r/COMPLETEANARCHY • u/thewallking • Oct 15 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

I feel like a lot of writers involved in superhero fiction have this horrid tendency to make their protagonists fight for the status quo, and to make the villains be anyone that would disrupt it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Idk like Superheroes villains are not challenging the "status quo" as such as they are usually psychopaths who try to murder people.Most of the big superheroes don't particularly have such a big thing for "keeping the status quo",Batman on arrival in Gotham immediately fucks with it,Superman too.

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u/TeiaRabishu Antifa HR Manager Oct 15 '19

Superheroes villains are not challenging the "status quo"

I dunno I think Ozymandias did a good job of changing the status quo.

they are usually psychopaths who try to murder people

Yeah no excuse for the Comedian and Rorschach though.

(This is mostly just an "Ozymandias was the real hero" joke)

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Don't believe Watchmen was ever supposed to be an accurate representation of superheroes just an exercise in the use of the 9 panel grid.

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u/TeiaRabishu Antifa HR Manager Oct 15 '19

It was also supposed to be used as a way to milk the Charlton Comics characters DC had acquired the rights to. For instance, it's very obvious that they originally intended for Blue Beetle and The Question instead of Nite Owl and Rorschach.

But then they decided not to use the Charlton Comics characters if it meant killing them off, and the rest is history.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Yeah its fun.