Why don’t we ever see superheroes go after the Mexican cartel?
Why don’t we ever see superheroes go after the Mexican cartel?
I get why you think this is a good idea, but when I think about reading any story about that I realize how boring it is.
I think kickass 2 (with the black woman) has something like that? but that entire comic is ass. And is not like it has no possibility of being cool. shit like the zetas with those armored vehicles and basically a militia have tons of potential, but trying to make a compelling plot with out seems hard, specially if you are from the US. in the end would be just a gringo trying to write about something he doesn't fully understand because his alien perspective on the issue. Might as well write about the yakuza, that at least people care about;
There was an arc about it in Moon Knight like 15 years ago.
This is why we need a superhero with humble origins working as a mechanic, then the cartel kidnaps and brutally murder his mother and sister.
The Murder Mechanic then starts sabotaging the. Artel vehicles and ending with gruesome murders of cartel members.
Aren't generic cartel guys like the go to stock "pc" criminal for comics behind mafia guys and white supremacists? There's a good Dixon Punisher story where Frank is held prisoner on some sugar cane plantation. It's from the 90s though
Muh world outside muh window, muh status quo is god, muh muh muuuuhhhhh.
Speaking of which, where are the Mexican. Artel supervillains.
Not one story jobbers.
But actual reoccurring threats who are evil geniuses or having superpowers
That would be racist.
The Punisher is very obviously being funded by land lords. Those very rarely have direct conflicts with the Cartels in Mexico.
Technically Hulk did in Aaron’s run
You can't really because the cartel is integrated into the government at every level. You'd have a superhero effectively going to war with Mexico. You can kill plenty of rando low level mooks though
Why no edgy Zorro reboot where he's mexican punisher and he wears a leathe rjacket and they got rid of the hat?
and then what happens? the hero beats the bad drig boss and liberates mexico.
then in real life that doesnt happen, and its depressing. same reason reed richards hasnt cured cancer
And radiation gives people cancer instead of superpowers in real life, what's your point?
Most superheroes live in the northern US where they don't exactly have the biggest presence.
Disney-owned writers are afraid of being "racist."
That idea is too cool for the industry right now. Not unless Zorro is a bumbling shitass who unironically calls himself Latinx and has a way more capable pseudosexual they/them sidekick.
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The concept is untapped potential.
They are much more vicious than typical PG-13 mobsters/gangsters street level superheroes go after, and not quite as prominent outside Mexico where there are few heroes
Probably because it'd be too much of an edge Lord story to have a number of Heroes focus on that for of too much of a length of time and eventually you have to actually take it down. I do believe superhero comics do want we will bad guys to keep existing as long as they do in real life and it's not like they never Target drug dealers or cartel people I'm pretty sure Mexican Deadpool was targeting cartel people he just doesn't have resources to get everyone abdom in the ground they have like tens of thousands of members and billions of dollars.They don't like what he did but he's not going to kill them all single-handedly.
If Reed Richards is so smart, why doesn't he cure cancer?
Shut the fuck up, dumb faggot.
Well, why doesn't he cure cance? Is it because big pharma owns him?
He thinks humanity literally doesn't deserve his help on that.
Blue Beetle has mexican gang members and cartels that use metahumans as part of his rogues gallery
Because they are brown
nobody reads blue beetle, sorry jaime
Wakandans don't share it because they're super racist.
Black people can't be racist
Because comics (especially Marvel and DC) are suppose to be a window to our world.
You can’t write have a character take out a few cartels. But can’t take out all of them and solve the solution. It would make the world’s less like ours (yes, I am aware how different already our world is from the comics, but that is the line of thinking).
So unless all the cartels die in our world, you can’t write a comic where the cartels get taken out.
HULK SMASH ILLEGALS
Bruce Banner should cure cancer instead
You'd have a superhero effectively going to war with Mexico
Cool
Why no edgy Zorro reboot where he's mexican punisher and he wears a leathe rjacket and they got rid of the hat?
Then he does The Crow thing where his Z lights up in flames.
Since superhero comics are Neverending, then going to war with the cartels by a superhero would be Neverending too.
i think there was a moon knight run where he teamed up with punisher in mexico, only for the both of them to find out there was a brutal vigilante called the Aztec
it was really cool, but marvel never went back to it or expanded on that character
Frank did in Nathan Edmondson's run. Then he was blacklisted out of the industry by retarded lib- by liberals.
There is, Zorro Man of the dead
It deals with the cartel. But there's a caveat to Zorro. He's basically Don Quixote Zorro is a legend and he convinced himself that he is Zorro. There's also his sister who was a runner for the cartel and is turning on them. But basically the toen finally decides to stand up to the cartel rallying behind Zorro.
Because there are only two ways of dealing with such people: permanently imprisoning them, or executing them.
Superman and The Flash could do it all in an afternoon (locking them up), but then what? Six issues of legal challenges because some faggot NGO has decoded that Superman has violated the murderous, drug-dealing cannibals' "Human Rights"?
got rid of the hat
Gay. Shit. Retarded.
Imagine publishing such blatantly chauvinistic trash.
You joke, but I had a black girl I worked with essentially tell be this to my face.
Frank did in a post-Ennis max story
Though it was led by Jigsaw.