'Avengers: Endgame' clus a gay character - but 's an awkward choice

Contents:

• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• 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' GAY CHARACTER 'WASN'T MEANT TO BE PUT ON A PESTAL,' SAYS MARVEL PRINT
• 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
• ‘AVENGERS’ DIRECTORS HT THAT MARVEL WILL UNVEIL A GAY CHARACTER
• MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME IS BEG LLED OUT FOR DOG "THE BARE MIMUM" WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"

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

“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. K is gay.

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

Avengers: Endgame gave the first openly gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, but left a lot of fans (who have spent the last wag to see a gay superhero jo the Avengers) pretty unrwhelmed.

Here's a selectn of openly gay Marvel characters who serve their time to she the MCU. While many fans hope that Marvel Studs ntu to diversify the superhero they brg to live-actn, Eternals recently took a signifint step forward by prentg Phastos as part of the first openly gay superhero uple the MCU.

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

Iceman had been fightg alongsi the X-Men the ics for s before he stunned dienc by g out as gay, but fans quickly accepted his sexualy. Wh Marvel Studs hopg to fix the X-Men film anchise after acquirg om Fox, this uld be a good ll for the MCU’s first gay character.

Viv’s sexualy hasn’t been nfirmed the ics, but she's kissed Ironheart and was strongly suggted that she’s eher gay or asexual when she said, “an attractn to boys is nowhere wh me.” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay. There was speculatn that Hercul would be a lead  The Eternals when Marvel announced that the film would star a gay lead, but the reference was stead to Phastos. Phyla-Vell was first intified as gay when she admted to and acted on her attractn towards Moondragon.

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

In any discsn of who will be the first openly gay superhero the MCU, ’s important to mentn the first openly gay superhero Marvel Comics. Northstar was a landmark character for ic book history bee he was one of the first gay superhero, the first to e out a Marvel book, and 2012, he beme the first character to have a same-sex weddg a mastream ic. Phastos may be half of the first openly gay relatnship the Marvel Cematic Universe, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead was part of the first gay superhero uple all of superhero cema several years earlier.

The two shared the first gay kiss between major characters a Marvel ic back X-Force #45 while Rictor was huntg for Multiple Man New England. Rictor has also dated women the Marvel Universe, such as Wolfsbane and Boom Boom, but he stated X-Force #20 that he always knew ep down that he was gay.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

”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.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY CHARACTER REVEAL IS SULTG, NOT PROGRSIVE

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 HAS THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)

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' GAY CHARACTER 'WASN'T MEANT TO BE PUT ON A PESTAL,' SAYS MARVEL PRINT

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.

5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER

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

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.

‘AVENGERS’ DIRECTORS HT THAT MARVEL WILL UNVEIL A GAY CHARACTER

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. 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.

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

But as Avengers: Endgame reflectns ntue to e out, there is headle after headle about Marvel's first openly gay character.

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. 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: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?

"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 NONILLY GAY CHARACTER

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. Cap meets a gay character the film.

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

Avengers: Endgame‘s gay reprentatn problem. It’s a subtle mentn, but this, folks, is the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first openly gay character.

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

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

If fans thought they were gettg a gay character wh the MCU who would have any kd of signifint impact, though, they were for a disappotment. The openly gay character Avengers: Endgame is merely billed as "grievg man, " and he's played by Joe Rso. Ined, feels very much like a token gture, as though they thought they better clu a gay person somewhere, and that was as good a moment as any.