• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    11 months ago

    Black Adam was free on Prime, so I said why not.

    It was a bit hammy in the introduction but the Justice Society gets called right out for coming in to protect the US-coded mercenaries from Black Adam’s murder spee and being nowhere to be found when Kahndaq was invaded by them in the first place.

    Of course, Black Adam as anything but a nationalistic tyrant is some straight up bullshit, but whatever.

    Anyways, point is, I want more superheroes fighting imperialism.

    Superman was created as an anti-fascist, and needs to return to his roots, not let a tornado kill his dad.

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      Superman’s real weakness was his lack of weaknesses. It made his physical character development non-existent so they were left with writing him into social situations. Superman is a MacGuffin, Clark is the main character.

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      Superheroes fighting false information online would be nice. Or forcing public healthcare through government. Etc etc.

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        The problem is that they undid his antihero phase by having him genocide a neighboring country, Bialya, the origin of the Blue Beetle scarab btw, then kept that genocide canon.

        So now they’ve got a genocidal tyrant on the Justice League going “No, you don’t get it, I’ve CHANGED, bros!”