In my read of the movie the way the Accords deal with Wanda is when Steve draws the line, the legal logic they're using means there's no way forward for her but being locked up indefinitely because she can never convince anyone she's "safe"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LeeFlower
Which reminds Steve way too strongly of how the US saw Japanese-Americans like his buddy Jim Morita from the Howling Commandos, who also had to choose between living in an internment camp or going on life-and-death missions
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Yup, he's absolutely defending Wanda, and is right to do so--but Wanda is not part of a wider community of marginalized meta-humans. Most meta-humans in the MCU are not marginalized.
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Replying to @LeeFlower
Fair enough I guess I was a fan of the old Netflix shows which kind of did posit the existence of an underground community of "people with powers", but their connection to the main films was shaky
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah the movies don't really acknowledge the tv shows much; if Agents of Shield were really in the same 'verse I'd have expected that to come up in Civil War in a big way.
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Replying to @LeeFlower @arthur_affect
And to be clear, Wanda is *herself* marginalized: after the fall of Sokovia she's a stateless person, and I'd argue the her marginalizations are why she got locked up when Banner was allowed to just run off and be a walking WMD somewhere in the global south.
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Replying to @LeeFlower
Well, Bruce wasn't originally "allowed" to flee, they had him locked up but reluctantly let him go to stop the Abomination and then he disappeared But Incredible Hulk is only very loosely "canon"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah I'm starting from his first appearance, where Black Widow goes to pick him up and he's hiding out (in an I believe unspecified?) country
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Replying to @LeeFlower @arthur_affect
(first appearance in actual-canon MCU I mean)
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Replying to @LeeFlower @arthur_affect
Anyway my point is that it only comes across as "accountability for powerful people is bad actually" because it's a world where mutants don't exist in the comics, its "state control over marginalized people is bad actually."
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Yeah I guess It's still muddled in the comics because the "registration act" doesn't *only* apply to mutants, it applies to anyone who puts on a suit and fights crime, and like tries to conflate these as being the same issue
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I'm not saying it's the clearest possible allegory. Just that it hits different with mutants in the mix vs without, and with the Accords mostly applying exclusively to the avengers vs a whole world of meta-humans.
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