"CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Must Die!" Chinese Moviegoers Turn On MCU Movie To Support NE ZHA 2

"CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Must Die!" Chinese Moviegoers Turn On MCU Movie To Support NE ZHA 2

Captain America: Brave New World underperformed in China this weekend thanks to animated mega-hit Ne Zha 2, and some in the country are making an effort to destroy the latest Marvel Studios blockbuster.

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By JoshWilding - Feb 20, 2025 08:02 AM EST
Source: BBC

Ne Zha 2, a new Chinese blockbuster, recently became the world's highest-grossing animated movie and, as we write this, it's still breaking records. While it's found some success overseas, almost all of its $1.7 billion haul has come from the Middle Kingdom.

Captain America: Brave New World fell to Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy in the UK and, unsurprisingly, proved no match for Ne Zha 2 in China. That combination has put a big dent in its international cume. However, in China, not seeing the latest Marvel Studios movie has reportedly become a point of national pride. 

According to the BBC, nationalist fans of Ne Zha 2 are strongly discouraging others from watching Captain America: Brave New World. One popular slogan being used on social media states, "I don't care if Ne Zha 2 can survive overseas, but Captain America 4 must die in China."

News outlets are also taking great delight in the movie's lacklustre performance in China (it opened to $10.6 million this past weekend). One online essay read, "It's not Captain America that's dying, but America that's dying ... In reality, the US does not have superheroes and the US is not a peace-loving, peace-defending beacon for humanity."

Some theaters are even said to have held off screenings of Captain America: Brave New World in a bid to "support" Ne Zha 2. Those who do praise the MCU blockbuster and dare criticise the Chinese title are being labelled unpatriotic or paid "haters."

At least some of the backlash stems from Ne Zha 2 not being given a bigger presence in American theaters. Even so, it grossed $7.2 million from the U.S. during its opening weekend earlier this month. 

For those of you curious to learn more about the Chinese mega-hit, here's the trailer and synopsis for Ne Zha 2:

After the heavenly lightning, although Ne Zha and Ao Bing survived by becoming Spirits, they would soon dissipate completely. Taiyi plans to rebuild Ne Zha and Ao Bing's mortal bodies with the Seven-colored Precious Lotus. However, during the process of reconstruction, numerous obstacles arise. What will become of the fate of Ne Zha and Ao Bing?

In Captain America: Brave New World, after meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam Wilson finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

The movie stars Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Xosha Roquemore, Carl Lumbly, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford. The movie is directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore. Louis D’Esposito and Charles Newirth serve as executive producers.

"Flawed but functional, Captain America: Brave New World's many problems are largely forgotten any time Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford electrify the screen," we said in our review. "And when Red Hulk shows up, the movie reaches new heights of awesome."

Captain America: Brave New World is now playing in theaters.

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slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 2/20/2025, 8:36 AM
Well they’re aren’t wrong about current America… but there’s still hope for MCU America!
Matador
Matador - 2/20/2025, 8:45 AM
@slickrickdesigns -

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SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 2/20/2025, 8:49 AM
@slickrickdesigns - Ironically that one of the themes and plot points of the movie is about America being broken and lost and Sam being a beacon to give something for people to aspire to. I love the hate it's getting because it proves people are not watching it due to their own hateful points of view and not out of legitimate issues.
DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 2/20/2025, 9:12 AM
@SonOfAGif - or we just think it looks like shit. Seemed like no problem when you were all behaving this way over every DC movie. But if people behave like that with the MCU you all pretend it’s a hate crime 🤪
Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 2/20/2025, 9:18 AM
@DudeGuy - This ^
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 2/20/2025, 9:25 AM
@SonOfAGif - You love hate?
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 2/20/2025, 9:25 AM
@slickrickdesigns - "It's not Captain America that's dying, but America that's dying ... In reality, the US does not have superheroes and the US is not a peace-loving, peace-defending beacon for humanity."

This is CCP propagnada of course, but it's not wrong. That said, I don't think it has much to do with "current" America. This country has been on a massive decline since the 1980's.
Outsourcing most of our industry and labor to even MORE corrupt countries (like China) to skirt regulations and increase profits has crippled the middle and working poor in the U.S.

"Our" politicians (they don't work for you) left and right, have sold us out and bankrupted our children's futures. There's nothing "current" about this problem...it's been going on for decades.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 2/20/2025, 9:45 AM
@SonOfAGif - I watched it. It's MID AF.

It's to CA:TWS what SW:TFA was to Star Wars.

A semi-retarded clone.

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DarthAlgar
DarthAlgar - 2/20/2025, 9:51 AM
@TheFinestSmack - Their true colors slip out every so often.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/20/2025, 9:58 AM
@slickrickdesigns - The US is on a far better trajectory than the MCU right now.

