'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
• ‘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
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME HAS THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY CHARACTER REVEAL IS SULTG, NOT PROGRSIVE
• JOE RSO DISCS THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS GAY CAMEO IN ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME IS BEG LLED OUT FOR DOG "THE BARE MIMUM" WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• WHEN WILL DIRECTORS LEARN TO STOP OVERHYPG THEIR MOVI’ “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”?
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

"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. 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. ”“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.

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

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.

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

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. Wh Avengers: Endgame, Gay People Fally Exist the MCU.

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. 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.

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

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 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 OPENLY-GAY CHARACTER (BUT DID IT WORK?)

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.

Avengers: Endgame featur Marvel's first openly gay character, but may not be the equal reprentatn that LGBTQ fans were hopg for.

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

Avengers: Endgame clus the Marvel Cematic Universe's first openly gay character, but unfortunately, the film stops short of proper LGBTQ reprentatn.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY CHARACTER REVEAL IS SULTG, NOT PROGRSIVE

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.

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

The openly gay character Avengers: Endgame is merely billed as "grievg man, " and he's played by Joe Rso.

'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY 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. 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.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME IS BEG LLED OUT FOR DOG "THE BARE MIMUM" WH FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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.

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

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.

"We've done four of the films and was credibly important to to have a gay character reprented somewhere one of the four movi. " 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.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

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.

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