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    10 months ago

    Jesus Christ

    Appealing to Christ will not magically make your super-creep “heroes” less problematic.

    Do you think Stan Lee made all his characters as explicit references to “institutionalized and concentrated power in the real world”?

    Yep. I have to give Stan Lee credit that, at least, with some (not all) of his characters he tried to circumvent the fundamental nature of the super-creep genre - such as with Peter Parker, for instance - but that doesn’t change the rigidly Ayn Randian nature of the universe this genre exists within.

    You seem like you’ve never read a comic in your life

    I was reading this stuff (and discovering far better stuff) long before the Berlin Wall fell, Clyde - sure you want to go down this route?

    mission to proselytize those ridiculous opinions.

    It doesn’t matter how reactionary you get about this - the subtext of the super-creep genre is what it is and can never be anything else.

    They are still fictional characters that justifies institutionalized and concentrated power - no matter what the good but naive intentions of their creators might be - that is what they always have been and always will be.