We ARE Struggling Together!/Comic Books

Examples of We ARE Struggling Together! in Comic Books include:

• Superheroes in the Marvel Universe since the Marvel Civil War have spent about as much time fighting each other as they have fighting super villains.
• In The Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Question and Green Arrow come to blows over whether the new world order should be a Marxist Socialist Utopia, or a Randian Objectivist Utopia.
• In the revival of The Punisher that made him famous again, Welcome Back, Frank, three copycat vigilantes appear in the wake of the Punisher's return. One's Payback, a guy who targets corrupt rich folks. One's his polar opposite, a well-dressed man called "Elite" who's obsessed with killing people who "dirty" his neighborhood, starting mostly with some minor drug-peddlers moving in but working his way down to hot dog vendors and dogs that make a mess on the sidewalk. Between them is a literally Axe Crazy priest who tends to chop up gang members who confess their crimes in his church. When all three meet up, none of them can decide on how to cooperate. And then when they finally just about figure out how to get along, the Punisher -- who doesn't look kindly on copycats -- kills them all anyway, much to their surprise.
• In most versions of Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless maintains his grip on power despite being a complete psycho who's universally despised by everybody because all his subjects hate each other more than they hate him.
• The Defenders, in almost all incarnations, are comprised of people who have almost nothing in common but will still unite to face major threats, often of a magical or supernormal nature. Typical Defenders dialogue consists of a lot of backbiting—sometimes affectionate, sometimes not.

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