That's fine I accept that that's a logical stance to take, maybe even one I should take but have not What I am resisting is the perception that this particular movie particularly needs to be criticized when people say they like it
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No you literally said that, you said it was the most pro-military Marvel movie and that Carol Danvers was the character who most embodied US military imperialism as the very nature of her character (when Tony Stark and Steve Rogers are standing right there)
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And that the double standard is, again, obvious when you compare Captain Marvel to Captain America, a character who symbolizes the fundamental righteousness of the WWII-era military-industrial complex and whose costume is literally the US flag
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And whose first movie is literally an Army recruiting film cliche -- a stock storyline that follows the exact same beats as Heinlein's Starship Troopers
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