Paris' defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
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I guess I have to watch a marvel movie now
Watched it last night and it floored me how fucking insane the plot is.
Namor goes to Shuri and is like, "hey, this is proof they are coming for us. Its here. Its already happening. Can we form a defensive alliance and be ready for when the shit really kicks off?"
And Shuri is immediately like "omg you're insane, you want to kill people?"
And then Namor basically just says "Yes."
I haven't bothered watching the second one, but I'm both unsurprised and flabbergasted that they couldn't come up with a better reason for Atlantis and Wakanda to throw down than the usual libfest of "killing people trying to colonize you is bad, actually :^)"
Like, those two have fought on and off in the comics (and also against Latveria) for eons; make them fight over resources or tech that the rest of humanity can't even fathom or something.
yeah it started really cool with the queen owning france and pointing out the gross hypocrisy of the west but then it turned into a marvel movie