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Y'all ever think about how both Black-led MCU projects end with the "sympathetic" Black revolutionary "villains" getting poetically killed off for the sake of the Greater Good while the people in actual positions of political power get... a stern talking to? https://twitter.com/woahitsjuanito/status/1385623974453841922
Note, too, how the MCU ultimately always chalks genuine revolutionary thought up to violent outbursts by "misguided" young Black people.
Its disposition toward those who stand in opposition to the status quo is fundamentally condescending and paternalistic.
Its disposition toward those who stand in opposition to the status quo is fundamentally condescending and paternalistic.
Marvel has become one of the most insidiously anti-Black media entities in the world precisely because they've figured out how to leverage the language of social justice movements while still recommitting themselves to the status quo by the story's "end" every time without fail.
