• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Also you ever notice that the most common crime that superheroes fight is robbing of banks, jewellery stores, etc? And they cause TONS of collateral damage to the surrounding city while doing so?

    Oh you’re a struggling worker living in a run down studio apartment next to the bank? Fuck you, a plasma bolt through your window incinerating everything you own is absolutely worth the banker oligarch losing the tiniest amount of capital in the eyes of this city’s supposed saviour!

    Oh you’re riding the train on your way to your dead end wage slave job? Hope you don’t mind the fighter for all things good using that train as a projectile to launch at the villain! Just pull your broken legs up by their bootstraps and crawl out of the wreckage of your train to work, peasant.

    Oh you’re the bank teller working minimum wage? You wouldn’t mind if we turned this already dangerous holdup you’re caught in into a literal fucking warzone with lasers and missiles right? After all, it doesn’t matter if you die horrifically as long as the money is safe!

    All popular depictions of super"heroes" were always in the best interests of the bourgeoisie, not the citizens. They’re even depicted to have largely replaced the police in their cities. They’re not superheroes, they’re just supercops.