Call Your Allies: Don’t Work Alone

 

        “Everyone must work together and fight back. If we all fight, we can’t lose. Good will always win. We need more help.” How many times have we heard about the importance of ‘teamwork’ when it comes to movies with good versus evil: protagonist versus antagonist? Anyone who has ever seen a superhero movie will understand exactly what I am about to say. SUPERHEROS- DO- NOT- CALL- FOR- HELP! THERE- IS- NO- OUTSOURCING- FOR- BACKUP!

          I cannot adequately describe how irritated I get when I am watching any sort of popular franchised Hollywood portrayal of some cliché superhero that needs to save the earth and decides he can handle everything on his own. Don’t get me wrong, I love everything there is to love about the realm of imagination that is in any sort of association with superheroes, supervillains, and the like, but there are many pet peeves I have about the logic behind the stories. Okay, yes, I realize how idiotic the necessity for logic sounds in this context, but hear me out for just a few minutes. “You want logic? You probably shouldn’t be this interested in superheroes. They are made up people with superpowers, of course there is no logic.” Well, I understand that the entire parameter of the superhero world is fictional, but my problem is when there are major gaping holes in the storylines.

          You’re going to tell me that New York City can be literally destroyed and burned to the ground every other day and there are still people who don’t know superheroes exist? That there are no news reports or any investigations going on in order to be able to explain why a street of skyscrapers just collapsed into smoke? Furthermore, I would like to know how much the taxes and the budgeting for infrastructure would be for the citizens in the area because they have to be paying tons of money in repairs.

          A lot of DC and Marvel characters will be in the same area, but don’t cross each other. As a random example to emphasis my point; if Captain America and Spiderman are both going to be in the same vicinity fighting crime, why do they never cross paths? Not once!

          The sucky hiding of “secret identities” is always a dilemma to me. It’s one of those things that is stuck in the back of my mind. A prime example would be Clark Kent, A. K. A., Superman. He literally goes from a suit and glasses to tights and a cape… HE DOESN’T EVEN WEAR A MASK! Now, not only does this fact bother me within itself, but the fact Lois Lane actually slept with Superman and had a child with him NOT KNOWING IT WAS CLARK! First off, she is really stupid to not realize that her coworker was the superhero she had a child with. Second, she clearly did not know him well enough to do so if she can’t even recognize him. But, I digress.

          The woman above is Carrie Kelley, a female Robin from The Dark Knight Returns. Do you see the green glasses she is wearing? Those aren’t part of her costume. SHE WEARS THEM ALL OF THE TIME! SHE IS LITERALLY ALWAYS WEARING THOSE GLASSES AND, YET, NO ONE KNOWS WHO SHE IS?!

          As frustrating as all of these downfalls of the superhero world are, I could forget it. I forgive all of it; the lack of creativity when hiding their identities, destroyed cities, all of it. What I can’t forgive is the fact that none of the superheroes contact each other. My first realization of this was when I saw the newest Captain America movie, The Winter Soldier. Keep in mind that there had just been a new Avengers movie not too long before, so clearly, they are all friends. In the new Captain America movie, Steve Rogers (A. K. A. Captain America) Is basically trying to keep some strange super soldier from blowing up the city, yet, he never called any other Avengers for help except for the most human of all, Black Widow. My first instinct would have been to call Tony Stark/ Iron Man considering he is a genius with technology and you’re trying to deactivate a bomb, but maybe that’s just me.