Do Heroes do community service? Like picking up trash on the

Real world problems can't be solved in comics.

>>78755555
Bruce Wayne basically rebuild Gotham every 5 years.
Did you read comics senpai?

>>78755555
your quints deserve a sage

Also because altruism is a shit philosophy whose only end is a tortured death and a painful life.

>Why haven't I ever seen Flash run to poverty stricken areas and just start rebuilding shit

I remember Flash rebuilding houses and stuff, I think they mention it in the TV show too.

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>>78755555

Nice get but superheroes are normally shown doing community work all the time. Usually as an intro to an issue.

Pretty sure Bruce Wayne has saved as many lives as Batman has.

>>78755555
>Why haven't I ever seen Flash run to poverty stricken areas and just start rebuilding shit?
He did something like that in Johns Barry run I think

And Bruce pumps a shitload of money and time into Gotham

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>>78755600
nice get

>>78755666
flash confirmed satan

>>78755679
That's now how it works Barry you cheeky shit

>>78755730
as usual, plot armor and plot weakness

>>78755730

He can only hold the knowledge while supercharging his brain. I think Bart was the one that actually retains everything he learned.

Because that would be boring to read through. However, sometimes writers will mention the more mundane things superheroes do like raise money for charities

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Flash's power is so stupid.
How is he not insane already?

I mean for the people it took only a few seconds, But in Flashs mind this must have taken a year or so. Flash must have experienced a hundred lifetimes already, most of it just running and building/dismantelling stuff.


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>>78755744
this.

>>78755730
if they really wanted to, any speedster could assassinate every world leader in ten minutes, and could take out every member of every world's government in about an hour, not counting supernatural civilizations

>>78755744
Bart would be that if he had any kind of attention span, you mean.

>>78755883
>super genius and tactical speedster from the future

Bart not living up the name Impulse would be pretty OP.

>>78755555
>Why haven't I seen Bruce Wayne backflip a family a new home?

You are a fucking faggot that doesnt read comics.

>>78755730
Not at all, he also forgets really fast.

>>78755770

Speedforce

>>78755555
Because deep down, most heroes are just deluded fascists who would rather punch a criminal in the mouth than effect any lasting change. Using their perceived "superiority," they anoint themselves judge, jury and sometimes executioner for their own self-aggrandizement.

Like, if Superman really gave a shit, why isn't he stopping genocides in Africa instead of fucking around with Lois Lane? Why doesn't the Flash collect and distribute any of the wasted food that gets thrown out every day despite being perfectly capable of being eaten? Why hasn't Wonder Woman opposed any of the puppet governments installed around the world?

Heroes don't actually want to change anything at a fundamental level, because it's the status quo which benefits them the most. They need a semi starving, disenfranchised and disorganized populace to feed their own legend.

>>78756834
I can't answer your flash question, but in comics when superheros get involved in similar situations, the political shitstorm is too thick to breath through,
The most recent example that comes to mind is Superman: Earth one, volume two.

>>78756834
Superman combats natural disasters and Wonder Woman works as a diplomat to effect political change. Fairly sure Flash works in disaster relief too. Batman pours money into gotham orphanages, homeless shelters, reconstruction efforts, welfare, etc, it just doesn't do anything because gotham is cursed to be a shithole forever.

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>>78755679
And that's how the Flash put an entire construction crew out of work.

>>78755770
looks like the artist based this superman after Cavil

>>78756834
this is false, the real answer is because comic books. no one wants to read about bruce wayne building houses, no one wants a 12 issue about the flash feeding the homeless from the scraps that are about to be trashed. this is a dumb thread

>>78755555
Wayne funds a lot of charity.
I think the Flash does do stuff like that from time to time

>>78756834
>>78756834
>they anoint themselves judge, jury and sometimes executioner for their own self-aggrandizement

Doesn't Superman generally hand people over to the law?

He's generally just committing citizens arrests, it's just that he can do it to people most people can't, like bank robbers.

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Bruce pours shitloads of money into countless charitable endeavors and redevelopment programs. And as >>78755600 pointed out, every time some disaster fucks up Gotham, Wayne Enterprises rebuilds it. Large scale philanthropy by day, one-man police/intelligence agency by night.

