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Naaah, it's a full-blown genre now. People have been bitching about it for years. Alan Moore made the argument that superheroes are American exceptionalism made human and that they speak to a latent desire for fascism or some shit. I can certainly see where he's coming from. It's the same argument that the Japanese obsession with kaiju stems from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the transition from "ascendant power" to "vassal state" in the space of a week by instruments utterly beyond their comprehension.