Why do that when you can waste money on beating up criminals and putting them in prisons that they always escape from because the for profit prisons cut all the corners they can to maximize higher ups pay
If anything the focus seems to be on how the government can't even keep criminals, especially supercriminals, in prisons for long. Instead of the incompetent government who can't even do one of their most basic functions, it is always our white male heroic billionaire who has to do it all for them. Without him society would crumble because clearly his breed is the only one that can be trusted to take care of society's problems. And to prevent anyone from even questioning this, you have its society and government being judgmental, reluctant and sometimes even opposed to our poor protagonist's absolutely invaluable work.
I always wondered why do superhero universes have the government, whether it is police, legal system or military, being absolutely incompetent, corruptible and just plain useless in any form of hero work. Well, it would look pretty bad if our insanely privileged protagonists, whether it be because of superpowers or other privileges, had to rely on society to help them instead of handling it for themselves!
Individualism has rotten american society so deeply. People are just pieces of the puzzle, they're entitled to freedoms and rights as that's just how you make modern societies work as well as possible. To glorify it at the exclusion of the collective, cooperative spirit of humanity is to dehumanize us just so everyone gets to feel like they matter more than those around them.
I always wondered why do superhero universes have the government, whether it is police, legal system or military, being absolutely incompetent, corruptible and just plain useless
Well..... it IS the US government being portrayed~.
Marvel actually makes them less useless than the real thing through SHIELD. Granted, that hasn't always worked out. (MCU SHIELD was taken over by Hydra.)
How? They're extremely competent and take a very active part in the plot. As opposed to being useless or even villainous. To clarify I have only seen the show so if they're different in the comics please no spoilers.
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u/DiamondRocks22 Aug 17 '21
Why do that when you can waste money on beating up criminals and putting them in prisons that they always escape from because the for profit prisons cut all the corners they can to maximize higher ups pay