Actually they're mostly reactionary conservative supercops who only act to preserve the status quo, aren't they?
The popular DC / Marvel ones certainly do
I mean, Superman's nemesis is literally a billionaire who at one point was the president of the US. Captain America straight up quit in protest against Richard Nixon once. And of course there's the whole X-Men thing.
Comic books are books. The characters are as progressive or regressive as the writers make them, but there are many examples of superhero books leaning center-left in their context from fairly early on.
Black Adam was free on Prime, so I said why not.
It was a bit hammy in the introduction but the Justice Society gets called right out for coming in to protect the US-coded mercenaries from Black Adam's murder spee and being nowhere to be found when Kahndaq was invaded by them in the first place.
Of course, Black Adam as anything but a nationalistic tyrant is some straight up bullshit, but whatever.
Anyways, point is, I want more superheroes fighting imperialism.
Superman was created as an anti-fascist, and needs to return to his roots, not let a tornado kill his dad.
benign fascists (that's how you know it's fiction)
I think I knew it was fiction when they started shooting spiders out of their eyes.
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All popular superheroes are maintainers of the status quo, so no, they aren't woke.
Tell me Batman is woke lol
Woke as fuck. Pours billions into helping the poor and sickly, spends his genius intellect and superhuman abilities hunting madmen and women who would slaughter millions if possible. Will gladly use violence to stamp out oppressors, doesnt allow himself to be bound by law but also does not murder. Has a code, lives by it. Does good in a city that is literally, and I mean literally, cursed to be evil.
In some timelines actively saves the earth/universe/multiverse by his own damn self. Ain't much more woke possible than "save all of known existence for all variants of all people in all of time and space that can or will ever be."
A non-woke superhero is known as a supervillain...depending on their presentation.
I just re-watched that movie a couple days ago!
Funny thing. There's a Simpsons episode where baby Maggie is in a pre-school that bans pacifiers. There's a sign on the wall, "A is A." I always thought it was a reference to the comic, and only found out it was an actual Ayn Rand quote later.
what about superdickery
