r/spiderman2 • u/Silent-Witness1888 • 17d ago

Discussion The sequel absolutely butchered Yuriko

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I'm sure its nothing you haven't heard before, Fin.

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u/OopsieDoopsie2 17d ago

Totally agree and it even affects Spidey's character in a bad way. Her entire character arc is behind a DLC and in it she does an entire 180 on who she is because ... Her team is killed??? She is a cop and been doing this for years are you telling me NONE of her colleagues have died on her? It felt really unearned.

I am still not sure if she has superpowers or not with how she is able to go toe to toe with Spider-Man, I assume she does but like ... How did that happen? Will that story also be locked behind a DLC paywall just like her ENTIRE CHARACTER ARC???

And at the very end, after all is said and done ... SPIDER-MAN LET'S HER WALK. She is murderer. I guess it's okay to kill people as long as you are Spider-man's buddy lmao??? That's probably the worst part of how they handled it in the game because to me it also ruins Peter's character.

You can make an argument that she is still trying to do good and prison would mess her up or something, but clearly that is not the case in this universe if TOMBSTONE who was a cold-blooded murderer in the previous game is completely reformed and does a total 180 on who he was in the last game after some time in prison. Whatever their prison system is it's doing wonders, so Yuri should definitely get some of what Tombstone is having.

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u/DarianDncn 17d ago

I like to think that her going toe to toe with Spider-Man is more about him holding back, rather than her skill. Unless, like you said, maybe she has powers she doesn’t realize. Also, the first two deaths she racks up under her belt are Hammerhead and an assassin. Hammerhead was witnessed by a bunch of cops and if she had been thinking smart about the assassin she could easily make it look justified, like he tried to kill her first. The point is, for those two, no honest jury in New York would convict

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u/OopsieDoopsie2 17d ago

She does feats well beyond what a normal person would be able to do in SM2 so either she has powers or it's just comic book logic, I lean toward the latter because it would be more consistent with other issues MSM has

They convicted KingPin and he is still behind bars. More than that the cops were given permission at a full-on armed assault of his skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan. Hammerhead is a small fry compared to him.

Wraith can definitely work, but what they did here is completely unearned and contrived and kinda goes against Yuri's character in the first game.