Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 14 hours agoI tried watching the animated show recently, and its basically Wakanda throughout history stealing vibranium from other civilisations because they feel entitled to complete control over the element, usually with large amounts of colateral damage and theft of deeply important cultural artifacts in the process. I assume there’s some alegory I’m missing but they just come off as assholes.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Are they bad guys in that?
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The framing suggests they’re meant to be the good guys?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not really. Unlike the Marvel movies, Wakanda in the comics is not a perfect utopia and has a lot of its own prejudice.
Well… To put it differently, unlike the movies, Wakanda’s prejudice isn’t depicted as a fine and perfectly acceptable utopia.
Keep in mind, in the comics, Storm from The X-Men is Wakandan royalty. She should be queen. But she got exiled from her homeland at a rather young age for being a mutant.