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

Contents:

• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• "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
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY

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

Sendly, yep, you heard that right, this guy who lov the Mets (very masc) is gay, and what’s more, he’s the first openly gay character a Marvel superhero movie. Capta Ameri, An Ally, tells the gay guy that thgs are hard, but he’s dog good work gettg himself out there, and then the scene ends.

Time to celebrate, uh, gay Mets guy!

Joe, one of the two Rso brothers who directed Endgame, plays the gay character himself. “It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them, ” Joe said.

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

Star Trek Beyond ma John Cho’s Sulu gay wh a man-hug that you probably wouldn’t have noticed if weren’t for the disurse that spng up around . Bety and the Beast gave LeFou that famo “exclively gay moment” that amounted to a short dance wh a henchman.

) Includg a scene wh a gay character as mor as this don’t rectify that realy, jt mak the overwhelmg samens of the rt of the enterprise more stark. This isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate seeg gay characters appear on screen, or that I want studs to stop pictg them.

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

Consirg how tied a movie’s succs is to the ternatnal box office — and how some untry’s ernments feel about homosexualy (see Bohemian Rhapsody’s Cha ed) — is,  an abstract, unemotnal way, imprsive that the Rso brothers got such a direct mentn of homosexualy to Avengers: Endgame. — to be lookg to st a gay Asian lead. Anyway, ngrats to the gay Mets guy on his date.

Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg. “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. 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. After years of mands for LGBTQ reprentatn, Marvel rpond wh a new character whose entire role is to be visibly gay for 90 sends.

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

”“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.

"Disney has a history of showg brief "gay moments" recent films like "Avengers: Endgame" and "Bety and the Beast. "Marvel's "The Eternals" will feature a more proment openly gay character when to theaters next Insir's homepage for more. A pattern of subtle gay moments Disney blockbtersThe moment is also troublome bee this isn't the first time Disney put a scene like this one of s larger movi.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

Disney put a blk-and-you'll-miss- "gay moment" 2017's "Bety and the Beast" near the film's end. The pany also had a siar overblown moment "Avengers: Endgame" that was praised for showsg Marvel's first openly gay character. You may image the openly gay character mt have been one of the film's dozens of superhero on screen, right?

Did you even tch that this moment wh the "Avengers: Endgame" director was a mor "gay moment"?

"It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Next November, Marvel's "The Eternals" will troduce an openly gay character who is married wh children as part of s st. Brian Tyree Henry will play Phastos, an openly gay character wh a fay, "The Eternals.

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

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. 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. A Marvel executive, Victoria Alonso, told Variety at the Capta Marvel premiere that "the world is ready" for a gay superhero. In addn to wrappg up 22 films worth of stori, Endgame manag to quietly slip the first nonilly gay character of the Marvel films.

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.

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

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. ” 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.

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

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?

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

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