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We live in the MCU regime: "Avengers 3: Infinity was"
They do not call it a universe for nothing Andrew O. Scott, New York Times, 24.04.18
Something is very wrong. Thor, dialogue excerpt
"The end is near" — Again, like every year from Fruhsommer in the monthly clock in the blockbuster cinema. And half of humanity runs into these films — that’s why they are a cultural phenomena, a worldwide, and maybe these superheroes have therefore contributed more to the global approach and meaning as many a policy supposed.
That the end is close, that could also be a promise in this case. The promise of a coarse epic adventure that leads to a certain point, a catharsis or a showdown, and sometime then everything is paid. The Trojan war was also after all the many years, in which the heroes with god understatement decimated each other, sometimes to an end.
In fact, the Marvel Group has also gotten the impression of wanting such a thing and to create an epic annual arc with the Avengers who summarizes the various main and secondary characters of his own Herden Olymps.
Decision expires and statuses
the "Avengers" Finally, a kind of national team of the superheroes: Here meet the best of the best superheroes and forms a team. Thus, the Avengers, a crossover from vain stars, who are otherwise used to stand all and even alone in the center, as well as a connection from barely agreed thinking and action styles — and all without national coach.
Avengers: Infinity was
Image: © Marvel Studios 2018
the "Avengers" So are a masterpiece of self-organization. But as in all social systems, there are also various frictions, rivalitations and dispute, which are clear only in very many meetings. Incredibly a lot of time spend the Avengers with narcissistic self-employment in cooperation — and the operating social look reveals the lack of clear hierarchies, decision-making processes and statuses — an organization chart.
Especially in crisis situations this was helpful. You can not object to Clausewitz now, the war is "a chamaleon" and superherence contributors against monsters and world threats therefore do not plan — because the militar also knows clear powder distributions, command chains and responsibilities. Everyone likes "The marshal rod in the toornister" like the farmer in chess, but not everyone is a general.
Conversely, for example, the renewed armature order of the Prenibian General Staff saw independent decision-making powers and rough freedoms for underfuors, learning a procedure of the company practices today, but not the Avengers.
Such organization deficiency lasted last ("Captain America: Civil was") Gar to Burgerwrieg and a split into two enemy camps from which they could not even save a GROKO. Not least, this internal twist of the Avengers discloses the failure of all neoliberal models of self-control social conditions: the market for superheroes "decide" In this case nothing.
What remains is a kind "Livee en mass", In the camphor "Like wild beasts" (Kleist) hike but we switch off.
Anyway, it sounded very logical, the undertaking to disconnect this chaotic pile, whereupon each of his way goes and saves the world. But you first had to bring you together for a last time.
Especially the danger this requires: Thanos is the mega rogue, who wants to submit the entire space — such a violent and powerful threat that requires the multilateralism of superheroes.
There they appear on the screen all one after the other, which also has their own films: Iron Man / Tony strong (Robert Downey Jr.), Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Banner / Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo); Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans), Dr. Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Wanda Maxofoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Android Vision (Paul Bettany), Peter Quill / Star Lord (Chris Pratt), Rocket The Raccoon (Spoken by Bradley Cooper) and T’challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), the Shooting Star of the Year, the first superhero with black skin dedicated to its own franchise — also in the superhero universe it is about diversitat and equal rights.
Whoever misses Batman and Wonderwoman now in this series, only shows that he has not understood anything: the obediently to the counterworld of the other group writing on his own epic.
And the "X-Men"? Well, they are already marvel fabric, but the rights secured himself long ago the Fox Group.
In these now no longer all-year-old, but monthly comic superhero blockbuster spectacles, media companies with their investors and controllers against each other, as in the ChampionsLeague Real Madrid against Bavaria Munchen and the FC Barcelona. Or — it’s about culture — Suhrkamp against the Hanser and the Fischer-Verlag. Maybe the comparison fits "Coca against Pepsi" but still better here.