• rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

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        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.

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          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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            Yeah this is my take too. Comic book writers aren’t very good at being subtle, so it ended up being Reed Richards and Tony Stark become supervillains for a while. The whole debate about the laws were rendered moot when they made a Thor clone and a negative zone gitmo.

            The movie had put the debate over the laws a little more prominently, and it was more about the character’s differences in how they saw things. Cap favouring individual responsibility over instituitions made sense given the whole hydra infiltration. Stark not trusting his own judgment makes sense because his story started with almost being killed by a weapon he invented. Different experiences led to different conclusions and neither of these guys turned into super villains.

            Nice little touch to have an actual villain manipulating things in the background and almost getting away with it because the heroes were too busy fighting each other to even notice him.

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            2 months ago

            To be fair the motivating factor of that one is a bunch of teenage heroes accidentally get a school (and themselves) blown up because they were filming a reality TV show.

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              To be even more fair it was Nitro (a villain) that blew up the school, not the teenagers.

              Only character I liked in that plotline was Wolverine because he didn’t bother with any of the bullshit and was just trying to track down Nitro and kill him.

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          Also Civil War - Cap punches Iron Man, and Iron Man recoiled.

          The same Iron Man that takes a tank round while airborne, has an uncontrolled landing, and stands back up with some scratches and scorch marks.

          I loathe that film.

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      2 months ago

      Yes it is, despite all the nay-sayers on here. The super-creep genre has always been reactionary and protective of the status quo.