Why do comic book writers love making heroes into assholes?

Why do comic book writers love making heroes into assholes?

Cap actually was a pretty nice guy during Secret Empire, despite being the villain.

Maybe. But I'm talking about the industry as a hole instead of specific issues.

When you have to make you're hero/protagonist unquestionably right. They'll always come off as an asshole.

Cheap drama = $$$

tiny peens, jealous.
same reason they self-insert and then that slob gets the waifu.

Because comic book writers are assholes.

implying cap is in the wrong here

it's fun

Because white men are evil and should be portrayed as such.

Because people in real life are mostly assholes. This makes comic charcters seem more real

it's easier to write assholes than nice people.

Creatives have, for the most part, entirely lost the optimism that led to these characters in tbe first place. Most writers grew up reading them as selfless heroes, and when they grew up, their parents fuck ips became more apparent, and the world started to demand things of them, it made them question the heroes they held in fiction as well. That's why they're doing it, to "prove" that their heroes were just as bitter, selfish, and shallow as they've become, and have been the whole time.

Is that what the A stands for?

>it's a "this ain't your daddy's superhero" relaunch

From his perspective France surrendering was like a year or two ago.

Nah, it's more like "I'm making fun of the americans making fun of the French because they don't want to go to war in Iraq"

Cause drama and comedy

Notice the asshole factor diminishes when the hero is a new/er character. I suspect this is simply an misguided attempt to say "new things" about the same character.
Also writing unambiguously good people isn't all the rage these days. Writing cynical, self-centered assholes is.

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Ultimate Cap is an asshole about the french
Normal cap praised the french resistance
they are two different characters

Cause shit writers think that is what Deconstructing Heroes means.

Huh, never thought of it that way.

Ultimates 1 and 2 (mostly 2) is a stealth parody of the Bush administration. At the end of the series they were supposed to become legit superheroes no longer under Shield but Loeb fucked up everything

It started as a parody but too many of the writers were unironically buying into the RAH RAH MURICA attitude of the time. Similar to how they're buying into the flavor-of-the-decade bullshit today with SJW shit.

This

Assholes are more relatable than good people.

The more paragons of virtue you have lying around the more boring they become. You need to tweak it a bit.

No significant other.

Flawed characters are more interesting. They generate more conflict, conflict makes for good stories. It provides a larger toolbox of options for writers to work with when entertaining their readers.