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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9632237" data-attributes="member: 3400">I think it would be more than slightly unfair to The Expanse. While there are relatable conflicts in the Expanse story, the political viewpoints of each group are inherent to their different circumstances in the solar system - Belters with a history of exploitation, deprivation, and bad equipment, Martians united with a patriotic, multi-generational terraforming project, Earthers with the fairly extreme privilege of having a home not trying to kill them but overpopulated. And then we see what happens when interstellar travel suddenly becomes possible. Martian unity largely collapses with the shortcuts to livable alternative planets and Belters see the possibility of their own power, their massive natural resources in the outer system, bypassed by easier access that they can't control. Those are all pretty big sci-fi topics and questions to my eyes. They're just a bit more focused on materialist issues rather than spiritual or philosophical. And I don't see that as disqualifying with respect to a good sci-fi story.But with respect to superhero movies/stories, I might argue that a story like Marvels wouldn't be much of a superhero movie if adapted for the big screen since it focuses on a normal person's perspective of these "marvels" who now walk among them rather than tell a story amid the usual superhero characters and their own environs and perspectives. But other than that, it's hard to rule out too many movies involving superheroes as not being "superhero movies". I'd be hard pressed to really think of a particular example. Eternals might be one that comes closest among reasonably recent stories.</blockquote>

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