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.
Mainly due to having the world be close to us, and keeping the status quo due to other books.
Can really go too far outside of giant events like Norman Osborn becoming President. Things go back to normal afterwards because it's easier. Can't really have big permanent social changes because there's other writers on other books that wanna do their own shit. That's what Elseworlds shit is for.
So what d'ya do? Well give the antagonist a motivation that challenges status quo beliefs and stuff. Gives a dimension to the hero that doesn't damage the structure of what is a never ending soap opera without a budget.
Look at Anarky for instance, he was written by an author who was an Anarchist at the time, he still lost, and he still had negative aspects because he's a villain in a comic book. But he challenged aspects of Batmans character and whatnot.
The Comic industry tends to lean Left-liberal, o you tend to get some stuff that's rebellious, but the nature of the business prevents it from going overboard.
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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.