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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (31 children)

Is this a normal thing in comic book movies?

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 160 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (26 children)

No, it's not at all. This is total nonsense. If anything, superheroes are usually persecuted by the government.

Spider-Man specifically is literally an outlaw.

And look at the X-Men. Half the time the gov wants to wipe mutants out.

Maybe you can say that about Captain America, but he was created to defeat the Nazis. So yeah, who the fuck is not on the government side in this situation?

And when the gov became corrupt, Captain America became an outlaw.

So whoever is upvoting this and whoever created this doesn't know much about Marvel or comics.

I mean I don't know that much, but I know the bare minimum to know this is nonsense.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The thing is that the stories are nonsense and unrealistic. There is no way that real superheroes wouldnt be either under government control or spiral out of control like in "the boys". What people hate about these movies is the naive belief that superheroes would be a force of good in the world and not just another tool of destruction like any other weapon.

[–] PiousAgnostic@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The stories are just the evolution of the fables of gods walking the earth as men. Comics and fables have some pretty deep meanings. Yes, they are unrealistic. But they are not nonsense.

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