Ya know; If the USA didn’t pull a lot of unethical shenanigans (getting in other countries wars without asking and botching everything, overthrowing democratically - elected leaders at the behest of big business, destabilizing regions, having secret sites for torture-based interrogations, etc.) all over the globe while chest-thumping “We’re Number 1!” all the time, folks wouldn’t be “Blame America!”.
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Be humble, don’t meddle in other countries affairs unless they ask you, don’t be imperialists, don’t torture (it doesn’t work anyway) and rely on non-violent means first and war as a very last resort, when the world is in danger, and you have no other choice.
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NOBODY LIKES A BULLY OR BLOWHARD!
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As for Supes, I’ll let the others, here, argue on that angle since I don’t regularly read comics and all my knowledge of superheroes comes from stuff like The Superfriends and some very old movies and TV shows (The Salkinds’ / Christopher Reeve Superman films, 1960’s Adam West Batman, Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman TV show, etc.). Needless to say, I have a very rudimentary understanding of things that’s based solely off of pop-culture osmosis and caricatured “Silver Age” tropes.
I’d be fine with comics, but they call keep on being confusing or annoying to me and it’s always “depending on the writer”. Too complex, constantly changing, too many canons, it drives me crazy (and many comic writers and executives tended to have ‘issues’ and pulled crap like ‘women & refrigerators’ or braking up Spiderman and Mary Jane’s loving marriage (because Joe Quesada preferred the teen cub reporter Pete of his youth and has issues with romance and marriage). There’s no real consistency and I don’t know where to start. If comics were more like graphic novels, with a consistent author, characterization, continuity, etc. then perhaps I’d get into it.
Sure, some comics are trying to get better about the objectionable stuff, and I guess comics actually do have multiple canons and characterizations to appeal to many different readers but, again, it gets crazy. Perhaps TV and Movie versions would be better and less confusing for me. I’d love a Batman that was still modern but not awash in so much gloom that you want to cut your wrists.
To me, Batman needs some camp and color. A fun adventure with a more well-adjusted (but still spooky and stoic) Batman with his sidekick Robin, living in Wayne Manor with Alfred & Aunt Harriet (who raised them) and their use of tech, detective work and fighting to take down the deadly but colorful and goofy Joker, who wreaks havoc with modified novelty gags and circus tropes.
I guess something like the “Burton / Schumaker” verse with a touch of “Brave and the Bold”. I’m sick of “Gritty ultra-realistic” Batman!
Of course, I prefer James Bond as a campy mess full of weirdos, gadgets and a foppish upbeat Bond and always ending with the baddies defeated. I grew up with Roger Moore and he will always be “The Bond” to me even if purists call me crazy. Bond to me is like a superhero comic book but with spies rather than weirdos in spandex.
I’m very emotionally sensitive and I HATE downer endings with a passion. I don’t mind bittersweet endings, but complete downers literally traumatize me. I want to see evil punished and the heroes' efforts accomplish something. I also feel it should be less about the ending and more about the journey, how they get there.