![]() Marvel’s Ultimate Universe and DC’s New 52 operations have effectively clean-slated their own cannons to keep their continuities from becoming too complex In fact, comic book writers at both Marvel and DC have gone to great lengths in the past to preserve their beloved limbo. If someone’s secret identity is revealed, a new storyline soon erases its consequences. If a character dies, a new continuity is created that negates it. ![]() Spider-Man is to be perpetually a young web slinger, an eternally young Batman and Joker are to maintain the same undying rivalry, Superman must always face down Lex Luthor, freshly out of jail and devising nefarious schemes. Comic book writers have long striven to maintain a certain chronological limbo for their characters. In the world of comic books, change is by far the most horrifying threat. If the movies do have a hidden meaning, it less addresses politics than it does an attitude toward the comics themselves and how they should be treated. So what does this mean? Is Marvel covertly injecting the world’s youth with conservative themes? Just because the original comics themselves were never intended to carry overt political messages other than the ultimate supremacy of good over evil, does this mean that the films carry no additional ideological baggage? Simply put, Marvel has old-fashioned systems that are depicted as correct, proven goods, while change is presented as a vile, disruptive (and sometimes Swastika-bearing) evil. In almost every film, change is depicted as a sinister force that threatens to undermine a noble, pre-existing establishment. Most blatantly of all, Captain America outright destroys the modern intelligence community because the morally gray concept of post-9/11 surveillance doesn’t compute with his old-school, World War II-era views.
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