I know, I was joking about the Patriot, as its essentially a superhero fantasy about the AR. I stated above what I think is inherently right wing about superheros.

I love superhero movies, but they are most definitely right wing in their world view: A man or small group arming themselves to defend the world against evil (often where the government can't or won't deliver).

The lone gunman out to save the world from the mysterious and mindless evildoer is the NRA's wet dream. That doesn't mean they are good, entertaining stories, just like inherently left wing movies can be great and entertaining (Philadelphia, for example).

Superhero genre is very similar to the Western genre, another of my favorites, but also one that I interpret as far more right wing than left. I don't think this is instructive. I think it means I'm entertained by acts of heroism against odds. Because I love seeing Clint Eastwood acting as a bad motherfucker in The Outlaw Josie Wales ("Dying ain't no kind of living" is one of the best lines in Hollywood history, IMHO), doesn't mean I wish that the South had won the civil war.