Nationalist propaganda capeshit gonna propagandise
More like Pooperman amirite?
truth, justice
American way
Sorry but you have to pick one
"Truth, justice and the American way" does in a way imply that the former two are not part of the American way.
I hate superheroes I hate superheroes I hate superheroes
Hell, I'm a fucking turbo lib nerd super hero fan boy, and even I think this sounds like a shit lib af premise.
This Superman is going to kill so many people in the global south.
Awesome! They should make him wear the American flag on his back too, and always tell bystanders that "they're the real heroes".
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.
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.
It's even in conservative shit, except for them it's usually bad guy CIA vs good guy FBI, or something like that.
If Superman doesn't laser eyes everyone responsible for every bad thing america has ever done he's definitely a lib
He laser eyes everyone in the Middle East instead, with tears in his eyes (and lasers), because the American way forces him to. 😔
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.
My own Superman movie pitch:
50 hour movie where he listens to all of Blowback and then destroys America.
I'm holding out hope that the "truth, justice, and the American way" shit might at least be a little ironic, but who knows. His other capeslop movies are pretty decent.
If you're going to make a movie about a superhero who has outdated values, you already have the perfect superhero for that in Captain America.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?
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
Captain America is owned by a different money-grubbing corporate Goliath
Captain America is Marvel. Superman is DC. ...nah..its really not anymore complicated than that.
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.
Tbh i think most people are over capeflicks that its probably gonna do meh at the box office either way.
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
Superman stars in MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and laser eyes all the democrats.
