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[DC] 4chan's /co/ board discusses the irrationality of the civilians of the Marvel universe
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Author: u/ToaKraka https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png*
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Score: 66
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Created: 2016-07-10T16:31:04
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u/Deku-shrub [+35] (52 minutes later)
DC universe, but this is always appropriate
u/Fresh_C [+8] (a day later)
I agree most of the time Superman's time would be better spent pumping out that energy. But When Zod comes along, clean energy isn't exactly going to stop him.
Though I suppose the implication is that widespread free clean energy would lead to the invention of other technologies which maybe could help us keep the peace with all the alien invasions and such.
But given how frequently potentially city-wide or world destroying events occur in either universe, I think we're still going to need to fire up the coal plants while Superman punches some super-powered villains now and then.
u/scruiser [+22] CYOA (2 hours later)
I don't have a problem with the realism of Marvel civilians or government, given the own way the real life US government and public reacted to 9/11, and the way the US government and average voter have handled stuff like the War on Drugs.
u/None [+27] (6 hours later)
Please stop reminding me that reality is actually a badly-written comic-book movie.
u/DCarrier [+16] (7 hours later)
Please stop breaking the fourth wall.
u/None [+7] (8 hours later)
And, like comics, it never ends.
Thankfully we get relatively few reboots.
u/gabbalis [+11] (9 hours later)
Are you sure? Maybe that's what deja vu is.
u/None [+7] (13 hours later)
Shiiittt
u/nerdguy1138 [+6] GNU Terry Pratchett (4 days later)
I would actually greatly prefer reality be a badly written comic book movie, because at least then I could randomly find a power ring for no reason.
u/TacticusThrowaway [+1] (7 days later)
Imagine that any Muslim you attacked or yelled at could turn around and kill you dead with eye lasers, or toxic breath, or psychic powers, or anything, really.
I think you'd be less inclined to attack muslims.
u/CouteauBleu [+7] We are the Empire. (5 days later)
On the other side of things, you have to wonder how come those things keep happening without the world (well, USA and appropriate scenic shots of a few capitals to imply that shits also happens in other countries) changing as a result except becoming slightly more violent and racists.
Like, hundreds of criminals can put a silly costume and start robbing banks, and the banks never change their money storage methods or buy silly-costume-proof protections. I remember watching a BtAS episode where the Creeper barges into a shop to steal a costume and thinking "Come on, this is Gotham City post ten years of the Joker. Shouldn't every shop have guards with machine guns by now?"
The military never upgrades its weaponry or recruit mutants in bulk (except when they do it in the most unethical way conceivable), or improves in any way that would let it compete with the rampaging paramilitaries and supervillains, or the individual heroes that need to save them.
When 9/11 happened, security everywhere was changed forever. Superhero universes never change, so it looks like the millions of people who died just disappeared in a vacuum.
Worm is a bit more consistent than average, with the PRT being ubiquitous, shelters for Endbringer attacks, and few tidbits of worldbuilding, but it's still lightyears away from a realistic portrayal. Like, there's a band of serial killers that regularly go on very public rampages in the USA, they have been going at it for decades, and there's almost nothing done to stop them; no martial law, no task force dedicated to stopping them, no firing your way through PRT directors until you find one who can finally do the job. In comparison, the French military is still on high alert for last year's shootings, which are way less dramatic or deadly than a band of serial killers going on a rampage every few weeks.
So, yeah. Turns out superheroes stories are irrational.
u/elevul [+2] Cyoria Observer (6 days later)
Keep in mind that Contessa was actively working to keep them alive, and there is nothing that PtV can't do
u/AussieHawker [+1] (9 days later)
No. She only ordered Battery to preserve the Cauldron Capes Shatterbird and Manton. She gave no indication of protecting any of the others.
u/TacticusThrowaway [+1] (7 days later)
"Come on, this is Gotham City post ten years of the Joker. Shouldn't every shop have guards with machine guns by now?"
That's not something all the shops can afford. Also, the fact that the Joker is still alive defies logic.
Like, there's a band of serial killers that regularly go on very public rampages in the USA, they have been going at it for decades, and there's almost nothing done to stop them; no martial law, no task force dedicated to stopping them, no firing your way through PRT directors until you find one who can finally do the job.
The problem is that they can't be put down all at once, one of the core members is functionally invulnerable, another can talk his way out of nearly any situation with another superhuman, and the third can do more things with biology than MacGyver can do with a Swiss Army Knife.
Also, isn't Cauldron behind the scenes manipulating things?
u/wtfbbc [+6] (6 hours later)
I just wanna say, this is a fucking fantastic crop.
u/ToaKraka [+7] https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png (7 hours later)
I feel pretty smug whenever the people at r/4chan profess amazement at the awesomeness of my crops. It really isn't that hard, though--you can make good crops even if you aren't willing to mess around with the page's code.
Check out this step-by-step demonstration of how I cropped a recent series of comments!
u/TacticusThrowaway [+1] (7 days later)
Winkey+Right, take screenshot.
That's basically it.
u/ToaKraka [+2] https://i.imgur.com/OQGHleQ.png (7 days later)
And yet so many submitters at r/4chan are too lazy to do even that...
u/Schuano [+5] (a day later)
These people need to read Worm.
Seriously, the third comment from the bottom is just... Worm.
u/TacticusThrowaway [+3] (7 days later)
Oh wow. It's a 4chan screenshot that is both readable and not wider than my screen. How did that happen?