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.
Bad news, folks…
Captain marvel was literally an advertisement for the Air Force lmao blog.usni.org/posts/2019/1...
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.
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 😂
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.