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Warning! Spoilers for King of Spies ahead!
The brutal acts of revenge committed against real-life figures in Mark Millar’s King of Spies give the limited series a feel similar to many of Quentin Tarantino's films. Millar’s visually stunning, emotionally intense story of retired spy Roland King trying to make amends on a grand scale for a lifetime of committing unimaginable acts of evil and depravity. The series has a very movie-like feel and flow that is most obvious in its focus on using real events as a narrative construct for its characters to get revenge and rid the world of bad people who not only escape punishment but thrive in their wickedness.
The narrative style used in King of Spies is an interesting twist on the “revenge in a different time periods” narrative popularized by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. In Tarantino’s films, the focus is on imaginary characters getting revenge on real-life people, or people who resemble them. The most obvious examples are the heroes killing Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, or Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt’s character’s in Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood saving Sharon Tate on film from the Manson Family members who killed her in real life.
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King of Spies flips that script. Instead, the comics narrative focuses on the fictional anti-hero of Roland King getting revenge on fictional characters who unambiguously resemble real-life people. Indeed, while their names are different, the physical resemblances and the contextual clues make it easy to identify who King’s victims are meant to be. For instance, in issues#2 and#3 King assassinates two former British prime ministers who, by their look and context of
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