Set it during the 60's, have him visit Cuba and disguise himself as Fidel where he smokes an exploding cigar.
They teamup to fight aliens, Wally West helps Castro and a small group of rebels.
I had no clue. Holy shit that's actually a good voice for Fidel
https://i.redd.it/tnwsu8djd1q71.jpg
Capeshit? MCU? Cineplex?
Looks like you hit your head there comrade. Come, we're late for Comrade Tarkovsky's adaptation of an obscure American comic book called Bat Man.
Oh god, soviet reworks of superheroes would be great. Like not Red Son or pallet swaps but actual proletarian art adapting them
I will forever wish for a Superman who truly hears the suffering and pain of the lower classes across the world and goes on a globetrotting capitalist murder spree. There is no way Superman doesn't hear the cries of child slaves and not have it break his heart. Or listening to some petty criminal talk about how xyz crime is the only way to pay for their child's medical bills causing him to question the system. Or any of the 1000 other things that a character as powerful as that would be aware of and should find reprehensible after thinking about it for just 5 minutes. Like, dude is supposed to have super intelligence on top of all his other superpowers and he can't connect the dots?
He used to be like that, until the Cold War killed that part of the character.
(Also, back then, he wasn't nearly as powerful).
yeah didn't he used to be like if an alien adapted to absolutely crushing gravity ended up on a comparatively low gravity world like Earth? (edited that mess of the first half of sentence)
He was john carter of mars but on earth. Origionally he was leaping tall buildings in a single bound, not really flying
I was thinking the other day how Superman and Elder Scrolls have evolved in opposite directions when it comes to flight
Superman started by leaping tall buildings in a single bound, then he could fly
In Morrowind you could use levitation to fly, then in Oblivion you are downgraded to leaping over buildings if you level up athletics and finally in Skyrim you can't jump or fly for shit
If it helps most animals when they fly, are jumping really hard then gliding a bit. There are other kinds of flight. But that is the most common, so in that reguard it isn't far off. Birds of course are functionally swimming throughout the air so fuck them anyway
what do you mean most animals? the majority of fliers by sheer volume, weight, species, or numbers are insects, which do indeed fly.
At one point, "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" were literally all his powers.
Hell heat-vision originally WAS x-ray vision, which he realized would heat shit if prolonged
The thing is they DO those stories, like constantly. The problem is not with superheroes are a concept or the characters, it is the nature of comics as an industry. Any story that reaches an end, or anything that would change the profitable status quo has to be temporary. Be it political or just experimenting story-wise.
My friend who does great philosophy videos btw, talks about this a lot like in this video on why batman doesn't kill. It is not about the morality, but the sales figures. Above everything things cannot change because the market demands it. So you will have stories that actually do go to the logical conclusion, but they can't be allowed to last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkoQgXd7miU
That is the first issue of red son. It's kinda great. Just... just don't read the rest
one of my favorite tropes in any story is when some realistic villain or organization that has terrorized normal/regular people with impunity since always inadvertently (through random chance, law of averages) draws the ire of someone or something that is operating on a truly different playing field with much higher stakes, and generally drawing upon a capacity or competency that is multiple orders of magnitude greater than anything they have ever conceived of existing.
like say a crooked cop tries to victimize a possible witness to his corruption who turns out to literally be a demon that was busy with something else, but has decided to give the cop its full attention.
it's all over the place in media, to varying degrees. Man on Fire is a non-supernatural example. very heavy "now you have fucked up" vibes.
I don't care how many times it is used. I want to see it used more. I especially like it when we, as the audience, are observing the much more dangerous character in a story, and this fool comes along thinking they've found easy prey.
realistic villain or organization that has terrorized normal/regular people with impunity since always inadvertently (through random chance, law of averages) draws the ire of someone or something that is operating on a truly different playing field with much higher stakes
I haven’t seen anything but the first one, but I loved it. Are the other two worth watching?
I say yes. 2 is not as good as 1 but is a fun action movie. 3 is really good even if just visually. You gotta turn your brain off of course
Happens in comics every so often. One of my favorites is when a random mugger decides he’s going to rob the first woman he sees walking alone, and manages to pick Big Barda of the New Gods, a Superman-scale flying brick with about 6 to a dozen ways she could instantly turn a regular human into ground beef.
The anime overlord has this a lot, because regular medieval fantasy style villains end up going up against a demon king and his massive army and it does not go their way. Dunno if I'd recommend overlord because I watched it years ago, might not acutally be good, but it was fun seeing a massive sex-trafficking and drug ring get ripped to shreds overnight because they annoyed a half-dragon butler.
Isekai can be a mixed bag, usually terrible but on the occasion you find a protagonist who understands slavery is wrong it can be a real treat
:who-did-this: yeah who has ever enjoyed that show? (I watched it before maturing as a leftist and at a time I felt betrayed, sad, and very angry. Not actually sure if it was good or not but DEFINITELY not recommending it to anyone ever.)
I try my best not to think about some of the isekai I watched years ago.
The protagonist in Overlord isn't portrayed as a good guy.
a massive sex-trafficking and drug ring get ripped to shreds overnight because they annoyed a half-dragon butler.
Tried watching this once, couldn't get through more than 2 episodes. Might have to play fast and loose with the fast-forward button just for funsies now...
Just occurred to me, look up clips of sebas and that's really all you're looking for
You could just start the second half of season two and understand. But honestly don't even bother. If you didn't enjoy the first episode or two you aren't going to like the rest of it.
Law abiding citizen was fun for this reason. Definitely not a perfect movie but satisfying. Same thing with Taken
This is a ton of batman stories, except the opposite: poor people trying to kill Bruce Wayne, not because he's batman but because he's a rich asshole
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Gary Webb and Danny Cassolaro are hiding in the fortress of solitude
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Superman is tasked by his CIA handlers to eliminate the meddlesome journalist Clark Kent
