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

Contents:

• ‘AVENGERS’ DIRECTORS HT THAT MARVEL WILL UNVEIL A GAY CHARACTER
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

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

“Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Rso hted that a gay Marvel character will be intified  a future stallment  the movie duo was discsg Joe Rso’s on-screen role the film durg an appearance on “EW Morng Live, ” which the director nfirmed as “the first openly gay character, ” Entertament Weekly reported Wednday. ”But as far as who he was talkg about, Joe remaed fairly HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP“We’re gonna fd out, ” he said, whout namg anyone particular when asked by a host “who else is gay? ”“There is a gay character g up one of their films, ” Joe said, addg that he expects Marvel will make an announcement on the subject, acrdg to Entertament Studs Print Kev Feige shed light on the topic last year, the outlet noted.

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

Two rol, “both on you’ve seen and on you haven’t seen, ” would be intified as gay, he said at the time. K is gay.

We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few years.The 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in.

(CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch. As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.

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

The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda.

In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s own.While her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv,” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman. After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).

“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.

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

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.

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

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.