epic drinkin game: take a shot every time you see this image
"Hey, I saw someone doing something illegal to a capitalist!"
No you fucking didn't.
Superman cares about decency.
In the words of Captain America:
"Let's not get carried away. I've known good vampires. People who never asked for this curse, who don't inflict their pain and hunger on others. But I've never known a good Nazi."
What about if the fire spread to surrounding buildings?
It’s a good thing dealerships are usually completely separate from other buildings, and by quite a way!
What about it?
Well, he is superman, so I'm sure it'll be fine.
The militarily would
sendasks nicely Superman to deal with the "domestic terrorism" that is threatening the 'murikan way of life & save the innocent glorious cars.Also Sexxy Lexxy would have produced way better cars.
Superman of the comics (from about the mid-80s onward) would tell the military, politely, to go find a location to fornicate with themselves.
Also the animated Superman. He took would tell them to go fuck themselves. Neither one would actually curse.
That being said, both incarnations would put the fire out, if only to prevent environmental damage.
Possibly by dropping a large block of ice on the building.
Superman in the '30s would be lighting the fires.
At least make sure no non management workers are in trouble. You don't have to put the fires out.
It's Superman. Surely with his x-ray vision he could see that there was no one left.
That's why he listens.
Good job Superman.
imo it would be funnier if he started taking pictures (since he's supposed to be a journalist, right?)
That's Jimmy Olsen's whole purpose. Even Clark gets to "not my job" this situation.
Man of fire?
I knew Superman was a domestic terrorist.
I’m not an expert but it might be tricky to argue that an actual bonafide genuine alien could be a domestic terrorist…
I got a good chuckle out of it lol. Though there are some incongruencies. Phone booths are an anachronism that really don't exist currently alongside tesla. Especially not the bright red BT phone booths. Those definitely would not be the variety seen in Metropolis. But those are only small little nitpicks that don't distract from the larger message which I agree with.
Metropolis was at least partially based on Joseph Shuster's home town of Toronto, and there's a bright red BT-style phone booth in Eglinton Square on Victoria Park Ave.
Definitely a fun fact🙂
Eldritch has joined the rank of "Meme Destroyer"
LOL well not trying to destroy it. It's just one of those things that initially I saw I didn't think about twice. But then I did think about it it just kind of tickled my brain in a funny way to think how anachronistic it all is now. That there are no phone booths anymore. Where does Superman change now? Does he just do it in an alley like a bum?
Well fuck you then, he hopped into a Doctor-Who-themed strip-club before changing his clothes. Superman likes the strange. Get over it.
What's even worse is superman isn't even real! Immersion broken!!
it's a cosplayer's prop
I'm not American, so I may be out of place here, but you shouldn't celebrate or support arson or terrorism.
We went through a drug war here during the time of our own strongman president that cost the innocents. His justification, wholly adopted by his supporters, was: the ends justify the means.
It was horrible and wrong. This is also horrible and wrong.
No, it's cool to celebrate arson and terrorism when it's against terrorist billionaire oligarchs who are burning your country down.
I don't think this hurt them at all.
Counterpoint: Nah, let 'em burn.
Superman is a capitalist lap dog lol
V: ... Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots! Well? Cat got your tongue? I thought as much. Very well. So you stand revealed at last, you are no longer my Justice. You are his Justice now, you have bedded another. Well, two can play at that game!
"Madame Justice": Sob! Choke! Wh-Who is she, V? What is her name?
V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a Mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that Justice is meaningless without Freedom. She is honest, she makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So goodbye, dear Lady. I would be saddened by our parting, even now, save that you are no longer the woman that I once loved.
Just like V was changed from an anarchist in the V for Vendetta movie, Superman also had more radical leftist origins.
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defender of the status quo. Anyone intent on making actual meaningful change is painted as criminally insane, no matter how good their points may be.
EDIT: More downvotes than upvotes, I think lemmy misunderstands my point. People like superman, I do too. The morals that superman is supposed to be the embodiment of are good ones to have. In a sane and rational world, everyone should look up to superman. We do not live in a sane and rational world. Superman's world is supposed to resemble the real world, but with super people in it, therefore the shittiness of the real world can be assumed to exist in superman's world. We have a wealthy businessman president, and he's not a genius playboy philanthropist, Both marvel and dc tell us that the real world is as good as it gets, and the real world sucks ass right now. Superman was envisioned by his original creators to be a super man, he who could punch the problems that us regular people can't. So where are the stories in which superman fights the problems us real people have? Those stories don't exist. Superman, in the modern era, exist to protect the status quo. Any real meaningful change is scary to the audience, and actively threatening to the companies that own the property. Therefore, superman licks the boot.
