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  • Isn’t the superhero supposed to come in around the time to stop these people from uniting to achieve social justice? I was under the assumption that the super hero preserves the status quo and any deviation from it is seen as villainy.

    I mean, in the dark knight bane toppled the stock market and promised to give power to the people, and spoke the truth to people about what happened when the joker was alive.

    Whereas batman leverages his generational wealth to undermine a socialist revolution and tries to paint himself the good guy after being called out for lying by “sacrificing” himself to save the city. Whereas in reality he was vacationing in France.

    The superheroes aren’t the good guys. They’re just cops with super powers.

    Superman - the cop that beats up communists

    Batman - the cop who beats up the poor

    Tony stark - the commissioner who promises the ai facial recognition tech will only be used against criminals. After all “you’ve got nothing to hide”. Is the literal embodiment of the military industrial complex. Also has a lot of beef with middle eastern people.

    Spiderman - another cop that beats up the poor but stood up to one CEO so everyone thinks he’s one of the good guys… except that was also only in one of the multiverse places afaik

    Captain America - the embodiment of America being the world’s police force

    The x-men - supported and maintained the genocide and segregation of their own people because it was more agreeable than violent revolution

    Ad nauseam

    TL;DR in a superhero story, OP would be the bad guy