• Semjaza
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    2 days ago

    On the one hand, you’re right and I know it. It’s the power fantasy over structural and social solutions/cooperation.

    On the other hand, some are more fascy than Superman:

    • Batman (general ignoring of structural issues, the even heavier glorification of vigiliantism over most capes)
    • X-Men (if the gay, persecuted minority stuff gets occluded, and possibly due to those a lot of the villains)
    • Green Lantern (might be wrong here, but seems to be space cops with a strong link to US military. I’ll assume Nazi-coded villains to make them seem more heroic.)
    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      Yeah the Green Lantern Corps in particular actually sucks pretty hard. The human members spend a lot of time chastising them for either not doing enough or doing fashy space cop shit, and then doing genocides themselves.