I know not every superhero story is the same, but I feel like recent superhero media has moved away from showing heroes actually saving people. Even vigilantes like Batman and Daredevil rescue civilians—they’re not just crime fighters. Superheroes may not be realistic, but they’ve always prioritized saving lives.
That’s one reason I like The Flash on the CW—it balanced both saving people and crime fighting, even if the crime-fighting usually came first. Superman & Lois does this even better. Almost every episode shows Superman stopping disasters or accidents, not just punching villains.
Superheroes aren’t just super-powered cops, soldiers, or secret agents. They should also be part-time super-firefighters. Shows like 9-1-1 and Chicago Fire make me wish we had more of those rescue scenes—but with superheroes. Not every episode has to be about saving the whole city.
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Which is a pity, because they do in the comics. Kitty and Nightcrawler are especially good at saving trapped people.
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Um, ok. And, the main focus of the Bible isn’t gardening, either.
The primary focus isn’t saving people, because that would get old really fast. Is there even a comic where the primary focus is saving people, all the time? What good would saving people do if you didn’t also stop the thing causing the disaster? (Because it is almost always not a natural disaster in comics.)
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No. It was you who said the X-Men were never about saving people. I said yes they did. Then you seemed to argue that because the main focus of the X-Men comics isn’t specifically saving people, they are not focused on that in the slightest.
I agree they almost never talked about it in what I read of the original run, but that was the 60s. I’ve read plenty of X-Men comics (after the 70s reboot) where they arrive on scene and start saving people THEN focus on the bad guy.
I’m just trying to say that they do save people. Yes, it’s not the main focus of the comic, but why would it be?