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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically Superman is one of the least fascy superheroes, at least when written by anyone who understands the character.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh they're just misrepresenting the argument. Most (famous) superheros aren't fascists. They spend a lot of time punching imperialists in the face at a minimum.

What they represent is a social desire for the hero-figure, the strong-man, to fix society's problems instead of collective and democratic action. That's the dilemma people like Alan Moore are pointing out when they talk about how comics can enable fascism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

On the one hand, you're right and I know it. It's the power fantasy over structural and social solutions/cooperation.

On the other hand, some are more fascy than Superman:

Batman (general ignoring of structural issues, the even heavier glorification of vigiliantism over most capes)
X-Men (if the gay, persecuted minority stuff gets occluded, and possibly due to those a lot of the villains)
Green Lantern (might be wrong here, but seems to be space cops with a strong link to US military. I'll assume Nazi-coded villains to make them seem more heroic.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah the Green Lantern Corps in particular actually sucks pretty hard. The human members spend a lot of time chastising them for either not doing enough or doing fashy space cop shit, and then doing genocides themselves.