Superhero crime-fighting is just a euphemism for police brutality...

And there it fucking is.

Fuck off

Make an argument why it isn't relevant or shut up.

Gay ass bait opinion. If i wanna read Superheroes as an analogy to police brutality i read watchmen. If i want good old good vs evil i read any other one.

What's wrong with fighting crime though?

I don't need to, you just admitted to making this thread because of current events, just like I said.

If you don't want to have a discussion then don't post? I thought this would be interesting to talk about.

This is comics and cartoons. Go to Zig Forums

It's not interesting, every fucking retard under the sun jumped on the bandwagon and have been making stupid threads like this one since the riots started.

Catching the bad guy is what the genre is about. Superheroes, police and the justice system are connected ideas. Current events will change how future comics are written. The discussion fits on this board. I'm sorry you don't want to talk about it but pls fuck off and let the people that want to talk about it do.

>Current events will change how future comics are written
Just like all previous protests and riots changed comics, right?

Fuck
Off

I made the thread, you're the one that has to fuck off out of it.

I'm the only retard that's bothering to interact with your worn out thread, you and your kind are the ones that have to fuck off

>Superheroes, police, and the justice system are connected ideas
Only in the sense that superhero stories portray the justice system as weak, incompetent, or incapable. It is the most firmly anti-state power genre currently popular.

>It will change how comics are written
It will absolutely not. You will get fashionable nonsense for a month like you did after 9/11 and then it will go back to normal.

The discussion does not fit the board and you're unfit to discuss it because you have literally misinterpreted the undercurrents of EVERY SINGLE SUPERHERO STORY EVER TOLD. Batman operates outside the law because the law in Gotham sucks and is corrupt. Spiderman operates outside the law in Manhattan because the law in Manhattan sucks. Iron Man operates outside of the law because SHIELD sucks. The Justice League operate outside the law of the fucking planet because who the fuck cares what Mogadishu says about Starro.

It is impossible for you to be more wrong but you insist on posting because you think you're part of some "moment." You aren't. You're some clueless propagandist convinced he's been shown the light. I sincerely wish you the worst - cancer maybe, but fire or civil unrest that directly impacts you and your family would be more appropriate.

Cops aren't "the system", they are a band-aid on society's gaping wound that is crime. Democratically elected leaders create the rules cops have to follow. Society creates criminals. Improving crime rates lies in working towards a society that 100% guarantees a happy life for everyone who is willing to do hard work for 40 hours a week, and prioritizing social mobility and meritocracy as it doesn't undermine the first point. Improving crime-fighting lies in not blaming the cops for high crime rates and few solved crimes, not pushing the legislature to empower them instead of regulating them and not pushing their superiors to demand results instead of honorable conduct. Then we will have less criminals and cops who want to uphold the law instead of just putting people in jail.

>Cops aren't "the system", they are a band-aid on society's gaping wound that is crime.

You need an institutional police force that can conduct investigations and use the force on behalf of the state for anything close to the rule of law and due process to take place.

What would you suggest?

>Catching the bad guy is what the genre is about
The genesis of this genre was a man who could do anything and chose to engage in social activism, going after bad guys the police cannot or will not go after.

But who are the bad guys?

If we're talking golden age Superman, bent politicians, abusive spouses, lynch mobs, war profiteers, robber baron coal mine owners and
a justice system that is failing to put Metroplis' youth on the straight and narrow.

LOL. Most people don’t feel this way. Just your pothead friends.

No one wants to talk about it though. Because it’s dumb.

Comics like Iron Man have always been a reflection of current events. Captain America literally has the titular character socking Hitler in the jaw. Printed during World War II.

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the police are based and i hope they bash your buddies heads in homie

>No mad scientists or super-intelligent gorillas.
Yawn.

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Where in my post did I argue otherwise?

my little pony friendship is magic

when you called them a band aid instead of a necessary piece, you mong

>Prisons and police are now considered a means of social control rather than protecting anyone.
Prisons and police have ALWAYS been a means of social control.

And they are in this comparison. They are incapable of sealing the proverbial wound that is crime and are underequipped and undertrained to be a suitable dressing for it. Neither of which is their fault, but they are blamed for both.

I agree with you OP and frankly these guys aren't equipped to deal with a critical look at their favorite hobby.