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Guy is straight, this upsets Yaoi fans, twitter insults Yuri. This is why we call you tourists.
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I don't give a fuck about him being straight but My Hero Academia's whole story was a huge disappointment. Literally acknowledging multiple times that the whole war is basically caused by the failures of society and then doing nothing but rebuilding the exact same failed society with no changes. Yeah good idea! I'm sure kids won't fall through the cracks all over again and become villains and eventually organise into a paramilitary that starts another war! Maybe we should make society less shit so kids with powers that could destroy the entire fucking planet don't fall through the cracks? No no let's just rebuild capitalism because it's perfect!
Liberal storytelling in a nutshell
It's so frustrating and it's so obvious that like... In a society where people grow up with powers this damaging you absolutely need to change it so there aren't people that fall through the cracks and get left behind. Even if you're going to rebuild capitalism you MUST acknowledge that you can't allow people with powers to be failed by it surely. Any child with powers needs registering and their social well being needs to be closely monitored as a start. Social workers need to be visiting weekly and the state needs to have a log of the wellbeing of each and every single child with powers. Not a single one should be allowed to fail. They should be given deep privileges and social help just based on pure destructive power if they're not.
Sis, imagine how pissed off i was when Marvel did their Civil War crossover
Kicked off when a team of teenaged superheroes inadvertently cause the death of 300 people (most of them elementary school students) in Stamford, Connecticut
The U.S. government announces the Superhuman Registration Act, where every person with superpowers or advanced tech has to register with the U.S. government, where they would receive logistical support and training in exchange for potentially being called to military service
This splits the superhero community into two sides, one which argues that registration is the solution to superheroes not being held to any real standards and causing untold amounts of collateral damage and the other which argues that registration infringes on private liberty and puts the friends and family of the registered at risk
Could have been a really interesting story with some actual stakes and deep introspection on superheroes
Instead it boiled down to writers picking their own sides and immediately representing the other as an existential threat, which just ended up making the entire thing a jumbled mess
Anti-Registration got represented as a bunch of naive idealists who end up carrying out terror attacks after teaming up with supervillains and having one of Marvel's first Puerto Rican supers (Bantam, he's a super-boxer!) kill a guy for talking sass to him
Pro-Registration got saddled with kids being sent to military school and getting killed by secret experiments, also Nazi clone of Thor
This of course all comes to a head when the Pro and Anti sides come to a direct clash in the heart of Manhattan and a crowd of cops, firefighters and EMTs tackle Captain America to keep him from killing Iron Man and Cap just surrenders because "It's more important to do what most people want than to do what I think is right, even though my most famous moment from this comic is saying that standing up for what's right is the most important thing ever"
It's honestly the best example of the status quo being more important than everything else
Though, it did set events in motion to have Obama appoint Norman Osborn as the head of national security, which is very funny
A mad bomber in charge of national security is pretty normal for america
Oh it's fantastic, because he immediately goes and gets himself an Iron Man suit, paints it red, white, and blue, and starts calling himself Iron Patriot
Then he leads of team of supervillains who pretend to be the successors to the Avengers, but secretly begin to extort cities for their aid
This is seen as Norman Osborn being a criminal genius rather than as a complete failure on the part of EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE US GOVERNMENT
A lot of liberals are well educated and have decent literacy skills, so they are actually able to notice the flaws in the system really well.
They just don't believe you can fix them. They've become alienated from the common person and think most people are lower class than them, that they can't be trusted. You need specially trained people to keep society in check, the police and you need specially trained helpers, the heroes.
The only welfare systems that exists in their mind are the ones socialist Faught for in the past, but it's been memory holed. They think people just magically figured it out one day, with enough thinking and those ones worked, but nope you can't expand the system, to them you can only reduce it if anything lol
Summed up by their saying "Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's the best we've got"
I mean no system would ever produce extremely popular art that "dismantles" its ideological hegemony. Hollywood Writers (and the arts in general) also recruit from a very specific class - aka not the working class - so art reflects the bourgeois character of the artist and the studio.
Sort of true, but capitalism is notoriously willing to align itself with anything, as long as they don't see you as a threat. So you can sneak in counter-hegemonic messaging. Usually it's hidden behind humor and irony, that's the classic.
The issue is actually getting into a position where you can actually do it from. It's extremely unlikely someone with revolutionary principles would make their way into a big name publisher or even if they had those principles, it's likely they would become corrupted, because they are not accounted by the people.
Still I make this point, because while it's true you can't explicitly, in all seriousness, make something like: Animated series on how to organize and build a Socialist government, there's way more wiggle room than one might assume.
The easiest way to critique fascism is be like Helldivers, but I do have to say they rely on way too much irony, which just ends up preaching to either choir. Of course I could be wrong too.
But if you replace superhuman laser shooting eye blorb with x minority it really makes YOU the bad guy <-- most compelling liberal thought experiment.
This is what I hate about so much of apocalyptic fiction. The worst offender is Guillermo Del Toro in The Strain series where they basically just rebuild exactly the same after the brainworm vampires are defeated. My favorite is The Passage series where the vampire apocalypse actually transforms humanity into something closer resembling communism.
The absolute worst apocalyptic fiction is the Hobbesian "Now that the police and government are gone, everyone reverts to their worst instincts and turns into cannibal raiders except a few pockets of civilization ruled by Strong Patriarchs" nonsense
The Passage is the opposite of that which is why it is so good.
well duh the problem was Real capitalism hadn't been tried because the vampires made it vampirocapitalism and now with them vanquished the Market can truly be free
Every single fucking time. Writers have no imagination for any system beyond the existing one (with a few minor changes).
I'm reminded of "The Swerve"
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This is the heart of nearly every superhero story
Everything is fine, villains are bad for wanting change
usually with "villain wants to do something good, but they want to... use FORCE to MAKE it happen!
"
It's honestly maddening because the movies let the heroes use lethal force constantly and without restraint
They don't even have that high ground argument of "We don't kill!" anymore!
Drives me fucking nuts
I dunno, I'd say the stereotypical superhero story usually more has the villain wanting essentially a fascist dictatorship ie "ruling the world", no?
It's funny because when you boil it down, that's really only true of maybe two or three of the big supervillains
Magneto, who basically wants mutant Isreal and how correct he is to want that changes depending on the writer
Dr. Doom, who concocts most of his plans to cheese off Mr. Fantastic and is usually content with ruling Latveria
Count Nefaria, who is pretty much a c-list villain whose most famous act was killing Thunderhawk, another c-list character
Most other Marvel villains have plans that go beyond becoming a fascist dictator
i also hoped for better given the hints at society failing and creating its 'villains' but i really shouldn't have.
i still love all might though, he's probably my favorite supe across genres