Avengers: Endgame's openly gay character was "jt meant to be a matter of fact"

Contents:

• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ CLUS A GAY CHARACTER—BUT ’S AN AWKWARD CHOICE
• "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME: WHO IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN THE MCU?
• ‘AVENGERS: ENDGAME’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME’S GAY MOMENT IS A NICE GTURE THAT JT FEELS EXHSTG
• WHEN WILL DIRECTORS LEARN TO STOP OVERHYPG THEIR MOVI’ “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”?
• THE GAY AVENGERS: ENDGAME CHARACTER IS A HALF-BAKED ATTEMPT AT DIVERSY
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM
• AVENGERS: ENDGAME'S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS "JT MEANT TO BE A MATTER OF FACT"

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

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.

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

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.

“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. 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.

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

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. 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. 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’ FEATUR THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MOMENT, STARRG DIRECTOR JOE RSO

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. Avengers: Endgame may be the straightt Marvel movie to date—an imprsive feat nsirg the amount of attentn paid to s blk-and-you’ll-miss- gay meo.

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

By focg on the origal Avengers team, Endgame highlighted the lack of diversy Marvel’s earlier years —and illtrated how queer storytellg is more plited than jt showg (or not showg) a gay character on-screen.

In rponse, Endgame feels like Marvel attemptg to no-homo s way out of Steve and Bucky’s image as a romantic uple. It’s the narrative equivalent of that “two bros chill’ a hot tub, five feet apart cuz they’re not gay” meme.

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

If you try to tone down to avoid gay subtext, you’re shootg your own story the foot. 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. 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.

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

) 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. — to be lookg to st a gay Asian lead. Anyway, ngrats to the gay Mets guy on his date.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER A MARVEL FILM

Avengers: Endgame’s Gay Moment Jt Feels Exhstg. If this nversatn hadn't started on the ter, no one would have even noticed that there was supposed to be a gay character at the begng of the film, which was supposedly Marvel's huge move to clare that superhero have LGBTQ characters. "The fleetg appearance of a gay character the film is at very bt a cloaked nod to the queer muny.

I thk that Marvel has a rponsibily to be more clive, and this fleetg appearance of a gay character jt don’t do , " Lricella, Associate Profsor at the Faculty of Social Science and Humani, Ontar Tech Universy tells MEA WorldWi (MEAWW). Pl, the reprentatn we got 'Endgame' is more like salt to the wound when you know that Valkyrie is a non bi character whose g out scene was cut out and when the whole Capta Marvel movie screamed 'Gay' durg two goddam hours. There's also a 'Masters of the Universe' movie, starrg Noah Centeo the works which will be based on He-Man, a superhero that was revealed to be gay at some pot the ics.

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

Members of a muny are often more aware of harmful (or simply cliched) trop associated wh their group, which n unrme a generally posive portrayal (as happened wh the first gay ntug characters the 'Star Trek' anchise) and are also able to help filmmakers see how a portrayal may be read differently by people the muny than by those outsi (a good example of this would be the character of Artie the TV show 'Glee', who was clearly meant to be a posive portrayal but received a mixed receptn om viewers wh disabili, particularly wheelchair ers). It’s the 22nd movie a massive big-screen anchise that has somehow never clud an openly gay character, so you ci that you’re gog to clu one. Not a major one, md you—there’s no time to troduce a new superhero this late the game, and the powers that be won’t let you do anythg tertg wh the sexualy of an existg character—but you n at least, your own small way, show solidary wh gay fans and make this fictnal universe a smidgen more clive, and realistic, the procs.