Superheroes

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its always been about waking the people up. First it was showing the people an ideal version of themselves. Then it was about showing the people a version of themselves who had quibbles but never gave up. Then it was about showing the people the kinds of monster people can become when their moral character was neglected. Now? Its about showing the people they’re seen. Showing them we understand each other and can have solidarity.

  Comics aren’t just woke. They haven’t just always been woke. They’re an alarm clock ticking down to our collective awakening

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • generational wealth
  • enough money, highly qualified personnel, and connections (both legitimate and clandestine) to bring real change to a blighted city
  • does none of the sort
  • dresses up as fursona to play vigilante
  • brutalizes mentally ill people (but it’s okay because he doesn’t kill)
  • crime lords and terrorists walk free because of notoriously terrible corrections system and no-kill policy
  • literally resurrects a dead terrorist in Arkham City
  • main appeal is cool gadgets made by other, more qualified people

  Batman’s appeal is fading rapidly.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    • enough money, highly qualified personnel, and connections (both legitimate and clandestine) to bring real change to a blighted city
    • does none of the sort

    He does use those resources to make change through charity and programs designed to improve the community. But that doesn’t instantly solve existing crime, particularly organized crime and corruption.

    Plus, it will never actually fix Gotham because Gotham being shitty is part of the premise.

    • brutalizes mentally ill people (but it’s okay because he doesn’t kill)

    He beats up violent criminals, generally when they are in the middle of either attacking him, or attacking someone else, or otherwise doing something that would harm or endanger innocent people. That some of these people have varying degrees of mental illness is unfortunate, but they doesn’t mean they don’t have to be stopped.

    • crime lords and terrorists walk free because of notoriously terrible corrections system and no-kill policy

    Everyone of those criminals who walks free could have just as easily been murdered by any number of people during their time in custody. Why is it Batman’s responsibility to decide who lives and dies, and not any given cop or prison guard? And even if the system is broken, is it really better to have a masked vigilante killing people without trials (and appeals, and evidence, and oversight by some kind of authority)?

    Also, let’s be real here, the reason they get out so predictably is not because of in-universe reasons, it’s because they want to keep bringing back villains. He could kill every supervillain in Gotham and most of them would be back in six months.

    • main appeal is cool gadgets made by other, more qualified people

    He’s the world’s greatest detective, a ninja, a world class martial artist, a scientist, an inventor, and one of the greatest strategists who ever lived. If he’s not qualified, who the fuck is?

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      is it Batman’s responsibility to decide who lives and dies

      I’ve had a profound realization while playing Ghost of Tsushima. If adherence to a self-imposed moral code causes unnecessary suffering and death that could’ve been preventable otherwise, then it’s part of the problem. Batman is not stupid, he has to know that the most significant villains will escape Arkham and go back to crime and terrorism. He has the means to stop that and is consciously choosing not to. Deliberate inaction is a choice all the same. Removing those elements might not be civilized, but Gotham is frequently closer to a warzone than a civilization.

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  • rovingnothing29@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    • Blames himself for his parents being brutally murdered when he was a kid.

    Gotham is lucky he’s not more insane.

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  • cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with a lot of the points you make here, but I actually think Batman will stay popular as a series and not just because of fan loyalty.

    In Kill Bill the titular character does a long monologue about Superman being the real person and Clark being the made up one and is his critique on human culture. It’s a fabulous scene but I disagree with the point, Clark grew up as Clark that’s the real person.

    But I do think that’s an interesting way to spin Batman, because Batman is the real person and Bruce is the act and you could and i believe they already did the most recent movie play it up as a scathing critique of capitalism, but it’s really long and I only saw it the once.

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  • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the lore, Wayne runs an extensive charitable foundation to deal with the structural problems of Gotham by building schools, orphanages, and clinics. He also pays for the psychiatric and physical treatment of many of the villains.

    In-universe he’s an idealized good billionaire. In real life, of couse, there is no such thing.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (but it’s okay because he doesn’t kill)

    it’s more fucked up when you realize he doesn’t kill so he can re-traumatize these innocents.

    over and over, and over again.

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the post above, user satansmaggotycumfart has shared an image of Homeworlder, from Amazon 's critically acclaimed series The Boys.

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    • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You just wanted to use “SatansMaggotyCumFart” in a sentence.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Superheroes defend the status quo.

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  • Themadbeagle@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I knew exactly what video that would link to before I clicked. Great video, glad to see someone else reference it.

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• Andonno@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Certain people are inherently superior to the common masses, who are powerless before the conflicts between these great men.

  woke

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  • Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Supervillains consider themselves to be superior to the common masses. Superheroes don’t see it that way. They see their power as a tool to help those who weren’t as lucky as them. The superpower lottery is a vehicle to tell the story. The moral is about how those powers are used.

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    • Andonno@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m actually not making a comment about how the characters in the work view themselves at all. The entire premise of the genre is the “Great Man” view of history. That certain people, through ability or ambition, stand above others and define society by their actions. The difference between superheroes and villians isn’t self-image (which is frankly irrelevant) but that villians want to use their “greatness” to change things, while heroes want to maintain them.

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  • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So by that logic white people cant be woke because theyre privileged?

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean Nietzsche was kind of woke. Fuckin, there is an argument to be had that slave morality is what we’d calll wokeness today. The whole Ubermensch thing just kind of feeds in to that.

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this is well put. chef’s kiss, ty

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• Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Henlo yes where can I find a picture of this lovely floppa

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