Astro City took this concept really far, their Superman expy (the Samaritan) has Silver Age Superman's superintelligence and has calculated all the random bullshit is necessary for the long term greater good Like he does charity appearances so people won't be scared of him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tuplet and
And then so many people did the whole "what if he's secretly a dick but has a PR team". The Tick did it last year. Seriously, second hand takes on "what if Superman wasn't a great dude" are a dime a dozen and I'm so tired of them.
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The Tick, himself, is a character I've seen described as "the distilled essence of Golden Age Superman" and I think a reminder that a lot of this annoying stuff comes from Silver Age escalation until he was basically Jesus
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MudDude4 and
The original point of Superman was really simple, it was "What if a guy who was literally bulletproof went and punched all the fucks who think they can do whatever they want because they have guns"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Yeah, like, this is the ultimate irritating aspect of people conflating "superpowers" with "privilege" - superheroes are so often explicitly those who believe themselves powerless dreaming of the might to punch back.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I can relate to Batman because he was traumatized and scared and spent years training to become a ninja so he could be hypercompetent but can still get his ass stomped if he screws up Superman was just born lucky. The opposite of me
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
See, I relate more to a guy who was given power and uses it to mostly stop natural disasters and falling airplanes than the guy who was given a billion dollars and uses it to fight petty criminals and the mentally ill, but that's just me.
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Replying to @ElieStav @BootlegGirl and
Eh, that's not imo a terribly fair criticism either. Gotham's supervillains are functionally paramilitaries, they're not just unlucky or desperate schmucks.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
"Batman is a conservative's power fantasy" might also be a reductive take, but it's not the dominant take on Batman in pop culture, and so I haven't seen nearly as many counterarguments for it.
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Replying to @ElieStav @loudpenitent and
I think the Batman vs Superman thing is honestly overplayed and we as a society need to evolve beyond it, so we can resolve more obscure dichotomies like Crow vs. Spawn
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First order of business: determining whether the main character of The Crow is actually named "The Crow" or it's only canonically a reference to the literal crow that follows him around
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