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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Is this a normal thing in comic book movies?

[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

No, it's not at all. This is total nonsense. If anything, superheroes are usually persecuted by the government.

Spider-Man specifically is literally an outlaw.

And look at the X-Men. Half the time the gov wants to wipe mutants out.

Maybe you can say that about Captain America, but he was created to defeat the Nazis. So yeah, who the fuck is not on the government side in this situation?

And when the gov became corrupt, Captain America became an outlaw.

So whoever is upvoting this and whoever created this doesn't know much about Marvel or comics.

I mean I don't know that much, but I know the bare minimum to know this is nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The closest Marvel has to that position is Iron Man. But he still does his own thing, not the government bidding.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (7 children)

It's a major driving force in Civil War even the watered down version in the MCU.

Tony Stark: I don't have powers but made something that almost wiped out a nation so we should all register with the government that really hasn't liked us all that much.

Captain America: That's a massive invasion of privacy and I fought against those who catalogued people, so get bent.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Well, it's more motivated than the comic version where Reed Richards and Tony Stark suddenly acted like super villians and cloned Thor without his consent as well as establishing a concentration camp for superheroes in the negative zone. Comic Civil War was wild.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah wasn't marvel banned from using the army sometimes in phase 1 they were told they criticized it too much?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I first saw this on the ml equivalent community and a decent chunk of comments were pretty unhinged.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That was good, tnx

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