@oldnightcrawler:
well, those names themselves are actually modern, or products of modernity I guess, like the genre itself. I mean, there's only been superheroes as we know them since way after the industrial revolution. It's just that much of our contemporary view is itself no longer really modern.
Sorry for not clearing this, but I wasn't using the philosophical definition of "modernism", more like "just a product of this day (modern) world".
I guess I'm of the generation in which superheroes started to be appealing to adults as well as children, so I can see a place for both. y'know, Superman doesn't really need those shorts over his pants, but it doesn't bother me if he has them -it's Superman, right? whatever he wears is going to be more believable than the things he can do. Any version o his costume is going to be really the least ridiculous thing about him.
Everything within the eye of the beholder I guess, I like costumes of this era artists much, much more. Nolan's Batman changed the rules for street-levelers in some degree, Tron shining outlines and the whole modern sci-fi stylization being used in comics is an eye-candy for me. I can read a book to interpret the art in my mind, when I read a comic I expect some "grand designs" already invented and me just becoming fascinated by it.
Superheroes/villains don't need crazy names or outfits, but given the nature of the genre, I'm fine with there still being a place for characters that embrace that sillier side of that world.
Many aliases actually make sense, especially for mutants. Dam, even Dr. Doom somehow makes sense, right now it's just Sinister I'm having a particular problem with lol
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