>Its 1991>Glasnost & Perestroika were a disaster >Hardliners from within the CPSU want to Coup Gorbachev >Its DC so you have Super Humans to helpWhat do you do? You have >The People’s Heroes>The Red Shadows>Blue Trinity >Soyuz>Proletariat>NKVDemon>KGBeast>Stalnoivolk
>>152792506Oh you also have >The Red Rocket Brigade >Red Star
would it not be odd to have your country's super hero named after something that stalled and killed your soldiers or is that just his name could also be a yankee doodle situation
>>152792506I wish the DC and Marvel universe had just been consistent alternate histories, rather than have the geopolitics of the comic book world match the real world. Like the Wild Cards novels, or X-Men 97. There's no way a soviet union with superpowered heroes would collapse the way it did in our timeline. It breaks immersion.
>>152792964The Soviet superheroes spent most their time fighting other Soviet agents or getting manipulated by the government which lowered how effective they were at actually fixing local problems.
>>152792964At this point, I think the Soviet Union collapsed before these guys existed.
>>152792900Oh lord this faux cyrillic looks ugly
>>152792964I agree, I think ultimately it would be better for the setting
>>152792512Does JLI stuff also still happen late 80s/early 90s?
>>152793300Why do so few superhero comics embrace alternate history?
>>152795261Some do, I think a big thing at fault here is that writers want to make commentary on current events but are unaware that you can tastefully do so in an alternate history which would probably go over well with general audiences. Plus they also suck at writing, but that’s another issue
>>152794927Of course it does
>>152795261Superhero stories from the inception have largely taken place in "our" world and thus chase after that feeling of being the world we live in. Even Gotham and Metropolis were just meant to be contemporary big cities until adaptations leaned into the stylization of comic books.
>>152792964The excuse in Marvel was that there were a billion sub-factions that immediately fought for supremacy and thus insured mutual defeat>>152792506Rocket Reds! Socialism with a power-armored face!
>>152795261Good alternate history requires both a knowledge of history and current events. And if you go with just doing weird shit and sticking with consequences, the world should become very alien to any reader.
Vote for Bush Quayle instead of LuthorNevermind the mind control and wasting our money on mechs and shit, he appointed Larry Summers to handle Russia
>>152796344Who's Larry Summers?
>>152792506Not a clue.
>>152792900It'd be like having Astronaut based Superheroes named Challenger and Columbia.
All communists deserve death.
>>152792506>Saving the Soviet UnionWhy?
>>152800091For the sake of the scenario, it’s not real life and it’s not like most of these guys are good guys
>>152800091It's fun to imagine AUs for the marvel/DC universe.
>>152792506fuck soviet uniont. former soviet country
One thing that disturbs me about the westerners (beside short memory) is how they imagine soviet union to be some flawed utopia, or some good system that can be fixed and bring happiness.20 years ago it was obvious that communism was nothing but turbofeudalism and total misery. I still have nightmares about seeing pictures of holodomor. Maybe westerners will never understand and think it's some fucking game and fun.One of these heroes in OP pic is called "Pravda" (Truth) - how insidious to call a soviet character like that!
>>152801979>20 years agoIn 2006? Ok zoomer.
>>152801979The other way is to have it be a nation of entirely soulless evil beings, which is boring to write about and only works in an active enemy status.
>>152795383Right so during JLI they have Rocket Reds on the team, do things go differently because the Soviet Union is still around or just the same as happened in the comics?
>>152798920Ever read Uber? They have 'superheroes' named Churchill and Constitution.
>>152792506>How’d you save the DC Comics Soviet UnionWHY would you want to save it?
>>152801979The simple answer is that it's less idolizing it and more that aesthetically the USSR was cooler and more interesting than what became of these nationsThe USSR was this grand enemy, modern Russia is a shady ugly bureaucracy that lacks the intrigue of this all consuming, all threatening upstart empire. I'm sure there's a few leftwingers who romanticize it, and rightwingers who like it existing as a flawed state to serve as a living example of failure, but overall it's greatest appeal is just being more fascinating.
>>152801979You could at least try, seriously.
>>152800091The collapse of the USSR led to two wars in Europe and the destabilization of the entire world, which led to subsequent numerous and bloody conflicts in the Middle East and Africa.Plus, if the USSR had survived, the US and European governments would have had to continue supporting their native populations rather than importing millions of migrant workers for cheap labor.
>>152803745Good sometimes-antagonists for the superheroes
