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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis

Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire

Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)

X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks

RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.

Starting to see a theme here hmm

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I always thought X-Men was about civil rights...

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk if it's in the comics too, but in first class or some movie, Magneto is depicted as a holocaust survivor. It's in fact a big part of his identity.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Figured as much, just haven't read them myself

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