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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?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:16PM
I usually refrain from submitting articles like this one. I never touched the gamergate topic.
This one showed up in the RSS feed, and I know how much some Soylentils enjoy discussing such things.
Also, it has rather seemed like Hollywood has been needlessly, ham-fistedly remaking story universes and characters and franchises not to tell new stories, or to address flaws in the originals, but to force-feed an agenda to audiences. Re-making Ghostbusters with an all-female cast was unnecessary. I like the actresses in it, and thought Bridesmaids, which starred most of the same people, was the funniest movie I've seen in the last decade. No, i disliked the remake because it was badly done, because it made those actresses look unfunny, and because it both insulted them and the fans.
Star Wars, also, has been utterly destroyed by the same dynamic.
Ultimately it's lazy film-making. They can't be bothered to come up with anything new, or to source new material from the many excellent amateurs out there. Instead, they remake everything with a new screed because it has a built-in audience they can sucker into buying a movie ticket at least once, not giving a damn if those fans get pissed off and walk away afterward. It is a sort of strip-mining of the popular culture.
Washington DC delenda est.