#but like this shite just made me so ... well not mad but frustrated oof

[that-lieutenant]

Im watching the falcon and the winter soldier right now (btw it’s the 10. April and im on ep4) and im just so baffled at how... politically irrelevant it is.

Like the only real argument it - unlike almost every other mcu movie ever ha! - seems to be making is this: using violence to enforce your ideology is bad except if you’re the government. Then you can do as much oppressive and illegal shit as you wan‘t. And what‘s more, they show the heroes doing that shit all glorified and expect you not to notice. And sometimes (seemingly at random) they chose to present those same actions as bad and untrustworthy but even then the message is only ever: there is singular bad people in the government/military.

Like the more you think about it it‘s just exactly the same as the bad apples shit with law enforcement.

And i feel like marvel is so deeply uninterested in actually exploring its political ideologies. To them it doesn‘t matter that „Live was good when we had no borders and refugee camps and it sucks that every good change went right back to shit as soon as the situation was normal again“ is a valid reasoning to have - and what that would mean for our real world. Which is such a typical american mainstream/hollywood thing to do. Hell, this entire thing is so fucking (conservative) american. Like the reasoning for bringing back a captain America is: yeah it‘s great that we have heroes for the entire world (who disturbingly are all american) but we need one once again who‘s specifically for the us.

Damn, is your target audience exclusivly american? Or do you really have so little understanding of the political situation in the rest of the world?

And I don‘t care that they make sam be sympathetic to this bc in the end i just know that it won‘t even matter. Bc the only argument they ever make is the stupid old „don‘t use violence it‘s not right“.

Like fuck you! When have the avengers ever cared for that. And no that dumbass sokovia accords thing doesn‘t count, like hell, it‘s actually perfect to prove my point bc at the end of that movie they were all so uninterested in the political implications of that situation they chose to have the plot twist be: nvm it was all personal anyway, let‘s end on a fist fight.

and all of this really only comes back to the fact that the entire premise for the mcu is so problematic: that we entrust the monopole of socially acceptable violence to a group of (civilian) individuals and have to belief in their benevolence and their unfailable judgement is antidemocratic and anticonstitutional AND JUST A FUCKING HORRIBLE IDEA!

and so what if steve rogers was that much of a good guy. First of all that‘s still not a basis for political/legal decision making. And secondly, he still is a part of a system. And this is what the mcu so fundamentally misunderstands/is uninterested in. Even though „good“ people being complicit by participating in a system is such a fucking relevant concept right now.

Oof, people, just oof. And i know: what did i expect, right? Like i have never been a fan of marvel for exactly those reasons but like at the latest since The Boys you can‘t just tell a superhero story and not deal with the problematic implications of that anymore. You just can‘t and simultaniously expect us to buy into that glorification.

#my thoughts #the falcon and the winter soldier #mcu #mcu fandom please don‘t burn me at the stake for this #i have no idea what yalls fandom is like #is it ok to be critical there? #but like this shite just made me so ... well not mad but frustrated oof