
Marvel's Snowflake and Safespace Heroes Manage to Anger Both SJWs and Anti-SJWs
By Mustafa GatollariUpdated
Marvel's created some of the most iconic superhero characters the world has ever seen. Thousands of years from now, humans will probably look at Marvel comics and the collection of films as religious texts/media, probably. Tales of Iron Man and his weird motley crew of apostles will reverberate throughout the ages.
Tales of two new heroes, Snowflake and Safespace, more than likely, will not. Maybe as some kind of infamous joke.
That's right, the same business that brought you Spiderman, and Thor, and Hulk, and Captain America, and Wolverine, and the Juggernaut, and Magneto, and Deadpool, and the Punisher, and Thanos and countless other iconic, cool heroes and villains, thought it'd be awesome to introduce a new-new group of "warriors." And two of its team-members were named after SJW terms that have transformed to take on pejorative meanings.
The group of heroes look like they were taken straight off of Deviant Art, with names, powers, and backgrounds that still look like they're in the workshop phase. Rounding out their party are "Screentime" someone who can instantly Google any fact after his brain was connected to the internet (?), B-Negative, who's a vampire, and Trailblazer, who's got a backpack that is actually a portal to another dimension.

Marvel actually decided it would be a good idea to introduce two new superheroes called "Snowflake" and "Safespace". Like this is actually a thing.
— mrcullencullen (@mrcullencullen) April 3, 2020
While a lot can be said about the collective lameness of this team as a whole, people are really, really not able to get over Snowflake and Safespace, namely because Marvel's trying to make a lot of statements in one by debuting these characters. Forgetting about their names for a second (it's difficult, I know), they're twins who both identify as non-binary. On top of that, they're engaged in an incestuous relationship.
Really.
Everybody making fun of Marvel's new two heroes snowflake and safespace but nobody seems to actually read thier descriptions. They are TWINS! YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT MARVEL APPROVED INCEST! pic.twitter.com/CEwNct8OtJ
— Hannyah (@CutieHannyah) March 23, 2020
We’re saved! Marvel baffles fans as it unveils ‘Snowflake’ & ‘Safespace’… non-binary bully-fighting superheroes — https://t.co/4FXFkIL0fK #
— dactylion (@dactylion14) April 3, 2020
So you can see where a lot of people are getting all up in arms about the names of these heroes. Marvel introduces two progressive characters, and then immediately gives them names that are used to insult and demean SJWs online — oh, and then decides it's cool that they're screwing one another. Not that Marvel hasn't been on the incestuous hero kick before, either, but it's just a heck of another attribute to roll up in these two.
Just reiterating what other people have said but @Marvel naming their latest crime-fighting twin duo 'Safespace and Snowflake' shows a ridiculous amount of either ignorance or malice.
— Cory-James (@coryiscanon) March 19, 2020
so let me get this straight... marvel created a non-binary character and named them “snowflake”...... and then made them incest with their twin brother..... and his name is “safespace”.......
— gray 🐗🍈 | mx in duluth (@wonhosgrxy) April 2, 2020
this is why i am a dc stan 😔🖐🏻
The writer of the characters says that their names are very similar to Screentime; it's this idea that these are terms that get thrown around on the internet that they don't see as derogatory. [They] take those words and kind of wear them as badges of honor." Snowflake is a "cryokinetic" who can throw ice stars at enemies, while Safespace can create big pink force fields to protect others ... just not himself.
Ok. My final versions of #Marvel’s #Snowflake and #SafeSpace.
— Andrew Huerta 🇲🇽🇺🇸 (@Huerta93Till) March 21, 2020
No more from me. Back to #Sovereign and commissions. ✊🏽 #CultGang #Anime #Comics #NewWarriors pic.twitter.com/bScFmR4gDv
Marvel's #TheNewWarriors is set to have characters named Safespace and Snowflake
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) March 20, 2020
Yes, I'm serious
No, it's not ironic
Check out our video if you, like us, cannot believe how incredibly bad Marvel apparently is at reading the room:https://t.co/iaKIhVZ4Xc
The two were generally met with a collective cringe from comic book fans who didn't quite get what Marvel was trying to accomplish with these two characters. Are they making fun of their names? Are they trying to make them cool? Do they not realize how strange this all is?
Writer Daniel Kibblesmith, who worked on the "New Warriors" is the kind of writer that one Twitter described as "maximum woke."
Oh my god. I just learned that the guy at Marvel who created the now-infamous “Snowflake” and “Safespace” once wrote a children’s book where Santa was a gay black man in an interracial relationship, complete with unionized elves and more.
— Harris (@harrisrboe) April 1, 2020
This guy is MAXIMUM WOKE.
I thought this was a parody at first, but Marvel is introducing two social justice characters named Snowflake and Safespace. Snowflake is non-binary. They are part of Marvel's "The New Warriors." pic.twitter.com/dYr7iW7ZcT
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 18, 2020
It turns out that yes, he did write a children's book about a gay black Santa Claus that ran a toy-making shop with unionized elves. So it could be that he created the characters without any irony whatsoever and thought it'd be cool to use the terms that are often used as part of ridicule and name some heroes after them.
This is @Marvel, right now, with Safespace and Snowflake. Things that are not good should not be glorified because they do not personify a virtue, and as @rjoftheisland is constantly hammering home, the purpose of a superhero is to be a paragon of virtue.https://t.co/ySnEvzC79T
— Robin Hood (@GreenwoodOutlaw) March 23, 2020
That is how Snowflake and Safespace vanquish their foes--by blocking them on Twitter.
— Chip Cheddar (@ChipCheddar) March 22, 2020
Then came the Snowflake and Safespace redesigns.
Criticism of the characters didn't just stop in their monikers and the philosophies behind their conceptions, either. There were tons of fans who thought they could draw them a lot better, too.
Hey @Marvel I fixed your #NewWarriors #Snowflake design. You're welcome😉 pic.twitter.com/9zldvVH3VV
— thatstarwarsgirl77 (@thatstarwarsgrl) March 25, 2020
My take on Snowflake and Safespace xD Y’all I can‘t with these names..✖️#NewWarriors #Marvel #redesign pic.twitter.com/5CEWd0Ekda
— G R I N S E S S (@Grinsess) March 21, 2020
But again, that's pretty much par the course whenever a design that isn't exceptionally eye-grabbing pops up on the internet; of course there are people who'll think that they can do better.
Throwing my hat in the ring. Here are my #redesign for Snowflake and Safespace.
— BagToonZ ~Requests Open~ (@BtzPaper) March 24, 2020
Introducing The outgoing, energetic unstoppable 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹 & the straight to the punch, snappy, smart aleck 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿. #Marvel #NewWarriors #comics #ArtistOnTwitter pic.twitter.com/xYYJ51GY8a
Snowflake and Safespace redesign. theyre not great but im working with what i got.
— Cuidns (@Skedoodly) March 26, 2020
before i solidify this, what do you guys think? better, worse? how about the colors? etc
Marvel has been killing comics with politics for years so lets not talk about that.#marvel #NewWarriors pic.twitter.com/ELCAqtRc8z
What do you think of the heroes? Are you stoked for a Snowflake and Safespace Marvel film in the near future?