Post by That Duckfan on Mar 11, 2021 20:44:19 GMT
Yeah, I'll admit that I love the MCU, but it doesn't do justice to the concept of people fearing superheroes.
Sure, they show that the fear is there and even justified; everyone is afraid of the uncontrollable Hulk. Hawkeye becomes a serious threat when Loki controls him. HYDRA managed to manipulate Wanda and Pietro, and they do some real damage.
Ultimately, though, as you say, the movies always end up saying "But these ones are the heroes, and they shouldn't be forced to follow protocol!"
Personally, I don't know where I'd stand on the issue in real life, but the movies make it clear that the superheroes should be left to their own devices. Even though some can be extremely volatile, and many of them are prone to doing some less-than-heroic things on occasion.
{Spoiler}are disgruntled Stark employees disgruntled with the fact that their late boss spent trillions on shiny personal toys
and honestly, I thought they had a point. Add to that the Tony is the essentially the hero in Civil War, and we never truly stop to think if SHIELD is an effective way to spend public resources. Every once in a while, somebody digs out the Sokovia Accords, but those seem to have been pretty light.Lately there's more of an emphasis on stolen/looted tech, which is good, but it's still inevitably treated as a bad thing the villains got a hold of. It's a very warped view of things, especially when Tony Stark has essentially been the protagonist for these last four phases.
Look, I empathize with Tony and his character journey, but you're also sending out a message when your main protagonist is a weapons manufacturer with explicit ties to the the Bush wars in his initial appearance. I'm not here to jam with the military-industrial complex, thank you very much.
I've seen all the Marvel movies thanks to peer pressure, and BOY do they carry a lot of unpacked implications in their movies. Not sure if this is the right place to talk about that, but my opinions on the matter are are strongly mixed.
Just for the sake of clarity, when you say to watch WandaVision, are you referring to
the people being justified in their fear of Wanda? I feel like we're in agreement, but just wanted to be sure. If so... yeah, that was insane. The fact that the show basically took her side on the whole thing (With Monica sympathizing with her) was absurd to me.
All in all, it's an issue that I don't know where I'd stand on - like That Duckfan says, it would be very discomforting to know that your safety lies with someone like Tony Stark.
That being said, in the context of a lot of these stories, mutants and superheroes are the only things keeping the world safe - in which case, monitoring and controlling them is going to cause problems..
That being said, in the context of a lot of these stories, mutants and superheroes are the only things keeping the world safe - in which case, monitoring and controlling them is going to cause problems..
I guess one of the issues will always be avoiding the "Reed Richards is useless" trope. After all, why don't we just do the boring but effective thing of holding meetings, hiring a professional staff, developing technology for the public good, turning our attention to starving children in Africa, etcetera?
But y'know, I'm one of three people who would rather have spent a full movie watching Steve Rogers get adjusted to the 21st century and trying not to be inadvertently inappropriate half the time.