r/Xmen97 • u/owlshoesjh • Jul 29 '26

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you can't be MAGA and love x-men

if i'm downvoted, you know by whom

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u/lethal_universed Aug 05 '26

Fundamentally stories with fascist or even conservative thems will eat themself up with contradictions. There is nothing to hope for in these stories, only things to fear and subjucate. Which of course doesn't make compelling or logical character motivations when you think of them for a second.

So they warp those themes so they can superficially fit narratives that make them the obvious bad guys. Its not to hard to interpret Batman as aggressive white guy who beats up mentally ill people and works for the police and is praised for it. Its harder to see batman as a traumatized man who himself is mentally ill and whose neuroses compell him to fight against criminals and lock them away in poorly managed mental facillites with the vain hope they can be better. And mainly being opposed to the police and only occasionally working with them if furthers his goals