Killmonger for President in 2024
its hilarious cuz like in what way was killmonger wrong whatsoever
“I’m gonna arm the oppressed people’s of the world so we can overthrow our oppressors. I literally worked for the CIA and understand how the US impoverishes the rest of the world for their benefit.”
“uwu oh no dont be scary violent instead build a community center in a clearly impoverished community, which clearly didn’t do anything.”
And the libs just glossed over the part where the CIA guy pointed out where Killmonger learned it from.
He did have a few lines about how they would be the new Empire and oppressors. Very Marvelesque to commit character assassination on an interesting villain in the 3rd act.
Tbf he kind of wanted to enslave whitey instead of creating a socialist society, he was like Idi Amin stumbling on weapon tech from 2100
This was literally the plot of that awful Capt America tv show. Pseudo anarchists want to go back to no borders like during the blip (ok seems reasonable) but then they kill civilians for no apparent reason other than “to send a message” ???
And then when the capes are done and the day is saved, new Cap literally just tells govt leaders to do better. Fucking LMAO
There’s probably some interesting work on all the cliches that writers give villains to make it so we don’t have to think too hard about their motivations. Killmonger was right, y’all
The What If? episodes featuring Killmonger just had him being right, right, and more right, all the time. Absolutely correct about the state of the world. And then
spoiler
he gets trapped in a pocket dimension with belly tv guy who’s name i can’t remember, because using power to help people is bad if bad people have to die, or something.
edit: non-spoiler fact, eric killmonger kills no real people in the entire run of the show
no real people
Implying Tony Stark isn’t a real person because he’s a rich arms dealer? Cause I can get behind that I’m just checking.
Having to thwart and beat up Anarky in Arkham Origins when he’s totally right about what a Capitalist hellhole Gotham is was painful
What’s Batman even do anymore? The well on him beating up purse snatching thieves has to be dry by now.
Haven’t followed comics super seriously in a while but: mainly he fights other supervillains and to be honest they’re actually genuinely trying to address this question.
One of the best runs on him in the modern era was the court of owls storyarc, and I think the current line of movies are trying to set it up based on vague info from the promotional material. The short version is (with a bit of interpretation): Batman takes on the old wealth eyes wide shut style gothamites and finds out that his whole run as Batman has been a sort of amusing distraction he has been allowed to engage in because he’s never actually challenged the real power and reason for Gotham’s suffering. They don’t really have him change significantly as a character afterward but they also recently had him lose a ton of wealth so there is a genuine effort to try and square the circle and have Batman still exist and be relevant in a world where its becoming increasingly harder to ignore that the real villain and source of Gotham’s plight is Bruce Wayne and his desire to keep living in his adult wonderland where he can play with scifi toys beating up the poor and mentally ill every night rather then address the material conditions that make Gotham the way it is.
He hasn’t fought petty crime since like, his 3rd issue. He lives in a world of killer clowns (also known as clowns) mad scientists, plant monsters, crocodile men, aliens, and undead ancient warriors. Batman is fascistic IF you try to be grim and gritty with him. If you do brave and the bold or Morrison then it is great
I remember seeing Joker in one of the older Batman movies driving around throwing out cash to the unwashed masses. This pissed off billionaire Batman who then tried to kill him.
