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'Avengers: Endgame', the 22nd film the Marvel Cematic Universe, featur s first-ever openly gay character.

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

Avengers: Endgame clus a scene that feels like too, ltle too late which director Joe Rso plays the universe’s first openly gay character. * end game gay film *

“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. 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!

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

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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. 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' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER

Joe Rso played a gay man Avengers: Endgame. * end game gay film *

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.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

'Avengers: Endgame' is the first MCU film to feature an openly gay character, but the scene qutn is already spirg cricism om LGBTQ fans. * end game gay film *

Anyway, ngrats to the gay Mets guy on his date. Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg.

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

A gay character, played by Joe Rso, appears 'Avengers: Endgame'. This is a first the Marvel Cematic Universe, though Tsa Thompson nfirmed that Valkyrie is bisexual and that a scene referencg this was cut om 'Thor: Ragnarok'." name="scriptn * end game gay film *

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.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO

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. "It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.

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’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE

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.

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR 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.

‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO FILM

"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. The moment is quick, but ’s a tone nohels as reprents the first openly gay moment the MCU.

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