Superheroes as fascistic archetypes : CuratedTumblr

the superhero as a fascist archetype stems from real life political conversations in superhero storytelling [and also] in the fundamental premise that an empowered individual should have any kind of authority to punish evildoers whatsoever

So they're fascist archetypes because of what they say (which is what exactly? *crickets*) and because of their vigilantism.

Fascism is a system of government. Vigilantism operates outside of any system of government. Superheroes are archetypes of a vigilante. That's it. Otherwise, we could conclude that superheroes are an archetype of communists.

Granted, commies and fascists have operated outside of the law to right wrongs as they perceive, but their reasons are different. Same goes for superheroes who are basically like "I don't like actual criminals as defined by a basic set of laws against stealing, killing, or cheating people." Communists and fascists have a bit of that but also expand their definition of criminal into "people who do as they please with their property regardless of them actually stealing, killing, or cheating people out of their just deserts."

There's a lot of superhero stories where they form a "league of justice," but that's centered on combating "the bad guys." They impose a rule of law against a group of clearly defined Bad Guys. Still completely different from communists and fascists' definitions of Bad Guys (which is everyone who is not in their Party).

The superhero archetype also varies from representing the sole and morally good vigilante (Batman) to a group of "vigilantes" who impose their own rule of law on certain people (justice league).

Still no fascist or communist archetype at play here. Could it be that these r-slurs do not understand the differences of moral rules among those governments and vigilantes?

!mottezans, discuss!