Progressive journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates knows how to create a villain — a useful talent for his side gig as a prolific Marvel comics writer.

But real life ain't Wakanda — and when it comes to Charlie Kirk's legacy, not everyone is sticking to Coates' simplistic good guys/bad guys script.

In Coates' world, that can only mean they're "sanitizing" who the slain Turning Point USA leader really was.

'But if you ask me what the truth of his life was ... I would've had to tell you it's hate.'

Coates, who's scripted acclaimed runs of "Black Panther" and "Captain America," slammed Kirk in Vanity Fair just six days after his murder, calling the 31-year-old conservative activist a purveyor of "transphobia" who "reveled in open bigotry" and was "unconcerned with" the "humanity of Palestinians."

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