Yeah so the thing about Superman is that there& #39;s no "platonic" Clark Kent who deep in his heart is not a fascist

He& #39;s been written by many writers, of whom many are fascist, and when they are, he is fascist

And he comes from a segment of America that& #39;s now pretty fascism-coded

I& #39;ve talked about this before

There& #39;s not really any reason to believe that if Kal-El landed in Kansas today he wouldn& #39;t grow up to be be Qanon af https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1201568759724552194">https://twitter.com/Nymphomac...

Well, rural Kansas, anyway, not, like, Wichita (which is probably where Clark& #39;s hometown should be updated, tbh, to preserve any actual verisimilitude)

Anyway the thing about superheroes is that, in real life, the carceral state is fascist, the police are fascist, and to cooperate with and enable them is fascist behavior

And for better or worse, a lot of superheroes—including people& #39;s faves like Storm—are depicted doing that

Is cooperating with the cops in a comic book world, with comic book logic, as *diegetically* fascist as it would be to do so in real life?

Perhaps not. I would be sympathetic to the argument that it& #39;s not necessarily helpful to do so.

But the behavior is there, on the page.