Let's agree on two things: 1) Marvel
films
aren't political, and 2) that doesn't mean they don't have political messages. The way
Ghostbusters accidentally warned my generation about the dickless EPA, great films can inadvertently contain hilariously misguided world views. And since they encompass like 80 percent of family entertainment, it's probably important that we look at the
Avengers films for what they (accidentally) say about the government and power.
Spoilers: It's pretty f-ed in the D. For a series raising a generation of future world leaders, we should hope to the One-Above-All that the political lessons of these films don't rub off. Otherwise we're looking forward to a world where problematic ideologies spread quicker than Stark DNA at the Playboy Mansion ...
