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Maybe. But, we don't know who the creative end of Supermayor will be, we don't know why or how or even in what way it'll play out. It's like saying since the Justice Society or League were popular, automatically all teams of tights-wearing supertypes are obviously just there to cop off the success and legendary status. That one book about a guy with a gun and a government past automatically translates to all stories involving a guy with a gun and government past being purely rip-offs trying to steal some thunder and get in on a good thing while the wave lasts.
Yeah, my first thought was 'Ex Machina' too, but it's a very simple piece of plot. In the DCU pretty much everyone has powers if they headline a book, and so a book about a politician will most likely include him being a superhero. Or villain.
My point is just... there's all sorts of ways to spin a plot and this may not even be THE PLOT but merely a plot point, one bit of progression in some story that for marketing purposes is being pushed as a big thing. That's marketing's job, though. It's too much to go 'It's a mayor with powers, so it's a rip-off of another mayor with powers' and coming on with 'He's wearing pants! George down the street wears pants! He's stolen George's deal!' And, so what if a plot is used because it's popular? I've been guilty of writing pieces I knew a particular editor would snatch up because it was a genre or a trope popular with them. Most writers who're in the job to keep eating and paying rent and such, probably do the same. Otherwise, they'd write fanfic only or self-publish. If stories about reporters with a big story forming in front of their eyes, becomes the new hot thing, surely a number of folks are going to try their hand at the model, putting their own spin on things, trying to entertain themselves and get some cash at the same time. And some of those will be shit retreads, but some might be actually good. |
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