generally, a superhero is a transhuman who displays class solidarity with the human class of their birth or upbringing, while a supervillain acts according to their ruling class position. this is to say that the primary psychosocial trait of the superhero is false consciousness
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they also typically aren't "rulling" anything (some did, but interestingly it is not definitional of them - if anything, "heroic teams" are more often gov- adjacent)
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in the morality-play based milieu they subsist in it’s necessary that they attempt to assert class privilege and be thwarted in doing so by the champions of goodness / the homoproletariat. outside a few fringe experiments one is forced to read between the lines
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