Unfortunate Implications/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** Well in the current comic continuity {{spoiler|Wakandans}} use primitive weapons in order to be [[Closer to Earth]], so at least there is some reasoning for the implications. It doesn't help much, but it softens the blow.

* ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' includes the infamous level "No Russian," where the player is allowed (but not required) to join in a civilian massacre of Russians. Civilians can also appear (and be killed) during the Rio missions. The Unfortunate part is that the latter part of the Americans' storyline takes place during a Russian invasion of the Washington D.C. metro area and there isn't a single American civilian to be found anywhere, save one dead VIP. Killing Russians and Brazilians on screen is apparently acceptable but not Americans.

** On the flipside, Americans are consistently protrayed in the series as either incompetent fools to cock everything up, unwitting patsies for the villains, or flat-out villains themselves. If you're the sort who looks for reasons to get offended, ''Modern Warfare'' will see your challenge no matter who you are.

** In Modern Warfare 3, a child is killed by an explosion in London. As [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] points out, other children probably died in the war, and the only one worth focusing on was the American tourist. Apparently, Americans can't identify with anyone but other Americans...