Change is (NOT) bad-A Rebuke of Superhero Media

Original at Dustin Plank,
An experiment in creativity

Lately-as in the last decade or so- I’ve been noticing a problematic trend in every superhero movie (and a few TV shows). This trend that seems to be supported by the studios and the government is a reductive and socially damaging idea designed to make us complacent and helpless to save ourselves from the tenor of the times.

I call it a trend, but it’s really more of an idea, put into our heads Inception-style in a way I’ve only noticed since Batman Begins. The idea can be summed up as: Change is bad.

This idea is populated throughout superhero movies, along with this idea that heroism is a born trait that cannot/should not be learned. I mean, if Tony Stark can make next-level tech in a cave with a box of scraps why can’t anyone else? Well, according to Iron Man 2, if a poor man makes an arc reactor, then it is automatically used for evil. In real life, Whiplash would be a sympathetic character whose life was unfairly ruined by Tony’s dad’s sense of patriotism, but in the movie, we are supposed to jeer at him for suggesting the main character’s family of weapons merchants and billionaires could ever be anything less than the milk of Christ.

And then there’s The Dark Knight Rises, whose climax involves Batman raising an army of cops to, for lack of better wording, “put the poors in their place”. But the poors are led by Bane who wants to destroy Gotham for being corrupt, as per the League of Shadows’ charter you say. Funny how the evil bad guy in the movie is embraced by the desperate and downtrodden, wouldn’t you say? Did I mention this movie was made during a real life event (Occupy Wall Street) where poor people protested the corruption of the rich? The very wealthy who bankrupted the country and were rewarded with more of our money for it?!

I mean really, Christopher Nolan.

This is because all of Hollywood is forced to kowtow to the United States military via the US Office of War’s Bureau of Motion Pictures. That’s right, you heard me: every studio (and by unwilling extension the creatives that work there) is bribed to kowtow to the Military-Industrial Complex. To make movies, the screenplay has to go through a military bureaucrat to be “approved”. For a movie in Hollywood to get approved, any references to America as anything other than a shining beacon of freedom and the light of society have to be removed. If the American military is involved in the movie the same goes for them, or the military will not advise the filmmakers on military things. It is very hard for a movie to be made in Hollywood without an okay from the Bureau of Motion Pictures.

Some would call this a symbiotic relationship. I think of it as parasitic, a jaboot on the throat of truth and creativity. And where superhero movies are concerned, it takes a manipulative and wicked turn. Casting those who wish to make the world better as bad or having evil ulterior motives (Killmonger and Bane fit both of these molds) puts the idea in the heads of the people that cannot be escaped and seems impossible to deny: the idea that change is bad and we’re bad if we want it. And that message is antithetical to humanity.

Truth is in this day and age WE NEED CHANGE. Things as they are cannot keep on. The rich use their wealth to influence our government against us. Cops kill people without trial and due process is basically a memory now (just ask the people protesting Cop City.

We are led by sociopaths who will never live to see the consequences of their actions, which is probably why they commit such atrocities. We need things to change. WE NEED CHANGE AND THAT ISN’T BAD.

Consider this next time a superhero movie tells you otherwise…

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