https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/18\/superman-is-about-the-anti-war-vibe-shift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Superman has always been about politics. The superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, originally wrote the character as a rebuke to Nazi racial ideology. The Kryptonian boy emigrated from his homeland in a way that paralleled the Jewish experience and became the greatest defender of “truth, justice, and the American way.”<\/p>\n
So it’s no surprise that audiences have been trying to figure out the political message in the latest Superman movie. After all, the backdrop of the film is a war between the fictional nations of Boravia and Jarhanpur that Superman is trying to stop.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Supervillains used to be foreign enemies. Now the villain is a defense contractor who wants to start a regime change war.”<\/p>\n
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