The difference between MCU and DC villains.

The difference between MCU and DC villains. Oct 24, 2017 14:19:18 GMT

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Post by formersamhmd on Oct 24, 2017 14:19:18 GMT

Oct 24, 2017 13:57:40 GMT charzhino said:

Oct 24, 2017 13:29:00 GMT formersamhmd said:

The point being that using the Holocaust to make your character seem deep is really just lazy. Especially when his current conflict has nothing to do with his past.

They barely mentioned the Holocaust so hows its exploitative. The opening to X1 is the most theyve ever used holocaust centric footage. Exploitative would be having Eric use the words Nazis, Jews, concentration camp, holocaust in all his arguments repeatedly on screen but its barely mentioned at all precisely because Fox dont want to overuse it and cause offense. A few momentary glimpses like the serial number on his wrist is all we get not on the nose stuff.

I'm talking about him saying the registration Act will put them in chains, X3 being a reference to being euthanized, X2 having mutants be experimented on, DOFP's future scenes showing them marked and in concentration camps, etc.

Nazis wanted a perfect race and exterminated Jews because Hitler viewed the Aryan race as superior and saw Jews as non-humans.

It wasn't just Jewish people they did that to. But no one ever seems to remember or care about the other victimizes and exterminated. And plenty of Nazis didn't even believe in the racial superiority stuff. They just wanted an excuse to take over the country and conquer the world.

And before you say, yes humans have legimate threats to be scared. It might not be explicitly shown in the films but its natural. Humans are
hostile to other new/foreign humans who are vastly different.

And in this case, it's a rational fear. The X-Men movies should've shown us random mutant criminals who had no problem using their powers to terrorize people, but doing that would've made us see Senator Kelly as a 3-D Human Being.

History and present day prove this. Just look at the immigration debate in America and Europe from the influx of Muslims.

Believe me, I DO understand.

As is implied in First Class/DOFP with Charles's Oxford thesis on homo Neanderthalis becoming extinct from the superior homo sapien - something Trask warns the commitee about but is laughed out of the room.

If the movies gave us more moments like that, it'd be much more nuanced.

Hell, give us a plot where there IS a conspiracy to turn Mutants into normal humans...and it's entirely comprised of Mutants who genuinely hate that they're mutants and are deformed instead of looking totally normal and attractive like Erik does.