"Avengers: Endgame" Featur Marvel's First Openly Gay Character

Contents:

• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• "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
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
• JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
• 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
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME IS BEG LLED OUT FOR DOG "THE BARE MIMUM" WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• KEV FEIGE DEFENDS AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S BRIEF USE OF MCU'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG

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! 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 .

"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE

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’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO

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.

Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE

“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.

“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.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

“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. ”“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

”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 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. Wh Avengers: Endgame, Gay People Fally Exist the MCU.

JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’

The MCU's 22nd film, Avengers: Endgame, is the first to acknowledge the existence of gay people any form whatsoever. Ially, a blockbter movie wh over a hundred characters ntag a sgle unnamed gay character for a uple mut should not be newsworthy. In this suatn, 's noteworthy that the 22nd MCU film, Avengers: Endgame, is the first to acknowledge the existence of gay people any form whatsoever.

Endgame's unnamed gay character appears early on the film, after the "Five Years Later" time skip. “Reprentatn is really important, " said -director Joe Rso, who plays the gay support group member, an terview wh Deadle. "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR

Steve/Tony shippers might fd amement certa pliments on appearanc, but such bs of funny banter don't unt as actual evince of a gay or bisexual relatnship. The unnamed gay character Endgame thankfully don't seem to be the endgame for queer reprentatn the MCU.

Transgenr actor Zach Barack has a role Spir-Man: Far From Home later this summer, and Eternals is supposed to feature a gay or bisexual male lead. A gay character, played by Joe Rso, appears 'Avengers: Endgame'.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

Avengers: Endgame has troduced Marvel's first openly gay character and only took them 20+ the follow up to last year's Infy War, dienc wns a tone that se an on screen character make reference to beg gay–somethg which has, surprisgly, not happened an MCU film until now. " Though this is the first stance of an openly gay character picted on screen, there is potential for more LGBTQ+ stori the MCU.

Many fans are also expectg that the upg Eternals film will potentially feature a gay superhero lead–a fe first for Marvel. Well, blk and you’ll miss , but there is a gay character ‘Avengers: Endgame’, but ’s not a superhero.

THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

In the extend versn of that scene, one of the other people attendg the meetg is a gay man, mourng the “Snappeng” ath of his partner, and then gog on his first date afterward.

It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

”His brother, Anthony add:“The fact that the character is gay will get attentn but isn’t where the scene started.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER

”While ’s nice that the Rsos clud a gay character, ’s a really small role, and the character isn’t part of the ma story. Reportedly, another same-sex romantic subplot was also cut om ‘Black Panther’ there is talk that a gay male hero will be troduced ‘The Eternals’, wh Ikas and Hercul’ nam the mix.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?

"Disney has a history of showg brief "gay moments" recent films like "Avengers: Endgame" and "Bety and the Beast. "Marvel's "The Eternals" will feature a more proment openly gay character when to theaters next Insir's homepage for more.

A pattern of subtle gay moments Disney blockbtersThe moment is also troublome bee this isn't the first time Disney put a scene like this one of s larger movi.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"

Disney put a blk-and-you'll-miss- "gay moment" 2017's "Bety and the Beast" near the film's end.

The pany also had a siar overblown moment "Avengers: Endgame" that was praised for showsg Marvel's first openly gay character. You may image the openly gay character mt have been one of the film's dozens of superhero on screen, right?

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

Did you even tch that this moment wh the "Avengers: Endgame" director was a mor "gay moment"? Next November, Marvel's "The Eternals" will troduce an openly gay character who is married wh children as part of s st. Brian Tyree Henry will play Phastos, an openly gay character wh a fay, "The Eternals.

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. 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.

Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME IS BEG LLED OUT FOR DOG "THE BARE MIMUM" WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER

"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. However, they'd be ad wrong: Avengers: Endgame has ma history by featurg the MCU's first openly gay character.

It likely took viewers a mute to pick up on the fact that the character Rso plays is gay — that's how subtle was. " Rso tailed, "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. Add Anthony Rso, "We've seen now even untri where people untri where homosexualy isn't as ee as is here.

The cln of an openly, nonilly gay character the MCU has been a long time g.

KEV FEIGE DEFENDS AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S BRIEF USE OF MCU'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Gay characters the Marvel Universe" but we "jt don't know who they are yet, " as there are "a lot of characters the MCU and very few of them that we've lved to what their sexualy is.

Even Game of Thron actor K Hargton raised a flag agast Marvel over this, askg September of last year when the world would ever see "someone a Marvel movie who's gay real life" play a gay superhero. Not sayg that the gay character  Avengers: Endgame is sudnly the mouthpiece of all queer characters the MCU or that he mak up for Marvel's past errors when to cln, but he do feel like the first step toward proper queer reprentatn — albe a very small one.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

Earlier this year, Marvel Studs' physil productn executive vice print Victoria Alonso said that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero a Marvel movie, and noted that the big foc for the MCU movg forward is diversy. Marvel may already have plans place to troduce the first openly gay superhero to the MCU, as past reports claim that The Eternals is lookg for a gay actor to portray a nonilly gay hero who will lead the film.