• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    43·
    1 year ago

    Also, just picture the mass graves that would have to be dug to deal with the hundreds or even thousands of bodies from things like Battle of New York.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      “He may have slammed an entire planet into the alien overlord’s space castle, killing billions and wiping out a thriving, intelligent, peaceful species, but hey, he saved Earth so it’s all good!”

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    243·
    1 year ago

    If I lived in the DC universe I’d be on team Luthor. This all powerful alien shows up on earth and starts dictating morality and telling every human what to do, wrecking cities and tossing cars and shit

      • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        1 year ago

        Being such a monster that your subordinates, who happily participated in your illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, have to physically assault you to stop your crimes against humanity isn’t having checks and balances.

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        Lex (named after Alexander) is a representation of a current age Alexander, a humans who is intelligent, driven and capable (he could balance the national budget on a napkin and fix the global economy if he wanted to) people just don’t like his methods.

        If you look at Lex as Alexander, Superman is an Alien who shows up from space and is constantly trying to stop Lex from taking over the world (which he could do if not for Superman). So how moral is Superman in stopping Lex? If Superman had landed in ancient times, would he have stopped Alexander? Would he have annihilated Caesar, or Genghis, or Napoleon? Interfering in human affairs and changing the course of human history forever? The very thing his father Jor El told him not to do?

        I think it’s an interesting take, to see Lex as a human being trying to achieve his potential and rule over other humans, something Lex feels is his right if he can achieve it, while an outsider is trying to stop him, based on a fake “justice in the American way” morality that never existed. Superman is an alien who thinks he’s a brainwashed farm boy who drank the Kool aid of American propaganda.

  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    If there were superheros that could violate the laws of thermodynamics at will, I would expect them to at least run the world on limitless clean energy.

    It would probably only take a little bit of time to figure out ways to store the energy so that all of society could run without the superheros continuously working shifts and stuff: like maybe they just reheat a molten salt core from time to time, or fill up a high altitude lake with water upstream from some hydro plants.