Superheroes are dying and what that means
<p>What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Superman, the colloquial first superhero? Arguably, it used to be his kindness, Christopher Reeve’s warm smile, or a friendly super-friend giving you his hand. Now, you’d probably think of his visually awe-inspiring powers, laser vision in the rain, or a God mid-flight. Time has whittled down the “hero” in superheroes. In our current pop culture landscape, where morality is considered outdated and traditional heroism lame, there seems to be no room for a man in tights to save cats out of trees anymore. In the last decade, we have more superhero movies (and shows) available to us than the half-century before it. Despite this, or maybe because of it, superhero movies have brought home <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/06/22/why-did-the-flash-bomb-this-hard/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">less box office</a> and garnered even <a href="https://movieweb.com/blue-beetle-box-office-bomb/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">lesser interest</a> from general audiences. America’s modern myths have fallen far from Olympus, as their budgets skyrocketed while their gross slowly dwindled and whimpered (not that money equals quality). These once mythic symbols have lost their meaning as they become diluted products to promote competing streaming services.</p>
<h1>Doomed Planet</h1>
<p>In a time when truth is subjective, justice is prejudiced, and the American way is questionable, does someone like Superman even have a place anymore? Ironically, this question is the whole reason for the Man of Tomorrow’s existence. Written by two Jewish immigrants in 1938, one of his biggest character traits is that he’s an outsider, he’s not supposed to fit in. He’s meant to look at us (people of Earth) from the outside in and in spite of all his otherworldly power, choose to live with us from the inside out. The problem then arises, when creators opt to make Superman as skeptical as doomsday preppers in an effort to make him more “grounded” and “relatable,” as opposed to putting him in a skeptical world. Making him pessimistic and fascistic changes his entire character and by that point, you might as well put the cape on a stranger, instead of riding on a brand.</p>
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