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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean that is kinda the plot of The Boys.

[–] EvokerKing 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Captain America civil war

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

And the incredibles 2

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

And The Incredibles

[–] Beetschnapps 27 points 1 year ago

And one of the Spider-Man movies.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And one of the Avengers films

[–] FlyingSquid 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, just picture the mass graves that would have to be dug to deal with the hundreds or even thousands of bodies from things like Battle of New York.

[–] nyoooom 24 points 1 year ago

I mean to be fair without them it would have been even worse

[–] saltesc 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd definitely move away from NYC.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

NYC Real Estate though 📉📉📉

[–] TheBat 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That guy is a hero

Oh no, he murdered 38 people.

Actually he was under mind control when he did that but he's still a hero.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, he murdered 38 people.

Actually he's rich/famous so it's alright, he's a hero.

Imagine a no name who start doing half the shit the avengers are doing.

Actually we don't need to imagine, usually when a no name with power start to do something he's depicted as the villain of the story

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Vulture was objectively the good guy.

[–] ChamrsDeluxe 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aside from the fact he was selling weapons to criminals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

"He may have slammed an entire planet into the alien overlord's space castle, killing billions and wiping out a thriving, intelligent, peaceful species, but hey, he saved Earth so it's all good!"

[–] Son_of_dad 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I lived in the DC universe I'd be on team Luthor. This all powerful alien shows up on earth and starts dictating morality and telling every human what to do, wrecking cities and tossing cars and shit

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You'd rather a billionaire tell everyone what to do instead? I'd be on team Waller. She at least has some checks and balances.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Being such a monster that your subordinates, who happily participated in your illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, have to physically assault you to stop your crimes against humanity isn't having checks and balances.

[–] Son_of_dad 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lex (named after Alexander) is a representation of a current age Alexander, a humans who is intelligent, driven and capable (he could balance the national budget on a napkin and fix the global economy if he wanted to) people just don't like his methods.

If you look at Lex as Alexander, Superman is an Alien who shows up from space and is constantly trying to stop Lex from taking over the world (which he could do if not for Superman). So how moral is Superman in stopping Lex? If Superman had landed in ancient times, would he have stopped Alexander? Would he have annihilated Caesar, or Genghis, or Napoleon? Interfering in human affairs and changing the course of human history forever? The very thing his father Jor El told him not to do?

I think it's an interesting take, to see Lex as a human being trying to achieve his potential and rule over other humans, something Lex feels is his right if he can achieve it, while an outsider is trying to stop him, based on a fake "justice in the American way" morality that never existed. Superman is an alien who thinks he's a brainwashed farm boy who drank the Kool aid of American propaganda.

[–] GamingChairModel 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If there were superheros that could violate the laws of thermodynamics at will, I would expect them to at least run the world on limitless clean energy.

It would probably only take a little bit of time to figure out ways to store the energy so that all of society could run without the superheros continuously working shifts and stuff: like maybe they just reheat a molten salt core from time to time, or fill up a high altitude lake with water upstream from some hydro plants.

[–] Duamerthrax 8 points 1 year ago

Wasn't Tony Stark going to scale up the Arc Reactor in first movie for clean, limitless energy? Instead, he fought a radical environmentalist to close his story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I would expect them to at least run the world on limitless clean energy.

There's an xkcd as well, of course

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 7 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if I'm 100% caught up, but it's good

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

FYI, destruction of property by police already entitles you to zero compensation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8QO6jE5dA

[–] kameecoding 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recommend watching this excellent Pop Culture Detective video titled Defenders of the Status Quo

https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU?si=5tEIHzEBIN3zC5JL

it might ruin your enjoyment of marvel though

[–] CaptainBlagbird 7 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume i enjoy the MCU

[–] Elivey 5 points 1 year ago

Yes yes yes! Cannot recommend this channel enough! Thought of this video as well lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago