Sokovia, at least, that you can blame Tony Stark. I’ll give the Sokovia Accords that. But NYC & SHIELD headquarters? Not so much.
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Honestly the United Nations has let how much human rights abuse happen? We’re going to let the people that quietly allowed Rwanda & the Khmer Rouge make decisions about what’s worthy of Avengers involvement?
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So much of the MCU is predicated on the idea that a handful of random weirdos are somehow better managed by existing national & international government interference & I dunno haven’t y’all see governments lately? Or ever?
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Replying to @remembrancermx
I feel like that's text in Civil War, the Sokovia Accords are an attempt by existing states to get the genie back into the bottle?
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But like why does the average person think this is a good idea?
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Replying to @remembrancermx @loudpenitent
it seems weird that Americans in particular would be okay with it given the sort of "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" logic that predominates here like if you don't want to regulate billionaires then why the fuck would you want to regulate superhumans
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Like if I regulate superheroes NOW then I'm just making a headache for myself when I finally get the power cosmic
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In X-Men stuff they say outright the reason people hate mutants so much is that as far as most people know there is no way for an ordinary human to become one The concept relegates you to always being in a position of weakness and that's intolerable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Probably would make more sense if there was some kind of weird conspiracy theory about it, like the Protocols of the Elders of the Atom.
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The trouble is some asshole will be writing the comic five years later and decide to make the conspiracy real as a way to ratchet up the drama.
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The stuff with the Inhumans and the Terrigen Mists bumps up uncomfortably against this trope
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