Actually they’re mostly reactionary conservative supercops who only act to preserve the status quo, aren’t they?
I mean, Superman’s nemesis is literally a billionaire who at one point was the president of the US. Captain America straight up quit in protest against Richard Nixon once. And of course there’s the whole X-Men thing.
Comic books are books. The characters are as progressive or regressive as the writers make them, but there are many examples of superhero books leaning center-left in their context from fairly early on.
At their core, however, the classic superheroes work to maintain the status quo and support the existing power structures of when they’re written.
At no point did Superman or Captain America stop American forces from invading a foreign country for example, or overthrow a medical insurance company.
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.
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
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All popular superheroes are maintainers of the status quo, so no, they aren’t woke.
Tell me Batman is woke lol
Woke as fuck. Pours billions into helping the poor and sickly, spends his genius intellect and superhuman abilities hunting madmen and women who would slaughter millions if possible. Will gladly use violence to stamp out oppressors, doesnt allow himself to be bound by law but also does not murder. Has a code, lives by it. Does good in a city that is literally, and I mean literally, cursed to be evil.
In some timelines actively saves the earth/universe/multiverse by his own damn self. Ain’t much more woke possible than “save all of known existence for all variants of all people in all of time and space that can or will ever be.”
Idk, Lex Luthor makes some awful good points about making Humanity Great Again.
No moral billionares. Philanthropic billionaries act in their own self interest.
He has literally saved all space and time.
Hes a good billionare, which tells you that he is also imaginary.
Practically every billionaire is born into the wealth, but they choose to be evil. Batman said fuck that and literally spent his entire fortune fighting corruption and helping the poor. I mean, maybe you could say that because of his pathos that was all still acting in his own best interest. But, what the fuck is wrong with being philanthropic because it makes you feel better?
A non-woke superhero is known as a supervillain…depending on their presentation.
