguel O'Hara’s most prominent emotion outside of his soul crushing trauma is FRUSTRATION
Even in his first appearance in ITSV he says it. “It’s really frustrating,” he says. He says it again when chasing Miles when he has yet to grow as angry as he gets near the end.
He’s FRUSTRATED. Everyone is FRUSTRATING. Why won’t Miles LISTEN???? Even after he bared his deepest trauma, somehow Miles still won’t LISTEN and this wouldn’t have happened if Gwen didn’t TELL HIM and BRING HIM THERE and now the multiverse is in danger because nobody LISTENED to him
And it’s ON HIM for bringing Gwen on. For letting himself be ruled by his emotions again
What I’m saying is that there’s very little in the actual film to characterise Miguel O'Hara as conniving or manipulative. He’s clearly doing this difficult, nigh impossible task, he’s convinced himself it’s ALL on his shoulders and now a frustrating series of people NOT LISTENING to him could threaten EVERYTHING.
Miguel O'Hara isn’t evil. He doesn’t have plots or secret plans. He doesn’t hate Miles Morales. He’s FRUSTRATED and TRAUMATISED and SCARED and Miles is at the centre of that as the first anomaly he has on record and Miles becomes the target of all the things Miguel is FRUSTRATED about even if it isn’t Miles’ fault. Even if Miles was the victim of circumstance and not the progenitor of Miguel’s misfortune.
It is so easy to see exactly who and what Miguel is when you see his FRUSTRATION and the reasons for it.
Thank God someone said it. I keep reading all these bad takes on my guy O’Hara and it’s making me frustrated. 2099 isn’t a villain or this unredeemable monster. He is just a person who is at their all time low, he is in a dark place and is both physically, emotionally, and mentally exhausted. But he can’t take a break, he can’t slow down or relax because he is under this all consuming pressure and responsibility (all be it self-imposed) to keep the multiverse ( and everyone in it) safe.
Now should he have done that stuff to Miles or said those awful things. No he shouldn’t. And he will have to apologize to Miles and work at building back that connection he broke/refused to make with Miles.
But I’m not going to sit here and pretend that nobody has had a bad/off day, where they did the wrong thing, or said the wrong thing that was hurtful. People say hurtful things when they are frustrated or stressed because they have a lot of emotions/feelings and they let it out in a not constructive or healthy way.
Now that’s not to say that’s ok or even acceptable, I just think it’s an understandable/relatable feeling or reaction.
I for one can’t wait to see Miguel in Beyond and see where his character goes. Is he going to double down or is he going to take a real good look at himself and everything around him and change. I hope he does because I believe him and Miles could make a great team. Along with the rest of the spider gang.
You know what would be interesting, what if imogen pours all se had left (because she went nuclear) into twin spells and used it with FCG since they are sympathetically linked.
Could be real cool
And it could only be this situation because of the release of all that power. Food for thought.
