They're often very allegorical and full of symbolism, fights and struggles are never just for the sake of itself, but rather carries some greater meaning. That's why there's so many stories involving trickery, cleverness, or random divine retribution.
Equating them heavily commercialized pop culture that objectively are produced for mass consumption in mind feel tasteless in my opinion.
I hate this "argument". What "superhero movie" means today is like 2 or 3 canons owned by Marvel and DC. It's not modern mythology and the recent superhero madness is only around 10-15 years old.
Modern superhero stuff has its roots in 1940s comic books. There is a big difference between ancient mythology and modern superhero movies, which is that no one controlled ancient mythology. People were making shit up and circulating stories. A part of it was rooted in religion too. Superhero movies today are Marvel and DC. If you're trying to figure out why these movies are appealing, you could say it is because people like adventures where the good guys beat up the bad guys, but that describes every movie ever basically. But the superhero craze is a specific phenomenon that didn't exist 20 years ago and probably won't exist 20 years from now.
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Stop trying to make superhero "modern mythology" holy shit
Why does everyone on this site get so god damned pissed about inane shit
Extremely online people who happen to follow an ideology that has historically produced very opinionated people.
I won most opinionated in highschool I feel very seen by this comment
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:anarchist-occult:
chapo dot chat
More like crapo dot shat ayy lmao
:marx-ok:
Hating popular stuff seems to be part of the online leftist "thing". Everyone reminding themselves how cool they are I guess.
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They're often very allegorical and full of symbolism, fights and struggles are never just for the sake of itself, but rather carries some greater meaning. That's why there's so many stories involving trickery, cleverness, or random divine retribution.
Equating them heavily commercialized pop culture that objectively are produced for mass consumption in mind feel tasteless in my opinion.
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I like to call them "American mythology", because America sucks.
I hate this "argument". What "superhero movie" means today is like 2 or 3 canons owned by Marvel and DC. It's not modern mythology and the recent superhero madness is only around 10-15 years old.
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Modern superhero stuff has its roots in 1940s comic books. There is a big difference between ancient mythology and modern superhero movies, which is that no one controlled ancient mythology. People were making shit up and circulating stories. A part of it was rooted in religion too. Superhero movies today are Marvel and DC. If you're trying to figure out why these movies are appealing, you could say it is because people like adventures where the good guys beat up the bad guys, but that describes every movie ever basically. But the superhero craze is a specific phenomenon that didn't exist 20 years ago and probably won't exist 20 years from now.