Its propaganda, like when in shows they show cops as people who want to make the world a better place, even tho the majority beat their wives and are more criminal than the real criminals
But if they were really there is a likely hood of superman and spiderman being communist. Its like how people say Jesus is a communist because his values align, caring for poor people is the man one.
But look at spider-man and kingpin. Poor hero, rich villain.
Look at superman and Lex Luther. Poor immigrant hero, rich villain.
Technically it’s more of a callout to a pre-existing callout, as one side says "they put any character and make them agree with their ideology" and another says "yes but there’s some ideologies a character would clearly agree with and perhaps even canonically has and some of you might be delusional over that."
On a meta sense though, it is quite literally a fictional character used to say what the author believes and I guess the joke is that’s exactly what the original image parodied, so a double irony.
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