USA propaganda using manga and Deadpool. Hollywood stars demand the removal of the recording

The White House published videos on the X platform showing ongoing military operations of US-Israeli forces against Iran, containing elements from popular Japanese video games and manga comics to which – according to the Japanese creators – it had no intellectual rights.

Last Thursday, a 52-second video titled “Justice the American Way” was released. It combines real-life bombings with images from games downloaded from Nintendo's Wii Sports platform. Earlier, on March 5, another video with the song “Yu-Gi-Oh!” was published in the US. from the Japanese anime series of the same title accompanying the bombing of Iran.

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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 12, 2026

In response, the official account of the manga series on Platform X issued a statement: “Neither the original creators nor the anime production team were involved in this matter, and the White House does not have the intellectual rights to use the manga and anime series.”

The “Justice the American Way” video opens with American actor Robert Downey Jr. turning on several computer monitors with a snap of his fingers, suggesting the start of hostilities against Iran. Afterwards, fragments of the films “Tropic Thunder”, “Gladiator”, “Braveheart”, “Top Gun”, “John Wick”, “Superman”, “Transformers” and “Deadpool” are presented. All this is interspersed with snapshots from the ongoing war in the Middle East and comic characters from Japanese cartoons.

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It was not only the creators of Japanese cartoons who criticized the use of their works in a propaganda war clip. Ben Stiller, director and lead actor of the film “Tropic Thunder”, demanded on his social media its removal, stating: “I never consented to the use of this video.” He added that war is not a movie. (PAP)

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