Avengers: Endgame's gay "character," Grievg Man, unrwhelms pared to Joe and Anthony Rso's hype.

Contents:

• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S JOE RSO ON PLAYG FIRST OPENLY GAY MCU CHARACTER
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' NTAS MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, RSO BROTHERS EXPLA WHY
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
• MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY
• GAY JOE SSO
• MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY, SAYS JOE RSO
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' DIRECTORS REVEALED THAT ONE OF MARVEL'S EXISTG CHARACTERS IS GAY, BUT FANS ARE MOCKG THE LACKLTER ANNOUNCEMENT
• WHEN WILL DIRECTORS LEARN TO STOP OVERHYPG THEIR MOVI’ “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”?

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO

The moment is quick, but ’s a tone nohels as reprents the first openly gay moment the MCU.

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

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

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

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.

“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. Well, blk and you’ll miss , but there is a gay character ‘Avengers: Endgame’, but ’s not a superhero.

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.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S JOE RSO ON PLAYG FIRST OPENLY GAY MCU CHARACTER

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

Controversy Due to Rso’s Gay Role In the AvengerApart om directg, the younger half of the Rso brothers, Joe, is also an actor who has played eight movi. After the director and actor took on a gay role Avengers: Endgame, began a ntroversy regardg the role. The movie is nsired to have the first-ever openly displayed gay moment the MCU.

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

Talkg wh Deadle, Rso remarked on the importance of the role MCU by sayg: It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them...

Avengers: Endgame's Joe Rso on Playg First Openly Gay MCU Character. Avengers: Endgame director Joe Rso, who played the MCU's first openly gay character, addrsed the role and how reflects Marvel's new directn. Durg Capta Ameri's support group scene  Avengers: Endgame, the film's -director Joe Rso appeared as the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' NTAS MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER, RSO BROTHERS EXPLA WHY

"We've done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi. Avengers: Endgame troduc the first openly gay character to appear a Disney/Marvel movie.

There has been speculatn that Marvel will add an openly gay superhero at some pot, and onle mors have pegged The Eternals as a possibily.

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

Disney will her a gay character, Negasonic Teegage Warhead, om Fox’s Deadpool and Deadpool 2, the latter of which clud her girliend. “The fact that the character is gay will get attentn but isn’t where the scene started, ” he said.

“We’ve seen now even untri where people untri where homosexualy isn’t as ee as is here, ” Anthony Rso said. But one of the more subtle elements excg fans is the fact the film ntas the MCU’s first openly gay character. AVENGERS: ENDGAME has the seri' first openly gay character, say the headl!

— Kaila Sarah Hier (@cleverrgirrl) April 25, 2019Sure, the film uld do more, but hopefully this is the first step to more reprentatn the future, wh Kev Feige sayg characters ‘we’ve seen and characters we haven’t seen’ will be wh Hercul of The Eternals moured to be the MCU’s first openly gay superhero, looks like reprentatn is here to stay.

THE RSOS SAY A CURRENT MCU CHARACTER IS CANONILLY GAY, BUT WHAT DO THAT REALLY MEAN?

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

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

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.

MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY

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.

" 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.

GAY JOE SSO

If you're gog to go out of your way to make a character gay, give them a storyle worth payg attentn to. "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. "Fortunately for queer Marvel fans, better forms of reprentatn might be g sooner than prevly thought, wh a reportedly gay superhero leadg the charge for Marvel's latt property, The Eternals.

In addn to wrappg up 22 films worth of stori, Endgame manag to quietly slip the first nonilly gay character of the Marvel films.

MARVEL STUDS PLANS TO REVEAL ONE OF S CHARACTERS IS GAY, SAYS JOE RSO

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.

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.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' DIRECTORS REVEALED THAT ONE OF MARVEL'S EXISTG CHARACTERS IS GAY, BUT FANS ARE MOCKG THE LACKLTER ANNOUNCEMENT

” 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? 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(?

WHEN WILL DIRECTORS LEARN TO STOP OVERHYPG THEIR MOVI’ “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”?

— 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? Acrdg to a new terview wh Entertament Weekly published on Wednday, Anthony and Joe Rso claim that a character the dience already knows will be revealed as gay a future film.

For example, an unnamed gay character played by Joe Rso appeared a brief scene  Avengers: Endgame. When asked to clarify if this character was “the first out gay character” a Marvel film, Joe replied, “Y, openly gay. There’ve been suatns about other characters’ sexualy, but this is the first openly gay character.