Snake-Kun
[SM2] something that always bugged me a bit about Kraven, conceptually
Snake-Kun
(Yes I know Kraven exists outside of this game in the comics but it’s where I know him from)
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But like
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Kraven is a cool fearless hunter
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Craven
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Is a word meaning “pathetic and cowardly”
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Like who named this character
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Why did you make his name sound like the word for pathetic loser
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It’s like if you wrote a big tough gladiator type who’s signature weapon was a big hammer and named him Bashful
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“BECAUSE HE BASHES THINGS, YOU SEE”
DehydratedWater
Stan Lee and/or Steve Ditko named him. Kraven comes from super early in the Spiderman comics
DehydratedWater
like, issue 15 early
Snake-Kun
Kraven the craven
bird time
A big bruiser guy named Bashful sounds pretty fun
bird time
Gap moe
Frightpatine
You misunderstand; he's cravin' a good hunt.
Snake-Kun
o ok
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My mistake
ReJenerator
Once you remember that his full name is "Sergei Kravinoff", and think "how did they do Russians speaking English in the 60s", it sort of makes sense.
Snake-Kun
Right but like he's not a real person
ReJenerator
no, he isn't, but I'm pretty sure they came up with his name that way.
Rama
I feel like it comes from an anti-sport hunting notion of "hiding in a blind all day and shooting helpless animals is pretty cowardly", in a Doylist sense
Rama
In a Watsonian sense they just gave him a weird name that could be shortered to Kraven to justify it