This is a non-story. Ne Zha is an ancient story from China. Way older that comic characters. One of the best comparisons to western culture would be someone like Hercules, but assume there has never been a big budget adaption for the character before.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 10:14 AM
@mountainman -
oligarchy
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 2/20/2025, 10:17 AM
@Feralwookiee - Precisely. No one takes responsibility. They'd rather pick teams, Red and Blue, and choose various scapegoats to go after.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 10:20 AM
@TGDestroyer -
just like choosing betwwen hitler and churchill
mountainman
mountainman - 2/20/2025, 10:33 AM
@Superheromoviefan - Yes we’ve been in an oligarchy for over 100 years. Reducing the size and power of government helps to prevent government and big business colluding.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 10:43 AM
@mountainman -
no you havent, you think you have. but now you began, musk just fires anyone he wants and give befefits to his businesses with no accountability like trump. bf musk/trump can you give me an instant where that happen?
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 2/20/2025, 10:53 AM
@TGDestroyer - Exactly. The ship has already sunk.
The real fun starts when the normies finally realize the damage has been done and that is far too late.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 2/20/2025, 11:13 AM
@Feralwookiee -
“"Our" politicians (they don't work for you) left and right, have sold us out and bankrupted our children's futures.“

True…. It might’ve started a while back but it’s still a current issue… it’ll most likely always be a current isssue.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 2/20/2025, 11:15 AM
@mountainman -
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marvel72
marvel72 - 2/20/2025, 11:49 AM
@Superheromoviefan - So you are comparing Trump to Hitler one of the most evil men in history.

Here is a reality check for you not even close.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/20/2025, 12:01 PM
@Superheromoviefan - Oh yes, and 5 years ago when one of the largest companies in the USA, Pfizer lied about its product and both the government and corporate press reinforced their lies in order to force Americans to take that product, thus making that company billions and its biggest executives and shareholders all gained massive wealth, that wasn’t an oligarchy right?

Or back in the Obama admin when he bailed out the biggest and richest banks, that wasn’t an oligarchy?

Or how about when big businesses parter with government to add new regulations to their industry with the sole goal of stifling smaller competitors? Certainly not oligarchy is it?

Or all this BS government spending that doesn’t help people but goes to line the pockets of connected people and NGOs? Certainly not oligarchy?

Or the biggest one that you conveniently ignored: The freaking Federal Reserve. A private bank that the worst president in US history Woodrow Wilson forced onto Americans, that has the sole power to create new dollars, which provides wealth for the big banks connected to it and simultaneously destroys the value of the dollar for the rest of us? No way that is oligarchy?

But cutting wasteful government spending is? Can’t take your nonsense view seriously at all. Maybe lay off the corporate propaganda media as that is the only way a person would repeat the nonsense you just shared.

Trump and Musk are not going nearly far enough to cut out government waste. They should be completely abolishing agencies. We should be at $2-3 trillion in annual spending cuts. And hopefully they get there soon for the sake of our children who need this economy to turn around to have a country to inherit.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/20/2025, 12:02 PM
@slickrickdesigns - Drat! Sarcasm in written form is tough to decipher sometimes. Carry on.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/20/2025, 12:14 PM
@Feralwookiee - based.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 2/20/2025, 2:08 PM
@DudeGuy - Oh please. Where were you when I was defending Aquaman, Wonder Woman, And other DC properties from the same rhetoric? I watch the movies before I comment my positive, negative, or neutral opinion. Unless it's a continuation of a bad franchise like The Fast and the Furious or Resident Evil.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 2:19 PM
@slickrickdesigns -
theres a reason you cant answer
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 2:24 PM
@slickrickdesigns -
no he is anti vaccine, research is already done. its a lie youve been fed
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 2:26 PM
@marvel72 -
question, was hitler born the most "evil" man in history?
UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 2/20/2025, 2:26 PM
@mountainman - Hercules is not western culture
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 2/20/2025, 2:29 PM
@slickrickdesigns - It won't be for much longer when things finally collapse.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/20/2025, 2:34 PM
@mountainman -
not on thing you said was real
what did Pfizer lied about?
Obama admin bailed out the banks isnt oligarchy, congress agreed
new regulations to in industries arent oligarchy, do you think its oligarchy regulate seat belts?
i can keep going, but first answer these
mountainman
mountainman - 2/20/2025, 11:37 PM
@Superheromoviefan - It’s tiring to have to keep going over this as if folks like you haven’t kept up with the news. There were lies about the vaccine’s ability to stop the spread. These lies were publicly known as early as 2022. These lies were the basis of the lies that the Biden admin, Fauci, and the corporate legacy media used to push for vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. If the vaccine didn’t stop the spread, which it never did, then mandating it and blocking people who chose not to take it out of society was both anti-science and authoritarian nonsense.

The government giving taxpayer money to large corporations is oligarchy. The current admin reducing unnecessary, wasteful, and fraudulent spending that has driven our debt up to almost $37 trillion and caused the inflation that has screwed us all over is not.

Regulating seat belts is not oligarchy, although it’s just an unnecessary overstepping of government power that was only done to give cops another excuse to
pull you over and find another crime.

