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Right. So.
IT seems the argument being advanced is that the presentation skills for being a vigilante (unobtrusive) and being a "superhero" (obtrusive) are mutually incompatible.
Therefore, the "superhero" iconography is instead used to advance causes - the South American examples may perhaps be balanced by our own Captain Euro, the official superhero of European Monetary Union.
Soooo....that leaves the *other* kind of superhero, the shadowy avenger whose very existence is uncertain. Batman, the Punisher...driven men who take to the shadows to wage a war against evil.
Which does indeed sound a lot like serial killers.
So, is the mistake we are making that the statement should not be "there are no costumed characters fighting crime", but "comic books tend to portray costumed characters *only* as fighting crime, when in fact they are better suited to espousing causes (which, say, Captain America does, but generally more in a "don't give up the day job" way), endorsing products and doing other things, much as in films secret agents usually have far more fight-packed lives than is usual or healthy".
And thus, is the "real-life" superhero like Super Barrio parasitic on the culture of comic books (and superhuman wrestlers), or is there something more symbiotic going on? |
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