How much do Superhero based comic books influence our opinions with politics and war?

[mve86]

Hi I have a big favour to ask everyone on here. I always come on here and read comments on topics (never have been brave enough to comment until now)but I want to get opinions from you guys for a survey I made for my dissertation, which I decided to write about politics and war within comics. With Batman and Captain America being main focus points.

Could I ask you take a look at this survey and fill it out for me, it takes no longer that 5 minutes. I really value everyones opinion!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6C5NZSS Here's the link.

Please feel free to leave any comment, or if you want to give me your opinion on my question for my dissertation.

How much do Superhero based comic books influence our opinions with politics and war?

Thank you everyone!

[Michael24]

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6C5NZSS- Here's the link.

Just a heads up, the - at the end of the link causes an error. When I remove it, then I can reach the survey, so you might want to fix it.

Anyway, interesting survey. I took it, but ultimately my answer boils down to "not one bit." I just take them as comic books, and they don't influence my opinion on anything.

[mve86]

Thank you for filling out the survey! I have fixed the problem now so thanks for letting me know about that too.

I find your opinion very interesting, when I asked other people's view they admitted that some comics did sway there opinions and agreed it had some influence and attitude towards politics.

Thanks again!

[Confuzzled]

Filled the survey. Though I was surprised that you did not include the X-Men in your questions about comics and politics because to me, they are the big franchise with the most socio-politically charged central theme. I have been following them since roughly age 6-7, so they played a big part in helping me identify instances of discrimination in real-life at that age. In the premier episode of the 90's cartoon, Storm pretty much underlines the basic logic behind discrimination, "Humans fear anyone who is different!" or something along those lines, and at that formative age, that was the most simple and least ambiguous manner in which anyone could explain to me about why bigotry takes place. Also, the X-Men did play a big part in getting me to value the significance of diversity and positive media representation.

On an even more intimate level, I took most of my cues from Spider-Man on concepts such as personal responsibility and basic human decency.

Superhero comics and movies never influenced my views on war however.

Hope the feedback helps.

[mve86]

Oh wow, I love your post. Truthfully I was planning to create a survey dedicated to X-Men ( Plus ones on graphic novels such as V for Vendetta and Watchmen) because I completely agree with you. X-Men really hits the nail on my subject and I can't just sum up all my questions into one or two really without getting a broader list of feedback. But I was a bit weary I would put people off with all theses surveys I post at once.However you have changed my mind and I shall post it up in a few days to see what feedback I get.

Thank you for the feedback. I really do value your comment!

[Celgress]

Interesting topic, I'll fill out the survey when I have time.