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Its kind of hilarious to me that in this movie the main character beats a healthcare insurance executive to within an inch of his life, probably crushing his windpipe and breaking every bone in his body.

And this is treated by the film as a more-or-less morally justified act (neither Mr Incredible nor the audience are meant to suffer any compunction over the act itself, merely the consequences the blowback causes for his family) and moreover society at large determined that this is wholesome enough to be in a kids movie.

Like, imagine describing a plot point like that in any other piece of media: "in this movie a Superman-expy loses his temper and throws a non-superpowered person through a wall, putting him in a hospital bed for months". You'd be like "wow that must be some edgy deconstruction of the superhero genre like The Boys or Invincible", but nope, its a PG rated Pixar film.

Which draws a pretty stark contrast between that and the faux bewilderment and outrage at the reaction to a certain shooting involving a CEO. Like, you can't be that surprised at what is clearly a pretty mainstream view, right?

I simply don't believe this is a thing that has happened. I think you're making this up.

This is a solid meme about a ridiculous situation related to a solid movie. Great post comrade

Yeah, Syndrome reminds me of the right-wing people that appropriate leftist talking points to push their own.

If you don't let big AI companies to train your data, then you support Disney, oppose public domain, and oppose use of samples in music.

If you don't let us call Yasuke from Assassin's Creed Shadows "N----r", then you support Ubisoft, crunch, and workplace sexual harassment.

At least with the latter group, they don't actually care about their own talking points, and think any software development is just "pressing buttons", and at the very worst, want to solve workplace sexual harassment by removing women altogether from the workforce, then "make them give birth to more workers".

Superheroism isn't about being better than everyone else, it's about helping people. That's Bob's arc and it's the message of the entire movie. Everyone who says the movie is about better people being told to be equal to everyone else is misunderstanding it as badly as Syndrome does. The movie is about kind people being told to let others suffer.

Look at the way our society treats climate activists, or Black Lives Matter, or communists. We're told to sit down and shut up. Stop trying to help other people who are in danger. Just be a cog in the system and let the health insurance company sentence people to death. Don't rock the boat. Don't make waves. Don't cause drama. Look what they're doing to Luigi.

Superheroes are a metaphor for leftists.

The argument I saw is that the film is Randian because a central plot point is government regulation making things worse by forcing exceptional individuals into hiding. Forcing "super" people to be normal. Syndrome's threat is a foil to this, the same outcome reached through the opposite approach.

His line, "When everyone's super, no one will be," even mirrors a scene earlier in the film, where Helen says, "Everyone is special, Dash," and her son replies sourly, "...which is another way of saying no-one is."

It comes up twice and nothing in the dialog, events, or general framing suggest the filmmakers want us to see this as anything but a neutral, factual observation. I think you've thought through the actual consequences of Syndrome's threat more that the filmmakers did. Kinda a shame, would have made for a better sequel than the one we got.

i dun evn kno whad any of these wrords mean