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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

IIRC Marvel has handwaved this through an actual government agency who's job is to fix shit quick. Department of Damage Control IIRC, very steeped in realist humor, and I mean actual school of realism not cult of "wahmenz in super hero movies is unrealistic!"

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I would say it was commendable, but they ignore it completely when convenient and Civil War barely even scratched the surface of the concept in an actually story-impacting way.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It was a private company (owned partially by Wilson Fisk and Tony Stark) in the comics.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Realism is an inherently fascistic political ideology.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, realism is looking at a fantastical setting from the frame of the mundane.

IE what a morning commute is like in a city running on magic

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Associating daily mundanity with the real isn't very scientific. It's just a politically motivated false association designed to push a conservative agenda.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A working class centric narrative in a fantasy setting is pushing a conservative agenda?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, calling it realism is pushing a conservative agenda. Because you're mixing up consensus reality, which is a bourgeois tool of oppression, with the experiences of the working class. Thereby normalising the oppression we face from the realist bourgeoisie.

It's like going around saying Star Wars is a piece of homophobic media just because Luke Skywalker is a farmer and you want to push a narrative that farmers are intrinsically homophobic. It's not true.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

....city folks using a fantasy version of public transit is bourgeoisie oppression?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, consensus reality is bourgeois oppression. It's continually served as a justification for genocides all over the world for hundreds of years

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

.....public transit is consensus reality?

Bro you're trying to see evil where there's just beige paint. Get a glass of water or something.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago

No, public transit isn't consensus reality. You're the one saying public transit is realism, I'm saying it isn't.