The psychic energy of Juche prevents all demon incursions via a passive buff.
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They don’t need one. They already kicked out all the demons in 1953. Also DPRK music is better than kpop
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No, they just shoot them
Well fuck why is Huntrix using swords then?
Capitalist inefficiency
I couldn't help but feel that on some level the demons were meant to be understood as the DPRK.
The serious answer is the film suggests the barrier they do is for the whole world and only happens to be located geographically on the Southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
And demon hunters from Korea having been doing it for centuries/millennia. The film doesn't say there's only one Korea, but had the USA not intervened in the 50s its would be DPRK band or pop group doing the ritual almost certainly.
It might be the PRK without the US and co, right?
Depends on what point they don't intervene I guess.
An entire demon hunter red army choir that fights with pike and shot tactics
Maybe I just had G Gundam enter my life at the right moment, but I love when a work of fiction has equivalents of the main heroes for different nationalities. Shit can be super problematic, but can be fun.
Every superhero universe does this
Captain America has the Red Guardian
Iron Man has the Crimson Dynamo
Superman has the Superman of China
I could go on for a while
Which one was it that had the absurdly racist Chinese Avengers/Justice League? Well, I think actually there were a couple . . .
Well, that was both Marvel and DC
I think DC was the one where they had the Chinese superhero team named Great Ten, comprised of "caricatures" like...
Shaolin Robot, who is a robot built for the 1st emperor of China
Thundermind, who gains magical power from being super into Buddhism
Socialist Red Guardsman, who is basically just Chinese Captain America if he were also Iron Man and highly radioactive
Mother of Champions, a woman who is constantly pregnant and gives birth to litters of super strong men who die after a day or two
Yeah, that's the one. Mother of Champions is unfathomably racist and just sort of lives in my head rent-free something something Mao's land reform.
I remember later on there was a Chinese Avengers where it was literally just the normal Avengers but Chinese people (which sounds like a cumtown bit). I think the author was a diaspora Chinese guy who didn't like whichever racist version was written in the past but also accused it of orientalism on the basis of trying to have heroes reflective of traditional Chinese culture when, in the author's account "Chinese people like Spiderman, they like the Hulk" etc., so it was literally just the same heroes. I think it was Marvel, but I'm not 100% sure.
I honestly think the cumtown Avengers is equally chauvinist in its attitude as the Great Ten (on average, but not as bad as the Mother) because it's posing the highest aspiration of China as being a flagrant mimicry of America, basically cosplaying as Americans instead of being something in and of themselves.
Yeah, like I get it, because having a superhero team based entirely on cultural tropes is as cringey as stuff like Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters
Which, thinking about it now, they aren't all based in cultural tropes either
Gotta mix it up a bit
Have your Chinese team with guys like Collective Man (has the combined strength of every Chinese citizen), but you can also have a Chinese Iron Man (if Stingray can exist, Chinese Iron Man can exist)
Yeah, having one or two lended over is fine and it's not like they should be the cast of Journey to the West or anything, but the Avengers are still very reflective of American culture and it's clearly so much better to have the bulk of heroes not just standing in the shadow of the cultural hegemony of America, so having them reflect various aspects of where they are from or from other places that aren't in the American sphere as such seems way better.
In DC, the Soviets had their own "Justice League", the Red Rocket Brigade. Pretty sure they join the Justice League International later on. Pretty sure there was also a comic with the Flash teaming up with Fidel Castro to stop an alien plot from taking over Cuba.
The Rocket Red Brigade (Russian: Ракетная Красная Бригада, romanized: Raketnaya Krasnaya Brigada) is a DC Comics superhero team. They first appeared in Green Lantern Corps #208 (January 1987), and were created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton.
Originally created for the Soviet Union by Green Lantern Kilowog, the Rocket Red Brigade — normal human beings enhanced using "forced evolution" and armoured battle-suits — proudly defended the USSR. Their abilities included super strength, invulnerability, flight (through rocket packs/boots), the ability to project powerful energy blasts and "mecha-empathy" — the ability to sense and control computers and machines.
Even GI Joe had their own soviet heroic counterpart, the Oktober Guard.
I had the entire Oktober Guard back when I was a wee bairn
I should ask my parents if they hung onto them
I am not huge on GI Joe stuff, but I think Red Star kept appearing as part of GI Joe media until quite recently (though I think usually he's part of the Joes now).
Last GI Joe thing I paid attention to was GI Joe: Renegades back on the now defunct channel The Hub (Hasbro's takeover of Discovery Kids)
Was an interesting premise, younger versions of couple of the classic Joes doing the A-Team thing while also bringing down Cobra, which has been reimagined as a ruthless corporation seeking to use biological warfare to take over the world
I remember Renegades, it was pretty interesting. Too bad it only had one season.
Wait hold up when did the flash and Castro fight off an alien invasion??
In The Flash (1987) #21-22, Wally West teams up with a fictionalized Fidel Castro to fight shapeshifting alien invaders (Durlans) in Cuba. After rescuing the real Castro from the jungle, Flash carries him into Havana to expose the alien posing as him during a speech. Castro subsequently hosts a party for Flash.
yeah its called 조선인민군 or The Korean People's Army and they are powered by juche with the only different from out current timeline is they all learn some dope songs because everyone is given the ability to fight demons equally in the people's republic
The juche necromancers are all that is required
Watching this, I thought about how many plots involve the "individual hero under pressure to save everyone all the time gets burnt out and exhausted" story arc. Capitalist individualism posting its Ls.
To be fair, that's part of the point of Mobile Suit Gundam lol
no the point of MSG is ~~making my food taste good~~ cool robots
The shit you sand off of Gunpla parts is forbidden MSG
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Juche Girls it's going DOWN
Lich King Kim Jong Un simply counter invades the underworld with his undead legions. The demons breaching into South Korea are fleeing the Juche Death Knights.
The demons only hunt capitalist dogs to bring them back home