Hey so like I know that DC/Marvel rivalry is a thing that will always exist in the world but I am getting increasingly uncomfortable with how diversity is being treated as some sort of competition between the two companies rather than as a common goal that both companies and popular culture should be working towards in general.
If you want Captain Marvel to succeed please go watch Wonder Woman. If you wanna see Cyborg get his own movie, go see Black Panther. If you wanna see an openly bi Harley, also ask for an openly pan Deadpool, and ask that their orientations not be played for laughs. And while you’re at it, ask them to hire some actual women, black people, queer people and the like to write/draw/direct this stuff, too.
I know that trading sick burns with fans in the opposing camp is fun but at the end of the day there are some things that shouldn’t be reduced to points on a score card.
I FELL ASLEEP WHEN I WATCHING THE AVENGERS SO I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN ACTUAL LINE IN THE MOVIE THAT I MIGHTVE MISSED SO I TOLD MY SISTER “HEY THERES ONE PART IN THE AVENGERS WHERE *SAYS WHAT THE GIFS SAY*” AND SHES LIKE “OH MY GOD NO WAY” ADN SHE LOOKKED IT UP AND STARTED LAUGHING AND SHES LIKE “ANDY YOU FUCKING CUNT ITS FROM BROTHER BEAR”
hilariously enough, rt58 also did this and when I showed him this he didn’t understand why I was laughing until he read the above. He looks me in the eye and goes, “What the fuck…that’s not a real line? BROTHER BEAR WHAT THE FUCK.”
I keep thinking how much more powerful the Spiderman origin story would be if Peter Parker was an African American kid, whose Uncle Ben was shot by police while being arrested for a minor parking infraction. There is no formal investigation, and Peter decides to put himself on the line to prevent it happening again. He tackles the white crimes that go unpunished, punishes POC criminals fairly. He is the leveler, always fighting to be without bias, to be just. To protect people like his uncle.
This not only mirrors so much of what’s happening in America, but feeds right into the complex relationship between Spiderman, the authorities and the media.
Peter Parker is a brilliant student, awkward, a nerd, but is branded a thug, a gang member, a criminal, because of his appearance. The media latch on to that and misrepresent him totally.
The police, humilitated by the fact that he refuses to work with them and often punishes cops themselves for brutalizing innocent people, or guilty people who still deserve better treatment than they get, attempt to hunt him down.
I had to.
oh man. This is the shit.
The “with great power comes great responsibility” line gets such a deeper meaning within this context.
Not to mention a white nerdy boy with glasses is not the look of a social outcast or person of ridicule anymore.
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