Incompetent Government in Superhero Media
To be perfectly honest this doesn’t happen in all superhero media, most anime manga and manwha get it right. But here’s two examples one very recent the other somewhat recent ish.
In Captain America BNW, Ross turns into Red Hulk, you’d think the American government in this universe which has been privy to the existence of aliens, magic , gods and all sorts of strange phenomena would have a vastly upgraded security system and state of the art defenses for world leaders in this universe, so when red hulk emerged and it was on stage in front of everyone I was kind of excited to see what the secret service in the mcu has in store in case they have to face a threat like that, would they pull out the sound weapons the military used on hulk in 2008 movie? Would they pull out some iron man type lasers? Only for them to pull out glocks and start blasting the 8 feet tall rampaging monster with puny bullets lol. It makes zero sense to me that in that sort of world the best protection the president has is still just some dudes with guns. Nothing stops iron man from waking up one day and sending a suit to the White House to take over lmao, I find it incredulous the government is not more technologically prepared for threats like that, SHIELD going down was really bad huh? Even so they should still have access to shield resources.
In the boys the president elect is hidden in an underground bunker to protect him from a supe assassination, why in the world of the boys does the president not already have supe security? Why does he have to rely on the boys for that? Vought cares so much about money they’d definitely sell some supes to the secret service for protection, it felt stupid that the president and his security didn’t have access to the supe alarm things they used in Gen v too that can incapacitate supes due to their higher range of hearing.
Other people might not care about this but I just thought it’s absolutely stupid to not have your security be just as well armed as everyone else especially in the types of worlds they live in, it makes even less sense in the MCU.