When you’ve grown up on comics and Superman is more than a character to your childhood memory, then it is inevitable that whatever amendment in the script or the narration of a character is changed, it will affect your perception of it.

A clip of DC’S much-awaited animated movie Injustice is currently doing the rounds on the internet which is actually upsetting a lot of ‘desi’ fans back home. The clip shows Superman and Wonder Woman destroying military hardware in Kashmir and the film also insinuates it as a ‘disputed’ area. 

Developing story : In the DC's new film "Injustice", Superman declares Kashmir an arms free zone. #Kashmir pic.twitter.com/upxyHOn7kA

— The Bite (@_TheBite) October 18, 2021

The clip shows the duo trying to restore peace and also features two countries’ representatives signing a peace treaty. The mutated depiction of the state of Kashmir has led to many perceptions and inferences being drawn on the internet and has, in fact, invited the ire of many angry Indians who are now boycotting the film.

In the @DCComics new film "Injustice", Superman declares Kashmir a disputed region. Superman and Wonder Woman are seen destroying the weapons to demilitarise the region. Who’s funding such propaganda films? Is it a CIA+ISI JV post Taliban? Govt of India should fix this. pic.twitter.com/lgAXtUGQEm

— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) October 21, 2021

Indian fans are condemning DC comics after Superman's new animated movie 'Injustice' shows Kashmir region as a disputed territory pic.twitter.com/Wc51IXH8XO

— TRT World (@trtworld) October 20, 2021

#antiindiasuperman
Superman has no right to interfere in India's private affairs
show something like this in your movie
Which is harmful for India and democracy pic.twitter.com/btq0JofmEz

— sanjay (@sunymodi1989) October 20, 2021

Why are they so specific about Kashmir? First they refer to an imaginary place like m'gota, but the next moment they mention Kashmir. Its better to keep quiet about complex geopolitical affairs that they don't know anything about
Btw, when did captain America become a woman ?

— अजातशत्रु (@Ayushless) October 18, 2021

With movies shaping paradigms and people associating propagandas with some of them, what are your thoughts around this?

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