You know, there's something interesting I have noted about the left's reaction to X-men, which I feel to an extent applies to western superheroes in general.
While leftists who like the X-men think of them as an allegory for the civil rights movement, I've heard that those who don't like them see them as the equivalent of a white power group, or feel that they could see themselves as a master race due to how they are sometimes thought of as an evolution of humanity (I don't read a lot of X-men, to be honest, correct me if I am wrong). It's an interesting thought. Similarly, I feel that a lot of the crossing of superhero imagery with alt-right (at least, in the pejorative sense of the left's term) imagery is only really an actual thing in works that mock superhero media like The Boys and Marshall Law, since there seems to be a lot of major Marvel and DC superhero comics who go out the wazoo pandering to the left.
I did once see a headline about the Barbie movie being a Rorschach test of sorts, so I think this could be a similar situation.
You know, there's something interesting I have noted about the left's reaction to X-men, which I feel to an extent applies to western superheroes in general.
While leftists who like the X-men think of them as an allegory for the civil rights movement, I've heard that those who don't like them see them as the equivalent of a white power group, or feel that they could see themselves as a master race due to how they are sometimes thought of as an evolution of humanity (I don't read a lot of X-men, to be honest). It's an interesting thought. Similarly, I feel that a lot of the crossing of superhero imagery with alt-right (at least, in the pejorative sense of the left's term) imagery is only really an actual thing in works that mock superhero media like The Boys and Marshall Law, since there seems to be a lot of major Marvel and DC superhero comics who go out the wazoo pandering to the left.
I did once see a headline about the Barbie movie being a Rorschach test of sorts, so I think this could be a similar situation.