Hubby was in a car accident on Wednesday (besides a deep thigh contusion, he’s fine) and has been sitting in the recliner, popping prescription strength Tylenol and watching Netflix Marvel Universe since then. He watched the Defenders first, which was nice, then Luke Cage.
There is a point in Luke Cage where the citizens of Harlem, cleared of the misconception that Luke is a cop killer by Method Man, rally around him as the police hold a massive manhunt. Everybody starts wearing black hoodies (with bullet holes in it) to confuse and misdirect the police. Many defiantly mocking the cops on patrol. Now, I don’t know if the showrunners are up on current events but this is exactly how niggas get shot in Harlem. And the general populace is not bulletproof. Seriously, police have gunned down black men in New York for far, far less. There is one guy who opens up his hoodie and offers his chest. Not to mention that the police thought Luke Cage would be stupid enough to be wearing the same clothes he escaped in for long.
Anyway, this plot point brought home to me what a totally different world black people live in.
Maybe they were just putting their money where their mouths were? Had the courage of their convictions? Some other saying that indicates that they were wiling to take a risk for what they believed in?
It’s an interesting point. But in comic books, law enforcement and the legal system in general are practically powerless. Suspects are expected to get away from the cops, or get acquitted on technicalities, or escape from jail, or even improbably get paroled after committing many murders over the years. Otherwise how can you have recurring enemies for superheroes? Or why would you need vigilantism in the first place?
The only time that the legal system shows any power in comic books is in unjust prosecutions and framing heroes. Consider Season 2 of Daredevil, where Matt Murdock is allowed only one week to prepare a murder defense for Frank Castle!
I remember that and thought it was strange too. As hogarth said, though, the Marvel Universe wouldn’t exist unless there was a hole somewhere between citizens and police. That’s how suspects escape=, how plots/subplots weave, and how superheroes are,well…superheroes.
OP, have you caught Black Lightning on the CW? It’s from the DC Universe.
I get it. Interesting observation. When I watch Jessica Jones and its focus on damaged women and each of their approaches to that damage, I wonder how women view it as much as I am processing it myself.
In both seasons I couldn’t watch certain scenes because the emotions they evoked, for me, were so raw that I wanted to put my fist through the screen. Instead I just screamed bloody murder at whatever character(s) was/were making me feel that way. THAT, my friends, is acting.
What makes it worse is, look at how corrupt and murderous the cops were in the first season of Daredevil. This is a police department so rife with monsters that they murder a fellow cop, while he’s in handcuffs, and frame up Daredevil for it. But these same cops are super careful about not accidentally shooting any black men who are going out of their way to look like a wanted criminal?
I imagine a world with superheroes would make cops even more trigger happy than they are today, since literally any person could potentially murder them and everyone else in a two block radius on a whim. Or superheroes would basically become “The Police” as we see it because of the fact we have people way too overpowered for their own good.