[Re. a comic book that has introduced a Muslim superhero.]
backstory of the muslim "super hero"
after a tragic accident while setting up a ied in iraq, taliban terrorist whatever his name is landed in some of the 5000 tons of yellow cake uranium that the liberal progressive socialists refuse to believe had anything to do with saddams wmd program. as the young taliban terrorist who had no connection with iraq was lying in the non existence yellow cake uranium that was not going to be used for weapons according to the left, he absorbed a strange new power from the fictional uranium. his awoke to find that although he was missing limbs that were blown off in the accident he can now survive explosions and reform from a red bloody mist back to his normal state so as to continue to blow up more and more infidels. every muslims dream a reusable terror bomber.
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Oh NO! Not a MUSLIM SUPERHERO!!!!
pffft, seriously, grow up.
WMD never existed. Lying by Suggestion doesn't change that, Stupid!
Beside, It says a lot about you that you read comics. Try a book sometime, or is joined-up writing and lack of pictures too much of a strain on your pathetic brain?
Okay, well since this is fiction anyway you can claim that they have whole lakes of uranium in Iraq for all I care. Hell, you can even claim that Iraq uses uranium in its plumbing, as a refreshing drink, and to water their gardens. As for an immortal terrorist being every Muslim's dream, that's as true as having infinite bombs for abortion clinics being a dream of every Christian; it's not and the moderate Muslims find the radical Muslims just as crazy as moderate Christians find radical Christians.
Cool superpower... -- nutbunny
Yeah, it sure is. There is a Marvel supervillain called Nitro who already has it.
The difference between having some uranium and having an atomic weapon is the difference between having some steel and having a battleship.
There are hundreds of industrial uses for uranium. But oh no, the radiation! Mushroom clouds! BOOM!
Origins of the Conservative "super hero": fucked up their brain with illicit drugs enough that they think that Muslim=Terrorist in every instance, socialist is a synonym for liberal, and that there were actually WMDs. Immune to logic and appeals to common humanity. Have superhuman powers of self-delusion and denial. Other than that, pretty average actually.
Why does the personal faith of a superhero matter? Isn't the fact that the superhero is expected to indiscriminately help anyone in need, is what makes him/her a superhero/heroine? Besides why would the superheroes want to publicize a religious affiliation? Wouldn't that eventually endanger their secret identities? Oh wait, we're just discussing material targeted at children by writers who couldn't compete in the more lucrative mature literature market. Nevermind.
In real life though (if a superhero could indeed exist in real life) a superhero would have to be a very open-minded and mentally mature humanitarian, to whom a person's race, religion or nationality are very secondary issues compared to the fact that they are human beings. That capacity is actually one of the things that separates a superhero from a supervillain.
And even if a superhero had a strong personal faith, why would he/she want to make it public (that's bad for PR), unless it was a particular comic writer sucking up to a specific demographic, or perhaps only using pre-existing religious mythos to bolster up an otherwise shallow and one-dimensional character. Or maybe just to appear controversial. Pffft, whatever.
This reminds me of the one time I tried to inject a little sanity at RedState. I registered and, in my first and only attempted post, typed two words "What WMD"? My account was closed before the post appeared.
The American right-wing is hostile and immune to reason and logic. In fact, once they have decided to believe something false, reasoned rebuttal actually reinforces said belief. It's utterly pointless to argue with them. That's why we are reduced to reviling and ridiculing them.
http://gawker.com/5052329/scientists-explain-why-people-vote-for-republicans
I think the 99 would like a word with you.
Oh, and anybody saying comic books are only for children or idiots, or that they aren't "real literature": Go read The Sandman, then we'll talk.
Edit: Damn, name beat me to it. (About the 99, not Sandman)
"landed in some of the 5000 tons of yellow cake uranium that the liberal progressive socialists refuse to believe had anything to do with saddams wmd program"
What the fuck is Yellow Cake Uranium?
Liberal Progessive Socialists? Do these people even KNOW what they're saying?