>>78757659

Remind me what are the things affecting Gotham that makes it a shithole... I knew about Dr Gotham but I know I'm missing some more bad shit.

>>78759420
Hasn't he been deputized by Metropolis PD in some incarnations?

>>78755679
>>78755666
>>78755692
Flash is such a pretty cool guy

>>78755555
>depending on superheroes to solve your daily inane shit
if not for [spoilrer]quads...[/spoiler]

>>78755770
Well, that was sad to read.

>>78759551
I'd like to drink a beer with Flash. He seems like the most down to earth hero.

>>78759551
Until you realize that him building them a new building will increase the property value and now that it's no longer a rundown shithole, the owners of the land (and subsequently the owners of the new building) will evict all the people there and rent to a higher income.

>>78759499
Really?

Mainly the Batman. But that's just part of his plot armor

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>>78757958
To be honest, I dunno, that could make for an interesting one-off story. Superman, Flash, some big powerful hero gets caught up in some local, messy conflict that mere superheroics won't solve. Like dealing with an impoverished African village or something. The hero has to find a way to use their powers to enact lasting, meaningful change.

Maybe Lex Luthor tries to interrupt and Superman's just having any of that shit. "No, Lex, I'm doing this now, fuck off."

>>78759499

Satanic cults, curses from indians, viking graves, the arquitecture was build to make people go crazy, it's the most important port of north america, blah blah blah

>>78759499
There's the secret societies like the Court of Owls, the supernatural attraction to it freaks and criminals feel to it, and there's magical curses and shit that've affected it in the past

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>>78760215
Injustice has some scenes like that. It has...mixed results.
There's also the Batman Beyond comics where older Supes semi-retires and becomes a firefighter.

>>78757922
Comic is from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Shit is hilarious and clever, follow it.

>>78755692
>>78755679
Where'd he get all the supplies from?

>>78760215
Sounds interesting, anon. Write it down.

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>>78760478
Why doesn't Bruce Wayne sacrifice himself for Gotham's curses and sins?

>>78755770
This comic is so sad every time
Superman should basically be respected by everyone and allowed to live like a king at the end

>>78755555
Because superheroes aren't superheroes anymore. They're just flashy soldiers now. They don't have time for "small" shit.

>>78759506
Yeah, in some, others have it so the Justice League gets UN recognition and can perform arrests under the host countries law.

>>78760808
>Why doesn't Bruce Wayne sacrifice himself for Gotham's curses and sins?


Why are you in this thread if you hate the character so much?

>>78761132
And that's retarded, since America is the biggest danger to democracy and peace in the planet

>>78760742
That's what I was thinking too.

Didn't Flash rebuild buildings and shit in the TV Show

>>78761234
Kinda yeah. They brought it up though, remember when Superman told the US goverment to go fuck themselves and renounced his US citizenship? It got onto national news and everything here (in the UK). I remember watching a BBC piece about it.

Wait, by host country I meant the country in which they were operating. So in the UK its UK law, US its US law, Russia is russian law. They don't have to act though, so in Saudi Arabia they obviously are not obliged to arrest a woman for sun tanning.

>>78761420
>Kinda yeah. They brought it up though, remember when Superman told the US goverment to go fuck themselves and renounced his US citizenship? It got onto national news and everything here (in the UK). I remember watching a BBC piece about it.
Yeah, it was a huge problem, the whole point was that he wanted to help everywhere without making himself a tool of murrika. Superman 900?? i can't remember.

>>78761569
Superman 900 was the last ever issue before new52 IIRC? or the start of the new arc?

Either way, I remember some tit coming on the news and going on about how it was unpatriotic and shit, like it was still the 50s.

>>78755679
>30 seconds later the building collapses since cement doesn't dry at superspeed.
Good job, you just killed everyone you just saved.

There was a story arc about Thor where had inherited the Odinforce and decided to actually use his powers to help people. In one case, he goes to the west coast and uses his powers to just create a shit ton of lobsters so that fishermen who had lost their livelihoods through overfishing, pollution, and what not, could have work.

If you can't tell, this is comics, so it was a Bad Thing.

