Relationships in comics reflect humanity as a whole. Without them these heroes lose those qualities that allow them to be seen as such. They show that these people can be hurt, bleed and feel. They also (they did me) teach you a little about concepts such as mutual respect for men towards women or the extreme opposite as to why its bad for example for a man to hit a woman. Relationships can also show us restraint, teach us about ourselves and come on on an artistic side they avoid comics turning into action stupid things that reflect badly on us all.
When relationships started in comics yes they were flashy, silly and "I`m da man so love me" kind of nonsense but comics evolved as demand grew. When the world mass watched television, browsed the internet and embraced the cell phone the world grew up faster. Rural didn`t become synoecious with naive and the world reached out and became that bit smaller. This turned everything on its head. We learned more about the universe just by turning on a television and people arguably aged faster. Sixteen became the new twelve years old in knowledge and experience freely given out by the mass media that schools and parents used to hoard for years longer from embarrassment or legal hold overs. But times changed and in the most obscure ways this made comics have to change. Complex relationships had be born or else people would have went "unrealistic" and left.
But relationships also help people to like characters they normally would blink and think "boring". For example years ago when I still read Marvel I looked at Kitty Pride and went "Sprite? Who the hell came up with that name?" and ignored her for years only tolerating her during the beginning during the first Hellfire club saga that started Jean Grey`s madness into Dark Phoenix.
So remember people while relationships can be "Gah burn my eyes out" there are comics for the under fives that would happily give you what you want. For the rest of us there are here to stay so learn to live with it.
Oh but so you know come on Wolverine just gut his cyclops ass!
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