[ SECRET POST #3824 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3824 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[BoJack Horseman]


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[Horizon Zero Dawn]


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09. [WARNING for possible discussion of harassment/sexual assault?]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of rape]

(Bill Cosby and Keshia Knight Pulliam)


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11. [WARNING for discussion of harassment/cyberbulling, abortion, child sexual abuse]















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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #547.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[feotakahari]

But if superheroes don't run on real-world morality, then how can superhero comics get away with trying to talk about morality? I once saw an X-Men comic where Storm discovered that Doctor Doom has a treatment for life-threatening burn wounds, and she talked about how messed up it was that Doom never shared the treatment outside his country. If you accept the message there, then Wakanda not sharing its medicine falls under the same message.

[(Anonymous)]

Symbolically. As educated readers who understand the various levels on which something works and the narrative strategies being used. Not as readers who attempt to evaluate everything presented in a text literally and hyperrealistically.

[anarchicq]

But cancer is an in-universe thing. Deadpool joined the Weapon X program to try to get himself cured of it. Characters have died from it, I'm sure though nothing other than a What If with Mary Jane Watson-Parker-whatever is coming to mind.

[(Anonymous)]

There are no levels to this. A country withholding a cure for the one global disease that kills more people than any other disease is not morally excusable and - no matter the 'levels' - plain evil.

[feotakahari]

I'm reminded of the ending of The Cabin in the Woods. Lots of people certainly thought that was bullshit, regardless of the symbolism.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, there are still things that are just bad, for all kinds of reasons. There can be narratives that are incoherent or don't work. I just think that appealing to "how would this superheroic contrivance actually function in the real world" is almost never a good reading of a superhero comic, especially a relatively straight-up superhero comic. And if you're going to criticize the thing, you really need to do it from a more sensible point of view. It's incredibly obtuse.

[(Anonymous)]

Like. It'd be liking talking about how the opening scene in Halloween is bad film because a six-year-old couldn't hold a knife, or something.