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[–] Zorque 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

2 hours of showing Iron Man digging wells in Africa isn’t entertaining.

It's basically like that recurring criticism of Batman "Why doesn't he just use his money to make the world a better place instead of putting on a costume and beating up poor people."

The answer, of course, being that he does both, but the former doesn't really make for fun storyline by itself, so it's always a side-plot or passing reference instead of being the main story beat.

[–] Makeitstop 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And then everyone making the criticism ignores that passing reference.

[–] Zorque 6 points 1 week ago

Nah, everyone making the reference has never consumed any media involving the character, and say as much repeatedly.

But they still make the criticism, because their favorite content creator made a longwinded video about it that was full of supposition and assumption (or flat out making shit up for the views).

Because if someone makes a 20 minute youtube video about it, it must be true.