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Superhero comics/movies are meant to distract us from how much the world sucks, not constantly remind us of it. Plus, a movie about senate subcommittees debating bills would be boring AF. For that kind of situation, AOC is better equipped than Iron Man.
Still, I don’t disagree with the point.
I would argue that the vast majority of comics are full of life lessons and condemnation of societal practices. Like the whole of the x-men is a not subtle at all telling of how people attack "the other". There are religious organizations that attempt to mass murder mutants. The government attempts to create massive robots to --hunt down-- (KEEP THE PEACE) mutants. The whole Civil War arch in the avengers is kind of kicked off by the government trying to have a registry of all mutants so they know what their powers are, some mutants are for it and other against, and they tell vivid stories about why a government can't be trusted with that information.
Not that any of that comes up in the movies, I'll give you that.
You can boil any media down to "it's meant to distract you" but I doubt most things are ad vapid as they appear.
From what I’ve read about the X-men being a metaphor for civil rights, I agree.
Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word “distract”. I just meant that the movies are treated as much lighter entertainment, and the lack of a deep, unpleasant message is part of the point.