Thor goes on to interfere in a genocide in an Eastern European country. This is also a Bad Thing, and Iron Man and the US Army show up to stop Thor because preventing genocide could start World War 3. Tony Stark said that. For realsies. Tony Stark deployed his Thorbuster armour, which was powered by a magic crystal Thor gifted to Tony in order for Tony to develop an energy source that was cleaner than fossil fuels. Tony used it to power a suit of armor intended solely to kill Thor, the friend who gifted him that crystal. Tony consulted with noted supervillain and tyrant Dr. Doom on this project.

In the end, the person who prevented the genocide was Dr. Doom with some keikkaku Doom-wank.

Thor would go on to take over Earth. He provided free housing, healthcare, and sustenance to every person. He eliminated racism, classism, sexism, and other -isms. Everyone who wanted it had access to higher education under Thor's regime. No more would you have potentially brilliant minds left to stagnate at minimum wage jobs because they couldn't afford college tuition.

Of course. This is comics, so it's a Bad Thing.

Because, you see, some people, given every possible opportunity to improve themselves and all of the artificial obstacles removed, chose to be lazy. Literally only human nature was stopping anyone from being the best person they could be.

Loki was around, doing as Loki did. But somehow this was presented as Thor's fault, and a reason why Thor's utopia needed to never happen.

So the reset button got hit, and the moral was that Thor shouldn't use his Skyfather power to help people

>>78762242

>He eliminated racism, classism, sexism, and other -isms.

How do you do that without mind controlling people?

>>78764008
>>He eliminated racism, classism, sexism, and other -isms.

Small mono ethnic communist societies.

>>78764676

I doubt any comics writers would make such implications.

>>78756834
>Superheroes should solve all my problems!

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>>78755555
>Why haven't I seen Bruce Wayne backflip a family a new home?

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>>78765907
There must be a huge gay scene in Gotham, with all the costumes and stuff

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>>78765946

>>78765864
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>>78765894


And this will be the Bruce not seen in the DC Cinema Verse. Who's more just a violent lunatic with possible mental issues.

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>>78765979
You can do nice things and still have mental issues, there's a few scenes of him already doing regular heroic stuff (saving/hugging the girl, presumably he's not going to a fundraiser event to chat with lex)

>>78765979

He's a furry who lives in his parents basements, sits on the computer all day long and has sex with kleptos who also have a furry fetish.

>>78755555
DC heroes tend to do it the most.

Superman builds houses, meets with the UN to give speeches, visits terminally ill kids and orphans, and otherwise does charity work.
The only difference between Gotham and North Korea is Bruce's charities and outreach projects.
Wondie is a diplomat at the UN and regularly advocates peace and international cooperation on conflict resolution, Flash builds houses and does charities, the Green Lanterns all do charities, and almost all the JL or JLA scientists do humanitarian research.

Hell, Martian Manhunter pitches in at Christmas all over the world.

Marvel on the other hand is more about the common man superhero rather than the global leader superhero. Cap, Stark, Peter, and most other Avengers do charities. The saner mutants tend to be advocates for their own minority as a whole, Luke Cage helps a lot of New York inner city youth, Banner tends to spend his more cerebral time, especially as Gray Hulk, doing research for the improvement of man as well as helping out in third world countries.

In general, DC heroes are just more larger than life and accomplish more. By contrast, most Marvel characters have time-consuming day jobs or are slightly mentally ill or fairly poor themselves. I guess compare the guy who volunteers at a soup kitchen to Jimmy Carter.

>>78756834
Go read Death of Superman. They really hot hard how much Clark does for everyone in DC.

>>78756834
Ultron pls.

>>78761234
>America is the biggest danger to peace
Since the end of WWII, we're actually living in a fairly peaceful span of human history.
You're looking at things through your own distorted lens.
But the average lifespan has increased drastically the world over.
Quality of life has risen greatly the world over.
And that 'semblance' of peace was brought about by the US and it's unique position after WWII.
Not that it isn't responsible for it's own bullshit, like toppling governments that get in it's way and allowing nonsense that suits it's foreign policy goals (drug cartels, authoritarian dictators).
But overall, thins are better.
Unless you live in Syria or Al Anbar province.
Then not so much.

>>78755555
>Why haven't I ever seen Flash run to poverty stricken areas and just start rebuilding shit?
Because you don't read Flash comics.

