Yeah, so this is all covered in that video. Spiderman is probably the closest to progressive listed. Heâs working class, he has trouble with cops, his family is poor. Heâs reactionary in the literal sense, because he takes action in response to super villains. He doesnât ever do anything proactively to make the world more just, he just responds to people trying to make it worse. Imagine if he robbed a bank and gave it to the poor or broke in to an ICE vehicle depot and disabled all their vehicles so they couldnât raid immigrants. By the standard construction of the genre, heâd automatically become a villain⌠And thatâs the point.
Again, this is all covered in the video. If you want to challenge your understanding of the world, great. If not, Iâm not really going to keep paraphrasing a video that presents these ideas more effectively than I do.
Mirshe@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâll throw in Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), who literally threw his fortune and company down the drain because he couldnât square being a good person and a billionaire. Oh, and he also went and fought drug dealers, corrupt landlords, and racists in the 80s with Green Lantern specifically because the government wasnât doing anything substantial to stop those things.
Writers are to blame for superheroes supporting the status quo, not the genre.