Yeah, I don't think you're actively shilling for the US military, but throwing up these particular defenses when people call your reading of the movie shallow and somewhat self-absorbed is ridiculous.
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
Uhhh Even reading everything about Captain Marvel in the worst possible light, how could it possibly not be beaten out here by the first Captain America movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
Yeah, the Captain America movies have *the same* level of criticism as Captain Marvel, but that also depends on whether or not you think the 90's or the 40's serves as more efffective war propganda depending on the generation being appealed to.
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Replying to @KirifudaRed @AlexJThomas and
In the Captain America movie, the United States actually is actively at war, with an enemy who is unambiguously evil, and it is unambiguously the duty of everyone who can to participate in the US war effort to stop the Nazis, however flawed the Army may be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
This is... totally a thing, this is exactly why the DoD's attempt at influencing media through gaming led to that huge wave of FPSes that took place in WWII, it was "the good war" where the full mobilization of the war machine gets celebrated culturally as purely heroic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Like, Steve Rogers specifically says he joined the Army because he "doesn't like bullies", and in the world of this movie everyone just knows that the Axis are the bullies and the Allies anti-bullies
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Carol Danvers by contrast never once mentions the Persian Gulf War or the Kosovo intervention as something positive that she felt the desire to participate in She joined the Air Force because they had the cool planes, that's it
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She shows absolutely no disappointment or betrayal that Dr. Lawson was an agent of a foreign power (and an alien being) who didn't give two shits about the interests of the US government -- she almost seems to welcome the news
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