re: We're Re-examining How We Portray Cops Onscreen. Now It's Time to Talk About Superheroes

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I swear Thanos was the good guy in these lunatics minds.

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Have you spent an hour trying to move five miles in Baton Rouge? Thanos was on to something

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Now every fringe opinion gets accelerated straight to “headline” news. Anyone can write anything and make it seem like it has a following.

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You think the majority of Democrats don’t agree with this article ?

Just.

The.

Statues.

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swear these Twitter Warrior "journalists" are some miserable mfers. Jesus they're fricking movies for entertainment it doesn't need to be politicized.

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We have been told for years having gay people on TV doesn’t indoctrinate you into thinking homosexuality is ok or normal. But now they are saying portraying cops as good guys indoctrinated people to ignore bad cops?

Written by Eliana Dockterman, a lily white woman who only runs in elite white circles, has never really been a comic book fan in her life and has few black friends. The problem is Marvel just isn't woke enough, see.

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most superhero stories star straight, white men

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True, because historically that's been the demographic that bought most of the comics.

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who either function as an extension of a broken U.S. justice system or as vigilantes without any checks on their powers.

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Wrong. They usually become vigilantes in order to address issues beyond the justice system (ie: super-villains the system can't incarcerate without aid from the heroe(s)).

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Usually, they have some sort of tentative relationship with the government: The Avengers work for the secretive agency S.H.I.E.L.D.; Batman takes orders from Gotham police commissioner Gordon;

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Wrong. Working WITH someone is not the same as working FOR someone. Gordon doesn't give Batman marching order, for example. He gives Batman cases the cops can't handle or make headway on, but Batman can decide whether to follow up on them or wipe his arse with them.

The technical term for this is called "cooperation" and it can be explained in more depth on pretty much any episode of Sesame Street.

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even the villainous members of the Suicide Squad execute government orders in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

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See: work release programs

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And even when superheroes function outside the justice system, they’re sometimes idolized by police because they are able to skirt the law to “get the job done.”

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No shite. That's kind of the whole point, no idea why this twit considers it a negative.


Interesting tidbit of projection by the author: Every instance of the word "black" (all 20) in that article are all capitalized ("Black") while every instance of the word "white" (all 8) in the article are all lower-cased ("white").

When I think of super villains, without thinking, the first that comes to mind are Joker, Lex Luthor, Darkseid, Green Goblin, Two-face, and Red Skull.

Not a single one of those guys are black. Hell, the only black villain I can even think of is Killmonger. Someone help me out am I missing some more?

To go beyond movie universe, in the CW verse. Oliver Queen at his most vigilantism went against a bunch of white businessman who were shady. I'm not even sure if he went after a single black person the 1st season. Beyond that, never has the main villain been black(I haven't watched in 2 years so maybe that changed). Hell, for the Flash and Arrow, 90% of the random street criminals they deal with are always white guys.

I really do fail to understand the point she is trying to make here.

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Not a single one of those guys are black. Hell, the only black villain I can even think of is Killmonger. Someone help me out am I missing some more?

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Wilson Fisk in Ben Affleck's Dare Devil movie.

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Why did they insist on wearing different color draws on the outside their pants? Dafuq was that all about? Someone, please explain this to my simple arse.

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Superman was created in the late 1930's. In that era travelling circuses and fairs were highly dominant entertainment. The athletic performers like trapeze artists and strongmen wore tight-fitting suits to better show off their abilities and musculature. The problem was those outfits also showed off their junk so men routinely wore underwear-like garments outside their outfits. As that look was associated with strength and almost freak-ish athletics at the time, Superman's outfit was designed based off of that.

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Legal procedurals and shoot-em-up action movies have long presented a skewed perception of the justice system in America, in which the police are almost always positioned as the good guys

think about that sentence for a moment

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I would state it differently: the police are almost always positioned as being right about who the bad guys are - to the point of almost always leading the audience to pull for the police, regardless of legality, due process or civil rights.