I need someone to give Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag 10 million dollars per episode.
Dear Amazon Studios,
After the conclusion of your second season of Invincible, I’ve read that you have decided to greenlight another two seasons. Awesome. Robert Kirkman is a pro, and his 144 issue comic being adapted this well, for this long, is a blessing.
But I’ve noticed you cannot get enough of superhero parody. Ever since The Boys critical and (perceived, with streaming it’s always uncertain) financial success, it has become clear that Amazon is the studio to send your hot takes on brave concepts such as “What if Superman was evil?“
So, here’s my submission. Strong Female Protagonist is a webcomic about Alison Green, who must contend with the fact that she is the most powerful person in a world of Autonomic Somadynamism (superpowers), and it isn’t even close. Allison Green is hip and young, she attends Occupy protests (for relevance, we could easily change this to Jenner-esque protests for a Jenner-al “Peace”) and attempts to reason with her unlimited power via her pursuit of a Philosophy degree from the New School.
But worry not! While she may be interested in her inhuman-condition, that doesn’t make her boring. Much like Omni-Man from Invincible, or Homelander from The Boys, Allison Green fights in some brutal and exciting sequences that could certainly generate viewer retention and interactions in the same “taste-clusters” as these heavy hitters. Can’t you see the bloated descriptions of the Youtube Shorts now?
#strongfemaleprotagonist #superhero #copenhageninterpretationofethics #edit
I will concede that unlike Omni-Man and Homelander, far less 13-year-old boys could relate their pubescent rage to Allison’s actions, and detach their own feelings onto violence and “based” statements of macho fascismo. On that note, far less right-leaning men could ascribe their beliefs onto Allison, who’s staunch and unabashed commitment to empathy and understanding places her at odds with the political right. Hm.
You know what? Perhaps the better comparison is Mark Grayson, the titular Invincible. Mark also attends college! Much like Allison’s sophist apotheosis in Chapter 6, Mark considers his place as a superhero throughout all of Season 2. Before, of course, in the conclusion of this season, he decides to fully abandon being a human being and attending college in order to protect his world from extraterrestrial threats. Hm.
Okay, we may be moving in circles here, so I have one final pitch.
Imagine, if you will, a superhero who was just good. Despite their incredible strength, and the true lack of consequences for any action they could take, they choose to be good. In order to encourage this trait in the world around them, this hero dedicates their life to self-improvement and acts of service. This hero proves that heroism is achievable for all of us, like when they volunteer for their local Fire Station, or help establish community groups to advocate for the politically disadvantaged. This hero lives in a post-supervillain world, where the main antagonist is the political structures and social tendencies which inhibit them, and directly mirror the political structures and social tendencies which inhibit so many disadvantaged people in our world today.
I want you to look at me with your human eyes in your human skull for ten seconds. Look beyond the taste clusters and viewer interactions. Look at the words on this page. I want you to tell me that this hero I’ve described is less interesting, or somehow less important, than Superman Who Kills People.
Yours, now and forever tired of evil Supermen,
Ben Catterton
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