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** While [[Spider-Man]] is considered an archetypal Everyman superhero, he was originally not an example of this trope (having above-average intelligence and just enough luck with girls to get caught in [[Love Triangle]]s). [[It Got Worse|But that emphasis is on]] ''[[It Got Worse|was]]''. The ''[[One More Day]]'' storyline infamously tried to make him more appealing to a younger audience by having his marriage magically annulled and [[Basement Dweller|moving him back into Aunt May's basement]], even though he's no longer the fifteen-year-old he was when he started. Editor [[Joe Quesada]] even said an ideal Spidey story would involve him trying to download porn without Aunt May finding out.
*** Of course, he said this while noting that it ''was something a comic fan could relate to doing''. Cue massive [[Internet Backdraft]] from offended fans.
** Sums up the paltry zero sum that is the whole of the [[Humans Are Morons|Human Race]] in a nutshell. Undeserving, unimportant and for all intents and purposes Unreliable for much of anything besides betrayal, greed, racism, hypocrisy and catastrophic incompetence;
*** As highlighting the "Was it worth it?" enigma in the recent run of Avengers. Agamotto of their prehistoric fore-bearers commented he was more afraid of winning than losing, given that the Avengers 1000000000 B.C. were saving a [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|bigger problem]] than the first Celestial host.
* The series ''[[Wanted (Comic Book)|Wanted]]'' has Wesley Gibson, an [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Eminem look-a-like]] who is saddled with a dead end job, and an annoying, cheating girlfriend, bullied by assorted townfolk, and in general is shown to be practically spineless in regards to his life. Of course, afterward he [[No Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] to tell you that [[Take That, Audience!|you suck even more than he does]]. The idea is that Gibson is one of the people making life ''actively worse'' for anyone who isn't a super-villain - and yet the structure of the story encourages you to root for him as the underdog hero. He's reminding you, metatextually, that he's the bad guy.
* Captain Haddock of ''[[Tintin]]'' fame is an overly verbose, recovering alcoholic, amazingly clumsy disaster magnet. ''The Castafiore Emerald'' in particular seems to be Herge running through the many ways he can possibly torment him. More than anything, he represents how everyday people suck- and the readers love him for it.
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