[MyGumsAreBleeding] Superhero

Well, there's this one:

Environmentalists in comic books are nearly always deranged villains, and the ones that aren't are still weak and naïve.

The only strong environmentalist hero in Western canon is Captain Planet, and he's got sus narc vibes.

Well, Green Arrow. But you have a point.
- ...because he wears green?
Captain Planet to the rescue!
- I'll turn you into a fucking tree!
Poison Ivy is essentially an anti-hero at this point, and she is considered fairly powerful too.
Storm and aquaman are pretty pro environmentalist without making it their only identity.

Couldn't he just take all the billionaires and fly them into the sun or smth? I don't know if that alone would fix things, but it's a start. Also literally no downsides.

His nemesis is literally a billionaire and he never managed to get rid of him.
We got American Superman. We got Soviet Superman. We need Anarchist Superman.
- Captain planet gets close to that
Batman is a billionaire
I bet you if he just lightly beat up one billionaire a day that the problem would sort itself out pretty quickly.
- Imagine being the last billionaire but no one wants to take your money rofffffllll
- Lightly?
If only Superman were a utilitarian. I'd like to read that ratfic.

We can solve those problems directly or indirectly by tying superman to a dynamo. With free energy even the issues with materials can be solved over time.

Wasn't there a small parody comic about this?
- https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
Isn't that just a solar panel with extra steps?
- I would say the energy output Superman is capable of implies he's actually a step-up transformer as well as a solar panel. He'd be much more efficient, but of course you only have one Superman.
  Now im curious. I'm just an electrician, not an engineer. How much of the grid could Superman power? Someone figure out his kilowatt-hour figures please 😅
- Superman probably doesn't need as much raw materials as a planet-wide supply of solar panels. It seems like copper is currently the biggest issue, and one that isn't easily solved by switching to other renewable energy sources.

Bitch could literally turn back time

How many rounds around earth til un-inventing plastic?
- 1 turn = 1 day
  Completely artificial plastic was invented in 1907 - 118 years ago.
  1 year = 365 days
  118 years x 365 days = 43,070 days
  So 43,071 rounds should do it, and then just clonk Leo Baekeland over the head or something.

1930s Superman would've agreed with the crowd.

This just makes me think of Captain Planet. He knew how to solve these sorts of issues. By beating up assholes and making them stop.

There are evil "robots" you can go beat up to solve those issues, yes

Nobody understands Superman, especially most of his writers.

Dude is alien Moses created by two Jews during the Holocaust. His arch nemesis is a billionaire/the president. C'mon.

Kryptonite is pork, basically?
has there even been a plot line where the system in so corrupt, superman has no choice but to become a villain to safe the world.
ie he didn't have the "consent" of the us president.
probably happened when lex was president.
- Maybe Emperor Joker?

Didn't Luigi have something to say about that?

Don't forget about fighting people who actually have plans to make the world a better place

Related note, excellent video essay, "Defenders of the Status quo" https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU

Only watched half of the video (because it's something I'm well aware of), so it might have gone into it, but another angle is that there's often villains that make good points and then suddenly take it in a batshit direction.
Like Thanos had a point but apparently never understood exponential growth and how reducing all life by any constant factor is just delaying the same result, even if his snap made 99% of people disappear (unless he snaps enough people that the population collapses entirely, which is what he wanted to avoid).
There's many other examples where reasonable starting points end up in unquestionably evil conclusions. Pretty sure it's just propaganda to make people who don't think much about things link those reasonable beginnings with "evil" in their minds.
Also there's characters like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark who are billionaires but their stories always ignore the realities of what must be done in order to become a billionaire (ie underpay staff doing the actual work by billions). In Stark's case, they sidestep that by giving him super advanced AIs and automation robots, though he's still the owner of a large corporation, that he still benefits from despite offloading any of the responsibility of even running it to everyone else.
- It's addressed in the video, that these characters are always written to then go over the proverbial line.

That's why Superman is usually more proud of his work as Clark than as Superman.

Isn't superman pro free will

He will protect against threats but if you fuck it up your mostly on your own

Does superman think humanity chose capitalism? If Superman landed in 1600s Europe, would he think humanity chose feudalism and help put down peasant uprisings? 1700s Haiti, would he help stop slaves from stealing or enacting violence against the French?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son
- When it comes to the economy, capitalism with a heavy dose of regulation is the best option we have right now.
  Attempts at communism have failed miserably and just led to dictatorships.
  Unless you're proposing something better than either of those?

Well, he could beat up all the CEOs and politicians...

Youre gonna want Captain Planet

This is what I like about Wonder Woman. She shows up and is like. "Oh shit! There's a world war going on! Better go stop that." Meanwhile in the present super man is stopping random petty theft.

Zuckerberg count?

First thing I thought of, so it must be right

You are basically describing the arch of Superman's son. And fans hated it.

The Authority actually tackled that.

Do people really write "yeah" as "yea"? Why isn't that pronounced like sea or pea or tea?

Anyone who makes more than 10x the medium income in their country gets their brain lasered. Solved

Superman has super humor sense, so he'd laugh it away as a really convoluted joke

Isn't the fortress full of advanced tech? Gotta be something there to help.

The ice it was on melted and it sunk.
- LOL

._.

*yeah. The word is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote. Buy a dictionary since you lack an education.

Oy dumbass, "yeah" is already slang for "yes" that came out in the 1800s. So the word is technically "yes", but "yea" is an optimization of slang.
I'd say study language better but no amount of money can fix being a dumbass egotistical asshole.
wtf are you talking about?
Yea, verily I decree language to be immutable, forsooth.