#Omg Marvel Gave Us A Confirmed Queer Character!!!

[musclesandhammering]

The #GirlBoss movement in the MCU is extremely pseudo-feminist.

I could be totally off-base with this, but has anybody else noticed that here lately the mcu has had a slight pattern of making a few female characters ridiculously overpowered as well as turbo-hyped by the narrative and marketing…

This specifically includes Wanda, Carol Danvers, and Sylvie.

I’m in particular talking about how all 3 of them had far less time for character exploration and strength build-up than the majority of the other more powerful heroes, had fairly bland and uncreative personalities compared to the other more powerful heroes (Wanda was coddled by the narrative and not allowed to have any ownership in her wrongdoings which would’ve made her more complex, Carol was a victim of the “having the same arrogant attitude as the douchebro male characters is all it takes to make a Strong Female Character(TM)” writers’ mentality, and Sylvie with mary sue-ed to hell), and were generally made more about the cool powers and ‘oooh such a badass’ moments and the aesthetic than the actual depth.

My point is… they’re all so shallow and performative. It’s like the (mostly male) writers looked at the female character and scoffed and said “ok there’s no way this lady’s gonna become a fan fave on her own- we have to help her. We have to give her a boost. I have zero faith in women being able to gain popularity by their own merit (because who’d be interested in a woman, ammiright?), so we can’t just give her a compelling backstory and let that be it. We have to make sure she has the most tragic backstory of anyone on screen at any given time, and we have to make sure the audience knows it! We can’t just give her a specific set of powers and depict them in an interesting and unique way. We have to make her stronger than any other character she’s going to share screen time with and we have to have her flaunt her powers every ten minutes to remind the audience how strong she is! We can’t just make her intelligent in her own way and give her witty banter with the male characters. We have to make sure she makes them look like idiots and condescends them as frequently as possible so the audience knows it! We can’t just flesh out her morals and let her get things wrong sometimes. We have to make it so she’s always in the right and the audience should always be on her side! And even when she does something wrong, we have to make sure the audience knows that it wasn’t really her fault and she still has the moral high ground! That’s the only way we’ll ever get people to like her as much as the main male characters!!”

It’s just…. This is just rank with a lack of confidence in women. They approach the idea of having women front and center with equal parts skepticism and greed. They’re so out of touch with what women want in superhero films and just what women want in general. They fall into the trap of thinking feminists want everyone to know that girls are actually superior to guys, when in reality we just want to be treated with the respect and humanity and agency guys have always been treated with.

And by creating these female characters the way they do (making sure they’re not equal but decidedly better than the male ones, making sure they’re nearly infallible strength-wise, making sure they’re never allowed to be held accountable for mistakes) they literally defeat that whole point. They’re being extremely counterproductive to what feminists are actually trying to do, because they aren’t actually interested giving women genuinely good representation- they’re just interested in pandering to Twitter stans and casual female fans who form their opinions based on a first glance and girls who are so starved for rep that they’ll praise movie-makers for serving up rank crumbs.

They give us female representation but not really, just like they give us queer representation but not really, and like they give us poc representation but oftentimes not really…. Because (surprise surprise) the multi-billion dollar corporation does not actually give a shit about minority issues.

#this should not come as a shock to anyone #but unfortunately #I know a good many people who would be shocked to chagrin #young women and young lgbt folks and young poc stop idolising anything that gives you a crumb challenge #Omg Marvel Gave Us All These Badass Women!!! #babe most of those women are cardboard cutouts #Omg Marvel Gave Us A Confirmed Queer Character!!! #babe that was one vague sentence and then they did their best to retcon it by putting him in a heteronormative relationship with himself #Omg Marvel Gave Us These Cool POC Characters #babe most of them are side characters who get 3 lines tops 2 of which are used to build up the white characters #I’m just…. so tired #people are so shallow #negativity #marvel negativity #fake feminism #pseudo feminism #anti wanda maximoff #anti Captain marvel #anti sylvie #anti marvel #marvel meta #marvel discourse #argue with a wall #might do a longer post on this later idk

[cosmomoore]

I watched the last ep of TFATWS, it suffered from a lot of the things that plagued the previous episodes, but, as expected, there was one major reveal that wasn't a letdown.

Spoilers Under the Cut.

I'm so thankful Sam is Captain America now. I wish the reveal hadn't been spoiled by merchandise leaks, but I feel like we all knew that was bound to happen.

I wish his outfit fit better though. With what is going on with his costume, I feel like they should have chosen some different fabrics in spots to make it fit better along the chest. Unfortunately it doesn't look like they took the time to retouch the fit with CG the way they did with Captain Marvel's (and other characters') suits.

Of course the finale ended in punchy punchy, which is no surprise. I think it is interesting that due to the coronavirus they probably had to modify significant parts of the story (something we may never know for sure), but they left the scenes and plot points that were very reminiscent of the Capitol seige/attempted coup that occurred earlier this year.

I'm glad they finally gave Sharon's character a purpose and it looks like we will be seeing more of her since she was revealed to be the Power Broker as well as John Walker who is now officially US Agent.

I also think the hints towards the Thunderbolts all but confirm they will exist.

I assume Sharon was the one who setup the car bomb? But idk who the guy was that pressed the button?

The series as a whole was far from perfect with the way it treated many of its characters and botched the delivery of a lot of its important themes. The plot didn't make a ton of sense and the primary antogonists' motives were vaguely laid out at best. A large amount of the dialogue felt unnatural, not the delivery, I think the actors did the best they could with what they had to work with, but the dialogue sounded bad. The pacing was odd, the scenes felt out of order at times, and the locations changes, omg the location changes. It was like watching a ping pong match between DC, Prague, the US Northeast, Madripoor, Louisiana (?), Prague, New York, DC, back to Prague, the middle east, Louisiana, etc. I know they had to get the (muddy) story beats into place, but the rapid scene changes was one of my biggest critiques of BvS when it came out originally and this had so many more than that lol I would like to see a supercut that is maybe 3 hours long with a little bit of the believed to be missing footage added back in that streamlines the story, focuses more on Sam and Bucky, and doesn't fridge Lamar. Did I enjoy it overall, not really. I was excited to see Sam and Bucky, but with how little they were on screen together, I'm left feeling disappointed.

I know the superhero genre leaves a lot to be desired, but this is Disney's second (originally supposed to be the first) foray into prestige TV with the MCU and I expected a lot better. WandaVision had issues, especially that terrible last episode, but 1-8 were pretty good and so much better than this series as a whole.

Anyways, I'm thankful that Sam is now Cap and it seems like Bucky got some closure. Now I want them to be SuperBoyfriends because damnit Marvel, they said queer characters would be added, but Valkyrie's and Ayo's scenes that confirmed them being queer were omitted and Billy and Tommy have technically been fridged.

Get to it Marvel, we are tired of waiting.