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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Shows like My Hero Academia & One-Punch Man have heroes hired by the government so they actually are the law.
Also Tiger & Bunny I recall though it also had a heavy corporate influence due to every hero having a sponsor.
Edited by slimcoder on Sep 30th 2019 at 11:19:32 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I really wanted to find a flaw in this film. I couldn't find legitimate ones.
I don't do this as an intent to spew hate on this movie, BTW.
Edited by Andrei_Bondoc on Oct 1st 2019 at 3:42:15 PM
"Scooby Dooby Doo!"Speaking of Captain Marve, I remember that there was a controversy in Rotten Tomatoes because it was considered that many members of the audience voted the movie without having seen it, or created multi-accounts to vote negatively.
This caused some censorship, and many users complained.
What I do not understand is because people create multi-accounts, their opinion is not worth 5 times more, just for having voted 5 times.
*6The Boys also have examples of "Superheroes" who work with the government. (Although in this case they are villains with good publicity)
Although the reason why the register does not work in Marvel, is because the government of that world is so incompetent that in less than two months, the super villains would have already stolen the files with the identies.
That is, they are the same idiots who gave Norman Osborn almost absolute power.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Oct 1st 2019 at 6:24:25 AM
Albeit in the case of The Boys the "heroes" don't technically work directly for the Government as much as they are hired help from a megacorp who are (nominally) working with the government (but also with their own agenda.) Which frankly, seems like it would be the logical real life outcome if someone really were to come up with super powers directly from a bottle/syringe as is the case in The Boys. Heroes would become a commodity like any other.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
The heroes of One Punch Man also do not work directly for the government, but for a multi-million dollar company.
In Boku No Hero Academy I don't remember.
I think the number of heroes who work directly for the government is very small.
Even many "legal" heroes "work with" and not "work for" the government.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on Oct 1st 2019 at 6:43:00 AM
This caused some censorship, and many users complained.
What I do not understand is because people create multi-accounts, their opinion is not worth 5 times more, just for having voted 5 times.
IIRC the film amassed tens of thousands of negative User reviews before release date. Rotten Tomatoes has never prevented people from leaving User reviews for films that hadn't yet come out before. It's one of those, "Didn't think about it because why would you need that?" type of things.
The Captain Marvel debacle revealed why you would need that, and RT changed their system as a result to prevent pre-release Users reviews from being posted.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 1st 2019 at 7:52:45 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The heroes in My Hero Academia are like government contractors
They don’t directly get a salary from the government, they get paid kinda like commission on every crime stopped (which of course absolutely incentivizes heroes to “kill steal”) and often supplement that income by taking advertising jobs and selling their name and likenesses for products
Or something like that, I think. Hero agencies are run like businesses unto themselves
Edited by Bocaj on Oct 1st 2019 at 11:01:48 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNow that I think better about Avengers: Age of Ultron...
- Yeah, nobody's concerned about:
- A whole city is in the sky thanks to Ultron. Not even the landing is of concern for anyone.
- Pietro's death, except for his sister Wanda and Clint.
- Tony bringing to life an A.I. that causes worldwide chaos. And nobody punishes him at the end.
- Everyone quips. And it's more important than anything. Actually, I didn't mind it, and I still don't. Because I don't bother myself too much with why.
- I do like the moments between Bruce and Natasha.
I'm lowering Avengers: Age of Ultron to 8/10 as a result.
I also apologize to you for liking Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and this film. It's because of me being more tolerant and open-minded to things that I have and/or experience.
"Scooby Dooby Doo!"I literally just said this on the last page regarding a completely different topic. So I'll just repost and snip the pertinent parts to this topic.
...
Me, I don't like Avengers: Endgame. I think it's a terribly overrated film that made a lot of bad choices.
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Like. It's okay to have unpopular opinions.
Just because other people don't agree with you about the subjective quality of a given thing, that doesn't mean you're wrong. Or that they're wrong. That's just how subjective things work.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 1st 2019 at 9:27:31 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.@Tiger and Bunny: Sponsored Televised heroics was also used to make people tone down the anti-NEXT bigotry as well.
Unsurprisingly the corporations CEO that started it all IS evil, and worked with T&B Illuminafi(Ouroboros) to get it off the ground, since getting NEXT acceptance was part of unknown goals. They aren't even subtle the frickin currency when gotten wet shows hidden Ouroboros logos.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Oct 1st 2019 at 8:27:28 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.It was still kinda silly that the impact of the city falling down was rendered completely harmless merely because it was detonated into smaller pieces.
These pieces alone should've caused massive damage.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% Scandinavian

That seems like a major oversimplification, but I can’t really do anything to disprove it at this time.
Oh God! Natural light!