Character analysis

One thing that I like to look into with characters that I like is the psychology of the characters. I feel like showing you what I mean with a few of them.


Hetalia: Alfred F. Jones aka The United States of America

Alfred gives off a very confident personality, as is an American stereotype. Now, the characters of Hetalia are the personifications of actual countries, making them have strong stereotypes but I like to over-analyze these things sometimes.

It's been established that Alfred was raised by Arthur(the UK) at an early age but rarely saw him, at times even begging Arthur to stay by his side as a child. This could make sense of his over-confident and loud personality as a coping mechanism or a way to get the attention that he craved as a child. His rebellion against Arthur in his teens could be a result of having been neglected far too much. He says to Arthur "You used to be so great.", This could mean that Arthur used to be kind to him but then started acting more cold and distant to Alfred as he got older. We never really see Arthur with Alfred in his teen years, only in his early childhood. This could say something.


Marvel: Peter Parker(Spider-man) and Kaine Parker(Scarlet Spider)

There is a lot on these characters but I'm just going to focus on the relationship between the two in recent comics.

Peter sees Kaine as a brother, despite Kaine being a clone of him. We know that Peter was an only child and it would make sense that he would gravitate towards Kaine as a brother. He cares about him and may want to give Kaine something that he himself didn't have, a brother.

Kaine was recently cured of his clone deterioration and is no longer deformed, however he still has some of the trauma of being what the jackal considered a "failed clone". He even has a nightmare after being healed of his scars of him being chased by the jackal, who is shooting at him saying that he is a "failure" and "isn't real", in the dream he then falls into a pit of failed Gwen Stacy clones. I find this interesting because it shows how psychological trauma cannot be so easily solved.

Kaine is now healed and in fact, a perfect clone but has the memories of being considered failed. Similar to a child abuse victim who's parents didn't want the child in the first place. I really like Kaine in his new book, being that I had to deal with similar things with my own father. I still feel inadequate at times, despite having been separated from him for years but I still act strong and learn to move on like Kaine.