Nationalist propaganda capeshit gonna propagandise

More like Pooperman amirite?

  • TrimmedDubya [comrade/them]
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    1 day ago

    My own Superman movie pitch:

    50 hour movie where he listens to all of Blowback and then destroys America.

    chefs-kiss

  • Moss [they/them]
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    1 day ago

    Awesome! They should make him wear the American flag on his back too, and always tell bystanders that "they're the real heroes".

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    1 day ago

    I think it's going to be ironic, in a lib sort of way, where Superman discovers that America bad, and that some deep state shadow agency is colluding with a foreign entity, but then Superman saves the day and America becomes the good and true America that America was always destined to be.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      This is the only plot that is ever allowed in lib slop that even remotely acknowledges that the something in the status quo might be bad.

      It's also close to the plot of Barbie lol. Barbie learns she's problematic, but it turns it that nah she's actually great.

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        24 hours ago

        It's even in conservative shit, except for them it's usually bad guy CIA vs good guy FBI, or something like that.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 day ago

      If Superman doesn't laser eyes everyone responsible for every bad thing america has ever done he's definitely a lib

      • FortifiedAttack [he/him]
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        23 hours ago

        He laser eyes everyone in the Middle East instead, with tears in his eyes (and lasers), because the American way forces him to. 😔

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 day ago

      so, captain america? idk i know DC has had more trouble getting their Cinematic Universe together, but the ones they have released have been more thematically simplistic and straightforward than the MCU.

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    When Captain America: Winter Soldier came out it was (insofar as capeshit slop can be) a pretty big deal for a few reaosns. The biggest one by far was that they took a guy whose whole schtick is that he throws a giant frisbee and managed to make him and his fight sequences actually fucking cool. Of note also though was that it actually confronted and indeed actually confirmed the idea that the shadowy government agency they were all working with were basically Nazis. The moral of that one was that America has become what it originally fought against in WW2 and we needed the symbol of the American dream to bring us back on track.

    That was 10 years ago. At this point even people like me who will guiltily consume capeshit will tell you that's all cope. America is a genocidal colonizer state who served as inspiration to the Nazis. The values Captain America claims to have represented are and always were fantasy.

    If I was to do a Superman movie I think I would take a page out of David Goyer's brief comic run where Superman renounced his American citizenship. Maybe have a B-plot that ties into the A plot where Superman who is by any and all definitions an undocumented immigrant is being granted American citizenship only to have him reject the offer at the end when he realizes that the concept of the American way is actually short sighted and myopic and that he actually needs to see himself as a citizen of the world. Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if they actually go that route. Meaningless platitudes but I don't see how anything else won't land completely flat.

    • FortifiedAttack [he/him]
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      23 hours ago

      "Truth, justice and the American way" does in a way imply that the former two are not part of the American way.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    23 hours ago

    I already despised Man of Steel for the Snyderfication of the character. "Boo hoo I'm better than everyone else and the untermenschen resent me for that! Fortunately the military is actually really cool once they get to know me!" hitler-detector

    This shit sounds like grillman tier "rant in car on Youtube" shit.

    EDIT: I should have said Snyder; mixed up my cryptofascists there.

    • HamManBad [he/him]
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      23 hours ago

      Nolanization is underselling it, that was a Snyder movie who's so much worse.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        23 hours ago

        I mixed up my gen-X cryptofascist assholes. My mistake.

  • miz [any, any]
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    1 day ago

    this is going to be a steaming pile of American exceptionalism

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    Superman stars in MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and laser eyes all the democrats.

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      23 hours ago

      Hell, I'm a fucking turbo lib nerd super hero fan boy, and even I think this sounds like a shit lib af premise.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        23 hours ago

        this sounds like a shit lib af premise

        It's beating that dead horse of "young people these days, so ridiculous because they care about things!" grillman that the fucking Brady Bunch movie tried some decades ago.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Bit idea: Inframan: he's an alien from another planet whose otherworldly origin makes him the only guy capable of doing some goddamn self-reflection

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    If you're going to make a movie about a superhero who has outdated values, you already have the perfect superhero for that in Captain America. Why Superman?

    • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]
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      1 day ago

      Funny answer: They gotta tap into the unironic Homelander fan demographic

      Real answer: Marvel vs DC. Everything Marvel has to tie into the overly convoluted MCU and spawn 2-3 submovies

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      Captain America is Marvel. Superman is DC. ...nah..its really not anymore complicated than that.