Deaths Head II
The Sequel
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Shaw was just as much a Nazi as he was friends with the Soviets. He even mocked the Nazi's ideology.
All I saw was the trope of Black Dude Dies First. Nothing more.
Wait, what was happening to Darwin as he was dying? Was his body struggling to adapt, and failed, or did he survive by doing something completely different than what we expected.
I hope that it was him turning into energy because I think he would've been an awesome character.I assumed it was struggling to adapt and failing. It's kind of weird because Havok's powers clearly don't have that yellow explosion effect. If I were more optimistic I'd say he adapted by turning into energy like he did in his first appearance in the comics.
As much as I like Darwin in this movie and as much as I'm sure that he would've been able to survive Shaw's attack, if they bring him back into the sequel, they would really have to try hard to make him a key piece of the story in the next one. I don't want them bringing him back just for the sake of it unless it's going to mean something.
Yeah I guess but it still came across as we have to give Magneto a reason to be bad now. It didn't work for me. Erik and Charles only known each other for like a few months based on the time line in the film. I just would've like to see three films where Shaw and his crew were kept as the villains and fighting against Erik and Charles while building to a climax where they part ways. If not three films two at the least.
I just want to say as a woman of color who watched this film with an almost African-American audience, the same sentiment was felt when Darwin was killed. A couple of people actually walked out after that scene. I absolutely loved this film, but was disappointed in that part.
Like I said, people who have never experienced racism, or the more appropriate word, hatred, based of the melanin in one's skin would not understand.
I am white and his death scene was my favorite part of the entire movie.
His death would have probably had more impact if he had actually gotten to do something (other than die). He didn't even get a training montage.
His death would have probably had more impact if he had actually gotten to do something (other than die). He didn't even get a training montage.
Well that's stupid, both the walking out and the being disappointed.
At no point did Darwin come across as the 'token black guy', and the idea that he shouldn't have been killed because he's black isn't very persuasive to me.
Oh what a crock of ****.
I guess Lucius Fox in Batman is an example of having a 'diversity quota', right? But in that case the movie having only one black person is OK because he doesn't die. Ditto with Thor and Storm in the original X-trilogy.
This just in: Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy totally racist because Robbie Robertson works for whitey.
They both was useless characters that little thought went into for no other reason then to have the cliched character kill of the black dude and the black chick is a ****e sort of, dancing in a strip club. Typical. At least some motivation for Angel going with Shaw would've been due to the treatment of blacks in that era as second class citizens and In Shaw's offer she sees fairness. But no, not even a mention of civil rights.
You are missing her point. You're also trying to insult her argument. She is just explaining why some may feel the character was a token and killed off and how it sometimes can bother blacks.
No, she has no argument to insult because she hasn't made any points. She has asserted, without evidence, that Darwin is 'the token black guy'.
I'm insulting the way she's hiding behind 'you wouldn't understand unless you're black'. Try making a persuasive argument.