Marvel boss Kev Feige has fend the MCU's first openly gay character Avengers: Endgame, played by -director Joe Rso.
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- "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
- ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
- ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
- THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
- MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY CHARACTER REVEAL IS SULTG, NOT PROGRSIVE
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME HAS THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
- WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
- ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS ON SEEKG ROBERT DOWNEY JR.’S BLSG AND MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM
- MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
- AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S GAY REPRENTATN IS BULLSH
- WHEN WILL DIRECTORS LEARN TO STOP OVERHYPG THEIR MOVI’ “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”?
"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
'Avengers: Endgame' is the first MCU film to feature an openly gay character, but the scene qutn is already spirg cricism om LGBTQ fans. * avengers endgame gay *
“We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe told Deadle.
The moment is quick, but ’s a tone nohels as reprents the first openly gay moment the MCU.
‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
The Rso Brothers troduced an openly gay character to Marvel's Cematic Universe, but the cred rollg for Avengers: Endgame isn't warranted. * avengers endgame gay *
“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. While nothg has been nfirmed by Disney or Marvel Studs, the mor has that Chloe Zhoe’s upg MCU entry “The Eternals” will feature an openly gay superhero.
“We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is, ” Joe Rso said. “We’ve seen now even untri where homosexualy isn’t as ee as is here, ” Anthony Rso add. This post clus one mor spoiler for Avengers: the news broke that Avengers: Endgame would clu the MCU’s first openly gay character, the natural assumptn was to image… an actual character.
Endgame’s gay character is actually a meo om an unnamed civilian, troduced for a sgle scene where he talks about gog on a date wh a man. Oh, and this guy is played by the film’s -director Joe the scene featur a gay character a sual, realistic way, also feels tokenistic. After years of mands for LGBTQ reprentatn, Marvel rpond wh a new character whose entire role is to be visibly gay for 90 sends.
‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
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”“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.
”The Rsos may have had to ph to clu a gay character their fal film, but the “reprentatn is really important” le feels a ltle cluels the ntext of their stg choice.
THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
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The film’s promotnal tour also over-emphasized Okoye’s prence to a misleadg gree, implyg that she has a signifint role when she only appears for a few ’s first gay character was always gog to attract a lot of scti, and ’s unrstandable for people to have mixed feelgs about how this panned out. But as Avengers: Endgame reflectns ntue to e out, there is headle after headle about Marvel's first openly gay character.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
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After some light vtigatn, turns out that the first openly gay character is a glorified meo by director Joe Rso. The First Openly Gay Character qutn is a support group wh Capta Ameri after The Snap.
Then Capta Ameri tells him that 's brave to keep gog on dat ~wh other men~ and then the scene is be clear, I'm not tryg to say that Joe Rso's portrayal of a grievg gay man was rrect or offensive, though 's non that all gay men are fans of the Yanke, not the Mets.
Wh that beg said, cludg a gay person a peripheral role isn't an acplishment as much as s payg attentn to every day life. Givg a sile character the moniker of "gay" isn't blazg a trail for LGBT cln as much as s hopg s dience is ignorant enough to nflate the monplace wh somethg fact that an average gay man a Marvel movie mak news as newsworthy shouldn't be surprisg.
MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
Avengers: Endgame featur Marvel's first openly gay character, but may not be the equal reprentatn that LGBTQ fans were hopg for. * avengers endgame gay *
It's the same approach Disney took by makg LeFou gay Bety and the Beast and sayg he was gog to have a "gay moment" when realy he jt very yly longed for Gaston.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY CHARACTER REVEAL IS SULTG, NOT PROGRSIVE
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"We've done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi.
" But te reprentatn isn't a BINGO rd wh an empty slot that says "throw a gay here! " If anythg, stashg a gay man the narrative so that Capta Ameri n pat him on the head and tell him how brave he is only rerc the ia that LGBT people should feel lucky to be clud at ntent is imported om youTube. I would have preferred that the Rso Brothers, Disney, and the Marvel Universe ntued on their journey of creatg a good universe wh a pellg superhero narrative and left the wanton attempt of cludg a gay character on the cuttg room floor.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME HAS THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)
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But when you make a pot to create a gay character, have him do the absolute least, and then have ld as a step forward for reprentatn, that's a b of a another world, I like to image that Thanos is alive and that he ed his Snap abili a more nstctive way.
If you're gog to go out of your way to make a character gay, give them a storyle worth payg attentn to. Sendly, yep, you heard that right, this guy who lov the Mets (very masc) is gay, and what’s more, he’s the first openly gay character a Marvel superhero movie. Capta Ameri, An Ally, tells the gay guy that thgs are hard, but he’s dog good work gettg himself out there, and then the scene ends.
