What about if the fire spread to surrounding buildings?
The militarily would
sendasks nicely Superman to deal with the “domestic terrorism” that is threatening the 'murikan way of life & save the innocent glorious cars.Also Sexxy Lexxy would have produced way better cars.
Superman of the comics (from about the mid-80s onward) would tell the military, politely, to go find a location to fornicate with themselves.
Also the animated Superman. He took would tell them to go fuck themselves. Neither one would actually curse.
That being said, both incarnations would put the fire out, if only to prevent environmental damage.
Possibly by dropping a large block of ice on the building.
Superman in the '30s would be lighting the fires.
Good job Superman.
At least make sure no non management workers are in trouble. You don’t have to put the fires out.
It’s Superman. Surely with his x-ray vision he could see that there was no one left.
That’s why he listens.
imo it would be funnier if he started taking pictures (since he’s supposed to be a journalist, right?)
That’s Jimmy Olsen’s whole purpose. Even Clark gets to “not my job” this situation.
Man of fire?
I knew Superman was a domestic terrorist.
I’m not an expert but it might be tricky to argue that an actual bonafide genuine alien could be a domestic terrorist…
Superman is as American as apples.
That is a sentence I cannot disagree with.
Only because the path to citizenship for earth humans can be as long as 28 years in the united states. How long do you think it takes for a kryptonian?
I mean, there was that time he tore down the homes of a bunch of low income people.
Was that the MOVE bombing? Because I’m pretty sure he blamed that on a black mayor.
From January 1939, Superman single-handedly tears down a low-income neighborhood. He wasn’t attacking a group of political activists. He just decided that a group of homes were slums and thus worthy of being demolished.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Action_Comics_Vol_1_8#Synopsis_for_Superman:_"Superman_in_the_Slums"
I got a good chuckle out of it lol. Though there are some incongruencies. Phone booths are an anachronism that really don’t exist currently alongside tesla. Especially not the bright red BT phone booths. Those definitely would not be the variety seen in Metropolis. But those are only small little nitpicks that don’t distract from the larger message which I agree with.
What’s even worse is superman isn’t even real! Immersion broken!!
Metropolis was at least partially based on Joseph Shuster’s home town of Toronto, and there’s a bright red BT-style phone booth in Eglinton Square on Victoria Park Ave.
Definitely a fun fact🙂
Well fuck you then, he hopped into a Doctor-Who-themed strip-club before changing his clothes. Superman likes the strange. Get over it.
Eldritch has joined the rank of “Meme Destroyer”
LOL well not trying to destroy it. It’s just one of those things that initially I saw I didn’t think about twice. But then I did think about it it just kind of tickled my brain in a funny way to think how anachronistic it all is now. That there are no phone booths anymore. Where does Superman change now? Does he just do it in an alley like a bum?
There’s plenty of abandoned malls and former retail shops that now just sit abandoned in the wake of Amazon’s dominance. If you’re going to make everything about realism, I’m sure there’s never a former radioshack or blockbuster, or toys r us nearby.
To you perhaps. Here no actually. The Last Remnant of the large local mall is set to be torn down soon as Macy’s is closing. The rest of the mall was torn down nearly 10 years ago. There are no remnants of Radio Shack or Blockbuster or Toys R Us here either. Though some of the buildings they used to occupy are still here. But not abandoned.
But isn’t it crazy to think about all those things like that that future Generations will have no good context for
Metropolis has no cell signal, due to the large deposits of Plotrelevantanium in the soil, so they actually do still have a ton of phone booths
it’s a cosplayer’s prop
I’m not American, so I may be out of place here, but you shouldn’t celebrate or support arson or terrorism.
We went through a drug war here during the time of our own strongman president that cost the innocents. His justification, wholly adopted by his supporters, was: the ends justify the means.
It was horrible and wrong. This is also horrible and wrong.
No, it’s cool to celebrate arson and terrorism when it’s against terrorist billionaire oligarchs who are burning your country down.
I don’t think this hurt them at all.
Fucking up Tesla dealerships isn’t terrorism. Stop simping for the elite.
Wasn’t it cars that came in for repairs that were burnt?
I’m not American either, but can confirm you are out of place here.
This is not horrible - this is people fighting back: the most beautiful thing ever.
Fighting back by hurting inmocents? That’s not right.
Which innocents were hurt?
The owners of the cars that were burnt. AFAIK the cars burned were there for repairs.
Counterpoint: Nah, let 'em burn.
Superman is a capitalist lap dog lol
V: … Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots! Well? Cat got your tongue? I thought as much. Very well. So you stand revealed at last, you are no longer my Justice. You are his Justice now, you have bedded another. Well, two can play at that game!
“Madame Justice”: Sob! Choke! Wh-Who is she, V? What is her name?
V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a Mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that Justice is meaningless without Freedom. She is honest, she makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So goodbye, dear Lady. I would be saddened by our parting, even now, save that you are no longer the woman that I once loved.
Just like V was changed from an anarchist in the V for Vendetta movie, Superman also had more radical leftist origins.
He seemed like an anarchist in the movie to me
Take from it what you will, but Alan Moore gave some clarity on the differences in an interview:
Alan Moore made his disdain for the movie version of “V For Vendetta” clear during an interview with MTV. “[The comic] was specifically about things like fascism and anarchy,” said Moore. “Those words, ‘fascism’ and ‘anarchy,’ occur nowhere in the film. It’s been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country … It’s a thwarted and frustrated and perhaps largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values [standing up] against a state run by neo-conservatives — which is not what ‘V for Vendetta’ was about.”
https://www.looper.com/633531/the-untold-truth-of-v-for-vendetta/
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defender of the status quo. Anyone intent on making actual meaningful change is painted as criminally insane, no matter how good their points may be.
EDIT: More downvotes than upvotes, I think lemmy misunderstands my point. People like superman, I do too. The morals that superman is supposed to be the embodiment of are good ones to have. In a sane and rational world, everyone should look up to superman. We do not live in a sane and rational world. Superman’s world is supposed to resemble the real world, but with super people in it, therefore the shittiness of the real world can be assumed to exist in superman’s world. We have a wealthy businessman president, and he’s not a genius playboy philanthropist, Both marvel and dc tell us that the real world is as good as it gets, and the real world sucks ass right now. Superman was envisioned by his original creators to be a super man, he who could punch the problems that us regular people can’t. So where are the stories in which superman fights the problems us real people have? Those stories don’t exist. Superman, in the modern era, exist to protect the status quo. Any real meaningful change is scary to the audience, and actively threatening to the companies that own the property. Therefore, superman licks the boot.
lex luthor?
i was thinking about the elite, but there’s tons of examples if i were to put any effort into thinking about it.
luthor I have different grievances with, particularly the glorification of wealthy businessman, and how they’re almost always depicted as being charismatic geniuses. This portrayal in fiction makes the statement that real world billionaires are genius playboy philanthropists, wether that’s the author’s intention or not.
I would love a storyline where Luther claims to be Ceaser, but is shown to be more akin to Nero.
That does sound interesting. Maybe you should write it.
Batman is a 1% elitist who is basically an extention of the police. Notice that the only black criminals in Gotham are (sometimes) catwoman? It’s because the police just kill the black criminals.
But a deranged clown is going to blow up city hall? Better call the deranged guy in the bat costume.
And the guy in the bat costume will just put the deranged clown in a prison that can be easily escaped from. Under The Red Hood addresses this quite well, in my opinion.
