Just a light-hearted post about a non-serious topic but one which I’m seeing both sides of the political aisle making silly talking points about. In the new Marvel movie Thunderbolts Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the character Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
Because of the prominent streak of white in her hair anti-Gabbard people are wasting their time pretending it’s making fun of Tulsi while pro-Gabbard people are wasting their time getting upset at the notion that it’s making fun of Tulsi.
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In truth, Valentina was introduced in 1967 in the comic books and has had the streak of white in her hair for SEVERAL DECADES. So, everybody on both sides can calm down. The white streak is simply a trademark of the character as much as Nick Fury’s eyepatch is. (And she had been Fury’s romantic partner for decades, by the way.)
This is like when The Dark Knight Rises movie came out long ago and people unfamiliar with comic books made a similar mistake. Some Republicans were upset that the character Bane was supposedly a joking insult about Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital and some Democrats were laughing because they too thought the name was a satirical poke at Bain Capital. Continue reading
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