I appreciate that squirrel girl is referencing the myth of Redemptive violence and all but I don't really think it's making a coherent moral point or like succeeding in refuting the myth here
Honestly it seems like an extremely challenging moral point to make in any kind of superhero media
@Forestofglory yeah I appreciate that squirrel girl points more in that direction than most superhero media, and often she actually solves conflicts through talking rather than violence....but she's always ready to get into the violence part too if it turns out that talking isn't going to work. superheroes as a genre are simply inherently bought into the myth of redemptive violence!
@soph_sol yes, exactly! It's a genre that's built on punching people
It's interesting to think about what a superhero would look like without violence but I think at that point they stop being a superhero (I would still read the heck out of that story though)
@Forestofglory unfortunately I must inform you that I have read a superhero story about nonviolence but it was.....very obviously written by a mennonite youth pastor who is not a good writer but who wanted to communicate mennonite values to The Youths in a way that he hoped would be Cool. (it was not cool.)
(The book is Pax Avalon: Conflict Revolution by Stephen Reece Friesen)
@Forestofglory @soph_sol i will definitely never read this but i do find the fact that it exists kinda hillarious
@Forestofglory @Satsuma his commitment is impressive! it's clearly a book written with a great deal of earnestness behind it, I will give it that
@Satsuma @Forestofglory it is absolutely hilarious!