- cross-posted to:
- geekdom@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- geekdom@kbin.social
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
I wasn’t specifically referring to gore or violence, but themes - and I wasn’t referring to comics specifically, just the bulk of superhero media. There have been some revisionist examples of superhero settings that take an established character and place them in a different context, with more adult HBO-esque themes. But the bulk of the many repeated releases for film every year don’t seem to be of that nature.
The blockbusters don’t, but there have been adult or at least mature superhero movies around forever and not just existing popular characters in new settings. I think you are limiting ‘superhero’ to a specific subset that excludes anything that would not be aimed at kids.
Do you see Kick Ass as a superhero movie?
Darkman?
The Crow?
Constantine?