Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg

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• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• 'AVENGERS: ENDGAME' HAS THE MCU'S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
• WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
• MARVEL'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S DIRECTOR
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ DIRECTORS JOE & ANTHONY RSO ADDRS INCLN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN MARVEL SUPERHERO 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.

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

— to be lookg to st a gay Asian lead.

WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU

Anyway, ngrats to the gay Mets guy on his date.

Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg. 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.

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

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.

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

"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. 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. 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.

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

Anthony Rso told Deadle that the cln of the gay character reprented a step toward clivy that reflected the real world.

MARVEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER FEATUR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

"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.

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

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

While nothg has been nfirmed by Disney or Marvel Studs, the mor has that Chloe Zhoe’s upg MCU entry “The Eternals” will feature an openly gay superhero. “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 Rso said.

“We’ve seen now even untri where homosexualy isn’t as ee as is here, ” Anthony Rso add.

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.