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Listen carefully and you can hear the algorithm whispering.
What I didnt show yo on that “Is This Tomorrow review” was that googling the phrase communist comic book also throws up in the auto suggestions “communist comic villains”. You don’t need to be the internet equivalent of a horse whispers to notice a clue like that. Ok google skynet I’m selling out. You show me the demand and ill give you the supply. Heres my soul you’re the boss man now. Algorithm, take the wheel this is Commi3 Marks Top X Marvel Communist Comic Villains.
When you’re writing an ongoing long running comic book series for Marvel like a “Tales to Astonish” or a “Captain America” or something, with the man breathing down your neck over deadlines and the need to pay your mortgage it can be a challenge to come up with new and original story lines and develop fresh characters week in week out. Well there is this one super secret classified technique that you can use as a writer to just generate new stories. If very easy. just ask yourself the question “what if Captain America had to fight an evil version of themselves?”
And the Red Guardian is born. Equal and opposite to Captain America in every way. What he lacks in actual character is papered over by “yeah but hes evil”. Selected by the KGB one of the Soviet Union’s most acclaimed test pilots He goes on to serve the communist party as a covert operative and figure of political propaganda.
The Crimson Dynamo on the other hand… hes just a knock off Iron Man. Khrushchev himself asks Ivan Vanko to build his own super mecha battle suit suit thing specifically with the intention of using it to kill Capitalist dog, weapons manufacturer and the private sectors number 1 leading exporter of US tyranny: Tony Stark. Look, its a really simple technique.
We know that this is what they were doing, and that they knew that was what they were doing not only because its painfully transparent to anyone with a brain cell but that they admitted to it.
Stan Lee chose the name “the Abomination”, which he realized belonged to no other character, before conceiving the character’s background and appearance. Lee recalled that he simply told the artist Gil Kane to “make him bigger and stronger than the Hulk and we’ll have a lot of fun with him.” Emil Blonsky first appeared in Tales to Astonish, and was introduced as a KGB agent and spy who became the Abomination after deliberately exposing himself to a greater quantity of the same gamma radiation that transformed Bruce Banner into his alter ego the Hulk,
I mean they didnt even come up with a new way he got his powers. It was the same way. Wow! This writing thing is easy. As long as you don’t mind your characters being entirely two dimensional you can just churn this shit out. I mean “hmm who else is successful?” “What about Wolverine?”
Great idea. How about instead of adamantium hes made of carbonadium? And we’ll lose the retractable claws and replace them with something out of that one tentacle anime you watched before you were old enough: Omega Red
Now, I wanna pause for a moment and say that despite being created in the 90s, Omega Red is actually a good design. I mean look at him. Sure, hes got your typical 90s muscles on muscles held up by the legs of a gazelle but Not a pouch in sight. Not one. Not like fucking Cable hoarding all the pouches for himself. Its the Age of Apocalypse bro, redistribute some of those pouches for fuck sake. Is that one pouch for every dead X-men?
So far we’ve got Captain Communism, Iron Curtain Man, and the original RED Hulk. I mean throw in a Slavic god of Thunder Perun and your just one step away from the Soviet Avengers. All that you would need to complete the set now is somekind of a Black Widow.
The Black Widow was of course communist herself. Trained in the mysterious red room to be a cold hearted killer for the state. Married to Soviet propaganda poster boy the Red Guardian she was the Soviet Unions number one super spy.
The thing makes the Black Widow the number #1 Soviet Villain is that she actually has some kind of depth of character. Shes not just some carbon copy of clone of some equivalent hero but has a real back story and arc as a character
In her very first appearance both Natasha Romanov and Anton Vankos Crimson Dynamo were sent to steal some technology from evil capitalist mega corp Stark Enterprises and kill Tony Stark (a plot line that would be repeated ad infinitum to this very day). After being seduced by the wonder and luxuriously bourgeois life enjoyed by Tony Stark she switched teams. In the first issue. Some people would say thats great. That the Black Widow is a strong female character who broke free of her brainwashing to fight for liberty and the American way. Some people might might call her that. Not me. Fucking traitor.
