I think you're forgetting fauxnogamy. A lot of people want to have a devoted and exclusive partner all to themselves - which is fine, if you're giving that in return. The problem is when those people have no qualms about cheating behind that partner's back. Which this case feels more like because of the simple fact…

The reason why is because a lot of the games cited in the article are more interesting than whatever the latest sci-fi-lite online military shooter, or MOBA, or generic survival game. You know, the actual trends in gaming. There are actually very few modern fantasy games right now, not counting horror.

I think the root of the problem is that 'YA is for girls', and 'games are for boys'.

My point is that there's nothing fundamentally offensive or disrespectful about a storyline that creates an evil version of Captain America and consequently has him being evil.

But wasn't the point of 'All New, All Different' to move away from the kind of things that were pushing fans away? Which included reality-bending alternate universes.

If you're talking about the comic itself, I'd say it's less nuanced and complicated, and more heavy-handed and convoluted.

I think you've missed the point of my allegory. What I meant was that there are plenty of people telling people to not be offended, that this doesn't disrespect the character etc., but if you gave Cap a long beard and had him join ISIS many of those same people would be doing exactly what they're criticising people of…

Sounds like a damn good story.

The idea that feminism is inherently political has been around for decades, something believed by feminists themselves, as they sought to destroy the notion that politics exists in public, and public and private lives are separate. It was necessary to do so to bring political change to the domestic sphere.

I do think, on some level, that, yes, the clumsiness of the whole thing just made what could have been a defensible situation basically indefensible. I also get that, maybe people should see where this is going, because it might not go where we expect.

Yeah I get your point, and I obviously hate ISIS too - I'd also criticise Marvel if they did that. My point is: look at how much white people feel threatened by ISIS despite them carrying out like a handful of attacks in the west, that kill a handful of people each. Conservatives never shut up about the threat of…

I think it's good to tell a cautionary story about the rise of fascism, and I think Captain America would be a good place to tell it, but it should have been better in a lot of ways.

No analogy is perfect. My point is that people are more lenient about ideologies that don't personally threaten them, and privilege makes this worse because those people don't have the same reference point.

But Cedric's not Harry. He's not the main character. Some people might like him, sure, but he's not the story we're interested in. He's not defined by a life of struggle against a hateful megalomaniac who orphaned him. Even then, plenty hate the twist, myself included.

Well, it might be temporary, but because this is a part of the main universe and Cap's such an important focal character, it's a plot point that's gonna filter through pretty much everything for a good while yet. It's not some self-contained what if?, everything Marvel have done has been to underline that, yes, this…

I don't think the problem is how realistic it is or isn't that the Nazis could win WW2. I believe they could have, especially when you throw in a wild card like Hydra. The problem is the real world context of the Nazis and the history of Captain America.

Seems a lot of people want to tell people to not be offended by the Nazis, or to not punch them, etc. My yardstick for this is: replace the word 'Nazi' with 'Al Qaeda' or 'ISIS', and ask yourself if you feel the same.

Except 100x more offensive due to the real world context of the Nazis.

So, basically, 'They don't wear red armbands' is the defence.

I think we tend to just abstract Nazis because, you know, they've been turned into wacky villains more often than depicted as they were. We need to remind ourselves that Nazis were real, and what they did: drove the world to war, one which killed our great grandfathers, and the most efficient and mechanised genocide…