One of the saddest moments in my life came during high school, when a friend and I were discussing the works of Simon & Garfunkel. He explained to me that he lived his life by the rules set out in the lyrics of ‘I Am A Rock’, and how personally helpful the idea of having NO emotional attachments or interactions was to him. I was floored, then appalled, then finally just incredibly depressed at what I considered to be the misinterpreted message there, as I’ve always heard that song as the empty words of a miserable man whose emotional detachment was destroying him. The idea of believing in it is utterly alien to me, which leads us to today’s purely subjective query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) thinks that the strongest example I can think of is Frank Miller’s elderly Batman from ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ taking shortcuts because he just can’t do what he once could somehow transitioning into mainstream comics as “Batman is willing to break all the rules and will literally kill anyone he wants”, asking: What’s the worst pop culture example of a misinterpreted message in your mind?
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Since 1986: “Others than morally ambiguous super heroes are unrealistic and boring”.