Iron Man invented a way to create free green energy. And instead of sharing it with the world, he kept it for himself and used it to build weapons, which he used to personally intervene in foreign countries’s conflicts. Yes this is the “good guy”.
Also, “One world, one people” isn’t even that radical of an idea. It just means we’re all human beings.
Yeah, like I’m amazed, even in capitalist paradigm, the arc reactor would rip the oil sector, cars, mobile tech and energy grid sectors, it’s literally 100 trillions dollar shit. Instead we get biggest brain “we’ll sell armored suits to the government”, which will pay at best 100 billions a year.
The first Iron Man covered this in the most cynical way. Jeff Bridges says something like “the arc reactor was a PR stunt, it was never going to reach profitability.” So the in universe explanation is perfectly reasonable; if the materials for an arc reactor are prohibitively expensive capitalists would never choose to develop this technology. The profit incentive simply is not there for providing “free” energy.
It’s the most blatant US propaganda I think I’ve seen recently
Now that I have a smarterbrain™, I can no longer consume this media :( I was watching it and was like damn this is like blatant propaganda
Does anybody still have like a link to a clipped version of this? It disappeared off Youtube and now I can’t even find it on the more esoteric video sites
Just like suspension of disbelief, you have to suspend ideology (schniff) to watch it. If you can accept a man in a big metal suit made of nanobots flying around using hand sized thrusters, you can accept that he’s the good guy™ for the purposes of the story.
“Hey audience! See these tough-looking guys who want to make the world a better place? These weirdos are the villains! We’ll make them shoot a puppy every once in a while to remind you!
Watch the masked defenders of the status quo you all know and love beat the ever-loving snot out of them while making incessantly snarky quips every other minute! Witness the birth of the scene(s) that will become the next uninspired meme spammed on Reddit! Watch the after-credits scene get overanalyzed to pieces by some YouTube rando! Buy tickets now!”
I’m a sucker for comic movies and shit. Always have been since I got into comics. Yeah I love seeing characters I read and imagined in my head brought to life and they are fine for stupid dumb entertainment. Since I became a commie I can hardly watch some stuff now at all. I’m not surprised they did that to the “villains” of the show.
Yet in the black widow movie they had red guardian who literally had Karl Marx tattooed across his knuckles.
I actually find watching most movies and shows entertaining cause I’ll start deconstructing its ideology. And for all its propaganda the shows can be funny sometimes. But there’s a lot of “blink and you’ll miss it” grossness throughout.
Your comment made me think that movie was already out, I do want to watch it just to see what they do with that character
