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How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don't want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Why batman is the worst superhero, just another billionaire...

[–] Benedict_Espinosa@europe.pub 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ironman is another billionaire.

[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

At least he invents his own stuff unlike batman.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hollywood whitewashing billionaires...

We won't see a poor superhero anytime soon

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spiderman was just some orphaned kid from Queens.

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

and look how they made him a lackey for Ironman in Marvel universe!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

IronHeart. I don't know if Riri is dirt poor but her needing money to build tech is a major plot point.

And Republicans got mad and said it was disrespectful to Tony to acknowledge he needed money to build his tech.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Wasn't she just an incredibly horrible person though? I haven't seen it.

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