Thursday, August 17, 2006
Who Wants to be a Super-hypocrite?
My biggest problem with Who Wants to be a Super-Hero is the hypocritical dialogue Stan Lee gives. In this week's episode, Stan determines who to boot by making judgments of players' dark secrets and their actions while on patrol on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Stan in particular singles our Major Victory (a horrible name, which is just as bad as when Vance Astro took it in the 1990s), who once worked as an exotic dancer, and Lemuria (is she really a Deviant?) who used to do table dances in bars. Stan states this is not conduct becoming a superhero.In the classic sense, yes. But if one moves past Stan's steely gaze to the wall behind him, what does one see? Could it be Stan Lee's Stripperella, the exotic club dancer turned superhero voiced by Pamela Anderson, rubbing against a pole? I do believe it is.
In his analysis of the Major's street patrol, Stan takes points away for taking his cape off to allow women not to step in a puddle, a chivalrous act long romanticized for generations. But Stan states its an unthinkable act for a superhero:
Well, Spider-Man did just take off his mask, to millions of people on television. And I'm sure that if the situation warranted it Superman would take off his cape - his black suit after his return didn't have one, and neither did his electric blue variation. I'd imagine if he needed to keep someone warm the cape would be a better option than heat vision. 'Nuff said.
"Would Spider-Man give up his mask? Would Superman give up his cape?"
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