the concept of the hero

[Coola Yagami]

Y'know, I wouldn't call myself 100% moral, nor am I saint by any means, by I do try to be a good guy whenever I can. While times have changed and people are more cynical and mistrusting nowadays, yeah, back in younger times I would help old ladies cross the street or help someone pick up things when they've dropped a mess of papers or groceries. To this day I still hold the door open to everyone, not just women, but old folks, or people I notice are a few feet away but headed for the same door I am.

While a lot of my morals come from my parents upbringing and church and stuff, a big part of it also comes from superheroes. Back then my heroes were Spider-Man, Batman and the Ninja Turtles. I only heard of Captain America and hadn't bought the comics til a bit later but I could tell he was a symbol of righteousness. A lot of my actions were determined by 'what would Batman/Spider-Man do?' I never wanted to do something that would disappoint them, nor would I ever have wanted to end up 'on the wrong side of the law' and turn out to be the same kind of scumbag that my heroes would be beating up on. I remember in school when teachers wanted a volunteer and no one would do it, I would eventually raise my hand cause I felt I was 'saving' the class (hey I was in grade school, ok?)

The point is, what hope do any kids have nowadays with these woke versions of Marvel and DC heroes that feel more like activists and violent extremists? Just recently they had this X-Men book about this girl, I believe is named Nature Girl. She's a mutant but other than her horns/antlers/something on her head, I don't know if she has any powers. She found a turtle choking on some trash and found the bag to belong to some store. She found the store, asked for the manager and stabbed the guy in the neck with a fork. And it was done in a way that we're supposed to cheer and be like 'yeah go girl!'.

More people die, and the X-Men send Wolverine after her, not because killing is wrong or because she's killing innocent people, but because her actions were making mutants look bad and could ruin human/mutant relations. She gets nothing more than a time out for committing mass murder, and on top of that she's confronted by illusions/ghosts(???) something of her victims where the store owner comes back and reminds her for all she knew he could have been a father and she now left that family without one and she was still like 'I don't care, you deserved to die and I'd do it again'. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.

The stupid thing is, it's not like the ****ing store manager went into the lake and purposely put the bag in there in himself, that could have been any random customer. He has no control what anyone does after they leave the store, even with a sign that says 'don't litter with out products' or whatever, it's not like they're not gonna. What kind of retarded logic is this that the reader is supposed to emphasize with and root for???

Another thing that came to mind is that this mutant is, apparently, supposed to hate all humans, and yet her victim was a straight white male. I somehow get the nagging the feeling she wouldn't have been so quick to go stabby-stabby if when she called for the manager a black lesbian woman showed up instead.

I have noticed a trend of 'straight white males' always being jerks and assholes, and I don't mean the supervillains but random people, just so the reader doesn't feel too bad when they get killed, but still... it's a mutant girl and her friends going around killing people that did nothing wrong and are just doing their jobs. Like those kid (both the readers and the characters themselves) will never understand that someday they might be doing some job that might have their own Nature Girl walk up to them to kill them, and they're just trying to feed their family.

That is the most recent example but for a while now there's been heroes doing all sorts of whacked out ****, that when you stop and think about it would put them in the wrong and make them just as bad or worse than the people they fight, but hey, their name is on the book so.... heroes? There was even a comic with Miss Marvel and other newbs confronting a person being robbed and they actually stopped to discussed among themselves about the implications if they intervene, based on race, money status and whatever other nonsense while the person is still being robbed. Sheesh.

What kind of morals and lessons are being taught to kids nowadays. What are they to do if the heroes they're supposed to look up to are no longer virtuous and righteous. If anything we're lucky the good guys are still good guys in the MCU.