Superheroes usually manage to roll back the various apocalypses but rarely use their powers to build a better world. The villains are the ones constantly dre...
  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 年前

    Its crazy to see the Iron Man arc from the 2008 premier to the End Game climax. A guy who is - at least nominally - ostensibly rejecting militarism. He spends several movies fighting the proliferation of his iconic weapons system. But once we get into the Extended Universe arc, he reverts back to his old Arms Dealer roots.

    You could say the same about Captain America. His first movie is, in effect, a story about the gulf between being a propaganda guy and being an actual troop. By the end, there's no distinction drawn. He is both The Icon and The Thing at once, and the only sacrifice he ever really makes is resolved when he gets to go back in time and hook up with his high school sweetheart.

    They all end up doing this. The first movie is about how Mr. Everyman becomes a Hero, not by having raw power but by having virtues we can empathize with. But by the end, its all Nietzchian Will To Power shit. We win because we all went out and got Upgrades that gave us the Big Numbers. We're Good-Coded analogs of all the villains in our original films.