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"I'm Luke Cage" (Bulletproof Love)

Marvel's Luke Cage is such a compelling, deep and interesting story.. Something my brother watched recently that inspired this piece. One thing that won the hearts of several people including mine is the portrayal of the bad guys. Show's focus was on crime drama and it was greatly explored. I'm just going to give a kinda recap on the main characters and other root elements of the show. Luke Cage The protagonist , formerly known as Carl Lucas, son of a preacher .. Framed for a crime he didn't commit by his stepbrother (someone he considered as his best friend). Went to prison and was blackmailed into an illegal fight ring as a test for an experiment to create some sorta super soldier. It was an ongoing test for all inmates in which none passed, at least enough to go through the experiment. Luke had to be subjected to the experiment after he was severely beaten by two criminals as an attempt to stop him from exposing the illegal operations in the prison, thou...

A "good" villain makes a good story..

Lol.. Am I on the side of the villains now? Well, it's all fiction for a reason.. Okay, on to the content of the above topic. Have you ever wondered how your favorite superhero movie would be if the villain was all dry, soft and boring? You will certainly not call it your "favorite" right? Now this isn't meant to disregard the good guys.. We have and will always love them for their actions and perspectives. But really, you just gotta appreciate the bad guys' performance even if the character is portrayed as the ultimate bad guy or a lackey or a sidekick or a minion or whatever he or she or it is called.. 😆 I'm going to make this very simply by comparing two superhero movies.. One from MCU and the other from DCEU : Avengers: Age of Ultron and Justice League . Now this is just my opinion about the villains in the story. The presence of Ultron , a peacekeeping intelligent system built by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner which turned out to be the opposi...