The Moral Station of the DCU proves Marvel’s cowardice

By Drewsch
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The DCU is barreling on with Pacifist Season 2 and fans have already shattered the big disclosure about the alternate dimensional story line. So if you don’t want to know what the turn is for this season, it’s best to bow now. I’m not going to give a bracket spoiled warning at the top of this. You have the ability to read (unless this is read to you by your AI nanny. If so, I will say, “You are an unimaginative loser who smells bad and no one will ever love you!”) So you know what’s coming.

It is quite obvious that the universe alternate Chris Smith visits Pacifist Season 2 is a fascist utopia built on white supremacy. That’s why his father and brother are celebrated as heroes. Remember, Auggie Smith in the DCU was a white supremacist. There is no reason to think that it would not be in the world alternately. Also, plenty of spectators have noticed that all the happy citizens of the alternate dimension are all white.

James Gunn has been using his time in the Dc a universe to attack prominently on fascism. He has played a prominent role in all his DC projects; The suicide squad. Pacifistand Commandos creature are violently unrestricted in their drawings of fascists such as undisputed villains, with Superman be a more shameless touch with his evil president to unite. Yet, all these projects demonstrate why the beliefs of these characters are horrific and give them their proper arrival.

Who has made me look back at the Mcu and realize how completely teeth his moral stances appear in comparison.

Softening evil allows evil to appear soft

Let’s look at the politically accused Marvel cinematic output: the Captain America Movies. The first film was set during World War II and certainly recognized the existence of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler so bad, but Wonders Also going around being as directly as possible by focusing on Hydra, the fictional organization that was actually bad boys. By doing this, it allowed a buffer between the real evils of Nazism and the audience by grafting a fabricated entity to evil in the real world.

Similarly, American Captain: The Winter Soldier He seems to say something about the government’s surveillance and control state for its citizenship, but in fact it is not a film that is interested in tackling those topics in a significant way. Where his interests are actually in the story of Steve and Bucky. And look, it tells that story well! But he only performs the illusion of political thematics to help sell the magic trick.

I could still quote these movies and shows – Hagle makes the same “character -focused hand sleight” as Winter Soldier. The peregrine and the winter soldier and A brave new world Likewise limp with their illustrations of evil – but I think there is more than enough evidence to argue that the Marvel cinematic universe is relatively cowardly when looking at how much James Gunn has done with the DCU.

Make the Nazis dead again

I grew up in a lifetime Indiana Jones and Wolfenstein 3D. No one used to bat eye in the Nazis (and those who co -operate with the Nazi beliefs) were depicted as diabolical villains who deserved every extraordinary piece of violence set on them as an artistic revenge for the true atrocities they released on the world. Unfortunately, that’s not the society we encourage today. I will not be surprised if these high sheriffs round up my prison for talking about these things even as we are in an age of calming disagreement against fascism.

That makes what James Gunn Makes with the DCU so vibrant and even brave. The decision to call these hateful jobs and groups is most important in our popular and prolific pieces of pop culture. And in retrospect, Marvel has never taken this strongly from a perspective in any of their most successful efforts. Oh, I’m sure one of you are foaming in the mouth for something from Daredevil Or some other Disney+ show that made the least ripples in the pop culture pool.

But when you put it against key moments in DCU James Gunn-Harley Quinn kills dictator Silvio Luna, a robot gi kills a neo-Nazi group, everything with Auggie’s Pacifist Season 1, the child is about to be murdered by a soldier at Superman – There is no question which comic book giant says the stronger statement. And it’s a statement that we need to hear right now because some people are too chicken to stand. Marvel is one of them.