• BlueLineBae@midwest.social
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    25 days ago

    I think this is what The Incredibles does very well. It throws you into a world with super heros, makes you think they’re cool, then shows you what would actually happen to them when they start “saving” people and smashing up infrastructure. Probably one of the best super hero movies out there.

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      25 days ago

      Yeah except in the modern day they’d have been protected by good Samaritan laws. It makes sense in those circumstances but basically what happened was the heroes getting sued and prosecuted for moving a non-responsive to the side of the road to avoid them getting hit by traffic.

      That sounds ridiculous but that’s literally an example from China where they don’t have those protections. People suing helpful bystanders and arguing that them helping is them taking on responsibility.

      Now granted, making 9/11 look like a scheduled demolition (don’t crack wise conspiracy nuts) well stretches beyond what those exemptions might be able to cover, BUT, the heroes could get leniency if they can prove that they were trying to take the fight out of the city but the villain was refusing to be taken away from where they could harm civilians.

      Man of Steel supes would have a hard time pulling that one off but the actual big blue boyscout would have ZERO trouble getting any legal consequences mitigated this way due to his outstanding record of public service outside of the fights. He probably ASKS the judge to bring the charges to create an opportunity to issue a public apology whenever something like this arises.

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      25 days ago

      “Mr. Sansweet didn’t ask to be saved. Mr. Sansweet didn’t want to be saved. And the injury he received from Mr. Incredible’s ‘actions,’ so-called, causes him daily pain…”

      It’s this scene—dark as the implications may be—that really drives the point home.

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        25 days ago

        Nah lmao. If the daily pain is so bad he can just kill himself again. And if he doesn’t wanna die anymore, then good job Mr Incredible.