Yeah, that's a structural MCU problem. Make their villain smart, empathetic and morally justified, then tilt hard to dumb and evil in the third act to justify the hero kicking their teeth in.
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I completely feel the person who went "Wait, Disney decided to create a group called 'the Flagsmashers' and expected millennials and Gen Z to *hate* them?!"
aug 20, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, the Flagsmashers were from the comics, where they were sort of evil commie nihilists back when that was a bad thing. But yes, they don't translate well to modern audiences, especially when their case is "We've literally been living without national borders for 5 years and it has fucking ruled."
aug 20, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
"Hi we're a migrant worker populace who have moved to fill empty jobs after a massive catastrophe but now that's been magically undone and we're just getting shafted" HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE THE BAD GUYS.
aug 20, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I see Disney get a lot of hate for Killmonger and how in the end Wakanda sort of does what he said they should do, but they don't! They do what *Nakia* said they should have been doing! Killmonger had legitimate grievances against two people, one of whom was dead by the time he got to Wakanda, the
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other of which he killed. Sorry, you don't get to take over the world because you're angry your dad got killed for trying to kill his brother when bollocked for aiding terrorism against his own country. A very "angry about the right thing but for the wrong reasons and with the wrong solution" thing.
aug 20, 2025, 12:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Got that wrong, just realised he tried to kill his friend, not his brother. Either way, not sure the difference is enough to justify his son's later actions.
aug 20, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view