I was just reading something that brought up how comic books have been "breaking down barriers" with openly gay heroes, mixed-race characters, etc. And thats all well and good, I dont have a problem with that or anything, but it made me wonder how many, or if there are any, comic book characters that have come out as a social conservative.
Obviously you can make the case that someone like Tony Stark probably is, because he's a rich industrialist, but have any actually overtly stated anything, or at least had it heavily suggested? Said something in support of the comic book proxies for real-world conservative figures, etc.?
Someone else pointed out to me that, when you do have a character taking a clearly conservative position, its rarely a sympathetic character and almost always just so they can be "proven wrong" somehow, ultimately.
Obviously you can make the case that someone like Tony Stark probably is, because he's a rich industrialist, but have any actually overtly stated anything, or at least had it heavily suggested? Said something in support of the comic book proxies for real-world conservative figures, etc.?
Someone else pointed out to me that, when you do have a character taking a clearly conservative position, its rarely a sympathetic character and almost always just so they can be "proven wrong" somehow, ultimately.