or rampant fascism. I don’t think Superman is a particularly realistic character- all powerful and only mildly a dick?
First… Not everyone is just hiding being a dick because it’s socially unacceptable. Most people just aren’t dicks and don’t want to be. Just like most people don’t have to be told not to kill others, that’s just not something they’d do. They don’t have to be threatened with prison, or eternal damnation, or anything like that to stop themselves.
Second… Superman is an alien. How do we know what is normal for his species? The only insight we have is the comic universe.
Okay. But…
People with superpowers are still people, and most people are a mix of good and bad.
And some people are absolutely vile (see maga, Johnson, Theil, Trump,)
And some are positively saintly. (See most dogs.)
You would expect superpeople to be similar. So if we see fascist people getting power occasionally and ruining the world; you’d expect superpeople to do so too
There are a mix in comics. The good are superheroes the bad are supervillians. And some of them are in the grey. Batman doesn’t kill, but has no problem beating the shit out of henchman. Red hood killed people for good reasons, most of the time. He is sometimes a hero and sometimes a villain. Poison Ivy is a villain who often helps women and doesn’t hurt kids.
Also Deadpool. Just yeah, great guy who is an unrepentant killer.
I would murder everyone if it weren’t for those pesky laws!
If it weren’t for those stupid-ass laws, there would be no murder, at all!
I would murder anyone who looked at me cockeyed!
People wouldn't treat each other with dignity without religion!
There are some obvious historical counterexamples.
Yes officer, this comment right here
Did Lex Luthor write this
There’s many versions of Superman though.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He was raised by kind people. Not everyone is a dick
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
where in my comments did I say everyone was a dick?
look at a large number of the older Superman panels. he’s frequently a dick to the people in his life.