RE: Superhero Movies: The Truth About Our Love for Superpowers
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You remind me of a Chinese friend who shared with me an adage from his region that said something like: People don't hate privileges, they hate not having those privileges.
And it also makes me think about the problem that inequality can be due in many cases to a desire to establish a higher 'status' rather than a real question of production or rational economy. Sometimes, groups in power prefer to let other groups of people die so as not to give them the 'privilege' of using the resources they have available. It sounds cruel, but it is a human reality that has been repeated throughout history in too many places in the world.
By the way, on a lighter note, that part about 'if everyone is special, then no one is special anymore', made me remember a line of dialogue that was very key in an animated film from years ago, it was The Incredibles (2004).
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I have seen the incredibles and I do wish that it was a franchise.... but I cant seem to recall the line of dialogue you are referring to.
The line I'm saying is spoken by different characters throughout the film, by different characters, and each one gives it a particular tone. I think the most intense one is when, near the final third, the villain talks to the father of the family about superheroes and explains that he's going to play at being a superhero with his inventions, and after he gets fed up with that, he'll sell the inventions to everyone, so when everyone is 'super' no one will be 'special' anymore.
The villain had become disillusioned with the attitude of his childhood hero and had developed a sick and vengeful obsession with supers, so making their powers commonplace was part of a great revenge. Eliminating what is considered special, not by destroying it, but by vulgarizing it, making it so commonplace that it would lose its sense of rarity.
Yes.
I think that is the ultimate revenge a villain can craft for a superhero. It's a testament to his ingenuity.