Uber #4

[superboyprime]

"Increasingly in fiction -- and pop fiction especially -- the point of Nazis is that we beat them. We can shoot them, and it doesn't matter. They're not scary. They're just bad guys. And thinking of them "just" bad guys is a whole load of other problems.

"Which makes part of Uber's point to put the doubt back in. To try and make people think of Nazis as something that is a genuine threat to the way we live -- because they were and they are -- and put us a little closer to the people in the ground in those wars." - Kieron Gillen

Comments

[damar148]

I disagree with Killen's comment, as it is pretty clear the Nazis are done for and this just needlessly prolonging the war and causing more suffering, as they simply can't hold it and now especially the Allies are making their own Panzermensch from a relatively safe position and the untouched economic and military might of the US behind them.

[stolisomancer]

How does that contradict the quoted comment? They're scary because they're causing damage on a wide scale out of what is, at this point in the war, pure revenge. They aren't cannon fodder; they're a threat.

[damar148]

I thought he was referring to the threat of them winning.

[stolisomancer]

One of the earliest things said by the Nazis in this series is that they can't win, but they still have the ability to make sure no one else does either: that they can cause enough damage before they go to cause revenge.

The point of Gillen's statement is not that they seriously can win, since the German superhumans in this series can be taken out under the right very specific circumstances, but that he's deliberately writing the Nazis as scary, as threatening, as something other than the perfect cannon fodder they've evolved into over the years.

[espanolbot]

I've come to really like this series, though I do have a thing for retroscience fiction.

Plus, Alan Turing, yay! Wonder if anyone would ever have a story with him help programme the first robot built to fight the Nazis...

[big_daddy_d]

Getting more and more interested in this series honestly. Seems more like there's a focus on super science than just super soldiers... to which I have to do the following:

[akodo_rokku]

I... suddenly want that image to be a future incarnation of The Doctor.

[espanolbot]

Dr Insano? Aheheheheheh.

[espanolbot]