You know how superheroes, like Green Lantern are War Machine are ex-military? I always thought it would be interesting to have a military superhero that utterly hates the military that made them.
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"In fact it's the core thing Ayn Rand was about" Well except that Carol was largely using her powers for others, not self interest. So it's more following the Spider-Man way.
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That's always kind of a bs exemption, though. It was how Ditko could try to sanitize Rand's philosophy - "the real Objectivist stands up for others because of their nobility of spirit!" which is great when you have an actual noble spirit and a society which encourages it. But...
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That's pretty much how I ended my final session with the psychologist my parents ill-advisedly thought would help me with my teenage aggression problems (Turns out, my bullies getting their asses kicked by teachers was all I needed to get out of my rebellious phase, weird, huh?)
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- As a child, you must acknowledge the authority of adults without questioning - Wait a minute: I'm five years, ten years top from being physically strong enough to beat you into tetraplegia with my strongest arm tied behind my back and you're telling me to OBEY WITHOUT QUESTION?
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side note, the valence of anti-authority messages in fiction varies WILDLY depending on what you take the authority to be a real-world metaphor for case in point: CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
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i first saw it under obama. and it's all about cap defying the authority of the un because in his heart he knows his friend is innocent. and i read this as a kinda terrible message--cap just clearly being in the wrong, resisting the rule of law just because it's his friend
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