Absolute DC - how is there ANY good if it's dependent on…
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Absolute DC - how is there ANY good if it's dependent on Darkseid?
One of the big concepts of the Absolute Universe is that the very essence of Darkseid is baked in at an intrinsic, subatomic level. In this reality, quite literally, Darkseid Is.
So how is there ANY good in the Absolute U? Shouldn't certain historical events have zigged where we zagged, as a result of his overwhelming influence? For instance, Absolute Superman is currently dealing with Absolute Hawkman, who's been around since WW2 - but in a universe tipped towards evil, wouldn't the Axis forces have won that conflict?
We're also seeing a lot of inversions, where traditional heroes' DCU enemies are their AU allies - Batman and Flash most notably - but doesn't that just turn things into yet another mirror universe where heroes and villains are (mostly) flipped in alignment?
The Absolute line being a more realistic look at real-world concepts of good and evil works really well - corporate masters and billionaires owning and corrupting everything, even re-writing the very notions of "justice" as we saw in Absolute Evil, and wearing people down to the point they \_cannot\_ turn to their better natures because the entire machine of society grinds against them. Its exploration of what heroism looks like in that modern, realistic context, and how much harder the heroes have to fight when entrenched systems are the ultimate villain, has been great so far.
However, I think a lot of that ends up being undermined at a meta level when they're saying that the entire universe is cosmically aligned to evil, but only kinda-sorta. Sure, the grander narrative around the Absolute Universe is still ongoing, and much of this may be revealed and eventually discarded - allowing the AU to continue its more contemporary exploration of evil without the foundational Darkseid element - but at the moment, I think that factor becomes a bit of glaring contradiction in the structure of the universe.
#entertainment
One of the big concepts of the Absolute Universe is that the very essence of Darkseid is baked in at an intrinsic, subatomic level. In this reality, quite literally, Darkseid Is.
So how is there ANY good in the Absolute U? Shouldn't certain historical events have zigged where we zagged, as a result of his overwhelming influence? For instance, Absolute Superman is currently dealing with Absolute Hawkman, who's been around since WW2 - but in a universe tipped towards evil, wouldn't the Axis forces have won that conflict?
We're also seeing a lot of inversions, where traditional heroes' DCU enemies are their AU allies - Batman and Flash most notably - but doesn't that just turn things into yet another mirror universe where heroes and villains are (mostly) flipped in alignment?
The Absolute line being a more realistic look at real-world concepts of good and evil works really well - corporate masters and billionaires owning and corrupting everything, even re-writing the very notions of "justice" as we saw in Absolute Evil, and wearing people down to the point they \_cannot\_ turn to their better natures because the entire machine of society grinds against them. Its exploration of what heroism looks like in that modern, realistic context, and how much harder the heroes have to fight when entrenched systems are the ultimate villain, has been great so far.
However, I think a lot of that ends up being undermined at a meta level when they're saying that the entire universe is cosmically aligned to evil, but only kinda-sorta. Sure, the grander narrative around the Absolute Universe is still ongoing, and much of this may be revealed and eventually discarded - allowing the AU to continue its more contemporary exploration of evil without the foundational Darkseid element - but at the moment, I think that factor becomes a bit of glaring contradiction in the structure of the universe.
#entertainment
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