The MCU is a great timeline of anti-imperialist sentiment getting recuperated and redirected to benefit imperialism. Early stuff like Iron Man 1 and early Captain America was skeptical of US hegemony because we were coming off of Bush’s presidency but now you have the white CIA agent in Africa being the hero
The first Iron Man movie had no real criticism of US hegemony. One day I'll do an effort post on this, but in the first Iron Man they never ever ever criticize the U.S. military's goals or motivations. The U.S. military is in the right when they bomb countries, Iron Man just thinks he can do it better. When he weeps to the press he doesn't mention the collateral damage of local victims to US hegemony, he literally is just sad that Stark weapons got used on US troops and himself. Iron Man (the film and the character's) only criticism of the US military is that it's not neoliberal enough.
The MCU is a great timeline of anti-imperialist sentiment getting recuperated and redirected to benefit imperialism. Early stuff like Iron Man 1 and early Captain America was skeptical of US hegemony because we were coming off of Bush’s presidency but now you have the white CIA agent in Africa being the hero
The first Iron Man movie had no real criticism of US hegemony. One day I'll do an effort post on this, but in the first Iron Man they never ever ever criticize the U.S. military's goals or motivations. The U.S. military is in the right when they bomb countries, Iron Man just thinks he can do it better. When he weeps to the press he doesn't mention the collateral damage of local victims to US hegemony, he literally is just sad that Stark weapons got used on US troops and himself. Iron Man (the film and the character's) only criticism of the US military is that it's not neoliberal enough.
Yeah we're talking about a film where he personally returns to not-iraq and slaughters a villagefull of 'insurgents'