The same way I view the location of most anime being in Japan. It’s just typical of the genre.
As a form of masturbation.
Its funny. “Oh the earth is about to explode? Only show it crack in the USA”. Makes me feel safe knowing how much it is fictionnal and in no way related to me.
That’s something I like about the movie Home. It was an American movie but the main site of the alien invasion was Paris for a change
Most of Hollywood is yank wank, you kinda get used to it. Tbh Hollywood is way too ignorant to portray anything outside the states accurately.
It can’t portray the united states accurately either.
Wolverine is Canadian so I dont really care
It’s pretty indifferent because Hollywood has an excellent track record of screwing up literally every aspect of a foreign country, even with next door Canada and Mexico, so people would rather just see a good movie than a bad depiction.
As for superheroes, I’ve always made the argument that most people actually don’t care all that much about the current genre outside of fictional entertainment because to them it’s purely fictional entertainment. Especially for 3rd world countries, they would find it dumb for some superhero to battle a supervillain in their hometown when there’s a shitty government/military/cartel/mob right down the street that’s done 999999x worse than whatever a fictional villain can threaten to do.
One of the reasons the Batman trilogy was so well received internationally is because unlike the rest of the superhero genre, it revolved around Gotham’s decrepit justice system being reignited and actually leading to a systemic improvement in society, which is everyone’s pipe dream.
Do you live in new York or LA? If not you know how it feels.
I’ve always found it weird when world threatening events are typically concentrated in one country but it is to be expected that the majority of media from a country will take place in that country.
If the MCU were more realistic, there ought to be more international heroes but somehow almost all the earth heroes seem to be American (the only exception I can think of is Black Panther). I like that The Incredibles 2 features international heroes.
I also used to find it weird how in Digimon, the saviours of a whole other world just happen to all be from Japan. The second season brought in international digidestined but it doesn’t change the fact that the ones who traveled to the digiworld to fight evil in the first season happened to all be from one small area of Japan
There really aren’t enough international characters but you forgot Wanda (Scarlet Witch), or her brother Quicksilver. Thor seems American but is from Asgard, Professor X is British I believe, Nightcrawler is German or Dutch I think… I’m sure there are more I’m not thinking of but at least there are some.
I’m embarrassed I forgot about Wanda, she’s one of my favourites. To be fair, she is living in America for much of the franchise. I also almost mentioned Shang-Chi, he’s originally from China and most of his movie is set in China but he also grew up in America. The X-men aren’t really part of the MCU yet but they will be in Doomsday. Wolverine is already part of the MCU and he’s Canadian. As for Thor, I wasn’t counting him as an earth hero because Asgard is another planet.
