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'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:
Capeshit is either copaganda or deranged right wing vigilantism-anda.
I miss green arrow calling Hal Jordan a fascist
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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: