Are you comfortable and accepting Superman lasering villains when he could singlehandedly end food shortages worldwide and give free unlimited energy to the world by just turning a large turbine for years?
It’s comic books, there’s only so much real world logic one can throw in there before they run into the wall of “Someone would have shot the Joker in the head by now, c’mon.”.
Also, Gotham is a shithole from root to stem. The good folks are the exception, not the rule.
Kal-El lands in the USSR and is raised by Stalin. Eventually Kal realizes that Stalin is a madman and kills him, but leads the world into glorious revolution. Only the USA under President Lex Luthor is free, and Superman is opposed by an orphan lad who saw his parents killed by the KGB.
A corporation would just buy the turbine. Superman absolutely should laser supervillains, starting with his bald nemesis Jeff Bezos. It’s not a coincidence that in the 2010s Lex was redesigned to look like Zuckerberg, and in the new movie he’s a gamer (he probably plays Path of Exile)
Are you comfortable and accepting Superman lasering villains when he could singlehandedly end food shortages worldwide and give free unlimited energy to the world by just turning a large turbine for years?
Someone’s been reading SMBC.
Curiously, Superman is given more latitude because he tries to find ways to best utilize his gifts, noting he’d still be doing his best to uphold good even if he was just a mortal journalist. Again, Batman could be directing Supes to deal with elite deviance (which would make a badass premise of a comic).
Bruce Wayne could absolutely be focusing his material assets towards creating a constructive network of programs towards a better society, but he just likes punching things too much.
Even with Batman as a tragic figure (Mom and Dad Wayne haunt his dreams and insist that he’s not a good son unless he’s punching people), the cost to the rest of society is (or would be in a realistic setting) untenable. To be fair, our real-world billionaires have really highlighted that they are the worst humanity has to offer, even more so than all the usual rogues gallery of petty criminals (so yeah, worse than Dahmer and Gacy).
Are you comfortable and accepting Superman lasering villains when he could singlehandedly end food shortages worldwide and give free unlimited energy to the world by just turning a large turbine for years?
It’s comic books, there’s only so much real world logic one can throw in there before they run into the wall of “Someone would have shot the Joker in the head by now, c’mon.”.
Also, Gotham is a shithole from root to stem. The good folks are the exception, not the rule.
You should read the “Red Sun” comic.
Kal-El lands in the USSR and is raised by Stalin. Eventually Kal realizes that Stalin is a madman and kills him, but leads the world into glorious revolution. Only the USA under President Lex Luthor is free, and Superman is opposed by an orphan lad who saw his parents killed by the KGB.
Pretty much the best Elseworlds/DC “What If” unless we count Kingdom Come.
True Brit has entered the chat.
A corporation would just buy the turbine. Superman absolutely should laser supervillains, starting with his bald nemesis Jeff Bezos. It’s not a coincidence that in the 2010s Lex was redesigned to look like Zuckerberg, and in the new movie he’s a gamer (he probably plays Path of Exile)
And then he’d just stop turning it?
Are you comfortable and accepting Superman lasering villains when he could singlehandedly end food shortages worldwide and give free unlimited energy to the world by just turning a large turbine for years?
Someone’s been reading SMBC.
Curiously, Superman is given more latitude because he tries to find ways to best utilize his gifts, noting he’d still be doing his best to uphold good even if he was just a mortal journalist. Again, Batman could be directing Supes to deal with elite deviance (which would make a badass premise of a comic).
Bruce Wayne could absolutely be focusing his material assets towards creating a constructive network of programs towards a better society, but he just likes punching things too much.
Even with Batman as a tragic figure (Mom and Dad Wayne haunt his dreams and insist that he’s not a good son unless he’s punching people), the cost to the rest of society is (or would be in a realistic setting) untenable. To be fair, our real-world billionaires have really highlighted that they are the worst humanity has to offer, even more so than all the usual rogues gallery of petty criminals (so yeah, worse than Dahmer and Gacy).