Tired of seeing people call every cape comic 'superhero' like it's the same thing

Honestly, I was at a shop in Portland last week and this guy kept calling The Boys a superhero comic. It's a deconstruction, not the same genre at all. Ngl, it bugs me when folks lump Watchmen or Invincible in with basic capes just because there's powers involved. Anyone else notice this mix-up killing real conversations about what a story is actually trying to do?

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eva_thompson10d ago

Honestly I used to lump them all together too but this makes sense.

milacraig9d ago

Whoa wait, seriously? You actually used to lump them all together? Like The Boys and Superfriends in the same mental category? That's wild.

lunag3010d ago

Ugh, right? I feel this so hard. It's like people just see a costume or a power on screen and their brain shuts off. I was trying to explain that Invincible is more like a coming-of-age drama that uses the superhero tropes to tell a real story, and someone was just like "so it's a superhero show." It drives me nuts how it totally flattens everything into one boring box. It makes it impossible to actually talk about what makes a story good or different.