For the most part they know and don’t care, as long as they can’t enjoy it on a purely aesthetic level. For instance starship troopers. They know it’s a satire, but just say “this but unironically”. But there’s a tipping point. If nazis are being depicted as pants-shitting losers there’s nothing for them to admire on an aesthetic level.

I've found the same to be true with libs

I was pretty suspicious of that as well, but I don't think they're good guys in the show. If I remember properly, the guy ordering MM around is only concerned about the exploding-head lady because she can easily kill anyone that goes against her, without anyone knowing it's her.

i don't think anyone in the show is a good guy. it's all self-interest and revenge, even when they pretend to be moral

The show centering on a bunch of CIA goons led by an annoying Australian who epicly swears bacon style made me hate the show after a couple episodes. I finished all 3 seasons anyway but found it all annoying.

Not really. While Mallory and MM are fine, Butcher was absolutely psychotic and Neagley wants to turn Ryan into a weapon so basically Homelander 2.0.

In the comics they are just an end to means for butcher and the boys. CIA gets shit all over in the comics at least

It's been doing it since episode 1, just not as explicitly.

The guy's name? Karl Marx.

Yes it's based on a comic by Garth Ennis. Superheroes become mainstream enough that there's a superhero industry and their brands are managed by a corporation because they're celebrities now instead of vigilantes. Crazy guy with a grudge gets a team together to eradicate the supes because 99% of them are flawed, egotistical maniacs as they're basically groomed from young age like Nickelodeon stars but they're walking WMDs instead. So it's "anti cape-shit" but effectively still ends up being cape shit most of the time because most characters are supes.

It's sorta in the same vein as The Watchmen where it poses the question "what if superheroes were real?" and proceeds to answer "pretty much nothing good and a whole lot of bad." With way more sexual debauchery.

It is the rare capeshit that criticizes capeshit enough that non capeshit likers such as myself can enjoy it

It's capeshit insofar that it has superheroes and sometimes they fight with lasers. It is not at all like actual capeshit I think, the last Marvel movie I actually saw was Ironman.

Imagine cape shit but “what if corporations BAD?”

Extremely boring, surface level criticism of le crony capitalism. If you want to watch good cape shit, watch Birdman because it isnt capeshit