Superheroes are a dumb concept if you try writing them in any way remotely realistic or seriously.

Superheroes are a dumb concept if you try writing them in any way remotely realistic or seriously. They're bootlicking upholders of the status quo that don't lead to any real systemic change in the world.
And no, individual action is not systemic change. They have all this tech at their disposal and they barely share any of it with the world around them. And yet, by tightly controlling the advancement of science and technology and turning every super genius into a tech hoarder, humanity is now almost entirely at the mercy of capes, supervillains or clandestine government groups. Capes are independent unreliable agents in the first place. A public standardized weapon loadout would deter crime by bolstering police, private security organizations, and private citizens.

These are just some of many reasons why no actual legit writer or artist wante to touch the concept of superheroes with a 50 foot pole.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Superheroes stories in real real world would end up either in poisoning this superheroes quickly or in them being crazy terrorists and, what is more important, labeled as crazy terrorists by media. And that's in case they would not be taken by any major CIA-like organization to study their superabilities. Any time one tries to create story, where hero have some freedom of action and not being enemy of the world, is a fantasy and differs from "hero saves everyone, everyone is happy" only by degree of how much fantasy you allow, therefore rendering all "realistic" stories just as much unrealistic as normal superhero media, only for different audience.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Superheroes stories in real real world
        they're not about realism. hyperfixation on realism in superheroes is a recent trend.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >They're bootlicking upholders of the status quo that don't lead to any real systemic change in the world.
    what?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Actually trying to make a real change in the world is portrayed as evil and only holding up the status quo is the only morally upright posture.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        We can't have people making the world a better place for everyone. The elites like the world the way it is: with them on top.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Actually trying to make a real change in the world is portrayed as evil
        This is a pure strawman.

        https://i.imgur.com/mjbwKbK.png

        Superheroes are a dumb concept if you try writing them in any way remotely realistic or seriously. They're bootlicking upholders of the status quo that don't lead to any real systemic change in the world.
        And no, individual action is not systemic change. They have all this tech at their disposal and they barely share any of it with the world around them. And yet, by tightly controlling the advancement of science and technology and turning every super genius into a tech hoarder, humanity is now almost entirely at the mercy of capes, supervillains or clandestine government groups. Capes are independent unreliable agents in the first place. A public standardized weapon loadout would deter crime by bolstering police, private security organizations, and private citizens.

        These are just some of many reasons why no actual legit writer or artist wante to touch the concept of superheroes with a 50 foot pole.

        superheroes are an inherent fantasy concept. they were never about fixing the world's problems, but about protecting people.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How is it a strawman?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well golly, what change to the status quo could you possibly be suggesting?

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >possible homosexual

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >They're bootlicking upholders of the status quo that don't lead to any real systemic change in the world.
    THIS. So much this. The whole thing falls apart when you think about it for more than a minute.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    this again?
    Superheroes are not perfect, they are far away to solving the problem with crime, thats why they have lots of stories behind them. Is that a reason to complain about the purpose of them as fiction? No, absolutely not.

    Ultimately what they do, is as you said, enforce the status quo, regardless of wether that needs change, what can a guy like Spider-Man or Batman do in order to fight the system? Neither of them are strong enough to do a real change, real change comes from the population, which if you have taken a glance at your reality, is also far away from achieving change.

    So, what do they do? they protect innocents, wether you like it or not, those poor people who rely on crime to make up for a living, rob up and kill other civilians who may just be you.

    But their value as stories doesn't come from expressing what are the steps towards world peace, superhero stories deal with fantasy adventures of super powered people, or and in the best of cases, they deal with how the average folk would do with those powers.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Batman could do a lot to the system, he's a super detective billionaire. He could destabilize the wealthy easily by just being in everyones business. But the joker isn rich so who cares

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Batman is just a spoiled brat who doesn't want to stop playing with his toys.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Came here because i thought you shooped his face.

    The top splotches look like eyebrows, the bottom splotches look like eyes, the dots look like nostrils and the chin shadow looks like a dumb smile.

    I thought this was rorshach the happy skeleton..

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    With some exceptions that's probably why I gravitate more towards mystical and cosmic heroes in DC/Vertigo and Marvel. Maintaining the status quo to them is like making sure the universe doesn't collapse and things on that scale. And with those kinds of heroes you have the freedom to challenge the status quo more because you can go to entirely fictional realms and planets and do anything with them. Or you have comics like Squadron Supreme where the heroes are actively trying to change Earth like revolutionaries and things aren't so static. Same with Marvelman and a ton of Elseworlds stuff.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    STOP RESPONDING
    OP IS A MASSIVE AUTIST WHO MAKES THESE THREADS EVERY DAY

    • 2 years ago
      "sage"

      How do we stop this Cinemaphile. The same threads over and over. I want off this ride.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Superheroes are stupid for many reasons, but zou're just a regular commie and that's why they make you seethe.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Seething

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bump

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      frick OFF

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Seethe

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >bootlicking
    Opinion discarded.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Learn to not bump the thread, homosexuals.
    Anyway, what's all this concern with "realism/deconstruction bad" bullshit? Most cape comics aren't even good, whether they fall under deconstruction or not. Why not enjoy the very few good ones (e.g. Watchmen), or move the frick along if you don't?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He'll just self-bump until the jannies wake from their euphoric troony stupors, as seen in the last thread

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What if Alan Moore was the writer of the new Sonic game?
    https://desuarchive.org/co/search/text/%22pulp%20trash%22/
    https://desuarchive.org/co/search/image/IoYJD-ehSt3cKmKgcKJauA/
    https://desuarchive.org/co/search/image/IRW-JaP-jF9Nq-iasFoyXg/
    https://desuarchive.org/co/search/image/hI8kFMtwAp872T9OmbEJZA/
    https://desuarchive.org/co/search/image/MgJytySh1jnT2Av6u05UXA/
    https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/130753894/#130761426
    https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/130326618/#130329245

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He'll just self-bump until the jannies wake from their euphoric troony stupors, as seen in the last thread

      Making fun of edgy shit is always warranted.

      Alan Moore was a ghostwriter on Amphibia. FACT!

      What are the storytelling implications of posting the same thread ad naseum?

      I simply do not understand the sort of autism that compels someone to post like this

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Making fun of edgy shit is always warranted.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Alan Moore was a ghostwriter on Amphibia. FACT!

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What are the storytelling implications of posting the same thread ad naseum?

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SEGA tried to get Alan Moore on board on the writer's team for Shadow the Hedgehog 2005.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is why superhero stories should rapidly accelerate the setting into a bonkers pulpy sci-fi.

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