Also the gratuitous hero moment they gave him was explicitly calling back to his career *before* the CIA, in the Air Force ("I looked you up, you were a great pilot") I don't think we're ever really given anything that makes the CIA itself look good
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I think one of the key themes of black panther was “we all have the power to change” so tbh I think it was important to have Ross
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I mean there's also The Dark Knight Rises, where not only is the CIA's only role in the film abducting some guy from a latin american country, they also are revealed to suck massively at their jobs.
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Their involvement in South Korea only makes things worse. If Ross had let T'Challa have Klaue it would have been a lot harder for Killmonger to do what he wanted.
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This. When Ross is in "CIA mode," he's polite but condescending. The second he realizes what's up, he's (rightly) telling on the CIA to a foreign head of state. All of Ross' decency is predicated on him doing exactly what a CIA officer should NOT do.
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Except that revelation about killmongers tactics goes uncriticissd and uncommented. And is never linked to any larger criticism of imperialism. If it's a negative depiction, it's a completely toothless one
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Oh come on, there was no reason to bring it up at all except to make the CIA look bad It's the most disturbing moment in the film, it's the moment you realize Killmonger is a total nihilist who doesn't care about Wakanda any more than any other country
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