• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Oh man, did you know that the capes thing was actually in-world propaganda/disinformation in the movies? Syndrome killed all the people listed as having cape accidents, so it was like a go-to coverup that they died in cape related ways, like the people making the cover stories didn’t have the creativity to come up with anything else. And it just ended up making capes seem like a bad idea.

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        14 days ago

        Wait, does the movie actually show that? Are any of the same heroes cited by Edna as cape accidents also shown in Syndrome’s database as being killed by him instead?

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            14 days ago

            This got me curious enough to go re-watch the scenes involved. The five supers Edna names are not shown in Syndrome’s records (at least not the ones Bob looks up).

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              Ah, nevermind then. I was taking it on word from someone else. Guess I shouldn’t do that, even for something that would be weird to make up.