The Ideology Of The MCU

"Our war is a war against evil. This is clearly a case of good versus evil, and make no mistake about it: good will prevail. " [applause] Hey everybody!

Today we're gonna talk about the hidden meanings of Marvel movies. Please don't go. This video is generously sponsored by Movavi.

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But I think people often hesitate to focus on that last part for the fear that they're bringing politics into innocent family fun, or even that these kinds of artsy fartsy discussions of hidden meaning should be left to, like. . .

Terrence Malick movies. What I want to express today is that those meanings are there in these movies, and they are worth thinking about, [music] It's easy to forget about the public perception of Iron Man when the first film initially went into development: As a dated c-tier comic hero from back in the days of Vietnam and Nixon. Among other things, a not-insignificant portion of the target audience thought he was in fact a robot that fights crime.

[music] Steve Rogers is a true believer. Not necessarily of America in particular, as he points out, he doesn't like bullies no matter where they come from, but in the ideas of freedom and liberty from tyranny. And he'll do whatever it takes to protect those ideals.

This is how he begins his story in the First Avenger, and though the world around him changes dramatically, [music] With the introduction of Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet, the Marvel Cinematic Universe unambiguously presents the ideology of Tony Stark as the correct one for this world. Okay, let's walk this back a bit. To quickly remind viewers, this is not a video in which I declare who does or does not have the right ideas, nor to convince you who is right or wrong.

If you're curious, I firmly and resolutely disagree with Tony Stark on almost every level. In the early 19th century, Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Which presented the theory that, in his own words, the history of the world is but the biography of great men.

In it, Carlyle cites figures like Shakespeare, Napoleon, Jesus, and the Norse god Odin. And he essentially argues that the ebb and flow of history is controlled almost entirely by singular, this all comes apart with the advent of Infinity War. What we're left with is a proposition: to trust that for however much control or power they require, all it takes are these great men, these strongman leaders to see us through the perpetual war.

This is all in spite of the fact that this universe presents us time and time again with these problems that often come from a broader systemic problem: the vulture of class divide -- "You and me, they don't care about us. We've built the roads and we fight all their wars and everything. If you especially like it, please consider backing me over on Patreon to be one of the names listed in these credits, or through Ko-fi for one-time donations.

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