Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.
janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoWhich is a pity, because they do in the comics. Kitty and Nightcrawler are especially good at saving trapped people.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Um, ok. And, the main focus of the Bible isn’t gardening, either.
The primary focus isn’t saving people, because that would get old really fast. Is there even a comic where the primary focus is saving people, all the time? What good would saving people do if you didn’t also stop the thing causing the disaster? (Because it is almost always not a natural disaster in comics.)
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No. It was you who said the X-Men were never about saving people. I said yes they did. Then you seemed to argue that because the main focus of the X-Men comics isn’t specifically saving people, they are not focused on that in the slightest.
I agree they almost never talked about it in what I read of the original run, but that was the 60s. I’ve read plenty of X-Men comics (after the 70s reboot) where they arrive on scene and start saving people THEN focus on the bad guy.
I’m just trying to say that they do save people. Yes, it’s not the main focus of the comic, but why would it be?