What I've noticed in the comics, movies and the television series ...is a consistent and at times striking commentary on how violence and/or killing does not effectively resolve the problem. All it does is make it worse.
Marvel is doing something interesting -- they are showing that depending on your perspective both the neither the Avengers nor the X-men are necessarily heroes or villains, it's their choices that define which they are, and well, it can change on any given day. When they choose violence -- to resolve their problems through hurting others, then they are portrayed in negative light and cause a negative ripple effect. However, when they choose another path - a non-violent path, one that is kind, that helps and aids others, the result is a positive ripple effect.
Rogers in Avengers vs. X-men cautions against Wolverine killing Hope. Let's find another way -- this one just makes things worse. And Iron Man and Rogers hunt for a way for Wanda and Hope to work peacefully together to resolve the problem. Where they screw up -- is when they attack and threaten Cyclops with violence, threatening to kill Hope or take her prisoner. Invading his home - causes a negative ripple effect. Instead of sitting down and attempting to explain what their goal is or offering to work with his team of scientists - which would have achieved their goal faster, they attempt to take her away from him, patronize him, and treat him like a villain.
When we demonize the other - we create our own demons or villains, or so the writers appear to be stating. Instead of incarcerating Cyclops, they should have found a way to rehabilitate and heal him -- as they did with their friend Wanda, Scarlett Witch, instead they treated him like scum, they demonized him - and did experiments...causing a far greater problem.
The anti-hero, such as Walter White, is often the creation of the society in which he resides. White had cancer, no way to pay bills, and was being treated as a loser - for teaching chemistry and not running a major company. If the people surrounding him had made different choices, he may not have gone down that road. And the series itself is a trageic cautionary tale similar to Shakespeare's MacBeth.
In these comics, they show how revenge and punishment or an eye-for-an-eye mentality just doesn't work in the long run. It's short-sighted. And results in a vicious and unending cycle of violence.
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Date: 2015-12-05 04:46 pm (UTC)Marvel is doing something interesting -- they are showing that depending on your perspective both the neither the Avengers nor the X-men are necessarily heroes or villains, it's their choices that define which they are, and well, it can change on any given day. When they choose violence -- to resolve their problems through hurting others, then they are portrayed in negative light and cause a negative ripple effect. However, when they choose another path - a non-violent path, one that is kind, that helps and aids others, the result is a positive ripple effect.
Rogers in Avengers vs. X-men cautions against Wolverine killing Hope. Let's find another way -- this one just makes things worse. And Iron Man and Rogers hunt for a way for Wanda and Hope to work peacefully together to resolve the problem. Where they screw up -- is when they attack and threaten Cyclops with violence, threatening to kill Hope or take her prisoner.
Invading his home - causes a negative ripple effect. Instead of sitting down and attempting to explain what their goal is or offering to work with his team of scientists - which would have achieved their goal faster, they attempt to take her away from him, patronize him, and treat him like a villain.
When we demonize the other - we create our own demons or villains, or so the writers appear to be stating. Instead of incarcerating Cyclops, they should have found a way to rehabilitate and heal him -- as they did with their friend Wanda, Scarlett Witch, instead they treated him like scum, they demonized him - and did experiments...causing a far greater problem.
The anti-hero, such as Walter White, is often the creation of the society in which he resides. White had cancer, no way to pay bills, and was being treated as a loser - for teaching chemistry and not running a major company.
If the people surrounding him had made different choices, he may not have gone down that road. And the series itself is a trageic cautionary tale similar to Shakespeare's MacBeth.
In these comics, they show how revenge and punishment or an eye-for-an-eye mentality just doesn't work in the long run. It's short-sighted. And results in a vicious and unending cycle of violence.