Do people really write “yeah” as “yea”? Why isn’t that pronounced like sea or pea or tea?
Yay.
Nobody understands Superman, especially most of his writers.
Dude is alien Moses created by two Jews during the Holocaust. His arch nemesis is a billionaire/the president. C’mon.
Kryptonite is pork, basically?
This just makes me think of Captain Planet. He knew how to solve these sorts of issues. By beating up assholes and making them stop.
Don’t forget about fighting people who actually have plans to make the world a better place
Related note, excellent video essay, “Defenders of the Status quo” https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU
Only watched half of the video (because it’s something I’m well aware of), so it might have gone into it, but another angle is that there’s often villains that make good points and then suddenly take it in a batshit direction.
Like Thanos had a point but apparently never understood exponential growth and how reducing all life by any constant factor is just delaying the same result, even if his snap made 99% of people disappear (unless he snaps enough people that the population collapses entirely, which is what he wanted to avoid).
There’s many other examples where reasonable starting points end up in unquestionably evil conclusions. Pretty sure it’s just propaganda to make people who don’t think much about things link those reasonable beginnings with “evil” in their minds.
Also there’s characters like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark who are billionaires but their stories always ignore the realities of what must be done in order to become a billionaire (ie underpay staff doing the actual work by billions). In Stark’s case, they sidestep that by giving him super advanced AIs and automation robots, though he’s still the owner of a large corporation, that he still benefits from despite offloading any of the responsibility of even running it to everyone else.
They even rewrote Thanos to have those Malthusian
undertones, originally he just had a bone for Marvel’s legally distinct from DC’d genki goth girl personification of death and wanted her to notice him.
Couldn’t he just take all the billionaires and fly them into the sun or smth? I don’t know if that alone would fix things, but it’s a start. Also literally no downsides.
Batman is a billionaire
We got American Superman. We got Soviet Superman. We need Anarchist Superman.
Captain planet gets close to that
Don Cheadle’s Captain Planet, you mean.
Isn’t superman pro free will
He will protect against threats but if you fuck it up your mostly on your own
You’re*
And use punctuation, FFS.
Bitch could literally turn back time
How many rounds around earth til un-inventing plastic?
1 turn = 1 day
Completely artificial plastic was invented in 1907 - 118 years ago.
1 year = 365 days
118 years x 365 days = 43,070 days
So 43,071 rounds should do it, and then just clonk Leo Baekeland over the head or something.
Oh no, you didn’t account for leap days. I believe there’s been 30 since 1907, so you’ll need to add to your total, and maybe a few extra buffer days to make sure everyone knows why you’ve done this so that no one else invents completely artificial plastic either.
We can solve those problems directly or indirectly by tying superman to a dynamo. With free energy even the issues with materials can be solved over time.
Isn’t that just a solar panel with extra steps?
Superman probably doesn’t need as much raw materials as a planet-wide supply of solar panels. It seems like copper is currently the biggest issue, and one that isn’t easily solved by switching to other renewable energy sources.
Wasn’t there a small parody comic about this?
*yeah. The word is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn’t a vote. Buy a dictionary since you lack an education.
Environmentalists in comic books are nearly always deranged villains, and the ones that aren’t are still weak and naïve.
The only strong environmentalist hero in Western canon is Captain Planet, and he’s got sus narc vibes.
Well, Green Arrow. But you have a point.
…because he wears green?
Because of his views.
https://i0.wp.com/50yearoldcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gl89-recruit.jpg?ssl=1
https://i0.wp.com/50yearoldcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/gl89-vapor.jpg?ssl=1
From: https://50yearoldcomics.com/2022/02/19/green-lantern-89-april-1972/
He’s consistently an “old lefty” sometimes more “sustainable-first capitalist” sometimes more “anarchist”, but his views on things like pollution are well established.
Turns out he has a superpower, and it is the ability to be environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, and billionaire at the same time.
Fair. And I believe this absurd was addressed in universe multiple time. Often with him losing the money in a process. But yes, it’s one of the unfortunate consequence of our shift in how we see billionaires. Batman is the richest and smartest person in the world who care only about one city… with it’s underfunded mental asylum looking like a hose of horror.
The irony is clear. They have a better way of fixing the system than fists and arrow. They are the system.
The lean batman and lean GA are the only one that make sense. But they need to be part of the Justice League with immortal gods. So they need the 9th metal mech and killer ray space stations… which cost money.
But saying GL is not an environmentalist is like saying that Batman don’t care about Gotham. (Even if they have a stupid way of organizing their priorities.)
I think so and agree with you.
I’ll add that I think Ollie gets a better treatment with it than Bruce, and Marvel’s Tony who is a bit of a dick, do. (Pym and Incredible both manage to keep inventing game-changing things that never change the order or structure of society or economics, which is relayed to where I’m gonna go but also different in some ways).
I haven’t read a lot of Green Arrow, but have enjoyed what I have.
I do remember reading one story that began with Ollie volunteering in Africa working on water infrastructure (not sure if he was also funding things). He takes actions allowed within the confines of the editorial line to fit the views his character espouses.
But to keep relatablity any never ending story, i.e. the soap opera for boys of serialised comics, will tend towards the status quo of our real world. They can’t show us a better way to live, as how we live needs to be the normal and mostly ideal. So Genosha must fall, Metropolis must be a normalish city, and Gotham remains close to a platonic ideal of the upper-middle class’s view of crime infested 80s New York. (Not the original, but seems to have shifted to it from the gangstery 1950s it once was in pre-modern Batman).
Edit: I think this is also actually in part what has led me to become more a fan of Superman as I get older.
You’re absolutely right on all counts, but I absolutely adore this typo/autoerect error:
looking like a hose of horror
So I’ll leave it unedited out of respect for your adoration :)
Well, there’s this one:
It is interesting that Superman’s archenemy was an incredibly wealthy businessman. That seems to be the exact problem with our world today (there’s just many more of them).
The more you look at the villains in all the TV, movies, and books growing up, the more you realise they’re mostly evil capitalists.
It’s weird that Hollywood etc would green light so many movies about how rich people like themselves are evil, and teaching kids to fight against them.
The rich landlord is going to close the community club hall! The rich businessman is trying to have us killed to cover up his chemical spills! Etc etc.
If it’s not a literal alien from another planet, more often than not the bad guy is just a literal normal capitalist.
And yet try to use the lessons taught in every piece of media you ever watched as an impressionable child, and you’re told that your anticapitalist beliefs are “extremist” and you’re dangerous and must be stopped.
Weird eh?
![[MyGumsAreBleeding] Superhero](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe3f7af2-2ad0-40f4-8f61-216350f4860e.png){kind=link}
