Thursday, March 26, 2026

Live action Daredevil TV show on Disney Plus attacks Trump and ICE in its 2nd season

Front Page Magazine reports that Marvel's live action productions continue to be an ocean of political propaganda, with the latest being their Daredevil series broadcast on Disney Plus, which is one of several Hollywood products to villify law enforcement in the most contrived and forced ways possible:
For example: Entertainment Weekly reports that season two of the Marvel superhero series Daredevil: Born Again is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 24, in case you’re a masochist and want to mark your calendar. Because Left-wing Hollywood can’t simply tell a good story but feels compelled to shoehorn propaganda into every show, the new season will mirror the brutal reality of life in America under Trump’s totalitarian boot-heel.

To give you some context, the plot line of season one has gone roughly like this: a powerful crime boss and businessman (because businessmen, especially white ones, are evil, don’t you know) named Wilson Fisk has become the mayor of New York City and begun exerting authoritarian control: declaring martial law and targeting vigilantes such as the blind Daredevil with an Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF). Entertainment Weekly says the new season chronicles “the rise of the resistance,” and describes the AVTF as operating “in a similar capacity to the Trump administration’s ICE, snatching dissidents off the streets and locking them away in an undisclosed warehouse filled with cages.”

Except that ICE isn’t “snatching dissidents” off the streets but rounding up felons who are in our country illegally and deporting them. But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your forced progressive messaging.
One of the most irritating parts of this current mess is that they actually try to shield their propaganda with a legitimate issue from overseas:
As Entertainment Weekly puts it, one scene in season two depicts a task force official storming into a Cypriot restaurant in search of someone. The restaurateur calls him a fascist, a term the Left now uses to describe anyone who disagrees with them politically. According to the series showrunner Dario Scardapane, the intent of this scene was to echo the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus. “What we’re seeing happening in the streets of New York in Daredevil: Born Again happened in Cyprus in 1974,” he says. “So if you go back to the historical rise of autocrats, whether it’s Nero, whether it’s Pinochet, whether it’s Franco, they follow a script.”

He doesn’t explain what that “script” is, but it’s telling that he specifies two autocrats, Pinochet and Franco, who happened to be Right-wing (the label would be anachronistic in the case of Nero). Of course he’s not going to name any of the Left-wing examples that abound, from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao.
There's no mention of Islam's role in Turkey's MO in the EW article either, though it sure is ironic the producer's willing to compare Trump's administration to that of Turkey's autocracy-style governments. Despite what Scarpadane says, it's unlikely he gives a damn if northern Cyprus continues under Turkey's occupation (but it won't be shocking if he's willing to attack Israel's government over unproven "occupation" of Gaza, nor if he doesn't give a damn about what the Hamas did on October 7,2023). And no chance he'll ever take issue with a real Islamist form of takeover in the guise of Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor.

But what makes this even more ironic is that a former employee of Marvel's comics publishing is part of the TV crew here:
Scardapane, Entertainment Weekly says, acknowledged that he and Marvel executive producer Sana Amanat recognized what they see as the parallels with Trump and ICE as they edited the episodes in post-production. Scardapane says “things got into an art-imitates-life place.”
Well, this is additionally telling. One of the same people who forced Islamic propaganda into the MCU via the Muslim Ms. Marvel is now working on this production. Admittedly, this is why it's ironic the main producer would cite an incident from the 1970s involving the Religion of Peace in Cyprus as alleged inspiration for this TV show. But of course, he didn't actually mention Islam, and it otherwise figures. Nor do they care how many illegal immigrants have committed severe crimes during their undeserved stays in the USA, let alone Europe.

In any event, when they openly admit their approach to DD in live action builds upon anti-Trump metaphors, along with hostility to law enforcement, that destroys everything. This is what Stan Lee's creations were adapted to the silver screen for? This only makes clear why, in the long run, it wasn't worth it. I wonder what Frank Miller thinks of their using a title he employed for his notable DD story from 1986, where the Kingpin discovered Matt Murdock's secret ID as a result of Karen Page's sellout to drugs? Unfortuately, based on how he boomeranged back to leftism in the worst ways possible over the past decade, Miller probably doesn't have a care in the world about where this live action series is going, since he did otherwise disown his GN titled Holy Terror from 15 years ago. As for the TV show itself, it's time to change the channel.

Labels: , , , , , , ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

Flag Counter


track people
webpage logs
Flag Counter