Should Cancel Culture make all Super-Villains disappear ?

I'm not sure I understand the logic.

@lunacyde: @kinglouie

The Cancel Culture aims to erase from sight and memory all the people who have perpetrated horrors. They are removing statues of former statesmen, wanting to rename streets or parks with more politically correct names, and want ethnological museums such as the African Museum to be closed.

In this vein, why shouldn't we make virtual villains disappear from the virtual world ? To me, the logic seems obvious.

I wouldn't say they'd remove them. Their shtick is more like "you're a bigot if you don't like these poor misunderstood souls who have been wrongly framed as villains" or whatever, which naturally means the current heroes are going to be the next villains.

No, since comicbooks doesn't represent what super villains does in a morally right spot at all.

Nah, Super Villains is what makes the Comics interesting. If they Cancelled the Memories of the Villains it would be like Erasing Moments of Progress where Someone had to Overcome a Villain.

What would be fun about fiction anymore ?

Didn't they try to cancel the Joker movie?

I think there is a clear distinction between honoring real people who did horrible things and allowing bad guys to exist in fictional stories. These two things are not similar in the slightest.

It won't.

But it might try take the edge off of them in some cases. The most notorious recent example is the initial media response to the "Joker" movie. But generally, this only really happens in family-friendly properties. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, The Boys, and Invincible have really brutal, controversial villains that didn't get cancelled, or censored beyond what was needed to make them watchable.

But yeah, real life villains are not synonymous with fictional villains in this respect.

I agree. The proposal on the thread is a slight provocation intended to bring about a reflection on the subject. I am opposed to this Cancel Culture which wants to make symbols disappear in order to obscure memory. For me, the statue of a slave owner or a tyrant in a well-appointed context that explains situations, recalls their bad deeds and highlights actions taken for reconciliation is far more useful than these pathetic attempts to force the oversight. Imo a former slave or former oppressed will never forget that he was a slave or an oppressed but the recognition by society that it does not forget, that it regrets and that it acts so that it does not happen again can bring him some comfort.

I don't understand the question

However I just want to say that cancel culture is stupid and I can't believe that we are living in this time of cancel culture.

I think cancel culture should leave super villains alone.

@jacdec: I am in agreement, that in general, I do disagree with cancel culture. However, in some cases I do believe that some items belong in museums, not honored in our parks and memorials. To me its not about hiding history, it is about putting it in a proper place where it is about learning, not celebrating or memorializing.

What's the point of heroes without villains?

Cancel culture itself should dissapear.

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There's difference between acts of unspeakable evil in real life versus fictious figures you make-up. This thread topic itself doesn't add up in the slightest.

I'd rather see Leatherface making the Cancel Culture disappear. ))) Like he did in that video.