Can someone explain why not a single superhero tried to stop 9/11?

Can someone explain why not a single superhero tried to stop 9/11?

Superheros aren't real

Superheroes are fascist.

9/11 isn't real

The government ordered them too

Because if they did, they'd turn everything into CG.

IT WAS ME, BARRY!

Because Supers have not properly adapted to such unexpected atrocities in a way that could be feasibly human, because modern superheroes are idealists with powers, and and the creators, who're idealists, could not make a world where supers don't establish a totalitarian regime that could oversee and dictate every aspect of life without intentionally infringing on the rights of men.

Unlike in Marvel, I'm pretty sure they stopped 9/11 in the DCU. At least, before the new 52 relaunch

Why even have NYC be a thing in the DCU? Just make Metropolis or Gotham AU NYC. It's obviously not our fucking world so go nuts.

A) which will be explained it in a bit.
B) superheroes are modern idealists with powers who're meant to protect and assert the principle of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", and cannot realistically achieve that by means that don't involve creating an aristocratic dictatorship (at least, directly), as mentioned in , which ends up circling back to A

A better question to ask would be "why didn't the supers defeat the Viet Cong?” I've no doubt that Captain America would squash a commie's head like any Nazi jobber in his wartime service, but he doesn't and he didn't. Why wouldn't he, nor any other duper?

Yes, that's partly what The Boys is about

I've no doubt that Captain America would squash a commie's head like any Nazi jobber in his wartime service, but he doesn't and he didn't. Why wouldn't he, nor any other duper?

Cap was frozen at the time.

Sliding timescale means they debuted afterwards

Imagine if the New 52 build its foundation on the premise that metas stopped 9/11, leading to all these government agencies employing them in their ranks. Maybe a metahuman arms race.

Because the narrative back then was that no one could have possibly predicted the attack, only for it to slowly be revealed pretty much the entire government saw this coming as time went on

The Vietnam War is the one that had the second most impact on Steve Rogers. Catch up newfag.

A)B) no one (outside the government of course) knew wtf was going on until the second plane hit. Even then there was still a lot of confusion…I remember watching one newscast where someone said “something must be really wrong with air traffic control” right after the second plane hit. The 9/11 issue of Amazing is pretty accurate I’d say to a superhero’s initial reaction where it’s just you’re chilling then suddenly a plane hit the tower. Then when they’re busy trying to save people out of the first tower a plane comes out of no where and flies into the second tower.

Pre-Flashpoint: 9/11 never happened; everyone was distracted by Imperiex's invasion and destruction. Bush never became President because Luthor became President instead

New 52: Bruce Wayne was the only superhero around during 9/11 and he was still training to become Batman. Superman didn't make his debut till 2006 or 2007 and the Justice League wasn't formed until 2007.

Now: No one knows if 9/11 happened or not in the DCU

Then when they’re busy trying to save people out of the first tower a plane comes out of no where and flies into the second tower.

They would've seen the second one and stopped it. Come on, don't be stupid.

Bush never became President because Luthor became President instead

Target Metropolis then.

Everyone on Earth was too busy dealing with an alien invasion to worry about targeting Metropolis, because the alien invasion was already blasting Metropolis and other places

Sliding timeline, the modern age of superheroes started in 2003.

So why wasn't this alien invasion treated in the same light as 9/11?

That's just a flimsy excuse for why a powerful tool and Important American Hero would be sidelined. It's the same as not deploying Dr. manhattan to Vietnam, and the latter is a super-sapient, autonomous nuclear bomb, whose own powers easily dwarfs Cap's own abilities.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America#Political_shifts_(1970s)

TL,DR: Marvel was uncomfortable having Capt in 'nam, and forwent any effort to involve him or anyone in the War because Stan Lee wrote that 'a poll indicated that a majority of readers did not want Captain America to be involved …adding that…the character "simply doesn't lend himself to the John Wayne-type character he once was" and that he could not "see any of our characters taking on a role of super-patriotism in the world as it is today"'.

