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Added 2024-02-28 00:00:03 +0000 UTCOn this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Marty and Frost discuss video games and their use of superheroes.
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I wish people didn’t use the term weeb. It was made up by Americans when the term otaku already existed, thinking they were clever and came up with the first word to describe anime watchers lol
Edrialyse
2024-02-29 17:28:51 +0000 UTCMy Adventures with Superman is a great modern adaptation of superman.
Nazrel
2024-02-28 14:17:56 +0000 UTCI'm with Yahtzee, Superman is fundamentally a "I'm a god like utterly infallible character" which isn't interesting if they are unstoppable, impervious and utterly good and right in every single way. A lack of flaws, a lack of imperfections, a lack of adversity means a lack of interest. And Yahtz is right, the only way in media that anyone can do Superman with any kind of interesting angle always seems to be, give him a bit of darkness. Or alternatively, parody him with a full on evil alternative version (Omniman, Homelander, Brightburn, Superman - Red Son and Injustice versions, the Snyderverse version etc). Despite all that, in many ways, the most interesting take on Superman would be to lean into the cornball "gee golly gawsh" wholesome, wide-eyed, innocent, naïve patriotic hero thing, that informed the MCU version of Captain America. Showing how someone who is inherently good and right and just, deals with a cynical world by being fundamentally good. Staying true to their values and morals even when the world is a far more cynical place. But DC doesn't seem to want that so, they continue to push the darkness angle, which feeds back into the notion that Superman is dull without that edge.
Lee Medcalf
2024-02-28 00:51:27 +0000 UTCI don't think "society" is too cynical for Superman, I think Yatz is
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