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Aristocrats and vampires

Why isn't there a game where you're a mushroom and jump on Super Mario? A vampire is the complete opposite of an aristocrat. A vampire doesn't need a castle; he can sleep buried in a ditch. A vampire doesn't need history, traditions, or a dynasty; he's all of those rolled into one. A vampire doesn't need servants; they'll only spread rumors and incite a mob. A vampire doesn't even need money—hunting like Chikatilo is perfectly acceptable when roaming. Why then are vampires portrayed as aristocrats? A vampire-aristocrat is a dagger in a sheath, a toy. The point is that any pop culture object undergoes dozens of stages of purification of meaning and power, so that not a single molecule of power exists in a ton of popslop. Incidentally, this is how Coca-Cola is purified of cocaine, by the way. As a result, any power can only be detected through murky homeopathic fields. That is, it's impossible. Everything good there is is a projection of your own views and ideas. A distorted and skewed one at that. Say, you spend a long time thinking about how to hide a superpower, when in reality, the problem is proving your power with anything other than "trust me, bro." Something simple, like "I can program what your business needs," is a very difficult task because of the crazy HR doormen. As a result, any analysis of the characters' abilities and behavior always boils down to a litany of excuses for their incompetence: - that's the way he was raised - that's the way the community has developed - that won't work because the character's wings were clipped In general, over time, all these tropes will be widely promoted in rational fanfiction and mocked in adult and cynical versions, like Watchmen and The Boys. But ultimately, even Homelander acts like an NPC bot with a million tweaks, because scientists and psychologists supposedly broke him. And all rational heroes want to save the world from evil and death, instead of sowing them and watching them bloom.