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Media literacy final boss are MAGAs. Same goes for some Christians praising Take Me to Church as a song of worship. You see this also a lot with video games and superheroes. No, Batman would NOT be on your side and games like Fallout have ALWAYS been political.
Neither would Punisher, despite the bullshit thinblueline skulls and that stupid orange-diddler combover variants.
Gerry Conway (RIP) literally took back over the book specifically to have Punisher threaten a cop for using his symbol. "You don't do what I do. Nobody does. [...] If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next."
Batman is a billionaire beating up environmentalists. Sounds pretty MAGA to me.
Batman can be viewed as a violent force of the status quo and if you fry your brain with post 9/11 propaganda you could even get the stupid idea that this is a good thing. Looking at you, Frank Miller.
But the idealized or, to be even more pretentious, platonic idea of Batman is everything but.
There's a comic arc where Batman tries feverishly to get rid of his fortune not through philanthropy but really by selling and giving away everything. The system is so rigged that he is still stupidly filthy rich by the end of it all and the systemic inequalities and corruption make it so that all his money is being squandered and used to further abuse victims instead of helping. So he ends up beating up people in a black suit anyway, as the only real way to fight corruption.
Also, there's a literal supernatural curse over the city anyways. It will always be evil and corrupt.
Where did the supernatural curse come from?
It depends on the universe and story arc. In one Batman is literally fighting a god that lives as a bat at the core of the city. One has an evil warlock from 40000 years ago sleeping under the city. My favorite one is that there's a literal portal to hell in Arkham's basement.
Where's my Batman/Buffy crossover? I just want to see Alfred and Giles talking.
Rich people, probably.
Yeah although usually it's Superman they're obsessed with anyway. Usually they like to complain that the current iteration is too woke, even though it's exact same character from the 1960s
Emphasis mine.
For some songs (like "We're not gonna take it"), only knowing the chorus explains why many people might miss the point. "Take Me to Church" doesn't even offer that saving grace.
Maybe they listened to one of the covers that seemingly obliviously changes the line to "the shrine of your light"
...of course that would be a thing. What'd they make of "so you can sharpen your knives"?
I don't think the people who do things like that actually pay attention to what they're doing. It's like a subconscious reflex for small-time Christian singers, or something.