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I also love how in comics and movies billionaires use their wealth to build cars, motorcycles, jets, boats and equipment to fight crime and go after bad guys ... they also train in martial arts, take care of their body, physical enhancements in order to become bigger, stronger, faster.
But in real all we get is a bunch of aging billionaires who hide in obscurity in big mansions, no one ever knows what they do, and the only time we hear from them is when they announce that they've made more money ... they also associate themselves with fascists and authoritarians and don't show any empathy for anyone ... meanwhile, the world becomes more and more corrupt because no one is fighting crime.
Lex Luther is the good guy. His whole gripe with Superman is that he brings supervillains to metropolis simply by being there. He's right. Superman may catch the occasional purse thief but the majority of what he "stops" was directly or indirectly caused by him.
This also applies to the avengers. They're lauded as heros for stopping Ultron, a being they created and set loose out of pure hubris and incompetence. They destroyed an entire country. Zemo was right.
Ultron was one time!
i thought the whole point was that they werent lauded as heroes because of ultron, anti avenger graffitti, the accords, etc etc