• yesman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Seeing these cops illustrated in power stances makes me glad I never got into comic books.

    When you think about it, superheroes are really just cops. I mean they love violence and are always vigilant to protect the status quo.

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      4 months ago

      Super heroes are a lot of things. Some are “cops”, some are individuals just trying to do good in the world. We heroes more than we need cops.

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      4 months ago

      The difference is that superheroes actually try to help and be heroes.

      If they didn’t, they would be classified as supervillains.

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      They are worse than cops. They are glorified for being vigilantes, who have no protocol or rules to observe.

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      4 months ago

      Playing the modern Spider-Man games made me realize this. Spider-Man is literally just a young, naïve cop wannabe who sees good and evil in a disturbingly black and white way.

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      Lol there have been plenty of counter culture anti-authority comic books. A single panel of police in, what are probably, just stock poses the artist had reference already handy for surely can’t ruin an entire medium