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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8672484" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>You're largely right about that, [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER]! But also: He's a Philosopher and a poet.</p><p></p><p>Because Howard was an early pioneer of Existential philosophy in an easily communicable format he was written to be a great many things. Slap a utility belt on that bad boy and he could be Batman minus the actually being good at solving mysteries and acrobatics and... nevermind.</p><p></p><p>But.</p><p></p><p>There is a second reason that Conan could never truly be a Superhero in the original works: He lacks Super Morality.</p><p></p><p>There's a reason Batman stopped killing people when he got his own comic book line, and it was the big concept that separated Superheroes from regular heroes, war heroes, and other characters from comics at the time. The idea of being super-moral. It's why Supes didn't kill, either. Green Lantern, Spider-Man, all of 'em.</p><p></p><p>Conan can't be a Superhero for real because he lacks that. He kills, he chews black lotus, he commits acts of sexual assault. He unleashes his rage and kills a Magistrate and Guards just doing their duty because he doesn't wanna go to jail for covering for his criminal buddy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8672484, member: 6796468"] You're largely right about that, [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER]! But also: He's a Philosopher and a poet. Because Howard was an early pioneer of Existential philosophy in an easily communicable format he was written to be a great many things. Slap a utility belt on that bad boy and he could be Batman minus the actually being good at solving mysteries and acrobatics and... nevermind. But. There is a second reason that Conan could never truly be a Superhero in the original works: He lacks Super Morality. There's a reason Batman stopped killing people when he got his own comic book line, and it was the big concept that separated Superheroes from regular heroes, war heroes, and other characters from comics at the time. The idea of being super-moral. It's why Supes didn't kill, either. Green Lantern, Spider-Man, all of 'em. Conan can't be a Superhero for real because he lacks that. He kills, he chews black lotus, he commits acts of sexual assault. He unleashes his rage and kills a Magistrate and Guards just doing their duty because he doesn't wanna go to jail for covering for his criminal buddy. [/QUOTE]
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