I will forever wish for a Superman who truly hears the suffering and pain of the lower classes across the world and goes on a globetrotting capitalist murder spree. There is no way Superman doesn't hear the cries of child slaves and not have it break his heart. Or listening to some petty criminal talk about how xyz crime is the only way to pay for their child's medical bills causing him to question the system. Or any of the 1000 other things that a character as powerful as that would be aware of and should find reprehensible after thinking about it for just 5 minutes. Like, dude is supposed to have super intelligence on top of all his other superpowers and he can't connect the dots?
yeah didn't he used to be like if an alien adapted to absolutely crushing gravity ended up on a comparatively low gravity world like Earth? (edited that mess of the first half of sentence)
I was thinking the other day how Superman and Elder Scrolls have evolved in opposite directions when it comes to flight
Superman started by leaping tall buildings in a single bound, then he could fly
In Morrowind you could use levitation to fly, then in Oblivion you are downgraded to leaping over buildings if you level up athletics and finally in Skyrim you can't jump or fly for shit
If it helps most animals when they fly, are jumping really hard then gliding a bit. There are other kinds of flight. But that is the most common, so in that reguard it isn't far off. Birds of course are functionally swimming throughout the air so fuck them anyway
At one point, "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" were literally all his powers.
The thing is they DO those stories, like constantly. The problem is not with superheroes are a concept or the characters, it is the nature of comics as an industry. Any story that reaches an end, or anything that would change the profitable status quo has to be temporary. Be it political or just experimenting story-wise.
My friend who does great philosophy videos btw, talks about this a lot like in this video on why batman doesn't kill. It is not about the morality, but the sales figures. Above everything things cannot change because the market demands it. So you will have stories that actually do go to the logical conclusion, but they can't be allowed to last
I will forever wish for a Superman who truly hears the suffering and pain of the lower classes across the world and goes on a globetrotting capitalist murder spree. There is no way Superman doesn't hear the cries of child slaves and not have it break his heart. Or listening to some petty criminal talk about how xyz crime is the only way to pay for their child's medical bills causing him to question the system. Or any of the 1000 other things that a character as powerful as that would be aware of and should find reprehensible after thinking about it for just 5 minutes. Like, dude is supposed to have super intelligence on top of all his other superpowers and he can't connect the dots?
He used to be like that, until the Cold War killed that part of the character.
(Also, back then, he wasn't nearly as powerful).
yeah didn't he used to be like if an alien adapted to absolutely crushing gravity ended up on a comparatively low gravity world like Earth? (edited that mess of the first half of sentence)
He was john carter of mars but on earth. Origionally he was leaping tall buildings in a single bound, not really flying
I was thinking the other day how Superman and Elder Scrolls have evolved in opposite directions when it comes to flight
Superman started by leaping tall buildings in a single bound, then he could fly
In Morrowind you could use levitation to fly, then in Oblivion you are downgraded to leaping over buildings if you level up athletics and finally in Skyrim you can't jump or fly for shit
If it helps most animals when they fly, are jumping really hard then gliding a bit. There are other kinds of flight. But that is the most common, so in that reguard it isn't far off. Birds of course are functionally swimming throughout the air so fuck them anyway
what do you mean most animals? the majority of fliers by sheer volume, weight, species, or numbers are insects, which do indeed fly.
At one point, "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" were literally all his powers.
Hell heat-vision originally WAS x-ray vision, which he realized would heat shit if prolonged
The thing is they DO those stories, like constantly. The problem is not with superheroes are a concept or the characters, it is the nature of comics as an industry. Any story that reaches an end, or anything that would change the profitable status quo has to be temporary. Be it political or just experimenting story-wise.
My friend who does great philosophy videos btw, talks about this a lot like in this video on why batman doesn't kill. It is not about the morality, but the sales figures. Above everything things cannot change because the market demands it. So you will have stories that actually do go to the logical conclusion, but they can't be allowed to last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkoQgXd7miU
That is the first issue of red son. It's kinda great. Just... just don't read the rest
I'm sure he has the fortress of solitude for a reason