Will the Capitol be off limits for fictional super villains now?

[Coola Yagami]

I'm just wondering due to current events, assuming there are any American action cartoons even left anymore (they all seem to be slice of life comedy or just things that differ from the typical heroes fighting villains), will there be some sort of unwritten rule where bad guys will skip out on trying to take over the Capitol of their city, fictional or not?

I'd imagine over the years, Marvel villains must have attacked the New York Capitol time and again. Not too sure about DC in general since Gotham City and Metropolis are cities in unknown states. IDK I just had a random thought of Shredder sending the Foot to attack the Capitol to bend the leaders to his will but realizing that wouldn't fly anymore.

It's curious how we look back and see these things. Villains have used the Twin Towers in their plans time and again, and ironically, our very own Baxter Stockman was threatening to take down the Twin Towers with his Mousers in the second ever issue of the series that started it all. Obviously the towers are no longer there anyway, but people sometimes look back and shudder if some cartoon villain says something similar to 'we'll destroy the Twin Towers by midnight tonight!'

Then we got stuff like the Dark Knight Rises shooting causing them to replace normal looking guns for more cartoony space-type guns in that Beware the Batman cartoon.

I don't know. I just imagine some cartoon or comic writers that had plans to have their villain to take over the Capitol hastily trying to rewrite it so they target City Hall instead or some other place.

[IMJ]

Well if it is then they shouldn't ever show mobsters, ruffians, hoodlums or punks tearing up downtown regions ever again.

The capital riots were nonsense but they certainly weren't the great tragedy of this generations life.

[Coola Yagami]

I'd imagine some dark comedy show or cartoon would eventually have people storm the Capitol of their town and comment on being surprised on how easy it was. Have like Osama Bin Laden's ghost watching from hell be like 'WTF, all this time all I had to do was just walk right in?"

[Shark_Blade]

If they can joke about 9/11, they can do stories on Trump terrorists/other villainy attacking the Capitol too.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I'd imagine some dark comedy show or cartoon would eventually have people storm the Capitol of their town and comment on being surprised on how easy it was. Have like Osama Bin Laden's ghost watching from hell be like 'WTF, all this time all I had to do was just walk right in?"

Sounds like a Family Guy episode in the making.

[Leo656]

As we were reading about it my wife and I were like "South Park is gonna have a field day with THIS sh*t."

[TigerClaw]

Don't be surprise when Hollywood makes movies inspired by what happened in the Capital. Were already seeing movies set during the Pandemic. So any real world events is fair game for making movies.

[Galactus]

Unlikely. 9/11 didn't stop Marvel comics from trashing NYC over and over again during their superhero battles in the comics or Hollywood from doing disaster movies. If anything there was a wave of movies which showed the destruction of New York and other cities as more realistic and gritty; contrast Independence Day with Spielberg's War of the Worlds for example. So if anyone wants to do a story in comics, TV or film were Washington is leveled it will not only be fine but seen as realistic and relevant.

[Leo656]

Yeah, maybe a BRIEF moratorium but that's about all. Ultimately anything is fair game in the field of entertainment. It's just that sometimes things need to "cool off" for a bit before you can Go There again. But it's never permanent.