seeing that it looks a bit like a bunny - maybe that creepy costume from donnie darko? - im sorry they didn’t go for a fluffier look.
seeing cops trying to act macho by stamping their cars and gear with a little fuffy bunny would slightly warm my cold cold soul
I think it’s one of those things that would be almost impossible to stamp out since it’s mostly a bunch of individual small-time merch manufacturers, many of which are based overseas. Anyone with a screen printing setup or vinyl cutter could be selling that stuff and for every successful cease & desist order there would be two more vendors ready to take their place.
ETA: Even in-universe the Punisher wasn’t able to stop fascist cops from appropriating his iconography.
Trying would be nice. But I’ve noticed the backflips media giants go through to avoid pissing off the fash.
They are a litigious corporation. They don’t want to. Their legal department doesn’t consider it reputational damage is what that means.
From a legal standpoint that would be a really hard case to make.
“Fascists are hurting the reputation of our fictional mass-murdering psychopath by using his symbol” would be an uphill fight to say the least, especially if there wasn’t any single prominent target to sue.
Bill Watterson hated how Calvin & Hobbes were used on all kinds of unauthorized merchandise (especially those stupid “Calvin peeing on […]” stickers that seemingly graced the back window of every douche’s pickup truck for years) but he didn’t waste his time trying to sue them all because he knew it would be pointless.
Nah. Corporations do and often have done exactly that for much lesser things. The simple fact is they don’t want to piss off their core audience.
That’s all.
Then how do you explain the comic linked above where Punisher explicitly tells off some cops for using his logo?
I don’t, nor do I have to. It’s a large corporation. They are absolutely cool with the fash loving him.
How do I know that? They are doing nothing about it. They have audience not to alienate.
I’m just impressed that he was able to peel a vinyl decal off of a car without even taking his gloves off first.
They wrote a damn comic explicitly saying “the fascists appropriating this symbol just don’t get it and ought to stop” and when that didn’t work they decided to change the symbol entirely.
Who specifically do you think Marvel should have used their resources to sue? Their legal options were more limited than a lot of people seem to think.
Now that’s a superpower.
It is worth noting that the authors of the comic are not the same people as TPTB at Marvel. Those changes in the comic might be as much due to frustration with inaction on the part of Marvel’s leadership as they are with the fascist appropriation of the Punisher logo.
The rebranding expenses alone would be significant.
One aspect of the empire has an anti fascist audience, other parts don’t. Marvel like most corporations is happy to pander to both.
People should take off their fandom goggles when considering the actions of corporations. Putting something in a comic is fan service.
The 2024 asshole contest is starting to shape up
He’s got the Cancun vote wrapped up.
This is freaking hilarious. Cruz really thought all those years of supplicating himself before the man who insulted his wife and accused his father of killing JFK (not to mention the endless jabs at Cruz himself) was somehow going to elevate his status among the party faithful instead of making him look even more pathetic than he already did.
He sounds like a kid on a playground begging a bully to let him use the swing set. “But it’s my tuuuurrrn…”
Ain’t nobody going to go to prison trying to install you in the White House, Ted.
This quote is the kicker, especially when you remember how he spent the final months of the 2016 campaign:
“I ran in 2016; it was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life,” Cruz said.
I didn’t know blob fish were eligible to run for president.
Canada has a President now?
