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FridgeBeard posted...

At a surface level, Marvel is a little more family friendly, while DC is darker all around. DC is probably at its most memorable when it goes into its more disturbing elements, characters at their most vulnerable, and the more deconstructive aspects. That's not to say Marvel can't do any of that, just when they do... it tends to feel more gimmicky than not.

Marvel and DC are both family-friendly. That's the very genesis of these two comic pioneers.

They created characters meant to appeal to children. Not adults. Thus, the illogic like sparing villians alive, non-intervention by military and politics, buildings self-regenerating and whatnot, America-centricness, wearing bright stupid flashy outfits etc...

Now what happens when you take these early 1900s superheroes meant for children and adapt them to a modern-context? A lot, a lot of stupid senseless stuff that's what. Nowadays we dismiss it as a 'nah, it's a superhero thing'. More like, 'nah, it's outdated 1900 trash being forced into today's context'