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Woke superheroes rule (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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

Since the turn of the 21st century, however, Black Adam has been redefined by DC Comics writers Jerry Ordway, Geoff Johns, and David S. Goyer as an ancient Kahndaqi and corrupted antihero

Turning reactionary villains into woke antiheroes is based. We need to wokify comic books

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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!"