By contrast Karli just doesn't really work as an emotional portrait because she starts off with sullen brutality and her personal tragedies are entirely divorced from anything we can resonate with? Even her sainted mother figure's mantra is creepy & supremacist.
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I feel like Erik's beef was clearer? it also benefits from an actual meta-ness, his whole thing is "where was Wakanda when I & those like me suffered?" Karli...I still have no idea what she actually wanted cause it changed with the fucking wind
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Yeah like Erik's beef is pointedly tied to a very real, historical injustice and its relation to (and criticism of) the very pan-African ideal Wakanda represents. Karli's lacking in any real ties to historical injustices in the same way. She's not even "a refugee" per se!
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there's also a personal absence to conflict it with? like people connected with Mysterio & Vulture cause they as individuals were wronged by Stark even if as men they're scummy bullshit, Karli doesn't have that at all?
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Hell every character we actually unequivocally like - even Darth Sharon, in her way - gives her SO many chances to back down or pull up out of her tailspin. Not that it was likely to happen, in retrospect.
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I said this elsewhere but she 100% loses a "down to earth" off with John Walker simply from that "I don't want to hurt anyone important" like John mourning the brutal murder of his best friend will always carry more weight than...idk let me live in Eastern Europe?
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @loudpenitent and
speaking of, did we EVER learn Karli's country of origin?
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Generic Vaguely British Foreign.
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Yeah, actor is British and her accent when speaking English is an authentic UK accent a foreigner would be unlikely to acquire But she has a very German name (based on the original comics character)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Yeah, Karli's accent stood out to me because I've literally never heard a US actor try to fake it. She parsed as a London street kid to me and I couldn't tell how much of that was the actress not bothering with an Eastern European accent vs a sign of the character's background.
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For the Flag-Smashers they got actors with as diverse backgrounds as they could and had them all use their real accents
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