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

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: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME HAS THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)
• KEV FEIGE DEFENDS AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S BRIEF USE OF MCU'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME INTRODUC THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL MOVIE
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

"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.

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

Avengers: Endgame has clud the MCU's first openly gay character.

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

Avengers: Endgame directors have sought to reprent the LGBTQ+ muny by cludg the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character.

Directors Joe and Anthony Rso thought to clu the saga's first LGBTQ+ character the anchise, and after was announced, many fans qutned if any of the superhero were openly gay.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. "The fact that the character is gay will get attentn but isn’t where the scene started, " ntued Joe fans, however, were not happy about the character, claimg that wasn't enough reprentatn durg the three-hour-long epic. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

Marvel wad to ntroversy wh Avengers: Endgame's openly gay character, but now Kev Feige steps out fense of the brief scene.

Marvel Studs print Kev Feige has fend Avengers: Endgame's brief e of the MCU's first explicly gay character.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL MOVIE

Avengers: Endgame had the MCU's first openly gay character, a grievg hband featured a unselg ssn wh Steve Rogers at the begng of the film.

The MCU is no longer the new kid on the block, and after 11 years 's well past time for an openly gay superhero. The day before the film's release, Deadle ran a major piece celebratg the MCU's first openly gay character, plete wh quot om Joe Rso about how important reprentatn really is.

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

" There have been reports that Marvel is stg their first openly gay actor for The Eternals, which is generally expected to be part of the 2020 slate, so hopefully thgs will improve the next year. 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.

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

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.