Agree or Disagree - Action Movies/Superhero Movies are basically fascistic.

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50. I haven't liked very many of the movies

Except for V, which I never read as a comic.

I also haven't watched very many of them, afraid of what they would do with characters that I liked. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy was that way. I got about half an hour into it before I got too mad to keep watching.

I was never that much of an X-men reader and these things have changed over the decades anyway. I don't believe, for example, that Wolverine was one of the original X-men. The originals were Iceman, Angel, the Beast, and a few others.

But I cannot really say originals since I was reading these in the 1970s and the series probably started in the 1950s.

I noticed that the characters seem to change over time. Ben Grimm's girlfriend Alicia got much better looking in the 1990s. Mary Jane Watson was always a babe, but she became a super-model in the 1990s. Daredevil, the man without fear, sorta became a thug in the 1990s. This archetype of the "sociopath as hero" seems like a fairly new one to me. I don't think it is a fair characterization of most of the 1970s heroes or the 1950s heroes.

As a grumpy old man, it seems to me that our society as a whole is becoming more thuggish.

As for violence being the answer, well in the first place, that is typical Hollywood. I was watching some teen show, like "that's so Raven" or some such and there was a bully and the bully got dealt with, the problem got solved, with a punch. Very predictable.

But in the second place, is there really any other answer to dealing with the "bad guys"? If the heroes are sociopaths, they look like cub scouts next to their enemies. Although there are a fair number of bad guys who become good guys - Nighthawk, Magneto, The Vision, Valkyrie, Wonderman, Hawkeye, Namor, etc. (Although Namor was originally a good guy who became a bad guy who became a good guy. Or something like that.)