Can't wait for a depiction of anarchists who just want to slaughter as many people as possible in order for there to be anarchism, somehow.
And the head bad guy is just like, "gorverments arr bad!" as he blows up women and children, and then American soldiers will save the crying babies and the babies look directly into the camera and say "I am alive because America is involved in foreign affairs."
Yeah I can't wait for whatever sick amalgam of ancap and leftist ideology that Hollywood infuses into this new abomination of a villain
they do this all the time, the "evil" guy will say something cool and good and then his ultimate objective will be to massacre babies in a maternity ward or some shit
The "big bad" will be Zemo, of Civil War, who was pretty damn good as far as "political" villains in hollywood go. I'm sure it'll be fucked up, but it does have some potential
Consent: manufactured
Workers: In chains
yeah it's gamer time 😎
Who tf "smashes" flags? Propaganda aside, that doesn't even make physical sense
Flag-smashers
Good lord they so cringe
I started following a twitter account that posts small bits of art from comics from 1850-1950 of all over the world, the art is beautiful and none yet was about any capeshit.
They’re based on Flag Smasher, a cap villain from like the 60s so.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/FlagSmasherMarvel.jpg
Lmao really calling out anarchists here
Whereas the Red Skull symbolizes Nazism, Flag-Smasher symbolizes anti-patriotism.
Literally nazi: kill ******s; antifa: no; liberal: i cannot distinguish between these two
The Dark Knight Returns is an excellent film if you can approach it as a story told by an unreliable narrator working in bad faith to encourage a national forgetting and reactionary realignment of the wider population.
When I watch it, it is a tragedy about platonic love and rebellion, with Bane as the hero: the loving protector who set gotham free from state and capital all for the now-grown child he raised and saved from a literal hell, only for a maniacal, fascist billionaire to imprison the people once again and escape to a life of idle travel with the revolutionary he seduced away from the movement.
I watch all capeshit with this lens and it's a great exercise for the creative within.
DKR is a perfect example of the writers realising the bad guy is actually 100% correct and making him do something evil for no reason.
Like, they rise up and start punishing rich people for being horrid but then Bane wants to nuke Gotham for no reason as well. Why?
Having just watched it for the first time recently, it seems to me like Bane was straight simping for the lady and was just doing as she wanted for whatever reason. Although I will say that the twist was some hackneyed and predictable shit, the reveal was just totally underwhelming. The whole movie feels pretty slick and then its just weird and horseshit as Bane takes over the city.
Rises.
Returns is old bats, which Rises took some inspiration from.
Honestly to make Rises good, all you gotta do is change Bane from planning on blowing up the city with nukes no matter what happened to it just being a threat to keep military out.
the show trials with the scarecrow are a bit much
and this essay is a decent takedown
Hey, class traitors and bourgeoisie getting trials is more than they can expect in my revolution.
Remember how in a lot of the early marvel movies the bad guys were techbros or literal nazis? Better days.
I think i gave up on Marvel movies after i saw Raytheon Presents: Elon Musk Fucks Afghanistan aka the first Iron Man movie.
The very first MCU villain was a weapons dealer who was funding both sides to ensure the War in Afghanistan continued indefinitely.
Elon Musk had a cameo in Iron Man 2.
When will these cowards make the story where Captain America fights with the Viet Cong against the U.S.
He'll have both State and Revolution and Revolt against the Modern World on his bookshelf and one of his goons will be the QAnon shaman, while another will be an openly antisemitic Black Panther who says cracker and whitey a lot. When Cap calls Flag Smasher out on his henchmen's views, he explains that "we need both of them to bring down the thin blue line." When Flag Smasher is not in costume, he typically wears Hawaian shirts and holds monologues that are Goebbels speeches where "jew" and "bolshevik" are replaced with "cop" and "landlord". In a deleted scene that will be included in the bluray release, he rigs a primary in favor of Bernie Sanders by renting a bot army from Putin to spam more snake emojis, but then tells everybody not to vote. When these details are leaked, Chapo.Chat goes into a frenzy for weeks, hoping that we'll be namedropped in the movie, which ofc won't happen.
he's gonna call Cap a "globalist" but also still explicitly hate America, and one of the supporting characters is gonna give a speech about how America represents a strong hand at the rudder of world affairs, securing democracy and freedom for all
How do his goons' sunglasses stay up when their ears are all covered up like that?
Flag Smasher goes "Don't do Nationalism Kids!" by doing terrorism. Probably the most fantastical and unrealistic character in comics. As have you ever heard of a place where terrorism happens and the locals go "yeah, wow, I fucking despise my country now?"
Less tied to reality than Superman, as hey.. maybe someone can fly and shit some day, but Flag Smasher is proven shit.
Tbh I thought I was just being a wiseass until I really thought about. I was 13 when 9/11 happened, had already read about The School of the Americas and A People’s History and it really did feel like a “chickens coming home to roost” moment.
I always thought Flagsmasher was amusing because he looks like Space Ghost but hates the nation-state.
Also I just realized they are a group of Anarchists, so this is going to be a boring TV show where nothing happens.
ooooohhhhh, the US flag...
SHATTERED :amerikkka:
by someone, or something
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