I can totally imagine the avengers debating for years "well no we still don't have enough proof of genocide, the best action is inaction" while immediately go to raze an Iranian city after an unfounded rumor of a WMD
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Disney absolutely who the antagonist represented in the winter soldier
Star Wars Andor is specifically there to steam-valve liberals and socialists
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Basically every mainstream media is "We can't kill the villain"
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LMAO
And then there is Andor... 
Bill Burr shot first!
This is why I loved the scene in F is for Family when Frank responds to the 'be the bigger and better person and let go' by straight up punching and knocking his abusive elderly dad after meeting up with him instead of burying the trauma further.
People are looking for a left wing Rogan. But I think we have that with guys like Bur
Wakanda is a monarchist enthnostate that tortures outsiders and even shows outright hostility to those helping them. Their leadership is determined by the most violent among them. And this society is presented a utopia.
I fucking hate these movies.
I tried watching the animated show recently, and its basically Wakanda throughout history stealing vibranium from other civilisations because they feel entitled to complete control over the element, usually with large amounts of colateral damage and theft of deeply important cultural artifacts in the process. I assume there's some alegory I'm missing but they just come off as assholes.
Are they bad guys in that?
The framing suggests they're meant to be the good guys?
Not really. Unlike the Marvel movies, Wakanda in the comics is not a perfect utopia and has a lot of its own prejudice.
Well... To put it differently, unlike the movies, Wakanda's prejudice isn't depicted as a fine and perfectly acceptable utopia.
Keep in mind, in the comics, Storm from The X-Men is Wakandan royalty. She should be queen. But she got exiled from her homeland at a rather young age for being a mutant.
The country is threatened by a villainous black liberation agitator and saved with the help of the CIA.
They might as well have had Abdel Fattah El-Sisi play the lead role.
Don't need to jump all the way to Wakanda. Thanos is an eco terrorist. Ultron is a peace activist. Magneto is patterned after Malcolm X.
The Marvel universe is the story of how a billionaire arms dealer and the US military save the world from deranged leftists. Disney heroes always fight for the status quo and the villains want to make things better (but also they're written to be crazy and violent). It's a billion dollar "I drew you as Soyjak and me as the chad" franchise.
Walt Disney was a major force behind the Red Scare in Hollywood, turning in his own animators for unionizing, and they've been terrible ever since.
Maybe that’s why all their stories suck, completely unfounded in reality
thinking of all the movies where good triumphs over evil
You're right. Evil usually wins IRL.
I mean... Yeah? It has never been any different.
They treat us like the naive children we behave like.
Well the funny part is that most of the "heroes" they sell are not really heroes, just defenders of a status quo america that never really existed
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It reminds me of a meme I recently saw of a preacher in front of a bunch of Indians, and he says "Before we came, you worshipped the SUN!"
And one of the Indians says "Dude, the sun is real."
He has a point. It's ironic that the only piece of "evidence" most religions have is a book written by humans.
Any belief in the sun/moon/stars/whatever.... At least you can point and say, there it is.
But Christianity is normal and not crazy at all, and believing in Ra is the crazy thing.... Sure. Yeah.
I think it's all nuts. But whatever.
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Check
Teaching with Disney edited by Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin, 2016 (including but not limited to "Teaching Disney Critically in the Age of Perpetual Consumption")
and
The Mouse that Roared, Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, 2010
but the Tl;DR is that their only definition of "heroes" is whatever might sell anything and aligned with the ideology of a "founder" that arguably didn't draw the mouse itself.
JK Rowling wrote a whole book series about how bullying is a horrible and self-perpetuating cycle, and now spends most of her time bullying a marginalised group
JK Rowling
No, Joanne!
I.e., I understand she greatly prefers (absolutely detests) being addressed that way. :D
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Grace Kelly said something similar years ago: “Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality.”. We have all known this for decades. The sleazy hollywood rapist was a thing long before Harvey was outed. They all knew, and yet they all kept their mouths shut.
This is why its always been so perplexing to me that so much of society looks to hollywood for its morality lessons.
I have been thinking the superhero movies were having many fascist themes themselves. And their popularity was helped by a growing authoritarian movement in the USA.
The actual comics do not have many of the above issues, the movies reinforced certain themes.
I say this as someone who liked the comic books for many decades
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TBH their "heroes" are pretty fascist too. Princes, princesses, etc. It's a total shitshow in terms of class.
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