Marvel jumped the shark
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How long before “slay queen” becomes a one liner in a Marvel movie?
Don't they already have "Triggered" and "Snowflake" as actual characters from, like, 2017?
Snowflake and Safespace were their names, I believe…
But otherwise yes…
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.
The same black girl magic that yells at you not to tell her how to raise her kids while they destroy the store display.
The line is said by Samuel L Jackson, btw.
It's sounds so much better just thinking about it in his voice.
They jumped the shark a long time ago, it's just bad enough normies notice now
I'm pretty sure normies checked out once Avengers Endgame ended.
Nah, there's still a ton of normies watching the garbage. I have to hear about it at work.
In the wrong context that dialog is pretty dire.
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And funny.
"Black girl magic" : The ability to still get welfare checks and keep a stable relationship.
So, light hearted comedy dialog in our.... In our movie that took 3 years trying to figure out what it was going to be.
Honestly, what was this movie supposed to be?
A funereal dirge.
That has quickly become one of my most hated phrases. I know Monica Rambeau led the Avengers in some of the comics I have from the 80s. I doubt this is the same character. The mannish Capt Marvel and Ms Marvel had comics that bombed. So of course it makes sense to give them movies. All the storylines they passed up and great characters just to use the all new all different garbage
I see a toilet brush in spandex. Flush this turd.