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posted by martyb on Monday October 01 2018, @10:14PM   Printer-friendly

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Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors is a sweet superhero tale where, yes, a group of younger heroes come together to battle an extremist group. But more importantly than that, it's a superhero tale with diversity oozing out of every animated frame.
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Ms. Marvel, who idolizes Captain Marvel and is inspired by her, instead leads the Secret Warriors movie, showcasing her origin tale, her relationship with her mother and her struggle for acceptance in a culture that is adverse to the creation of the Inhumans -- the latter being people who gain superpowers after getting into contact with a gas substance called Terrigen Mists.

What Secret Warriors is doing particularly well is that it isn't shying away from its focus on diversity in any part of its plot. In particular, the storyline aims at a brewing conflict between humans and an extremist group of Inhumans, the latter believing that a war between the two groups is inevitable. Khan ends up stuck in the middle, as an Inhuman herself who doesn't believe the conflict is needed.

Another refreshing carryover from Marvel comics is America Chavez. Her origin story, which sees Chavez's two mothers sacrificing themselves to protect their daughter, remains completely intact and sympathetic. Chavez herself demonstrates herself as a formidable ally, having super strength and the ability to fly. It's a nice start for LGBT representation on the animated side of the Marvel universe for now.

Wasn't Captain Marvel a man?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:37PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @04:37PM (#742900)

    The way it was done used to be much more refined though, now it feels downright hamfisted.

    This movie for instance have some of the most annoying, downright ditzy, characters Marvel has produced in ages (one of them even started out as a joke character on their website no less!), but gets crammed into everything because "diversity".

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:32PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @05:32PM (#742946) Journal

    I haven't watched TV or movies in like 14 years, so I'll have to take your word for it, but given the glimpses I've seen here and there you're almost certainly right. What a mess. No one's got any damn subtlety any longer, no one knows how to write a complex character in the mainstream. I've been percolating an idea for a sort of love letter to the JRPG that feels like "5 parts Xenogears, 2 parts Shin Megami Tensei, and a dash of Sailor Moon" that has one lesbian, one bisexual woman, and one transwoman in it. And those aspects of their character have very little impact on the actual plot at all aside from driving one weird transformation (the transwoman can fuse with her daughter, who's a sort of "negative ghost" due to never having actually existed), the possibility of losing the lesbian off your team if you don't separate her from the woman she's in love with for a while, and said lesbian and bi woman eventually pairing up and both of them gaining massive power boosts and some crazy dual techs from it. It's possible to do diversity right, but not for the sake of diversity; it needs to be for character development.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...