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On the subject of Alan Moore, do you think there's any truth to the idea that superheroes promote fascism? Because Secret Empire missed a golden opportunity to have a debate about it.

Short answer no. Long answer superheroes are a power fantasy about heroic figures stopping evildoers in various forms - the greedy, the uncaring, the murderous. They utilize their abilities for the common good in an unorthodox manner outside of the traditional systems of authority and law, and while such manners could certainly turn and BECOME fascistic, there is nothing inherent about it that is fascistic, but rather an understanding that law and order is the BEGINNING of justice - not the end of it - and that frequently the systems we have in place are unjust or that those who deserve punishment are escaping it because of an imperfect - or even completely corrupt - system. And as I said, those same ideologies CAN turn fascistic in various ways because ultimately superheroes are human just as much as anyone else and therefore imperfect. But the idea of someone putting on a costume and assuming a new identity in order to right wrongs and protect the innocent is, in my opinion, a rejection of authoritarian power structures and instead a form of protest against an imperfect world that created them.

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