masquenox ,

I would like you to explain how Captain America and Superman are reactionary.

I mean... c'mon. Captain America is low-hanging fruit - the correlation between Captain America and actual US behavior in the world essentially writes itself.

Superman is a far more sophisticated representation of US-style liberalism - but, just like liberalism itself, that doesn't make Super Cheese any less of a reactionary.

However... we can talk about the individual politics of these characters all day long - and we'd be missing the entire point of the metaphor in it's entirety.

The problem with the "super hero" genre is not the individual politics of the characters concerned - it's with how they normalize and justify the concentration of power in the hands of these exalted individuals.

In other words - the problem is fundamental.

He doesn’t understand the core themes of superheroes,

I think he understand them perfectly, because...

Zack Snyder is an Objectivist

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