This is Episode 11: Thor Ragnarok and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Topics of Discussion
Forgotten Man of Adrian Toomes vs. Elite of Tony Stark
There is something super relatable about Adrian Toomes, aka the Vulture, in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Imagine having your job taken away by a secret service that worked with the government, without any remuneration. If I recall, the only thing that they were offered were a jail sentence if they refused to comply, and only to have some cocky SHIELD employee give a glib remark like "don't overextend yourself"
According to Ryan Smith:
“Toomes clearly embodies the “white working-class voter” the media has obsessed over ever since the 2016 election—the alienated blue-collar middle-aged white guy we’re told voted for Trump due to economic anxiety, racism, sexism, xenophobia, or some combination of all those attributes. To its credit, Homecoming isn’t interested in a one-dimensional depiction of Toomes…He’s selfish but lives by a complicated code of honor.
The nuance is surprising considering that the bad guys in Marvel movies don’t feel like real people but rather a lot of unrelatable adolescent fantasies come to life: powerful robots, aliens, or garishly dressed Nordic gods.”
The “so-called American Dream? It’s a cultural lie, a convenient one we’re told so that we blame ourselves for our own place in a codified class system. Toomes knows this, and as the Vulture he hungrily strips some of the flesh off the rotting corpse of capitalism for himself and his loved ones. When the broken system works in favor of the rich instead of the little guy, why not pilfer a little piece of the wreckage to help support your family?”
https://chicagoreader.com/blogs/the-secret-politics-of-spider-man-homecoming/
Premise of Discussion
Let us answer that question: When the broken system works in favor of the rich instead of the little guy, why not pilfer a little piece of the wreckage to help support your family?
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