Did "Eternals" Really Blame Hiroshima on the MCU's First Gay Hero? | Them

Contents:

• THE BEST HIROSHIMA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HIROSHIMA
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• IS THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO A WAR CRIMAL?
• DID ETERNALS REALLY BLAME HIROSHIMA ON THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO?
• MEMORI OF THE UN THAT HID THE ENOLA GAY, WHICH DROPPED THE A-BOMB ON HIROSHIMA 75 YEARS AGO TODAY

THE BEST HIROSHIMA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HIROSHIMA

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THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

He armed the first atomic bomb while the Enola Gay was airborne. He was upset that manr Pl Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay.

The MCU‘s first gay superhero was always gog to be a topic of bate, but we weren’t expectg… this. In the wake of early reviews for Eternals, some fans are ncerned that Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry), the film’s gay character, is beg portrayed as a war crimal. The gay Eternal assumg rponsibily for the atomic bomb beg dropped on Hiroshima is even more amazg once you factor that Marvel scripts are all approved advance by the Pentagon— Jse Hawken (@jsehawken) October 26, 2021.

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IS THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO A WAR CRIMAL?

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We wre about the different gay scen each statn we vis our gay travel blog lled Nomadic Boys. We get that superhero films are supposed to all be dark and moody the days, but did anyone really want to see a gay immortal get blamed for the bombg of Hiroshima? Acrdg to early reviews of Eternals, the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first openly gay superhero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is shown standg amid the bris of a recently ned cy, screamg, “What have I done?

DID ETERNALS REALLY BLAME HIROSHIMA ON THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO?

I’m all for plex gay characters, but maybe after over a wh no LGBTQ+ hero whatsoever the MCU, we uld have done somethg — anythg — else this first time around? But not only do feel pretty gross to e the specter of Ameri’s still fairly recent atrocy agast Japan to give a spanx-wearg hero some angst to chew on, feels extra weird to attribute to the only super-gay hero the film would an LGBTQ+ clive MCU even look like?

MEMORI OF THE UN THAT HID THE ENOLA GAY, WHICH DROPPED THE A-BOMB ON HIROSHIMA 75 YEARS AGO TODAY

S “gay moment. ” Havg Phastos regret helpg humans make weapons is a good character motivatn, but there’s thoands of years of war crim to draw on for that purpose, not jt on that still have livg other than shock value, what’s narratively gaed by lkg the film anchise’s first gay hero — and one of the few non-Wakandan Black leads — to an ternatnally trmatic cint that was, realy, mastermd and executed almost exclively by whe men? And y, we’re dog the thg where we judge tails of a movie whout the broar ntext of the entire film or the qualy of Henry’s overall performance, but we wouldn’t have to pick apart ty tails if the most domant film anchise existence had given more than mere table scraps of LGBTQ+ reprentatn so this is the kd of moral dilemma MCU gays have to accept while the straights still get the fluffy breakup/betrayal arcs whout doomg generatns of people to slow aths, we’ll fd our pism elsewhere, the bt of what’s queer.

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