If you didn’t get the hint, I really, really hate MCU. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but what Marvel has done is way too personal for me to be quiet. The one thing I will force upon you with all my heart, is my pure hatred of the Doctor Strange movie. I’m begging you, please boycott Doctor Strange.
What Marvel is doing with this film is inexcusable. I’m Tibetan, and I grew up in America as a child of refugees. My father was a fan of Marvel comics as a child, and one of his favorite stories was Doctor Strange’s, because of his connection to our homeland, Tibet. The Ancient One was a high Tibetan lama who taught Doctor Strange the art of magic. You might think Marvel’s only crime is whitewashing him, but its a lot worse then that. tl;dr Marvel blatantly turned the Ancient One into a white woman, as well as changed Doctor Strange’s original setting of Tibet to Nepal, in order to avoid any involvement with Tibet’s current politics (aka oppression) with Communist China.
The reason my parents are refugees is because of the Chinese genocide of Tibetans. Tibet is a country occupied by China, and is one of the most oppressed countries in the world. You probably don’t know much about it because China’s position as a global superpower as well as the government’s complete control of media and news. There is no freedom of speech in all of China, therefore national censorship is extremely common and no one who isn’t involved really knows anything. China pretends that all Tibetans are happyand they really do not like anyone even mentioning the Tibet situation, especially outsiders.
Marvel knows this, one of their main markets is their viewers in China. China has banned a lot of foreign films for long periods of time because of even slight implications of Tibetan oppression (ex: the Avatar the Last Airbender movie). Doctor Strange could get banned if they included Tibet, meaning millions lost. Why bother risking loosing money from China when you can just whitewash everything to cover it up? This is Marvel’s direct statement that they care more about money then human rights, and I’m honestly not surprised. This has always happened, and it will happen again. Literally no one gives a fuck about Tibetans, I’ve seen it happen all my life. Westerners and the Chinese government alike want to hide our oppression, hide our culture until it makes them money, and hide our millions of deaths and losses. If you do happen to be one of the few who do care, please, please, do not support this film and boycott Doctor Strange.
Because the MCU fandom is the SAME group of people who woobify Kilgrave, Loki, Ward, Kingpin, Norman Osbourne, and other white men who do evil things, while vilifying Nick Fury and Mike Peterson (two black men in difficult spots) erasing Rhodey (Tony’s ACTUAL best friend) treating Sam like a servant whose main job is to be everyone’s therapist, celebrate the death of Agents of SHIELD’S black characters, talk shit about Luke Cage and ignore his narrative, cheer when Malcom gets beaten up, and think its Claire Temple’s job to drop everything she does for Matt Murdock. And these are the black people were supposed to be SYMPATHETIC to. We’re supposed to CHEER for them. Now that we have a black person we’re supposed to dislike? HOLY SHIT. I’m already dreading the shit that’s gonna come out of people’s mouths when Dr. Strange comes out. Hell yeah I’m gonna fight for Baron Mordo.
The loss of Peggy certainly made Bucky the last remaining part of his old self. He’s remembering home, who he is before this shield. Just who Steve was before he had this responsibility. When you lose Peggy, Bucky becomes so much more meaningful. That’s what motivates Steve to become selfish. You got the most selfless guy in comic books all of the sudden saying, ‘I care more about my relationship than what it means to you guys.’ The guy’s only looking for home and he’s found it with his current Avengers, but Bucky is that Achilles heel. It’s impossible– Pitting that against his current family, he chooses his old family. Which is, again, a little bit of selfish thing, but that’s something he’s never done before. It’s new territory. It’s a grey area that he hasn’t– He’s a very– Joe (Russo) uses this and I love it, that Steve’s a very binary guy. He’s this or that, and then with Bucky it becomes gray. And I think it’s tough for him. He chooses Bucky.
‘Creed’ Star Tessa Thompson Joins Cast of ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
THR reports that Thompson has landed a yet-unnamed role in the upcoming Thor sequel! No details were revealed, but here’s some speculation from the report:
Details for Thompson’s part have not been revealed, but she could be the female lead as Natalie Portman, who was the female lead as Dr. Jane Foster in the previous two Thor installments, is not returning.
‘Thor: Ragnarok’ will also star Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk. Stay tuned for more updates!
I swear, one of my favorite things about Captain America: The First Avenger, is the fact that Captain America was a stage name, and then the US Army basically just went “fuck it, keep the rank.”
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