Time to celebrate, uh, gay Mets guy!
AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
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Joe, one of the two Rso brothers who directed Endgame, plays the gay character himself. “It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them, ” Joe said.
Star Trek Beyond ma John Cho’s Sulu gay wh a man-hug that you probably wouldn’t have noticed if weren’t for the disurse that spng up around .
WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
Bety and the Beast gave LeFou that famo “exclively gay moment” that amounted to a short dance wh a henchman.
) Includg a scene wh a gay character as mor as this don’t rectify that realy, jt mak the overwhelmg samens of the rt of the enterprise more stark. This isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate seeg gay characters appear on screen, or that I want studs to stop pictg them.
‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS ON SEEKG ROBERT DOWNEY JR.’S BLSG AND MARVEL’S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
Consirg how tied a movie’s succs is to the ternatnal box office — and how some untry’s ernments feel about homosexualy (see Bohemian Rhapsody’s Cha ed) — is, an abstract, unemotnal way, imprsive that the Rso brothers got such a direct mentn of homosexualy to Avengers: Endgame. — to be lookg to st a gay Asian lead. Anyway, ngrats to the gay Mets guy on his date.
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'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
A clearly gay character has fally arrived the Marvel universe -- although many sual viewers may miss the historic Rso, who directed Avengers: Endgame wh his brother Anthony Rso, portrays a gay man the blockbter, reports Deadle. "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Several mor characters, like Thor: Ragnarok's Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson) and Black Panther's Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), were reportedly -gayed through leted scen.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world.
"Marvel has yet to troduce a clearly LGBTQ superhero -- although the stud is reportedly searchg for a gay actor to portray one.
A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM
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MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
So, directors Anthony and Joe Rso really didn’t need to shoehorn 30 sends of gay reprentatn to a three-hour film that was all but guaranteed to top $1 billn s openg weekend. But Marvel’s attempt at openly gay reprentatn feels more sultg than radil. Avengers: Endgame‘s gay reprentatn problem.
It’s a subtle mentn, but this, folks, is the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first openly gay character. After 22 movi and huge fan groundswell for a gay superhero to jo the MCU lp over the years, the bt LGBT+ reprentatn that we n be afford is a throwaway le om a throwaway character. In addn to wrappg up 22 films worth of stori, Endgame manag to quietly slip the first nonilly gay character of the Marvel films.
Co-director Joe Rso plays a gay man early on the film, as one of the members of Capta Ameri’s support group. It’s a quiet moment, and you would almost miss was gay were not for Rso’s e of the pronoun “he” when referrg to his date.
AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S GAY REPRENTATN IS BULLSH
Rso said of the scene, “Reprentatn is really important, was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.
Rso followed up by sayg, “We wanted to be sual, wh the fact that the character is gay tied to the fabric of the storytellg and reprentg what everyday life is … We’re tryg to reprent everyone everyday life. ” Marvel has long herald a new queer future for the MCU, most specifilly their search for a gay Asian male lead the upg Eternals movie.
So took Marvel 22 movi and the elimatn of half the populatn to fd a sgle gay man their cematic universe? Marvel: Me: Did you list him as Gay Character #1?
WHEN WILL DIRECTORS LEARN TO STOP OVERHYPG THEIR MOVI’ “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”?
At The (@brockwilbur) April 27, 2019 marvel makg their “first openly gay” character a mor character is so disappotg — rhia ⧗ ? (@CHAVEZBABS) April 23, 2019 Feel like Thanos didn't snap half the universe to ath for an unnamed gay character played by a straight(? — Charl Pulliam-Moore (@CharlPulliam) April 25, 2019 Omg there’s a gay character @Avengers – he’s one scene and don’t have a name but still..
Spoiler: ’s not Thanos — Andreas Samuelson (@andy_samuelson) April 23, 2019 pta marvel didn’t cut her hair that short for marvel to make joe sso the first non gay character mcu #AvengersEndGameSpoiler #AvengersEndgame — 99% unsure | all the spoilers (@vibraniummm) April 26, 2019 What did you thk of Rso’s meo Endgame? Avengers: Endgame featur Marvel's first openly gay character, but may not be the equal reprentatn that LGBTQ fans were hopg for. Avengers: Endgame clus the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character, but unfortunately, the film stops short of proper LGBTQ reprentatn.
Marvel and Disney have, over the years, e unr fire for the favor seemgly shown to the straight whe male characters, but Marvel and directors Anthony and Joe Rso have hted that all that would change wh the troductn of Marvel's first openly gay character Avengers: Endgame.