Let's talk Marvel Movies

By: Timothy Brantley II

Published At: Wed Oct 30 2024

Updated At: Fri Jun 06 2025

I've been watching super hero movies since I was 6 years old. My favorite hero at the time was Spiderman I liked him because he was the only hero that didn't fly at the time. However as I got older I began to like him more because Spiderman always did the right thing even when it wasn't to his advantage to do the right thing. There would be countless times where Spiderman has saved the city only for the entire city to name him as the public enemy due to his boss, J. Jonah Jameson painting him as a bad guy.

However the marvel movies seem to miss out on this fact I stopped watching the movies after the Andrew Garfield trilogy and only saw no way home. So I'm not sure how the newsest incarnation of Peter handles the struggle of Spiderman. When I watch a movie my Marvel I feel I'm there to laugh and have a good time instead of really sit there and relate to Peter and see his struggle. Peter doesn't stuggle like the way he does in some of his comic incarnations or like he did in the 90s show. I have to really admit I'm very out of touch and I didn't see Disney's The Spiderman the one that was actually good.

However and this is a big however I don't want Peter to endlessly suffer I'm not a comic book purist and I don't actually read American comics. I'm more of a manga guy tbh. I've tried to get into American comics but sometimes and on offense to American comics enjoyers they have SO MUCH FILLER that sometimes they never go to the point I want to see. They also are filled with characters that I JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT. So I tend to listen to youtubers talk about storylines who are non biased and they'll tell you what happened how it made them feel and what the impact of it was. It is very interesting to know how your favorite story lines are difference from the actual movie.

So let's get to the meet and potatoes

Magneto

The entire blog actually was going to be why I don't like X-Men movies but tbh Spiderman has this problem too and it's a great pallet cleanser for my point. X-Men has a lot of great themes in it:

How mutants are a metaphor for civil rights
The relationship between Charles and Magneto mirrors Martin and Malcolm X
Magneto isn't the villain it's the government

What mutants go through is an allegory for the civil rights movements. I feel that's been done to death at this point and it really doesn't need that to iterated on. That the way mutants are treated are the way society treats marginalized people meaning people who are black, immigrants, Hispanic, women, etc. It takes the same social talking points that we go through and contextualizes them in the same vain of mutants with super powers.

I would like to now move on to the relationship to Charles and Xavier in the movies they are always painted as bitter enemies who are always at odds. Magneto is painted as a tyrant who is focused on getting what he wants and doesn't care about stepping on the people around him to achieve power to end the suffer of mutants everywhere. However the problem with this viewpoint is this is very WRONG yes Magneto does bad things and isn't a good person but he does so to fight the government. Who is the true antagonist of the series. However I'm getting ahead of myself let me explain myself.

Most of the series talks about how Charles and Magento's methods differs and who is more effective is Charles peace more effective even though Mutants are being slaughtered. Or is Magento's method more effective because he forces the government to yield even though he kills innocent people. The subtext of the series forces you to think about the text but the movies never talk about this because they are afraid to introduce nuance to the issue and gasp make the government look bad.

Which leads me to the last point the government is the last point. I'm going to open statement with a quote from chatgpt :

Magento	Government in X-Men
Extremely Complex and Bloated - Magento's architecture is complicated, requiring expensive hosting and expert developers.	Bloated Bureaucracy - The government creates layers of mutant laws instead of protecting them. The Mutant Registration Act (X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, 1982) was a legal mess, leading to mutant oppression.
Slow and Resource-Heavy - Magento is notoriously sluggish unless heavily optimized, frustrating developers and business owners.	Slow to Adapt - The government took decades to recognize mutants' rights, even after seeing them save the world multiple times (Uncanny X-Men #200, 1985, where Magneto was put on trial instead of celebrated for helping).
Inconsistent Updates - Magento releases updates that often break existing features or require significant work to implement.	Legislation That Backfires - The Superhuman Registration Act (Civil War, 2006) initially targeted superheroes but later led to massive abuse, imprisonment, and deaths of mutants.
Security Vulnerabilities - Magento stores are frequent targets of cyberattacks due to complex code and outdated security practices.	Weaponizing Fear - The Sentinels were created as "security," but they were programmed for genocide (X-Men: Days of Future Past, 1981 comic & 2014 movie).
Expensive to Maintain - Magento requires costly extensions and custom development, making it a financial burden.	Military Overspending - The government poured billions into Project Wideawake (Uncanny X-Men #142, 1981) instead of addressing mutant rights. Meanwhile, human problems like poverty remained unsolved.
Disregard for Small Businesses - Magento favors enterprise users, leaving smaller businesses struggling with costs and complexity.	Disregard for Mutants - Genosha Massacre (New X-Men #114-115, 2001): The government stood by while Sentinels exterminated 16 million mutants.
Overcomplicated Admin Panel - Magento’s backend UI is notoriously cluttered, making navigation difficult.	Overcomplicated Regulations - The Mutant Registration Act (X-Men: The Animated Series, 1992) led to contradictions: Some mutants were deemed "dangerous" while others were used by the government.
Magento Still Works (Kinda) - At least, after enough effort, you can still run an online store.	The Government's Solution? Genocide. - The House of M Decimation (House of M, 2005) saw the government doing absolutely nothing as Scarlet Witch wiped out 90% of mutantkind.

Magento might frustrate developers, but the X-Men’s government actively commits genocide. Magento is corporate evil, while the government is systemic, calculated evil. The fact that Magento is even in the same conversation as them is hilarious—but it speaks volumes about how frustrating the platform is. 😂
Magento: Makes your life miserable.
X-Men Government: Ends your life .Even Magento wouldn't build Sentinels to track down customers. (Though, let's be real, they would probably sell the software to do it if they could.)

I'm not even going to add anything to this statement and only add to thing I'll add to this is that there is no Magento if the government didn't discriminate against mutants. Not sure where it got developers from but I'm going to let it cook tbh lol.