01-04-2025, 01:23 PM
(01-04-2025, 12:36 AM)benji wrote: Speaking of politics this is an amusing one to contrast with their reaction to Snyder, where they were outraged that the films depicted a world and characters both effected by and responding in various ways to just the existence of Superman. They prefer the safety of the MCU where literal gods fly around and the status quo of our world remains completely unchanged. Where half of everyone disappears for five years, possibly the most traumatic event in human history, and nobody talks about it much. These guys bitch about how evil everyone else in our society is, but they got upset that the Snyderverse's masses didn't embrace Superman immediately and few trusted him. "Missing the point of Superman." Or taking the character and concept seriously in a world where some people are willing to draw Muhammed.
Arguably you could expand this to an overall DC vs. Marvel thing because that's how the comics are. The Marvel Universe even has the same President as our world, there's been six decades plus with zero technological trickle-down from anything that's happened since Reed Richards launched that space flight. (Ultimate Marvel was different however.) DC comes up with elaborately stupid explanations for why their universe tracks ours so closely in design. (Essentially our world is the actual "true" Earth in DC that the others are vibrations of.) Though they from time to time do show that there's been a trickle-out through LexCorp and Wayne Enterprises at minimum, so the DC Universe often seems to be a few years ahead of ours. I'd argue that it is especially so in medical technology, there's remarkably little death.
I remember one of the DC vs Marvel crossover comics, where Captain America is fucking disgusted by the hero worship of the Justice League in general and Superman in particular in their own universe, because the Marvel heroes are generally more underpowered and also generally have a more antagonistic relationship with both the authorities and the citizens they try to protect and he assumes the DCU supes must be up to no good enthralling the population.
Like, Captain America making Richard Nixon Become An Hero is still fucking canon in the 616
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