I never actually saw the Wolverine movie. *sigh* And to think, you know, that I was giving the movie people even that much credit.
As someone pointed out, it's super-problematic specifically to use metahumans as an allegory for oppressed minorities, because it implies that people are right to be afraid of those minorities.
Yes, that is the flipside, and it is also wrong.
And ditto the impression of their backstory being years long that I had before this. Not that the movie is inherently more authoritative than any other source in the comics transmedia mix, but it does have a certain…imperative to it.
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Date: 2011-06-23 14:41 (UTC)As someone pointed out, it's super-problematic specifically to use metahumans as an allegory for oppressed minorities, because it implies that people are right to be afraid of those minorities.
Yes, that is the flipside, and it is also wrong.
And ditto the impression of their backstory being years long that I had before this. Not that the movie is inherently more authoritative than any other source in the comics transmedia mix, but it does have a certain…imperative to it.