Do superhero movies predict the fall of the American empire?

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Always a superhero who saves the world, he is also of a certain breed, usually of pure white skin, a sculpted body, a strong build, and most of all and above all: he is a devoted American and willing to do his best for the victory of the forces of good over evil.
This is the pure American weapon with which to confront the forces of evil. The same is true, whether in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or outside of it. Rather, what is happening in the Marvel universe is only an extension of what is happening in the halls of the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) and other corridors of politics, according to what analysts and critics believe.

Art, in this case, is nothing but a propaganda tool used by the United States to beautify its face, which is crumbling and disappearing. Although the idea of ​​political propaganda films may be associated in the American imagination with authoritarian states, which are necessarily Russia, China, North Korea, or destitute countries, which are usually African under black-skinned rule, in the United States it is a political industry par excellence, according to Muhammad Hussain Ahmed, a political analyst for the Hindi Politics website. All of these countries live under tyrannical rule. As for the United States, it is a superpower that has taken upon itself to protect the values ​​of freedom, democracy, and international peace and security.

In the same vein, Anna Banerjee, a writer for the American newspaper "The Daily Iowa", reported in her article on the political propaganda role played by Marvel films, that the Pentagon has funded these commercial films for decades according to records provided by Professor Stephen Underhill to Marshall University.

For example, the Pentagon has subconsciously funded films such as Captain America and Iron Man by making access to the best military equipment sometimes required for filming. On the other hand, these films highlight the importance of the American role in saving the world from the evils surrounding it.

Hollywood has taken superhero movies seriously for several decades for a variety of reasons, the latest being that they are populist or box office hits. The first, and the main reason, is the effective political role that these films play in shaping the collective consciousness of Americans, which covers the fact that the United States lost the Vietnam War, failed in Iraq, withdrew from Afghanistan, and was unable to eliminate al-Qaeda or similar movements such as Boko Haram or ISIS. 

In order to achieve the role entrusted to it, as a cosmetic tool for the continuing American deterioration, Hollywood uses a group of messages whose goal is to strengthen the contemporary capitalist values of American society and the supremacy of the white man, and to transform the "other" into a source of danger and evil. "Today's superhero movies present a clear picture of the morally complex political climate," says James Mottram, a cultural analyst for The National.

In all of the superhero movies, American politics appears in its aggressive form in the form of visual art. In the words of Banerjee. The Avengers are heading to Nigeria to prevent the release of a dangerous biological weapon that will wipe out humanity. For this, a foreign country, in this case Nigeria, turns into an area of intense conflict and battles.

The film itself addresses one of the most controversial ethical issues in American foreign policy. It is a question of civilian and innocent victims. The movie goes on to suggest a way out of this problem, which is that "the international community has to lose some lives to save many others."

Those who are harmed by virtue of their presence in the conflict zone are just worthless collateral losses in order to achieve international peace and security at the hands of the American empire, which always succeeds in saving the world from the dangers facing it because of Russia, China and the third world countries, which are often represented by an African nation. All of these are worthless victims for the sake of a higher goal. This goal, in turn, can only be achieved by the American superhero.

However, none of the Marvel films or others address the facts on the ground, no matter how completely contradictory those facts may seem compared to those films. The simplest of these facts is that the United States has lost 5 major wars since 1945, and that the American military is neither the best nor the most terrifying in the world, as most Americans think thanks to superhero movies.

Since the end of World War II, the United States has lost every war it started and failed every time it used force without just cause, all because of a series of unqualified presidents. This was stated by Harlan Ullman, senior adviser to the Atlantic Council and a former naval officer who participated in the Vietnam War, who believes that if the US military were a sports team, its evaluation would not exceed the evaluation of any descending team.

And Ullman himself wrote a book called "Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts," in which he mentions, among several examples, that the Vietnam War alone led to the deaths of more than 58,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese. The reason is a foolish view that communism is an imminent danger and must be stopped at this point so that it does not reach the United States itself. Ullman goes on to assert that if Americans do not understand that expertise and competence are vital in the world of politics, America's future will bear nothing new.

The horrific political failure on the ground is what drives the creation of superheroes to uphold beliefs and maintain the status on the current situation. .