Interview With the Vampire is a 1976 novel by Anne Rice, in which she explores themes of morality, same sex love, loyalty, immortaity and oozes of homoerotism. If you didn't get that, you didn't read it.
X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.
Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.
Captain America had a queer Jewish friend named Arnie who protected him from neighborhood bullies in his scrawny youth, and when Arnie passed years later, Cap started a center for LGBTQ+ youth in New York in his friend Arnie's memory. This is canon. There'd be no Cap without Arnie Roth. Captain America also literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right and Homophobics alike. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.
The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.
The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.
Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.
Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.
Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.
Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.
The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.
If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” - you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.
If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.
Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
- By Kenny Boyle
Batman is about someone using their privilege to benefit the world.
Doctor Who is about the struggle between liberty and authority. ( I mean, the Doc's numero uno nemesis began as a satire to the Nazi mindset. (Genesis Of The Daleks))
Firefly is about standing up and doing what's right even when the odds seem impossible.
That also goes for He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe (and She-Ra) too. In fact, if you're in any doubt that He-Man is about equality and acceptance, (or the most homo-erotic show ever made ;) ) or that She-Ra's rebellion is about anti-fascists fighting for rights - you simply didn't get it.
- By John Loud.
Garth Ennis’ The Boys and Amazon’s live-action adaptation of the comic are both dominated by megacorporations who sponsor superheroes, the dynamics that exist on various hero teams aren’t just about how different characters get along, but also larger ideological powers vying for an opportunity to spread their respective messages. After introducing us to a reality in which famous capes were every bit as debaucherous and inclined to commit atrocious crimes against humanity—knowing full well that the empowered criminals would and could never really be held accountable. The Boys is making a number of valid points about the destructive influence megacorporations can have on society. Nine of them are heroes. They are the villains! Homelander, for those unfamiliar with the character, exists as The Boys’ answer to both Superman and Captain America. But he hides a deep-seated depravity and sociopathy behind his carefully constructed (but imperfect) veneer of American exceptionalism and militant patriotism. Were the public to know the truth about Homelander’s war crimes, his associations with actual Nazis, and his honest desire to rule the world, it would understand that he’s anything but a hero. It’s a fact the series uses to make you root that much more for its actual foul-mouthed protagonists.
If you don't get that, you don't get the Boys
- By GIZMODO
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