If it wasn't their intention, then they were eating unexamined ideology from the trash can. :zizek-fuck:
Capeshit is either copaganda or deranged right wing vigilantism-anda.
I was just talking about this yesterday. Superheroes live in a universe where the gods (writers) explicitly keep the supervillains around to keep the stories interesting. The existence of the villains is explicitly predicated on the presence of the superhero. In the real world, a super-powered person would be hunted by and/or coopted by world governments, would almost certainly be working class struggling to pay bills, and would quickly find that fighting crime isn’t something that super powers will generally help you with at scale. You are, at best, a really strong cop, or someone doing the work that police are “too corrupt to do”, which usually means doing cop work, but with less red tape. It’s not a solution.
i hate all capes, but you're literally just describing x-men. these comics exist.
I've been re-visiting some X-Men content recently and they're easily some of the "best" superheroes because they don't go out on "patrol" doing vigilantism, beating up poor people and enforcing private property, they're just civil rights activists with super-powers.
Spider-Man (2018) is my comfort copaganda, I just have to tell myself it takes place in an alternate universe where 1) Police stop crime, and 2) Crime is caused by ontologically evil supervillains and their ideologically committed followers, not by things like “material conditions”
But I’d love a version where I don’t have to tell myself those things, or even better where I get to beat the shit out of police gangs :sicko-hexbear:
And tbh I’d usually rather they be cops than troops
Better yet, he also says that, unlike the first game, we won't have to help the cops spy on citizens to un-fog the map.
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Spider-Man 2 will be available exclusively on PlayStation 5
:shrek-pixel-despair:
Hey, at least they are working to address the concern in 2 instead of just shrugging and "disavowing" like most devs
Given they had a black protagonist from Brooklyn be pro-cop and pro-gentrifying mega corporation in their last game, I wouldn't hold my breath on them actually making meaningful changes.
Seriously though Miles Morales drove me fucking crazy because
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she’s 100% correct up until the very end when it’s learned she’ll blow up all of Brooklyn, and she probably would’ve believed Miles about that if he hadn’t burned his trust by trying to stop her from destroying Evil-Corp who were actively trying to murder Miles at the time. If when Miles found out she’s the Tinkerer he should’ve gone “That fucking rules, let’s work together and take these fuckers down”
twitter's effect on the culture is so bizarre. like we can get some disney video game company to apologize for being pro-cop, but at no point does that politics even touch the executive level or anyone who sets the policy agenda.
i will not accept neutral spiderman. give us hobie killing a corrupt cop whose dealing fent the game