'comics created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema' had 'a storyline…directly inspired by the Watergate scandal' where 'the fascistic Secret Empire['s] leader is ultimately revealed to be the president of the United States. [This] causes a disillusioned Steve Rogers to briefly drop the moniker of Captain America to become "Nomad, the man without a country", though he later vowed to "reclaim the ideals of America, which its leaders have trampled upon" and again assumed the role of Captain America. Englehart and Buscema's run was highly acclaimed, bringing Captain America [to]… Marvel's top-selling comic, and the conflict between America as it idealizes itself to be and America in reality would recur frequently as a theme in Captain America comics in the subsequent decades.'

The Capt of the '70s pales in comparison to his '40s counterpart and if he were transported into the Fourties' he wouldn't be called a hero, he'd be called a coward at best and a collaborator at worse, and worse than even Hydra-Capt. getting cold feet is no excuse.

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That's just a flimsy excuse for why a powerful tool and Important American Hero would be sidelined. It's the same as not deploying Dr. manhattan to Vietnam, and the latter is a super-sapient, autonomous nuclear bomb, whose own powers easily dwarfs Cap's own abilities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America#Political_shifts_(1970s)

TL,DR: Marvel was uncomfortable having Capt in 'nam, and forwent any effort to involve him or anyone in the War because Stan Lee wrote that 'a poll indicated that a majority of readers did not want Captain America to be involved …adding that…the character "simply doesn't lend himself to the John Wayne-type character he once was" and that he could not "see any of our characters taking on a role of super-patriotism in the world as it is today"'.

'comics created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Sal Buscema' had 'a storyline…directly inspired by the Watergate scandal' where 'the fascistic Secret Empire['s] leader is ultimately revealed to be the president of the United States. [This] causes a disillusioned Steve Rogers to briefly drop the moniker of Captain America to become "Nomad, the man without a country", though he later vowed to "reclaim the ideals of America, which its leaders have trampled upon" and again assumed the role of Captain America. Englehart and Buscema's run was highly acclaimed, bringing Captain America [to]… Marvel's top-selling comic, and the conflict between America as it idealizes itself to be and America in reality would recur frequently as a theme in Captain America comics in the subsequent decades.'

The Capt of the '70s pales in comparison to his '40s counterpart and if he were transported into the Fourties' he wouldn't be called a hero, he'd be called a coward at best and a collaborator at worse, and worse than even Hydra-Capt. getting cold feet is no excuse.

the character "simply doesn't lend himself to the John Wayne-type character he once was" and that he could not "see any of our characters taking on a role of super-patriotism in the world as it is today"'.

Fucking wokies

They would've seen the second one and stopped it. Come on, don't be stupid.

Again, anon, no one knew what was happening and no one was looking for a second plane. By that logic someone should’ve stopped the second plane in real life. Hindsight is a helluva thing, Mark Wahlberg

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Yes, wokies back then didn't want Capt to stop a tyrannical organisation from invading another country. But those were just leftists who would later go on to occupy the high postings of government, academia, media, etc.

9/11 is shown in a flashback to Simon Baz's childhood.

Marvel was uncomfortable having Capt in 'nam, and forwent any effort to involve him or anyone in the War because Stan Lee wrote that 'a poll indicated that a majority of readers did not want Captain America to be involved …adding that…the character "simply doesn't lend himself to the John Wayne-type character he once was" and that he could not "see any of our characters taking on a role of super-patriotism in the world as it is today"'.

A lot of college kids were reading the books and the majority were a bunch of hippies. Later on, they started employing these hippies and that's why Cap started to suck.

IE nothing's changed and the only difference is that many modern creatives aren't as talented or skilled as their predecessors. They were faggots then, and are faggots now.

they cant save everyone. beside there worst things happening at same moment.

It was a canon event

Because it was an inside job.

Superman, if you intervene the legitimacy of the United States government will disintegrate. For America to survive what's coming, those people have to die.

Honestly would make for an interesting story.