Keep going bro. Your scenarios are easy and you apparently have a poor grasp of politics and civics.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/20/2025, 11:41 PM
@UncleHarm1 - He most certainly is. The West doesn’t only refer to America you know. Rome, even when it had its larger empire, is in the West. The dividing line between west and east may have contention, but nobody would claim Europe isn’t a part of Western culture.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/21/2025, 6:49 AM
@mountainman -
can you show me fauci or biden saying the vaccine’s ability to stop the spread?
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/21/2025, 7:24 AM
@Superheromoviefan - Political figures may have cos oft as clueless on such things as any other layman can be

As someone from healthcare who thus kept track of everything coming from the official bodies thus can say with certainty Fauci didn't as was always giving the scientific efficacy %'s and viral load reduction factors and all of that stuff and even when giving out those statistics always stated caution on studies if low sample sizes over short periods and not peer reviewed etc.

Easy to spin when a lot of words (as many will post small clips out of context of the whole) and public understanding of a term like immunity differs from the medical use of the term but he never claimed it was 100% effective at preventing infection, never claimed it had no side effects, never claimed it prevented anyone infecting anyone else, never claimed it would be a one or done jab either, and when talking in laymen terms always talked about reducing severity and spread not stopping as an absolute (in other words the normal for almost any vaccine no matter the type).
mountainman
mountainman - 2/21/2025, 8:33 AM
@Superheromoviefan - It’s quite well documented, but after a simple google search I found this nice video compilation for you.

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1489533531139231745?s=46

Also, you really don’t remember the “you’re going to kill grandma” and “do it for your community propaganda in 2021? Seriously? And the fact that the most evil people on Earth were blaming the unvaccinated? Not only did the propaganda do a number on too many people, but it’s sad to see how bad people’s memories are.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/21/2025, 8:37 AM
@Apophis71 - Fauci said on numerous occasions that the vaccine stopped the person from catching or spreading the virus. This lie was the entire basis for the authoritarian vaccine mandates.

We are a better world from having moved on from that anti-science madness and the people who pushed those policies should be imprisoned for the rest of their lives.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 2/21/2025, 8:51 AM
@mountainman -
first clip, he said, you wont get covid, not spread it
second clip the same
third says the current research suggest, not certain
the final was a news caster
so another lie
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/21/2025, 8:59 AM
@mountainman - No, he didn't, he said studies showed a reduction in viral load thus reducing the probability of infecting others not absolutes and there is never any such things as absolutes in medicine when it comes to a virus, a vaccine or natural immunity.

If studies were later found to be flawed that is down to the study not on the one reporting the findings of studies and again every time Fauci talked about studies he voiced caution reading too much into any one individual study.

This is all actual science, a thing that always evolves as more studies and research takes place, what your spouting is out of context spin thus anti-science and sad to see anyone still repeating such BS.

Maybe not try to argue the point with someone with two medical degrees and 40yrs working in healthcare with a family where at least half of all members worked in healthcare for as long as we can trace back our family history (most the other half being military until my generation and younger) as you won't win this one.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/21/2025, 9:13 AM
@Superheromoviefan - They are also always clips out of context of the whole of what he would say which is key, taking one part of one line out of a long talk about what the research shows can make it sound like someone said the exact opposite of what they actualy said. Sometimes he was pushed to simplify for laymen by news outlets which he always resisted doing but even when he gave a simplified statement he would add something along the lines of 'in the vast majority of cases according to current research' bit onto it (ie avoiding absolutes). There is also a difference between catching a virus and developing the disease associated with a virus that clipping down removes from the context of the whole.

Technicaly no vaccine or natural immunity can completely prevent you 'catching a virus' as it needs to get into you body for the antibodies to be able to do their job but you may never present with any symptoms if the bodies immune system is efficient enough and/or the viral load your exposed to is low. That is why in healthcare we talk about %'s and probabilities and never in absolutes with such things even with the most efficacious vaccines going for a virus with the lowest mutation rates going.
mountainman
mountainman - 2/21/2025, 9:41 AM
@Apophis71 - Your medical degrees and experience sure didn’t give you the ability to understand what people say. The entire basis for the fascist vaccine mandates and passports was to stop the spread.

If the vaccine didn’t stop the spread, why force it on everyone or black people out of public places like we reinstituted Jim Crow?

Why would an unvaccinated person be a danger to vaccinated people? (outside of the obvious reason that they only did it to boost big pharma profits and punish non compliant people).

I know MANY people in the medical profession that were opposed to the mandates. The good ones. The bad ones are those that listen to BS propaganda and are pharma pushers.

Glad I have a good doctor who looked at the actual science that I was extremely low risk and said the vaccine should be my choice. I chose not to take it, had mild cases of COVID like all healthy people did, and never hurt anybody else.

Biden and Fauci both said it numerous times. The evil side of the COVID debate was calling people “grandma killers” and said “do it for your community”. Those are lies. No science backed those statements.

Can’t wait until a quality medical professional - Jay Bhattecharya - gets the NIH in order. He will do infinitely better than career bureaucrat and evil man Fauci did.
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