'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: 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.

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

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.

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

A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero. Avengers: Endgame has clud the MCU's first openly 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.

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

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.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

" 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.

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

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. 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.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

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’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL MOVIE

"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’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG

" But te reprentatn isn't a BINGO rd wh an empty slot that says "throw a gay here!

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

" 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. You see, though the Infy War sequel don’t have any gay hero – at least, not any openly gay hero – do have an openly gay character. It’s a quick, blk-and-you’ll-miss- moment, but this is still the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first openly gay character.