Mr. Marvel and Thor: Ragnarok
Jun. 9th, 2022 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreI watched the first episode of Ms. Marvel yesterday and was really impressed. The thing that the MCU has always understood is that people like stories about people, and people are not perfect. Tony Stark is an arrogant drunk, Thor is brash and headstrong, and so on.
Kamala Khan is the same way. A 16-year-old Pakistani-American living in Jersey City, she battles her conservative immigrant parents, the social hell of high school, and just the struggle of growing up. What really attracted me was we are much the same. One of the fun tricks they use is that whenever Kamala is passing by graffitied murals, they come to life in her imagination. I was much the same way, imagining alien monster battler heroic space marines in the weeds as I walked to school.
I'm not going to say too much about what happens, but it revolves around getting to AvengersCon and winning the Captain Marvel cosplay contest. In an effort to add a personal touch to the costume, Kamala takes a bauble that her mother had dismissed as junk. Hijinks ensure.
After that, because I was already on Disney+, I decided to rewatch one of my favorites, Thor: Ragnarok. Everyone always remembers it for the funny bits, but the beauty of the film is how it uses humor while handling several major dramatic themes, like the end of Odin, the coming of Hela, and Thor and Loki both growing a little.
One of the overlooked things in this movie is the character arc of Skurge, a relatively minor villain from the comics who her has an entire journey that ends in a blaze of glory.
The reason the MCU is doing so well while the DCEU is flailing is simple: Marvel makes movies and TV shows about people. DC doesn't.
Kamala Khan is the same way. A 16-year-old Pakistani-American living in Jersey City, she battles her conservative immigrant parents, the social hell of high school, and just the struggle of growing up. What really attracted me was we are much the same. One of the fun tricks they use is that whenever Kamala is passing by graffitied murals, they come to life in her imagination. I was much the same way, imagining alien monster battler heroic space marines in the weeds as I walked to school.
I'm not going to say too much about what happens, but it revolves around getting to AvengersCon and winning the Captain Marvel cosplay contest. In an effort to add a personal touch to the costume, Kamala takes a bauble that her mother had dismissed as junk. Hijinks ensure.
After that, because I was already on Disney+, I decided to rewatch one of my favorites, Thor: Ragnarok. Everyone always remembers it for the funny bits, but the beauty of the film is how it uses humor while handling several major dramatic themes, like the end of Odin, the coming of Hela, and Thor and Loki both growing a little.
One of the overlooked things in this movie is the character arc of Skurge, a relatively minor villain from the comics who her has an entire journey that ends in a blaze of glory.
The reason the MCU is doing so well while the DCEU is flailing is simple: Marvel makes movies and TV shows about people. DC doesn't.
