Posted on 04/30/2019 2:24:59 PM PDT by Ennis85
As Avengers: Endgame continues to shatter records and earn rave reviews, some moviegoers are divided over how Marvel Studios finally delivered on president Kevin Feige’s promise to LGBT activists to insert homosexual “representation” in the beloved film franchise (minor first-act spoiler to follow).
After the villainous Thanos (Josh Brolin) wiped out half the world’s population at the end of last year’s Avengers: Infinity War, an early scene in Endgame features a support group for survivors coping with the loss of their loved ones. An unnamed member (played by co-director Joe Russo) discusses how he’s attempted to move on by starting to date again, referring to his dinner companion as “he” and “him.”
“Representation is really important,” Russo told Deadline. “It was important to us as we did four of these films, we wanted a gay character somewhere in them. We felt it was important that one of us play him, to ensure the integrity and show it is so important to the filmmakers that one of us is representing that. It is a perfect time, because one of the things that is compelling about the Marvel Universe moving forward is its focus on diversity.”
About this scene, Focus on the Family's Plugged-in reviewer wrote: "A man in Captain America’s support group talks about seeing another guy, apparently romantically."
The moment was apparently meant to satisfy years of demands by LGBT activists to put homosexual or “transgender” characters on the big screen, complaints that only intensified after Marvel cut brief moments identifying LGBT characters that were originally filmed or written for Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther.
Feige has made multiple promises over the years that Marvel LGBT representation would come eventually, which some such as entertainment journalist Grace Randolph dismissed as him habitually saying “yes to everything he's ever asked because he doesn't want any negative coverage.”
“The world is ready,” for a gay superhero, Marvel production chief Victoria Alonso declared in March.
Yet because Endgame’s brief, understated moment was easy for audiences to miss entirely, several left-wing voices are reacting with far less gratitude than Marvel may have anticipated. Feminist pop-culture blog The Mary Sue compiled several disgruntled responses:
https://twitter.com/damianholbrook/status/1122553886592720910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1122553886592720910&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Favengers-endgame-includes-lgbt-diversity-moment
https://twitter.com/brockwilbur/status/1122146240039354368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1122146240039354368&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Favengers-endgame-includes-lgbt-diversity-moment
https://twitter.com/CHAVEZBABS/status/1120825517450481665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1120825517450481665&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Favengers-endgame-includes-lgbt-diversity-moment
“The fact that he plays an unnamed character with a few lines almost feels like a slap in the face to the people waiting 22 movies to see themselves represented onscreen,” ComicBook.com’s Jamie Jirak wrote. “A gay character with a name who also happens to be an Avenger or a person close to the Avengers would have been much better.”
Charles Pulliam-Moore of science-fiction blog io9 (a former Gawker Media site) went so far as to declare that Endgame’s “gay representation is bullshit,” because “when we talk about milestones of on-screen representation in multimillion-dollar franchise’s [sic] like Marvel’s, nobody is talking background characters who get a few lines before vanishing into the cinematic ether.” He suggested that Marvel should have instead fit a “coming out narrative” for an established hero into the three-hour film.
So far, Endgame’s LGBT representation has done little to hurt its standing among conservative critics and moviegoers. Breitbart’s John Nolte hailed the film for having “something good to say about the world, a real philosophy about the importance of humanity, family, and self-sacrifice,” while Warner Todd Huston suggested that Marvel learn from disgruntled LGBT critics that appeasing them is impossible.
“So, on one hand, the radical gays have been whining that there aren’t any gays in the Marvel films, but when one does show up in a Marvel film (and the BIGGEST film in history, yet) now it’s a ‘slap in the face,’” he wrote. “They will never be satisfied until everyone accepts any matter of deviancy.”
I saw the movie, and it was totally unnecessary. Absolutely put in there as a slap in the face to decent families. Now Mom/Dad have to explain what happened in the scene. That said, I wouldn’t take a young child to this movie.
They fn ruin everything
It’s stuff like this that causes people like Thanos to think the universe is better off without half the people.
LOL. I got in an argument with my lib friend yesterday. I told him maybe Thanos was right...
Agree with you on this. It had me wondering why it was there at all, except to please a fringe group that never shuts up.
passed quickly , didn’t really catch that.
I have no idea how you missed it. The scene was just the faggot and Captain America talking.
Same here really. I saw the movie premiere night and didn’t even find out about the lgtb nod until 5 days later. Which is just as well since it would have drove me mad and instead of enjoying the movie as I did all that would have been going through my mind for the rest was “They did it! They actually pushed their sjw agenda in this of all movies!”
I never plan to see this or any movie connected to it. They can keep and play with their abnormal sick in the head characters.
.... a slap in the face to the people waiting 22 movies to see themselves represented onscreen” ....
WELL HEY! IF I KNEW THERE WAS A LINE FOR GETTING REPRESENTED IN MARVEL MOVIES THEN WHEN IN THE **HELL** ARE WE GOING TO SEE A SHORT, CHUBBY, ITALIAN GRANDMA SUPERHERO WITH A FRICKIN POT FULL OF MEATBALLS TELLING EVERYONE TO PUT ON A SWEATER!
I am SOOOOO offended.
Is this yet another movie based on comic books that actual adults pay money to see? SMH
If there is a depiction of Captain American having anal sex with another man in some future episode, the LGBT crowd will still complain AND some people on this forum will still go see the film anyway, and rave about it, saying how this was an unnecessary distraction but the film was otherwise excellent.
Shot across the bow. Noted. My boycott begins. Phase IV is Disney going Solo to the box office.
It was also an excuse to have Captain America of all people implicitly endorsing the lifestyle.
(Only an evil agent of Hydra would dispute the legitimacy of homoerotic, dysfunctional pseudo-marriage!)
Absolutely done on purpose.
I didn’t care for Thor’s role either.
SJW minds want to know.
Well, they don’t call it ‘End Game’ fer nuthin’.
That was also deliberate:
They turned the God of Thunder into the God of Blunder: a blubberous, blubbering blob.
He was a noble, powerful white male, so he had to be demeaned and destroyed.
It was the worst aspect of the movie.
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