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<blockquote data-quote="Ironhold" data-source="post: 68243515" data-attributes="member: 347134"><p>You're looking for things that aren't there. </p><p></p><p>For example, consider Superman. Superman was equal parts "Jewish mythology" and "Nietzche". That's right: creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were Jewish teenagers who were big into philosophy. Superman, as we know him, was created to be an arbitrator figure who would step in to help protect the innocent from the wicked. A hypothesis holds that Superman's creation may have been influenced by the murder of Siegel's father the year before; his father, a business owner, was killed during a robbery, and it is believed that Siegel may have been wanting someone who could stop things like that from happening. </p><p></p><p>Wonder Woman was a questionably successful attempt at creating a character who girls could look up to. I say "questionably" as the man who created her frequently used the series as an avenue for venting his various sexual peccadilloes, something that helped fuel the "Comic books are evil!" craze of the late 1950s. Your better writers have focused on making her the strong role model she was originally intended to be, but far too many have insisted on making her a talking head who merely regurgitates the feminist rantings of the day. (A recent issue even had her use the term "mansplaining".)</p><p></p><p>Batman was an attempt at creating a super who had no actual super powers. As explained in his origin story, he came to believe that most villains were cowards; as such, he adopted the most frightening outfit that he could make work in an effort to terrify them into submission. Those who he couldn't scare he subdued with his martial arts training and his array of gadgets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ironhold, post: 68243515, member: 347134"] You're looking for things that aren't there. For example, consider Superman. Superman was equal parts "Jewish mythology" and "Nietzche". That's right: creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were Jewish teenagers who were big into philosophy. Superman, as we know him, was created to be an arbitrator figure who would step in to help protect the innocent from the wicked. A hypothesis holds that Superman's creation may have been influenced by the murder of Siegel's father the year before; his father, a business owner, was killed during a robbery, and it is believed that Siegel may have been wanting someone who could stop things like that from happening. Wonder Woman was a questionably successful attempt at creating a character who girls could look up to. I say "questionably" as the man who created her frequently used the series as an avenue for venting his various sexual peccadilloes, something that helped fuel the "Comic books are evil!" craze of the late 1950s. Your better writers have focused on making her the strong role model she was originally intended to be, but far too many have insisted on making her a talking head who merely regurgitates the feminist rantings of the day. (A recent issue even had her use the term "mansplaining".) Batman was an attempt at creating a super who had no actual super powers. As explained in his origin story, he came to believe that most villains were cowards; as such, he adopted the most frightening outfit that he could make work in an effort to terrify them into submission. Those who he couldn't scare he subdued with his martial arts training and his array of gadgets. [/QUOTE]
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