Tag: daredevil

“I don’t want all this SJW diversity crap in my Marvel comics”

muchymozzarella:

dude 

Marvel’s entire legacy is built on social justice issues and promoting diversity

Captain America was made by Jewish creators; a young boy with many disabilities who fought for his country

Magneto was a Jewish man who experienced oppression and genocide on a grand scale in his time imprisoned by Nazis

Spidey was a young, smart kid bullied at school who lived with his uncle and aunt and who lost a relative to gun violence

Daredevil was a blind, Irish Catholic lawyer who demanded justice for the oppressed and the belittled

Luke Cage was a black man in New York imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit who impervious to bullets

The X-Men are a metaphor for any given oppressed minority group fighting for their rights 

The mid 2000s addition of Wiccan and Hulkling as a young gay couple 

The latter 2000s addition of Kamala Khan as a young Muslim girl superhero 

Diversity and social justice ideas built your beloved comic industries

agent13ofthessr:

alexander pierce and wilson fisk are the mcu’s scariest, most effective villains not because they can control armies of aliens/robots/whatever, but because they can control people. they are frightening because they are absolutely ruthless in the ways in which they manipulate, intimidate, and flat-out murder people to further their own ends.

they are believable because we can identify with their concern and love for those they care about; they do not exist in a vacuum. they have daughters and grandchildren and girlfriends and mothers, and they care about their loved ones. 

and they are horrifying because they believe that what they are doing is right. they aren’t in the game for the sheer love of being evil; they’re in it because they believe so fervently that their way is the best way–because they conflate the expedience of eliminating “undesirables” with doing the right thing.

pierce and fisk are terrifying and i love it.