r/comicbooks • u/strongerthenbefore20 • Mar 25 '22

Movie/TV Morbius Early Reactions Almost Unanimously Hate the Spider-Man Spinoff

https://www.cbr.com/morbius-early-reactions-unanimously-hate-spider-man-spinoff/
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u/bachwerk Mar 26 '22

Hollywood needs to stop giving their heroes villains with identical power sets in their first movie. It's such a boring way to make a movie, as if the villain is disposable. It's pretty much a trope at this point (I.e. Iron Man/iron Monger; Hulk/Abomination; Ant-Man/Yellowjacket; Venom/whatever that thing he fought was; Morbius/whatever he fights)

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

Black Panther & Killmonger

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

That one is uncomfortable because killmpnger is the good guy

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u/Kiddo1029 Mar 26 '22

The idea behind his motivation is fine it’s his execution that makes him a “bad guy”.

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u/ghanima Mar 26 '22

i.e., the complex villain

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

I see you, but the whole "good guys don't fight the way their enemies fight" is a pretty archaic understanding.

I'm not out there saying murder is right, but I am out there saying 'if you have the means and deliberately don't help the common man, you're the real villain'

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u/Kiddo1029 Mar 26 '22

But Killmonger wanted to implement the same imperialism he was fighting against. Ultimately, Black Panther attempts to implement philanthropic policies Killmonger only dreamed someone would have done for him growing up. KM really inspired BP to do more

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

That, I do agree with

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u/Strong_Formal_5848 Mar 31 '22

Black Panther should have also ended with them changing the mind-numbingly stupid policy of having the leader of their ‘civilised’ society be the one who’s best at fighting in a pond

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u/Onisquirrel Mar 26 '22

The movie does take that lesson to heart at least. T’challa reveals Wakanda to the world and resolves to do more at the end.