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The recent flurry of vigilantism-daydream themed comic book adapted films has people talking about how urbanization-related civics paranoia makes dystopia-themed characters/avatars such as Electro (Marvel Comics), a mutant who can use electricity as a weapon, and Pyro (Marvel Comics), a flame-thrower wielding arsonist and anti-democracy maniac, symbolic of anxieties regarding Darwinian theory.
Who started the 'paranoia-storytelling' trend? Was it Orwell? Was it Hitchcock? Was it as early back (in cinema history) as Orson Welles?
Modern era films such as Iron Man and Darkman explore a new age focus on the consequences of strength enhancement (artificial or natural). Such storytelling represents a human interest in 'evolution reactionary' questions (e.g., "Is man evolving to become savagely obsessed with technology and power?").
Here's a pro-civilization short-story I wrote about Pyro and Electro trying to terrorize NYC land/tech grids and threatening the security of urban thruways. Can the 'civilization-chic' Samsung Galaxy (phone) save the day?
I wonder if superheroes play video games, and if they're impressed with the muscular video games you can download and play these days right on your smartphone! I always preferred Asimov to Orwell...
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Peter Parker was given the assignment at the Daily Bugle by his boss to investigate a new series of strange terrorism incidents in Central Park. For four straight weeks, someone has been leaving burned-earth markings in Central Park on Saturday nights. No one knows who the culprit is, but the Bugle received a note from two strange individuals referring to themselves as Pyro and Electro:
"We will continue to vandalize Central Park with fire and electricity unless the city fathers agree to leave us $30 million in a marked chest in the park along with a fancy free Samsung smartphone and a deal with Samsung to have the deed marked in the Yale University library!"
Peter realized that Pyro and Electro were trying to trick New Yorkers into thinking they were intellectually shrewd about consumer electronics (so people thought villains were very 'educated'), so Peter donned the mantle of his heroic vigilante secret-identity 'Spider-Man' and went soaring into the city on his cobweb shooters and spider-suit looking for the two evil-doers. Spider-Man considered the possibility that Pyro and Electro were hiding out on the Yale campus, waiting for the Samsung representatives to post their official newsletter in the main university library. Spider-Man staked out the campus, waiting for developments.
Samsung representatives arrived at Yale to post their testimony: "If Pyro and Electro leave with the ransom-money, peacefully, Samsung pledges to honor its deal to gift them with a smartphone, and we hope this will affirm the interest of Samsung to be involved in the cares and concerns of American pedestrians." Spider-Man was hiding on a roof of the building where they were to give their address. That's when Pyro and Electro showed up (on jet-gliders stolen from Oscorp Institute), requiring Spider-Man to tie them up in cobwebs.
Peter Parker covered the entire Yale incident. He told New Yorkers in his Bugle piece that Pyro and Electro would be studied at Oscorp for their mutant and mental eccentricities and criminal insanity patterns and hopefully be rehabilitated for their extreme anti-civilization fanaticism. Peter relayed how Spider-Man swooped in to prevent the evil-doers from creating anarchy at the Samsung presentation. He also suggested wisely that Samsung would benefit in American society, since New Yorkers naturally care about the beneficial advertising education and technology can receive (ironically) from otherwise tragic events (e.g., the Challenger NASA disaster).
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Self-Cooling Samsung Phone Processor
Who started the 'paranoia-storytelling' trend? Was it Orwell? Was it Hitchcock? Was it as early back (in cinema history) as Orson Welles?
Modern era films such as Iron Man and Darkman explore a new age focus on the consequences of strength enhancement (artificial or natural). Such storytelling represents a human interest in 'evolution reactionary' questions (e.g., "Is man evolving to become savagely obsessed with technology and power?").
Here's a pro-civilization short-story I wrote about Pyro and Electro trying to terrorize NYC land/tech grids and threatening the security of urban thruways. Can the 'civilization-chic' Samsung Galaxy (phone) save the day?
I wonder if superheroes play video games, and if they're impressed with the muscular video games you can download and play these days right on your smartphone! I always preferred Asimov to Orwell...
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Peter Parker was given the assignment at the Daily Bugle by his boss to investigate a new series of strange terrorism incidents in Central Park. For four straight weeks, someone has been leaving burned-earth markings in Central Park on Saturday nights. No one knows who the culprit is, but the Bugle received a note from two strange individuals referring to themselves as Pyro and Electro:
"We will continue to vandalize Central Park with fire and electricity unless the city fathers agree to leave us $30 million in a marked chest in the park along with a fancy free Samsung smartphone and a deal with Samsung to have the deed marked in the Yale University library!"
Peter realized that Pyro and Electro were trying to trick New Yorkers into thinking they were intellectually shrewd about consumer electronics (so people thought villains were very 'educated'), so Peter donned the mantle of his heroic vigilante secret-identity 'Spider-Man' and went soaring into the city on his cobweb shooters and spider-suit looking for the two evil-doers. Spider-Man considered the possibility that Pyro and Electro were hiding out on the Yale campus, waiting for the Samsung representatives to post their official newsletter in the main university library. Spider-Man staked out the campus, waiting for developments.
Samsung representatives arrived at Yale to post their testimony: "If Pyro and Electro leave with the ransom-money, peacefully, Samsung pledges to honor its deal to gift them with a smartphone, and we hope this will affirm the interest of Samsung to be involved in the cares and concerns of American pedestrians." Spider-Man was hiding on a roof of the building where they were to give their address. That's when Pyro and Electro showed up (on jet-gliders stolen from Oscorp Institute), requiring Spider-Man to tie them up in cobwebs.
Peter Parker covered the entire Yale incident. He told New Yorkers in his Bugle piece that Pyro and Electro would be studied at Oscorp for their mutant and mental eccentricities and criminal insanity patterns and hopefully be rehabilitated for their extreme anti-civilization fanaticism. Peter relayed how Spider-Man swooped in to prevent the evil-doers from creating anarchy at the Samsung presentation. He also suggested wisely that Samsung would benefit in American society, since New Yorkers naturally care about the beneficial advertising education and technology can receive (ironically) from otherwise tragic events (e.g., the Challenger NASA disaster).
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Self-Cooling Samsung Phone Processor