Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Sure, The Avengers: Endgame is a conservative movie, just like Star Wars and Star Trek. “Not Star Trek!” shriek its doughy fanboys, who go on to point out how that cinematic universe embraces collectivism: the characters all conform, have no money and don’t believe in God.
Fine, then Star Trek is a millennial movie series. No, scratch that – Captain Kirk used to get babes and millennials are famously barren.
Now, it’s not like Avengers is blatant about its politics, as if the characters chose up sides in some sort of civil war. Oh wait, they did do that a few movies ago, didn’t they? I am not really an expert – watching the flick you would see the superfans get giddy in the theater every time there was an apparent callback to one of the 213 previous Marvel movies, and I’d be lost. It was still fun, though.
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