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How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don't want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago (22 children)

Idk, I always thought Superman was cool, but a little boring and vanilla. I normally prefer Batman. Admittedly, I've never dived down the Superman lore pit, but I am aware that he gets a little darker sometimes. He's definitely one of the better role model heroes. Anyone that actually hates Superman, is a dipshit.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

I dunno', batman is cool, but he's an ineffectual LARPer that refuses to do the ONE thing that would actually start to fix things in Gotham...

That and he's a billionaire that decides to keep up the playboi image despite his escapades demonstrably having a miniscule effect on crime in Gotham compared to him just using his billions to actually help solve the systemic issues in Gotham's economy that drives so many to crime in the first place.

In short, Batman is everything wrong with the American attitude about capitalism.

At least Superman has the excuse that he is not an economic powrhouse that actually could indirectly improve thousands upon thousands of peoples' lives. ... as weirdly as an all-powerful being not being an economic powerhouse is.

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on the comic. Sometimes he has philanthropic initiatives that get attacked by the bad guys.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Sometimes seems like a piss-poor excuse to me.

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