Marvel's First Gay Character Is Played by Avengers: Endgame's Director

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• "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'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• MARVEL'S KEV FEIGE RPONDS TO GAY CONTROVERSY AVENGERS: ENDGAME
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME HAS THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME INTRODUC THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• MARVEL BOSS PROMIS ‘MUCH MORE PROMENT LGBT HERO’ AFTER AVENGERS: ENDGAME GAY CHARACTER BACKLASH

"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. 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.

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

A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero. Kev Feige has fend the unrwhelmg but of the MCU's first openly gay character Avengers: rerd-breakg movie ffled feathers when fans disvered the much-moured gay character featured was not a superhero but fact a grievg man who featur briefly a post-Snap support group attend by Steve Rogers (Chris Evans).

Portrayed by the film's -director Joe Rso, some fans were baffled by the cisn to make Marvel's first onscreen gay character nothg more than a glorified ImagRelated: 7 real people who – bizarrely – exist the MCUBut Marvel boss Feige has sce fend the cisn, argug that s cln was "jt meant to be a matter of fact".

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

”Marvel StudsWe earn a missn for products purchased through some lks this Rso himself has nfirmed another gay character will feature a forthg Marvel, acrdg to Feige, looks like we n expect them to be a more signifint role this time add: "We haven’t been shy about sayg that that’s g and that there’s much more proment LGBT hero the future. 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.

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

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.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

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. 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.

MARVEL'S KEV FEIGE RPONDS TO GAY CONTROVERSY AVENGERS: ENDGAME

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. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Sheddg light on Marvel's queer dog prs for Spir-Man: Far From Home, Marvel Studs head Kev Feige rpond to the gay ntroversy Avengers: Endgame. Feige rpond to a qutn om 9 about how the LGBTQ+ muny was disappoted wh how Marvel buted the first ever gay character an MCU movie. A lot of hoped for a far bigger but for the first one, rather than some unnamed gay guy wh two l who was nsequential to the who r if a fictnal character is gay?

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

Gay reprentatn, and reprentatn of all kds, is important bee helps people learn about other people they may not be faiar wh.

People tend to fear and hate what they don’t unrstand, but if there’s a gay hero savg the day alongsi the Avengers, then that go a long way to help normalize gay people a world where we’re still fightg for our rights. The day we don't need more reprentatn is the day where we don't need a se like Equalx, which shows what unti are LGBTQ+ iendly and flags the on that have laws punishg queerns unr the penalty of gay character Endgame was played by Endgame director Joe Rso, and while we appreciate the gture of patg himself to be LGBTQ+ iendly, by stg himself he may have advertently taken a role that uld have gone to a gay actor. Queer performers already have a hard time gettg st big movi, and gay men rarely if ever get st as straight characters, so why not let them have the gay rol that they were born this way to play?

Regardg some of the negative reactn surroundg this character, Feige said, “That was never meant to be our first foced [gay] character.

MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY

It was never meant to be looked at as our first [gay] hero. Makg gay characters a natural part of everyday life the MCU is how thgs should be, like was on the Netflix Marvel shows. Queer characters uld have been populatg the background and foreont of Marvel’s movi sce Phase 1, and failg to do so Feige has untentnally shed a light on the glarg absence of LGBTQ+ characters the MCU ’s not like Marvel never had the chance to showse a gay hero a movie before.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

Characters who were queer the ics like Vaklyrie and Ayo of the Dora Milaje reportedly had scen that nfirmed their queerns, but those parts were cut before fal release, nyg the proper LGBTQ+ reprentatn we’ve been so anxly this is why queer fans have been creasgly trated wh Marvel Studs over the years, and why the appearance of this first openly gay character may feel like too ltle too there’s still hope. You’ll notice how Feige said that Sad Namels Gay Man #1 om Endgame was not meant to be Marvel’s first proment gay MCU character. And that’s bee, apparently, Marvel has plans to troduce queer superhero -- eher brand new on or havg pre-existg characters e out as gay.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME INTRODUC THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

”Well okay Marvel, if you’re ready to e out of the closet, here are some Do’s and Don’ts on how to get your first gay MCU movie hero show queerns on screenGay PDA is OK! Don’t stereotype queer charactersExcept s where they’re talkg over dner, bee while Joe Rso’s character brought up baseball, two gay guys after the Snappeng would totally be talkg about how would affect Ru Pl’s Drag Race.

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.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

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.

Y, 's good to see a survivor of the snap talkg about how they're tryg to move on, and they jt happen to be gay, but let's be real; grievg man is unlikely to be a character of any signifince movg forward. What LGBTQ fans mean when they argue for fair reprentatn, and what Marvel should be strivg for, is an openly gay character who is foremost the MCU, wh a promence up alongsi Thor, Doctor Strange, and Spir-Man, for example; a superhero who happens to be gay, jt as Steve Rogers is a superhero who happens to be straight. This might happen The Eternals movie, as Marvel is reportedly stg for an openly gay lead, but that has yet to be nfirmed.

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

The character shar a story of gog on his first date followg the snap, nonchalantly explag that he and his date -- another man -- both cried before the salad told Deadle that he and his brother, -director Anthony Rso, clud the gay character bee they unrstand the importance of reprentatn. "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them, " he explaed. Upg superhero flick The Eternals is mored to feature the MCU's first gay superhero.

RELATED | Which Avengers are Havg the Most Gay Sex, Acrdg to Fanfictn. 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.

MARVEL BOSS PROMIS ‘MUCH MORE PROMENT LGBT HERO’ AFTER AVENGERS: ENDGAME GAY CHARACTER BACKLASH

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.

"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. 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.