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Ritesh!@riteshwriter.bsky.social |
One of my convictions is that 'superhero' is not a Genre. Western, Noir, Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy, these are all Genres. And you can put the superhero into any of them, from Jonah Hex to Thor. The Superhero is a WW2 era Imperial Framework you can put over genres as a Lens to play.
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I'm a different bird
@imadifferentbird.bsky.social
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I agree, but I would go farther and say that Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Western are also not genres in the same way. They don't describe the story in the way that Romance, Horror, Comedy, etc do; they merely describe the trappings.
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Shomer Shabbat R211
@reallyliketrains.bsky.social
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Overpowered hero who goes around fighting things with dumbass friend dates back to Gilgamesh and Enkidu
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Ritesh!
@riteshwriter.bsky.social
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It's a very specific 20th Century American Framework & more widely Western Framework that applies to Imperial society and their specific anxieties & relationship to Power-it's what that is intended to address via genre. It's a lens you put over genres and it can fit, it isn't a genre in itself IMHO
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Ben
@yeahthatben.bsky.social
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My hot take is that comedy isn’t really a genre it’s more a flavour, it’s a romantic comedy or an action comedy, something just being funny doesn’t feel like an all encompassing enough to be a genre.
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Mr Dr Bae
@dallas-taylor.bsky.social
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It's an interesting take. I think it's probably wrong on the merits (superhero stories have their own tropes and conventions). But it is interesting.
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Carnage Asada
@cinerina.bsky.social
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Just like animation is not a genre, it’s a medium!
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mcoorlim
@mcoorlim.bsky.social
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I find genre far more useful as a flexible marketing tool to set audience expectation than as any kind of academic system of classification.
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Chimera
@mightychimera.bsky.social
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You can combine genres though. You could swap the position of superhero and any of the other genres there and it'd read exactly the same. Genres are just a short hand for a collection of tropes and conventions, it's not any special honour. If you can think of traits of a superhero story it's a genre
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