Watching Captain America or any other Marvel Comics movie will leave one with a feeling of great comfort, comfort that comes from America keeping the world safe, securing it from the imminent threats to global peace. The question arises from whether or not the United States (U.S.) should be glorified as much as it is right now, even if such glorification is happening on the big screen.
 
The recent Avengers: Age of Ultron can be called the latest movie that heralds American supremacy. Less than a minute into the movie, Captain America and Iron Man are fighting against what seems to be the villain. What is funny is that the villain just so happens to be Russian, whose country has been the rival and the enemy of the U.S. And, much to no one’s surprise, the movie ends with victory for the side Captain America fights on.
 
Pinning countries against each other has been disastrous, but subconsciously pinning viewers against themselves, or, even worse, certain countries, can also lead to disastrous results. Anyone who watched the first Iron Man movie knows that the stereotypically dressed Middle Eastern group of people who are armed with sophisticated weaponry are the antagonists. The viewer might say, “Sure, of course they are the villains,” but they might not have asked themselves, “Why is that?”And this is when the dangerous part comes in.
 
The viewers, if they happen to be in their teenage years, may grow up thinking that any random Middle Eastern group of men roaming around the desert are terrorists. And the thought of this is even more appalling because of the fighting and turmoil that seems to define the Middle East, from which refugees are emigrating.
 
All that has been said above is, indeed, completely hypothetical and may not happen after all. But, a good film is one that is neutral in its portrayal of all racial groups. This is not to say that Iron Man was a horrible movie, but it would have been better if the movie were fairer to Middle Easterners. Not doing so sacrifices a huge part of its artistic and theatrical value from not appealing to a wider audience.
 
Of course, Iron Man and several other films which misrepresent Middle Easterners are not completely at fault. The first reason is that a film itself is an artistic creation that should not be subject to any restrictions or bounds, and be about whatever the directors pleases to make it into. Next, many of the terrorists which have been frequently reported by the media happened to be Middle Easterners. From here, the directors of the Iron Man just chose the easy way and decided to go with the stereotypes. But, if the director truly wanted the acclaim of all of the audience, he should not have done this.
 

Any distortion of historical information is quite far from being just because misinformation can be used against certain countries in the future. A great number of films out of Hollywood have been propagating American supremacism and incorrect ideas of other countries and these actions will have a certain group audience up in arms. For their own sakes, Marvel and other movies straight out of Hollywood that glorify the U.S. should take it down a notch. 

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