![]() ![]() “In other words, it is by enabling viewers to examine familiar traditions and worldviews from different unfamiliar perspectives and settings that some works of science fiction seek to critique the present while also expanding our vision of what is possible.” Black Panther’s depiction of Wakanda and its people, remains the biggest depiction of Afrofuturism in popular culture and it presents a new realm of possibility. “In the case of science fiction films, at their best, by focusing on imagined possible futures, such works can often compel us to re-examine familiar ‘common sense’ concepts by inviting audiences to imagine alternative ways of engaging the world,” he writes. Mich Nyawalo’s Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism, he notes the role of films and stories in shaping how we perceive and make sense of the world. However, Black creators have always imagined worlds where Blackness wasn’t a thing of the past and our fantasies echoed and expanded on our realities. Rather than leave things ambiguous and put Tony Stark out to pasture at the end of Robert Downey Jr.’s contract, we get to watch Tony Stark die a hero’s death and leave his wife and daughter behind at the end of Avengers: Endgame.Ĭoined in 1993 by scholar Mark Dery, the term “ Afrofuturism” serves as a way to define trends in Black literature and other forms of pop culture. ![]() (Aunt May’s shocking death, over a year later, still haunts me.) The MCU also makes it clear that no one is safe, not even tentpole characters with their own billion dollar sub-franchises. ![]() Even when you think you’ve escaped a parental death – like in the case of Uncle Ben’s offscreen death prior to Captain America: Civil War with Peter Parker’s first appearance in the MCU - there’s another one right around the corner. The MCU constantly subjects audiences and heroes alike to characters losing friends and loved ones at a rate that almost outpaces Disney’s habits of killing off parents. He is so stinking sad about the people he’s lost that I really don’t like to rewatch those films. In basically every single Captain America film there’s a specter of loss and grief looming over the titular character. ![]()
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