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>>78760742
Obviously he pulled them out of the speed force.

>>78755770
When you run faster than other people, does the race seem like it took twice as long? He does things fast, he doesn't slow time down and do them at a normal speed.

>>78760215
They've done loads of stories like that before. It's not exactly uncommon, it's just not done every month because people read superhero books for adventure and action and spectacle, not politics.

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>>78766625
Do you even Salvador Allende? Sha? United Fruit Company??

>>78761404
After the wormhole thing, yeah.

>>78767063

Why did he just crush all those people?

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>>78755555
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>>78755692

this needs to happen in the show someday. it's too funny of a moment, i'd laugh my ass off at this again and again.

>>78767653
They already did it showing him rebuilding CC Jitters at night, and a large chunk of Central City off screen.

>>78765880
It bugs me that the briefcase seemingly appears from nowhere. I guess he was carrying it, but it's not in any of the other panels so it looks like it just pulled it from his ass.

>>78770657
He pulled it from the Bruce Wayne utility belt.

>>78760891
He had been powering civilization for generations.

Oh sure the first couple of decades there were nothing but applauses but after a while, people stopped trying to spin a new way to make it relevant.

You don't praise the sun for every day it comes up, unless you notice its absence.

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>>78764008
Charisma

>>78757875
Thoes are some magical didgets

>>78766719
Time dilation. Google it.

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>>78772466
>Do you want to save Snake

I've seen this image countless times and only now noticed that

>>78755555
If the Justice League cartoon is to be believed, Flash does community service all the time. One Christmas episode in particular saw him trying to get a very popular toy for a bunch of orphan kids, only for it to be accidentally broken in a fight with the Ultra Humanite (and soon after repaired by said villain).

>>78766719
Yes

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>>78755555
Blessed be these repeating

Bestowed by op's quints

Our daily dubs

And and be so lucky

To appreciate these trips

>>78765835
>Batman never helps anybody!! He just beats up the poor and the mentally ill!!!

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>>78765979
That Lex interview made it clear that Ben Affleck's Bruce gives massive amounts of money to charity. Stop being a faggot.

>>78778143
Gives sure but his still a lunatic in this version. He's not one of the version that is going to be breaking bread with the folks of Crime Alley at Christmas or having Coffee with Barbara to keep up the tradition Since Jim is dead apparently

>>78755623
Does it in New 52 too, does it to deal with the guilt of failing in the Forever Evil storyline.

>>78759730
Wally is great, he loves being a hero. He does shit likes beats the villain in the main street so cameras can see it, then stops for a TV interview.

He told everyone he is the Flash because he fucking loves it and the attention.

>>78768068
Black Dad says something like "You think we don't notice apartment blocks showing up overnight?"

>>78778742
>Does it in New 52 too, does it to deal with the guilt of failing in the Forever Evil storyline.
What? Barry wasnt really in Forever Evil

>>78779375
Yeah that's why he feels guilty. He was sucked into the firestorm matrix at the end of Trinity War, missed out on Forever Evil entirely and Grodd smashed the shit out of Central City.

It took the Rogues to fend off the crime syndicate and when the Flash returned the city was all like "Why weren't you here?"

He is actually seeing a shrink and every time she turns her back or blinks, he runs outside and cleans up / repairs the city. He feels really guilty.

The character progression was supposed to be a "you can't save everyone" and "it's not your fault", but the writer doesn't quite pull it off.

>>78755555
Captain America used to have a hotline anyone could call if they needed him. One guy called asking Cap to help him move. And he did.

>>78778550
Oh, forgive me, I wasn't aware you had already seen the movie

>>78756834
>I've never read Red Son.
Yeah, it ALWAYS works out when superheroes do this.

>>78765946

AHAHAHAHAHAH

Yes.

>>78766719
>He does things fast, he doesn't slow time down

But doing things fast fucks with your perception with your of time, as does gravity.

>>78765926
Wait wait wait, who are these two?

>>78766768
>weakish to magic
>does a trick
Daaamn

>>78778143
>>workd famous collection of meteorites

God this is some cringeworthy writting, if this is the standard set for the movie than i have no doubt this will be a huge pile of shit.

>>78779928
Greetings from the future.