Unintentional heroes: the villains in all popular films over the last 50 years or so represent reactionary values. For reactionaries to have heroes, they need only cheer for the villains. This explains why many on the hard right see themselves as “evil”.
Lex Luthor, for example, is a hero out of an Ayn Rand novel—an ultra successful business magnet with eugenic aspirations. “Lex” means law. “Luther” means “of the army”. LL is literally the law of force (martial), a purely reactionary figure (might makes right).
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Magneto, the villain of the X-Men films, is a nationalist. Ask yourself: would Magneto be a Zionist? If so, what kind? I think he would be a Revisionist Zionist of the Ze'ev Jabotinsky school—taking inspiration from Italian fascism.
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The X-Men and Superman represent the forces of liberal integrationism and equality coutnerposed to nationalism, ethnocentrism, and so on. These forms are propaganda for the American ideal, a part of the Americanisation of the world.
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But the mere existence of these forms allows them to be subverted, for people may identify with the “villain”. The comic form and popular action movie merely propagandise for the current dispensation...listen to the villains...what if the “villains”...have a point.
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