I dunno it just feels weird considering this whole thing is very central to T'Challa's own character arc His big moment of character development in Civil War was deciding to forgo revenge, to move on and decide that whether Zemo lived or died wasn't his concern anymore
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(Not that they have a choice about that anymore ...Sigh, there's a lot of loose ends to pick up in Black Panther 2)
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(Yes, I know that the super-soldier serum isn't technically the same thing as the heart-shaped herb But saying that Zemo's whole argument specifically applies only to the weaknesses of Erskine's formula is the kind of tedious argument that people make fun of comic books for)
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(FYI Ryan Coogler doesn't care that much about this distinction and in the commentary for Black Panther freely refers to T'Challa's powers as making him a "super-soldier")
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But then you could make this point in general about the MCU being "one continuity" being problematic and how movies don't talk about other movies as much as they logically should Isn't the Hulk a way, way, WAY more salient argument about the dangers of superhumans than Karli
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Hell it should be the only thing anyone talks about AT ALL with this argument It's the big green elephant in the room "Yeah Bruce Banner injected himself because everyone thought he was this gentle softboi nerd Now the city of Lagos is a pile of rubble"
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(The fact that the rejoinder to this argument is "Well just don't use the gamma rays, then, stupid! It was the gamma rays that were the problem!" is why comic books are dumb and people who care about them, like myself, are dumb)
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Also relevant that the whole Killmonger thing was the result of American racism intruding into the Wakandan system.
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I think the film did do a good job of demonstrating that “trial by combat” only proves who’s the strongest or most determined, not who’s the most worthy. I presume they would find a better system post Killmonger
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I mean, trial by combat is not ideal, however, Killmonger didn’t cheat. It wasn’t a rigged election. And there’s even an argument to be had that Killmonger was charismatic enough to have won an actual democratic election against T’Challa at that point.
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