Marvel jumped the shark
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Isn't the magical negro trope viewed in a negative way? I've heard the term "black girl magic" being thrown around for a while now but wouldn't it fall under magical negro?
I know black girl magic is a tumblr thing and I am not expecting consistency from that crowd but how was this allowed to become a thing? Do I misunderstand the magical negro trope?
Also, along with "slay queen" how long until we get an unironic "DAS RITE" Has that already happened? I haven't seen a Marvel movie in a long time.
Here's leftism:
If you view yourself and your tribe as an oppressed victim, you can never be a hypocrite. Anything you do is fighting the systemic shmatriarcgyny hate care affirming shabblemubbo. So the magical negro trope is fair game, and not at all problematic like it was... 7 years ago. But, if an oppressor makes a film with that trope, then it is bad again.
I remember Spike Lee getting mad about Bagger Vance and Green Mile due to the “magic negro” trope. I’ll take that over jive talking ignorant fool negro in a movie any day
They put "we wuz kings" unironically in a movie. A black said it struck by emotion in the museum exposition room of ancient Egyptian artifacts. Because of course they would claim "Egyptians wuz black".
In this case, I don't think they're being dishonest, just delusional. The magical negro stopped being a character trope, and became an actual spiritual role that blacks occupy in society. The cliche is something base, while blackness (and everything they believe it grants) is sublime. It wouldn't even occur to them to compare the two.