During the lead-up to war in March 2003, Hans Blix had found no stockpiles of WMD and had made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting "proactive" but not always the "immediate" Iraqi cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441. He concluded that it would take “but months” to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks.[4] The United States asserted this was a breach of Resolution 1441 but failed to convince the UN Security Council to pass a new resolution authorizing the use of force due to lack of evidence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_WMD
DC comics already came up with such a hero, his name is the Human Bomb and he is a member of the Freedom Fighters, a group of superheroes led by the living embodiment of the USA, Uncle Sam :P
Well, technically the first version of the character was created by Quality Comics in the 1940s, but DC bought the rights to the Quality characters after Quality Comics went out of business in 1956, like they did with the Charlton and Fawcett Comics characters. Each stable of characters was given their own alternate Earth in the DC multiverse.
@Xotan:
Wow, "comics will rot your brain!" much? I'm reminded of my mom's stories about having to hide her Disney comics from her own mother when she was a kid, back in the late 1950s/early 1960s. ^^"
I have a few issues with superheroes comics (mainly with their usually very flawed portrayal of evolution), but as a medium comics can be just as good or as bad as any other medium, and reading comics doesn't prevent you from also reading novels or other kinds of book. As a matter of fact I suspect that comics can act as a gateway to "heavier" reading, much like Harry Potter books do nowadays.
Actually, that comic sounds lulzy as fuck. I'm going to draw it.
Ach, no I won't. I'm so bloody lazy.
@Xotan
Watchmen, The Sandman, V for Vendetta, Saga of the Swamp Thing, Preacher, The Unwritten, WE3, 100 Bullets, Promethea, The Invisibles, Transmopolitan, Y the Last Man.
I think comic books have earned their legitimacy as an artistic medium.
Most American superheroes are vaguely deist/Protestant, but there's a lot of variation. The two largest universes have gotten so large the main purpose of most of the major plots recently seems to have been weeding them down.
I'm with the pro-comic crowd; I will express it with "shut up, Xotan." And you other guys. Comics aren't even made for kids any more, so whoever said that is even more out of touch than lunatic here.
My brother (the little one, not Adam 'Nicholae Carpathia' who posts here sometimes) is a Robin fan, and I have to screen all the comics I get him in case of pulp fiction material, so the genre's come kinda full circle, except it's developed all kinds of potential. I like it.
The actual Islam-inspired terrorist population is fractional by comparison to the population of Islam in general. However, the Christianity inspired terrorist population is also fractional, set alongside the Christian population. You idiots have them too.
Or have you conveniently forgotten the IRA. The Army of God. Those nice Boer white-supremacists (Forgot the name of the chief group, alas). You have your terrorists too. Every faith does.
When exactly is the last time someone flew a plane into a crowded office tower in the name of atheism? Oh, right. Never. Go back to wanking about fantasies of how all the godless lefties are ruining the world, and you're going to fly in with a star spangled cape fluttering in the breeze to save the day. No tights though, that'd be faggotry, right?
Die in a fire, bigot.
So? It's a fictional character! How can you be upset because of the religious or political or philosophical beliefs or a fictional character? If every fictional character had the exact same beliefs fiction would be incredibly boring.
And yellow cake uranium ? First of all, I find it incredible that anyone actually believes that Iraq had WMDs in 2003, especially now that we've been in Iraq for several years. Where the hell are they? Why haven't we been able to find them?
And even for someone who believed that Iraq had WMDs, the idea that Iraq was purchasing yellow cake uranium from Niger is so demonstrably wrong that I would have thought even the world's most pro-war, right-wing nut would admit that they were wrong about this.
@ Xotan:
I don't read all that much in the way of comic books. However, the idea that comic book are just for children or that comic book readers are all idiots who aren't smart enough for "real books" is so completely freaking wrong that I don't know where to begin.
that's actually a metal as fuck superhero. discarding all the crap about "liberal progressive socialists" and "uranium that was not going to be used for weapons" and blah blah blah, I would fucking love a superhero who explodes himself to beat the villain. Especially if he can detonate parts of his body individually, regardless of whether it's attached.
After a tragic incident in Pakistan while setting up the idea of educating women, Taliban terrorists who thought they'd killed that person had made the same infinitely more powerful. Via experts in Britain's National Health Service, that person was brought from the brink of death into the RL Captain Scarlet: Malala Yousafzai.
With her cheating the Mysterons that are the Taliban of their prize: death of an infidel, and defying them by receiving an education - and exhorting others like her to do the same - and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala is a real life superhero: who is a Muslim .
Like Captain Scarlet, Ideas are Indestructible.
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