• ideonek@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    What his primary characteristic in your mind?

    I agree how the filed is overall. He’s a very small represnetiarion. But I stand by that he’s a valid one.

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      Put it this way, none of the writers of the Wikipedia article on him have included mentions of environmentalism anywhere close to the opening paragraphs.

      Though ironically enough, given what the thread was originally about, the only reference to a environmental activism I can see in there is one where he infiltrates a gang of eco-terrorists to take them down…

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        1 day ago

        I ment Swamp Thing! Swamp Thing!

        Albo, I think Poison Ivey is anti-hero now. So… progress?

        Also, Also super heros are by defintion rectionary - it’s a whole thing, there is a book about it. So you may hava a point.

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          23 hours ago

          super heros are by defintion rectionary

          The other thing that occurs to me is that in most “environmentalist” storylines, the villain’s polluting is done illegally, so the hero already represents the status quo.

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            19 hours ago

            That is… a very good point. Not only in the environmental niche, we desperately crave more “it may be legal, but it needs to be stopped” stories. It would actually make more sense narratively. Gave them the actual reason to vigilante.