Actually they’re mostly reactionary conservative supercops who only act to preserve the status quo, aren’t they?
The popular DC / Marvel ones certainly do
Black Adam was free on Prime, so I said why not.
It was a bit hammy in the introduction but the Justice Society gets called right out for coming in to protect the US-coded mercenaries from Black Adam’s murder spee and being nowhere to be found when Kahndaq was invaded by them in the first place.
Of course, Black Adam as anything but a nationalistic tyrant is some straight up bullshit, but whatever.
Anyways, point is, I want more superheroes fighting imperialism.
Superman was created as an anti-fascist, and needs to return to his roots, not let a tornado kill his dad.
Superman’s real weakness was his lack of weaknesses. It made his physical character development non-existent so they were left with writing him into social situations. Superman is a MacGuffin, Clark is the main character.
Superheroes fighting false information online would be nice. Or forcing public healthcare through government. Etc etc.
Since the turn of the 21st century, however, Black Adam has been redefined by DC Comics writers Jerry Ordway, Geoff Johns, and David S. Goyer as an ancient Kahndaqi and corrupted antihero
Turning reactionary villains into woke antiheroes is based. We need to wokify comic books
The problem is that they undid his antihero phase by having him genocide a neighboring country, Bialya, the origin of the Blue Beetle scarab btw, then kept that genocide canon.
So now they’ve got a genocidal tyrant on the Justice League going “No, you don’t get it, I’ve CHANGED, bros!”
Oof, yeah. Can’t do an antihero with that on the record. Let’s do some comic book bullshit “it was a mass hallucination” “he was being mind controlled” “it happened in another dimension” or something. There’s plenty of ways to deal with that problem and none of them is “I’m sowwy I did a genocide”
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benign fascists (that’s how you know it’s fiction)
I think I knew it was fiction when they started shooting spiders out of their eyes.
All popular superheroes are maintainers of the status quo, so no, they aren’t woke.
Tell me Batman is woke lol
Woke as fuck. Pours billions into helping the poor and sickly, spends his genius intellect and superhuman abilities hunting madmen and women who would slaughter millions if possible. Will gladly use violence to stamp out oppressors, doesnt allow himself to be bound by law but also does not murder. Has a code, lives by it. Does good in a city that is literally, and I mean literally, cursed to be evil.
In some timelines actively saves the earth/universe/multiverse by his own damn self. Ain’t much more woke possible than “save all of known existence for all variants of all people in all of time and space that can or will ever be.”
You’ve convinced me, Batman for president!
Idk, Lex Luthor makes some awful good points about making Humanity Great Again.
No moral billionares. Philanthropic billionaries act in their own self interest.
He has literally saved all space and time.
Hes a good billionare, which tells you that he is also imaginary.
Idk, saving all space and time is self-serving. How else is he going to extract money from the people, conduct stock buybacks to enrichen his shareholders, and recieve gov bailouts
Practically every billionaire is born into the wealth, but they choose to be evil. Batman said fuck that and literally spent his entire fortune fighting corruption and helping the poor. I mean, maybe you could say that because of his pathos that was all still acting in his own best interest. But, what the fuck is wrong with being philanthropic because it makes you feel better?
A non-woke superhero is known as a supervillain…depending on their presentation.
I just re-watched that movie a couple days ago!
Funny thing. There’s a Simpsons episode where baby Maggie is in a pre-school that bans pacifiers. There’s a sign on the wall, “A is A.” I always thought it was a reference to the comic, and only found out it was an actual Ayn Rand quote later.
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