Most of marvel and DC’s iconic characters are 60+ years old now, and a lot of elements central to their concepts just aren’t believable anymore. The classic example of course, is any superhero that works at a newspaper eg Spider-man and Superman. Writers have to come up with more obscure origins for superpowers, because even the average person now knows that exposing yourself to radiation won’t give you superpowers, just cancer. the concept of a secret identity in general just isn’t believable these days thanks to things like facial recognition and Internet tracking.
Are there any other staples of the superhero genre that are getting harder and harder to justify as time goes on?
>Guys it's so unrealistic and immersion breaking that these guys with super strength who fly through the air or stick on walls like spiders STILL work at a newspaper.
Jacob Nelson
The funny thing is newspapers, as in their paper editions, vastly outsell cape comics. Nothing irl will give you superpowers. Just wear a mask.
Stop being a clueless faggot OP, criticism isn't always smart criticism.
David Rivera
Oh wow, newspaper now becomes news network/website. That was fucking hard
Owen Foster
>Nothing irl will give you superpowers. It's like you haven't heard of CRISPR.
Bentley Allen
the idea that there are still small family-owned farms not owned by megacorporations left in America is unironically more outdated than print newspapers being a thing.
Gavin Sullivan
Superheroes have been "corny" and "unbelievable" since the start- even the 1978 Superman film pokes fun at this. If you put logic into them, they're about as fun as paleontology.
Its called alternate universe. In marvel and dc the newspaper achieved that they have functioning and successfull internet websites.
Aaron Jackson
The truth is Marvel's characters are the new hotness while DC's characters are old and busted overpowered dinosaurs from a bygone era that should be put out to pasture
Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman are cultural icons in North America up there with Santa, Jesus and Dracula. People might not know much about them, but they'll know who they are. Their movies and comics will generally make some money, but that doesn't mean they have a good chance of being universally praised or even well liked.
Dracula is a great example comparison, movies with him don't make lots of money just because people know who the character is. There's a difference between saying everybody knows who it is, and everybody cares, and people who defend Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman seem to often confuse the two. I mean just think when was the last time you saw someone wearing a t-shirt with Batman or Superman or Dracula compared to the last time you saw someone wearing a Captain America or Iron Man or many Marvel characters on a t-shirt. It's way more often for the latter especially among young kids. DC characters' popularity and knowledge of them are pretty much dead among children and therefore the future of DC in media is pretty much dead unlike Marvel which is alive and strong.
The big DC characters almost all come from a time when people didn't care about making good characters just beings with powers, origins, and costumes that seemed neato. Stan Lee came along with Marvel comics and was able to learn from their past mistakes and make better characters that can be better adapted for tv and movies and be able to more easily create good stories, comics, movies, and tv shows.
DC characters are only better known in the West due to having a head start. Marvel characters were carefully and fundamentally constructed by Stan Lee to be more amenable to being a part of great storytelling unlike DC.
Nathan Jenkins
I watched one of those "X reacts to" with the former CIA chief of disguise and she shat on Clark Kent despite him meeting some of the criteria she previously outlined as good. Specifically behavioral change to go along with the disguise, a "little grey man" persona that tries to be believable instead of sexy, a completely unremarkable name, a well-known occupation as a cover, .... But nope "lol glasses".
Landon Reyes
it'll probably take a few decades before anything remotely like superpowers will be made possible through CRISPR, if ever.
Even if it does happen, it'll be minor shit, like higher muscle density or greater lung capacity. Enough to make someone physically superior to most normal people, but not even Captain-America level as far as superpowers go.
Ryder Taylor
>Marvel characters were carefully and fundamentally constructed to be more amenable to being a part of great storytelling unlike DC.
Arguable, but I see your point
>by Stan Lee lolllllllllllllllll
Owen King
Paleontology proper is not. It’s mostly guys sitting in offices and writing arguments based on absolutely nothing but their opinion. Paleontology peer review papers are like a fucking Yea Forums troll thread, but without the banther.
Jeremiah Ortiz
People back then didn’t think exposing yourself to high amounts of radiation gave you superpowers either, that idea got nipped in the bud pretty quickly after people died from drinking irradiated water marketed as being healthy in the 1920’s. Print newspapers are also more financially successful worldwide than comics, and regardless who gives a shit about that when you have a bunch of people with bright spandex strongman costumes running and flying around everywhere? Even the most serious superhero comics and the like still have silly and absurd bits to them.
Sebastian White
Superman should be run his own handyman company. He has an excuse to be nearly anywhere, allows him to disapear for hours at a time and keeps him in touch with his man of the people roots.
Robert Reed
Paleomemes are based Go to the sex lake
Asher Robinson
Are you going to dig up Stan's corpse and suck his dick while you're at it?
Landon Reyes
>Nothing irl will give you superpowers. Not true, there's that syndrome that causes you to develop muscle mass with incredible ease (by the way of DNA prohibiting the production of the protein myostatin, which slows muscle growth). Super Strength by way of a simple protein blocker is in our future.
Chase Campbell
Not anywhere near the extent that would allow you to lift a single ton, let alone 25 like entry-level super strength.
Jason Campbell
Most capes would unironically be better as period pieces you can't change my mind
Adrian Collins
I dunno man I think Hulks Origin is atill good. A bomb goes off in his face and by some freak accident he survives as a monster. Its thematically interesting enough that nobody cares if it isn't realistic
Austin Bennett
Lifting isn't the best measure of super strength, considering it doesn't measure either grip strength or force of blows.
Jaxson Sanchez
Way to not make a point. Superheroes do shit like stopping trains with their bare hands, that syndrome would never allow anything like comics super strength feats.
Nathan Bell
Nice copypasta, faggot
Benjamin Hernandez
Justice League: New Frontier was pretty good...you might be on to something.
Tyler Reed
Astro City does this very well >Pictured is the counter culture personification of Jazz
