if it's Red Son lmao he
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finds a gulag and then gets big mad at the authoritarianism then immediately confronts Stalin and Stalin is like "sometimes you gotta do bad things to do good someday you'll get it" and Superman is like noooooo and immediately lasers him in half and proceeds to become Stalin
also Batman is basically some kid from the gulag who is big mad that it "took so long" for Superman to save them, so he decides to become an anarchist and do terrorism
everything Lois Lane says will frustrate you
nothing is worse than kids cartoon trying to get Serious Political. except of course, being boring, which this movie also is
So the US invaded Russia for no reason, ruined the country, and still ends up being the good guy? :zizek-preference:
That sounds just like real life with extra steps. :doomer:
That sounds even worse than the comic it was based on. That, at least, had some redeemable interpretations despite its overall incoherence.
To elaborate on that a little, in the comic the moral came down to "central planning micromanaging bad, but only when it's superman doing it because he's not human, but it's good when Lex Luthor does it because he is, but also it turns out superman is a time traveling human and not an alien at all."
I'd have described the end of the original as:
- Thesis: Central planning with Superman characteristics
- Antithesis: American capitalism
- Synthesis: Lex Luthor's New Deal.
Fun video. Pod Damn America also did a funny episode covering it.
Didn't Stalin have like a hollowed out mountain full of slaves or something? That was probably supposed to be a gulag, yeah?
