Fat nerd neckbeard being radicalized by "right wing media" to kill minorities, MM orphaned by racism. Racism, racism, racism.
Butcher labeled as a "bigot", which was such a cringy scene BTW, I wanted to be in another fucking universe when I watched it.
This show really went downhill compared to season one.
Glad I found a board talking about this. I like to watch the show with my dad as its one of the few things we do together. But hot damn am I starting to dislike the show.
The last episode literally had a scene where the main characters watch cuckold porn.
I am starting to cheer for Stormfront and Homelander now. I just want to see this whole world get blasted by Laser eyed Nazi Super soldiers.
Why the fuck would a cuck need a fluffer?! That made no fucking sense!
ive been rooting for homelander since episode one, everyone else is so unlikeable.
I can't stand any of 'em, frankly. It's like the show needs Invader Zim and his people to come make them all gainfully enslaved.
All I wanted was a kind of deconstruction of superheroes (if only to end the era the way Airplane! ended Airport movies ..), an answer to the question, "What if Superman said "fuck it, I'm not a human, I just look like one" and decided to do his own thing? Or went full on evil?"
People have been answering that question for decades.
Watchmen, for example, answered it so hard it practically kicked off a Dark Age where comic book writers tried to make their gun-toting idiot characters as "dark and edgy" as possible.
Read Irredeemable or Supreme Power. Both address that in different ways.
Some spoilers below:
Both use a central Superman pastiche as the main focus however deal with the consequences of such a being in different ways.
Irredeemable has The Plutonian, which is Superman in almost all but name except for some origin twists that are revealed later in the story. The catalyst of the whole thing is the matter of just how extensive the super hearing power is combined with how humans as a whole can't accept something. So eventually because he keeps hearing all the gossip and criticism about him and because he's too human despite his actual origins, he reacts in a very human way and snaps. The story then starts with the world having to somehow deal with the single most powerful being on the planet that nobody can actually stop.
Supreme Power is an origin varient of the Squadron Supreme [Justice League pastiche with it's very own racist, black Batman] with Hyperion who has a dimensional alternate in the main Marvel universe as well as other versions around the multiverse including the actual evil King Hyperion version. This version changes the upbringing from the usual Superman one to an entirely government run project codenamed Hyperion. Story deals with Hyperion growing up in a controlled environment which very quickly turns out to be incapable of holding him and how he reacts to learning the truth about himself and how others both treat and think of him.
Writers of the pieces did eventually go off the tracks and drink the socjus coolaid in some cases though.