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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Stop Calling Superheroes Fascist

My good friend Chris Yogerst has a quick but interesting read in The Atlantic with the above title. An excerpt:
Indeed, superhero tales are full of subplots about how heroes limit their own power: hibernating once the big bad guy has been defeated, wearing disguises to live ordinary lives, choosing not to give into the temptation to ally with the villain or use their powers for profit or even civilizational progress. That’s because the creators of some of the most foundational superhero tales weren’t writing solely out of a power fantasy. They were writing out of a fantasy that a truly good people who find themselves with power might use that power only for good—and only in the face of extreme evil.
Read it all here.