Are there any left-wing superheroes?

[chilango]

Concrete was a mutant Earth First! eco warrior...

http://www.weisshahn.de/concrete/think.htm

 

[Nine Bob Note]

No leftwing superheroes? What tosh!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Or are they all quasifasicst vigilantes?

 

[elevendayempire]

No-one's mentioned V from V for Vendetta, then?

SG

 

[N_igma]

Does anyone give a fuck? Superheroes don't have much use in the "real world."

 

[Structaural]

um this is a books, tv, writin' and films forum. I think you want P&P.

Daredevil was pretty left wing wasn't he?

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

The ABC Warriors and Nemisis were pretty much anarchists.. or at least in favour of Khaos.

An what about B.L.A.I.R.1

 

[Balbi]

No-one's mentioned V from V for Vendetta, then?

SG

Anarchist. Not Left Wing.

I think.

If this was in P+P it'd be a forty page bunfight

 

[david dissadent]

Swampthing not eco type? (Hands up Im no comic fan)

 

[brixtonvilla]

Dmitri-9, from Grant Morrison's The Filth.

An unrepentant dope-smoking communist, now the world's greatest assassin.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Swampthing not eco type? (Hands up Im no comic fan)

He was indeed.

 

[jjlewenzo]

Castro?

 

[Orang Utan]

Anarchist. Not Left Wing.

I think.

If this was in P+P it'd be a forty page bunfight

Pardon me, but isn't anarchism a kind of left wing ideology. It's certainly not right wing

 

[jjlewenzo]

That's opened it right up! Shall we retitle the thread now?

 

[jjlewenzo]

It has to be said though that anarchism by definition cannot be associated with any political prejudice.

I think.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hmm, I am prepared to lump in in with the lefties, despite the libertarian side of it all

 

[jjlewenzo]

Hmm, I am prepared to lump in in with the lefties, despite the libertarian side of it all

A question -

How do you define Left?

and

How do you define Right?

Could a gun slinging ex-mercenary with a self centred or frustrated personal out look be pre disposed to anarchy?

 

[Orang Utan]

That's left
<-----
and that's right
----->

 

[jjlewenzo]

That's left
<-----
and that's right
----->

So how's it just left then?

 

[Orang Utan]

Could a gun slinging ex-mercenary with a self centred or frustrated personal out look be pre disposed to anarchy?

Yeah, but the minute you explain coercion to him, he won't be interested, or at least he won't become a useful member of a utopian anarchist society

 

[EddieMec]

Superhippy

 

[jjlewenzo]

Basicaly I agree with you. But he'll probably be useful if we declare anarchy on our capitalist state, then we could shoot him with his own gun.

 

[jimmer]

Whilst V was without doubt fucking cool, he does have fairly shit politics.

 

[chainsaw cat]

This was Bosnia 1993

Corporal XXXXXXX (no names he's still in)

who on confronting a Serbian checkpoint took out 3 men by headbutting and punching, because they were - his words - 'Hitler licking fucking Nazi cunts'

I should point out that the men he felled were

a) armed to the fucking teeth

b) huge (well two of them anyway)

c) very much on their home turf and backed up by a tank ( a crap one though)

whereas he was

a) a shortarse

b) missing his rifle - it was in the landy

c) a Middlesborough fan.


Don't think I've ever been so impressed in my life.

Our officer (age 20, not the brightest) had no clue what to do.

 

[brixtonvilla]

Ozymandias, from Watchmen.

Arguably left-wing in that he sought happiness for the majority of people & wanted to make the world better. Some of his methods were slightly questionable, though...

 

[Structaural]

Anyone remember Power Man and Iron Fist? I think they were mercs though, but I think I vaguely remember Power Man being associated with Black Panther politics but it's been a while.

 

[Jografer]

Fat Freddy's Cat...

 

[gsv]

The Authority

Left-wing anarchist (definitely the former, largely the latter) super-powered arse-kickers., and -as-fuck.


GS(v)

 

[elevendayempire]

The Authority

Left-wing anarchist (definitely the former, largely the latter) super-powered arse-kickers., and -as-fuck.


GS(v)

Apollo looks a right twat in that picture, though.

SG

 

[Kripcat]

Captain Planet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Planet

They had me indoctrinated from a very young age, I can still remember all the words for the theme song and enviromental message song from the end.....









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Captain planet he's our hero, ganna take pollution down to zero....












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He's our powers magnified, and he's fighting on the planets side....