Then just a few years later in 2012, SHIELD is casually spying on any computer or phone that’s connected to the internet to find and apprehend an alien. And there’s no discussion whatsoever about what a massive violation of privacy this is.
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Tony Stark’s and SHIELD’s surveillance tech is basically a 1:1 fictional version of what Edward Snowden blew the whistle on in 2013, and yet four years after that, Spider-Man is using this technology on the regular, without any moral quandries at all.
aug 29, 2025, 6:26 pm • 17 3 • view
It’s become so widely accepted by the public that I basically never see people talk about it in reviews of these movies. Make no mistake about it. One of the most damaging effects of the MCU project has been desensitizing mass audiences to invasions of their own civil liberties.
aug 29, 2025, 6:26 pm • 16 1 • view
Weird how a Superman movie with antifascist themes from a certain director is a Randian tract based off of nothing but vibes but every seedy thing that the MCU promotes is a-ok
aug 29, 2025, 6:54 pm • 9 0 • view
I’m going to talk about Far From Home later in this thread, but first I want to talk briefly about why the glamorization of the surveillance state in the Avengers movie is the result of Marvel’s goals, not Joss Whedon’s.
aug 30, 2025, 6:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Buffy the Vampire Slayer season four and Angel season five are some of the best media that stands in opposition to Marvel’s stance on intelligence agencies and institutions in general.
aug 30, 2025, 6:47 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s been brought to my attention that my suggesting that the MCU has any connection to the military industrial complex is “tin foil hat shit.” So to avoid the risk of misleading anyone, I’ll rewatch a few of the movies to see if I truly am wrong. I’ll start with Iron Man and Captain America.
aug 30, 2025, 4:56 am • 7 0 • view
Bad news, folks…
aug 30, 2025, 5:15 am • 5 0 • view
Captain marvel was literally an advertisement for the Air Force lmao blog.usni.org/posts/2019/1...
aug 30, 2025, 5:01 am • 3 0 • view
Whether Marvel specifically is idk (though I do suspect it) but it is a known fact that the CIA, Pentagon, etc have had a hand in many film and television productions over the years. They used to have a whole grant centered around it and it's why Joss Whedon did Beer Bad.
aug 30, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
They’ve collaborated on quite a few MCU flicks, but funnily enough they didn’t sponsor the first Avengers movie. It’s immensely funny to me that they had more creative control on Beer Bad than they did on Avengers 😂
aug 30, 2025, 5:45 am • 3 0 • view
The military revoked access to Gene Roddenberry's first series The Lieutenant because he did an episode on racism in the military, effectively canceling it. An FBI advisor got steaming mad when Chris Carter didn't portray them the way he wanted on The X-Files.
aug 30, 2025, 6:07 am • 3 0 • view