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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020

    I think there was a time when "Comic book superheroes are modern mythology" was a good and useful corrective to a certain kind of kneejerk snobbery toward the subject and I think that time ended well before MCU Phase II, much less Phase III

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      2. Grand Moff Snarkin, The Funkular Fury‏ @N7IRL 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        I enjoy much of the MCU but superheroes in modern cinema are definitely more commentary than mythology

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      3. Grand Moff Snarkin, The Funkular Fury‏ @N7IRL 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @N7IRL @arthur_affect

        And that commentary is...mostly just repetition of modern mores.

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      2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        comic book superheroes are modern mythology, but unfortunately modern mythology is also owned and operated by capitalist hypermonopolies the colonization of the imagination quite literal

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @perdricof

        I think if you broaden the definition of "mythology" to the maximum possible extent this is true But I think it's more meaningful to say "mythology in our culture has been replaced with commercial fiction" It gets the point across more clearly

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      2. Lithobolos‏ @Lithobolos 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        Our view of mythology often ignores that it was propaganda from Gilgamesh to Oracle visits to the foundation of Rome by escaped Trojans. Wouldn't modern mythology be the same?

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @Lithobolos

        I just don't think that a commercial product that everyone who makes and consumes it understands is pure fiction designed to entertain the viewer as a customer is the same thing as "mythology"

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      2. Garlax, The Weasel King‏ @TheWeaseKing 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        That’s true, though it can serve as an interesting jumping off point if you look at the commonalities. The existence of crossover events for marketing purposes, for example (the star-studded lists of Argonauts, the lists of minor heroes in the Iliad)

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      3. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @TheWeaseKing @arthur_affect

        Stuff like Antigone, where Sophocles built on an existing myth to make a specific point not unfamiliar to fundamentalist Christians shouting about some government thing not being stronger than "god's law" today.

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      2. Warden 👑 🦅King‏ @al_theirin 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect @MartinConcagh

        Hot take: superheroes resemble the Arthurian Vulgate cycle a lot more, and since it sounds like “vulgar” you can use it to annoy the right people

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      3. Warden 👑 🦅King‏ @al_theirin 11 Dec 2020
        Replying to @al_theirin @arthur_affect @MartinConcagh

        “The MCU is Le Morte d’Arthur”, both in terms of its unified vision and desire to encompass literally every single cultural property in its genre which preceded it, 1/?

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