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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I call it the Omniman/Homelander distinction

That is to say, is the deconstructing work made by someone who gets the message of the work being deconstructed or not.

Omniman is a complex look at the stated origin of Superman being sent to earth, and the paternalistic nature of what exactly Jor'El wished for Clark to do with the benefits of Earth's environment, and also a look at how even despite that, Superman would have been capable of learning to be a true hero without that guiding hand of a human upbringing, and that some of his spark isn't nature or nurture but just that drop of empathy it takes to make someone see helping others as worth it for its own sake.

Homelander is a wankfest about how bad superhero comics are written by a guy who wrote an entire series about how he believes everyone secretly wants to be a murder rapist and is just "brainwashed by societal bullshit" to not acknowledge it.