Paris’ defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel’s Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
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I guess I have to watch a marvel movie now
I guess I have to watch a marvel movie now
You mean the movie about how black people shouldn’t use their advanced technology to free black people around the globe, so the CIA sends an agent to help them merc the only good guy in all the Marvel movies?
no this is about the second one where oppressed people fight eachother instead of the oppressors for no reason
The plot is a really convoluted mess that exists only to show black-on-brown super violence that is resolved via a strange truce between the monarchs of the factions after they spend a long time trying to kill each other. I didn’t watch it too closely.
So are all of Marvel’s advanced super sci fi poc countries also despotic monarchies where u become king by beating up the other guy
Watched it last night and it floored me how fucking insane the plot is.
Namor goes to Shuri and is like, “hey, this is proof they are coming for us. Its here. Its already happening. Can we form a defensive alliance and be ready for when the shit really kicks off?”
And Shuri is immediately like “omg you’re insane, you want to kill people?”
And then Namor basically just says “Yes.”
I haven’t bothered watching the second one, but I’m both unsurprised and flabbergasted that they couldn’t come up with a better reason for Atlantis and Wakanda to throw down than the usual libfest of “killing people trying to colonize you is bad, actually :^)”
Like, those two have fought on and off in the comics (and also against Latveria) for eons; make them fight over resources or tech that the rest of humanity can’t even fathom or something.
Is this like the British being mad about RRR. Didn’t France collect reparations from Haiti for freeing themselves from slavery until a few years ago?
I thought the debt was still ongoing, it was just owned by private banks now.
I guess I have to watch a marvel movie now
Don’t. It pits two Indigenous communities against each other while glossing over the fact that the side who is afraid of the western world was legitimized by the scene being discussed and some of the others that followed.
X = The State is literally being the bad guy but because the Characters critiquing The State use violence the audience doesn’t need to be concerned with it.
It’s actually rather interesting because
spoiler
the “good” cia guy is now on the run and the US gov was very open about wanting to coup Wakanda, as well as the cia director associating with the “bad” Captain America wannabe. So the US is kinda being setup as a bad guy, but it’s almost certainly going to lead to a “bad actors” plot point like with Hydra in SHIELD. Probably shape-shifting aliens or something.
also maybe a plotline about shape shifting green aliens secretly running the government in the middle of an antisemitic revival is not a responsible narrative to promote.
Like How Shakespeare made that play about witches to be performed for the king who had thousands of people tortured to death on suspicion of witchcraft
The USAF glowy space lady jesus one was before the big endgame offramp so I saw it.
Yes. They introduced shape shifting aliens in that one. You can’t even make a joke about this series.
Lemme guess - the evil indigenous king wants to destroy their oppressors while Black Panther wants to work with them
France mad at accurate depiction of its country
Journalists need to be whipped and flayed whenever they use the word “slam” to describe anything besides an actual physical collision. Whenever you read it you just know it’s gonna be a whole goddamn article written about a tweet
