Was WWII the single greatest influence on cartoons? The whole formula of good guys vs bad megalomaniac thing.
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>>78311715
WWII was the single greatest influence on a lot of thing, m8.
>>78311715
hitler did nothing wrong
>>78314633
Fucking sore loser killed himself. A thousand year Reich my ass
That comes from traditional North American Protestantism, always bordering on Manichaeism.
Europe is a continent shaped and traumatized by World War II as well, but there is the perception that deep down everyone is an asshole, and laws painfully and horribly keep everything in check.
The whole "DEEP DOWN SOME PEOPLE ARE GOOD" and "DEEP DOWN SOME PEOPLE ARE BAD" comes from Calvinism, and isn't rooted in other European religious/phylosophical traditions.
Law in North America isn't seem as a man-made necessary cage, with an inherent dose of tyranny, it is rather perceived as the only natural way people can live together in harmony, in a mutual and inner understanding, that some psychos don't accept.
>>78311715
Jew writers and producers seem to like it so much.
>>78314653
yeah sure he "killed himself"
>>78314686
>Europe is a continent shaped and traumatized by World War II as well, but there is the perception that deep down everyone is an asshole, and laws painfully and horribly keep everything in check.
You must be a Brit.
>>78311715
>The whole formula of good guys vs bad megalomaniac thing.
the greatest propaganda tool ever
>>78314633
he made a lot of wrong decision
>>78314686
Go away Hobbes
>>78314788
Actually I'm Italian. Our comic tradition doesn't usually emphasize the side of "the law", but the other one.
Superheroes used to be a niche genre. I don't really know what kids read these days.
The Brits are like-minded in that respect, though. Before American morality came along, "morally grey" was pretty much the absolute norm in the 1900s and I grew up with it.
The glorious ubermansch full of steroids that destroys evil with violence is kind of a... new concept to us. It died off WITH World War II and America is bringing it back to the old continent (yay?).
>>78314633
>>78311715
nah, it's just the most recent example of something to flanderize to death, if not for Hitler it would've been Bismark or Stalin, Napoleon, etc.
>>78314633
The hell are you on? If invading russia isnt enough, in winter then i dont know what is.
>>78316905
That wasn't Hitler's fault