Right like the larger-than-life framing of the Avengers kind of obfuscates this, but if you're a guy like Agent Ross, you for sure don't want to have to put up with the bullshit of a kid like Scarlet Witch (cf. Coulson, whose manchildness BENEFITS this)https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1302739772213833728 …
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This is not to say that pilots are nice guys—pilots are largely arrogant motherfuckers—but to be a pilot who crosses over into the intel field, you've GOT to be the kind of person who is willing and able to handle a Pokémon kid, because AT best they grow up into Pokémon adults
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And the reason Ross seems relatively sanguine about all this is because he's not actually a gung-ho neocon warhawk whose entire life is about maintaining American hegemony He's a 9-to-5 guy who slid into this career track because he wanted to keep working and this sounded fun
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Killmonger by comparison is way more invested in at least the philosophy of the American imperial project than Agent Ross He's a Navy SEAL, so, you know, literally an extremely violent and monstrous bully, a gun itching to be fired at anyone He's in it, obv, for the killing
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Like Killmonger and Ross are both like "America is an evil entity that causes immense suffering globally" but where Ross approaches that with a kind of milquetoasty "but at least _I'm_ doing my best" philosophy, for Killmonger the violence and victimization is precisely the point
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That's why Killmonger _could_ serve in a cohesive unit with other SEALs, who are in reality closer in temperament to MAGAs like Dan Crenshaw, despite clearly being very conscious of institutional white supremacy It doesn't MATTER, as long as he wants to kill motherfuckers
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That's the whole thing, right, Killmonger is a no-hoper, enlisted-track nihilist, he joined the military to hurt people because all he wants to do is hurt people and he found the best capacity in which to be put to that purpose Agent Ross is a chill ex-jock with a college degree
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Just as a quick correction, Erik isn't actually enlisted-track When Ross is giving T'Challa a rundown of his dossier he says he graduated from the USNA at 19 and got a postsecondary degree from MIT, then "joined the SEALs and went straight to Afghanistan"
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oh shit man how tf did he get into the Naval Academy? did he seriously manage to avoid aggro'ing cops through all his time as a street kid in Oakland?
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Ever since he discovered his father's journal his entire life has revolved a singleminded quest that makes no sense to anybody but himself
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The detour to MIT must be because he's privately studying vibranium and Wakandan technology based on the clues his father left him, which is why he's not as shocked by anything he sees in Wakanda as you might expect
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