Over the past couple of years, Marvel Studios has seen more and more “mature” content. Players’ return from Netflix Marvel shows such as DareDevil (Charlie Cox) and The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) need new spaces so these heroes can stretch completely. This, in turn, has triggered more Disney+ show “Marvel Spotlight”, which carries TV-ma ratings, allowing a greater dose of violence and other “adult” material.
However, this is far from the MCU norm, so I was a bit surprised to have the latest series of Marvel animation “Wakanda Eyes” and consider it bloody and violent. Clearly, it is still well below something “daredevil: born again” line. The animation series is not at this level with Castlevania or “Cyberpunk: Edgerunner”, at least when it comes to using the format to incorporate gores free. But while it could be perfectly intelligent as a broader show, especially the first two episodes are still clearer of violence than I have expected from similar MCU projects.
In part, this will probably be due to these stories. To be a series of anthology, “Wakanda Eyes” jumps around the time scale With each episode, and the two initial both in the past take more than 3000 years – with the first focus on the Renegade Wakandan Ransacking cities in the Mediterranean, while the second focuses on the troja war version. These settings are also more in a more comprehensive battle than we usually get in today’s MCU stories, and the show is well processed.
Wakanda’s eyes reveal a more brutal side of Marvel
Ordinary MCU karate -free karate style is great for family -friendly blockers because it is never too violent. You can always relax easily knowing that these guys were actually just knocked out. It recalls all these shots in the “A-team” bad guys crawling from the ruined cars as a way to secure the show’s viewers, the main characters have never killed anyone.
The thing is, it is harder to pull out when you make stories at a time when knives, spears and swords are weapons of daytime weapons. The first two main characters in “Wakanda’s Eyes”, Noni (Winnie Harlov) and B’kai (Larry Herron), both count in their episodes to count a significant number of body, and the camera is not shy about killing them. I speak axes in the skull, blades through the heart and many overall slices and hustle.
Again, it is nothing vulgar or too extreme, but it gives the show a different feeling from the usual Marvel action, and it is not just aesthetic effect. The show emphasizes again and again that Wakanda’s defense work must be done at all costs. The characters you root in this show kill people they like because they need to keep their homeland safe. And while additional violence is not a characteristic quality or even content of maturity, it is nice to see how Marvel is ready to move the curtain a bit and let the action reflect the narrative intensity here.
Wakanda’s eyes benefit from a distance from the rest of MCU
Unlike the animated Disney+ series “X-Men ’97” or “Your Friendly Spiderman,” “Wakanda Eyes” seems to happen in the main MCU continuity-something that is confirmed at the end of episode 4, using a fine reference to Eric “Killmonger” Stevens’s Stevens’s first. But since the show’s episodes take place in other parts of the world and long before setting up modern MCU stories, the series gets a lot of distance that allows it to take a different tonal and aesthetic space.
This is not just about violence. The whole exhibition timbre timbre is slightly different from the rest of MCU, although it is still technically “black panter” spin-off (and probably the only thing we will now get, now now The Okoo series has been canceled). Yes, it still looks similar to “what to do if …?,” Although “Wakanda Eyes” is a much more visually surprising show thanks to its powerful compositions and excellent scenarios. And yes, you are still getting part of this recognizable Marvel dialogue. But here’s enough to have fresh and interesting things here. And unlike many series, it knows that you do not exceed its reception.
It seems that MCU is moving more and more in this direction, allowing individual spin-off projects to develop its tones and narrative angles, rather than force all creative ethics. If “Wakanda’s Eyes” is an indication, I would say it works quite well.
“Wakanda Eyes” is now streaming on Disney+.
