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dilfdoctordoom · 8 months

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Absolutely just preaching to the choir at this point but like, I don't care I'm also going to complain LOL I cannot get over how it seems Gunn had a legit grudge against Gamora (and Mantis!!!) because the treatment of both of them feels so specifically targeted that you would think both characters broke into his house and kicked his dog or something. He's definitely not as dumb as the Snyder fans would have you believe, I know he reads the source material even if he ignores the majority of it, but I do not see how even if you ONLY read GotG 2008 that you'd come away with wanting to intentionally write the women like that, it's so unhinged.

I'd ask why the HELL Vol. 3 struggles so much with its WOC when he's shown to have the ability to Try and improve on this in his other work post Vol. 2 (Mind you i think The Suicide Squad also had issues with racism AND ableism- if it's supposed to be this commentary on the USA strong arming and trying to cover up their involvement with other countries, why is the film presenting it as a big joke that Bloodsport and Peacemaker are violently murdering these POC freedom fighters by accident? I know Gunn is a big horror nut and violence and an R rating blah blah blah but Maybe read the room. And don't get me started on everything with Polka Dot Man oh my god) but by now I think the Vol. 3 issues are because he just could NOT put himself mentally into the characters headspaces, like he literally couldn't relate to them At All so they just had to get these half assed resolutions at best or written out to never to return at worst. (other than Rocket, obviously, who even then ALSO suffers from the writing!! NO ONE TRULY WINS!!!)

I genuinely think the only reason the leading lady in Peacemaker (Leota, a black queer woman) didn't get treated like ass is because of Gunn's own comment that the character shares a name with his mother. Like, bruh. If the only way you can treat these characters with different backgrounds than you with the bare minimum of respect is because of vaguely nepotistic reasons or because you absolutely HAVE to relate to/project onto them, then idk what to even say 😵‍💫

This is a safe space to be mad about the treatment of women (& women of color specifically) in the Guardians franchise because god, it always just gets worse the more that I think about it.

(Random tangent: Like, you have Michelle Yeoh! The Michelle Yeoh! And she's just... cameo doesn't do anything doesn't ever appear again. My god if we're gonna force Gamora to be a Ravager at least bring her back).

There was some improvement in his DC work (though definitely not in his treatment of disabled characters lmao that's a consistent shitshow). Ratcatcher felt like a person, didn't get needlessly fridge like I'd assumed she would. Harcourt and Leota actually feel fledged out. Leota especially as that's a queer woman of color... and now it's just cause she has the same as his mother lmao.

Guardians 3 I think is the most disappointing movie in the entire MCU because I just fundamentally do not buy these resolutions for these characters. Peter's going back to Earth? Awesome, but he already did that. Rocket's fine with everyone leaving? Strange since for them, they were dead for five years.

What happened to Gamora and Mantis goes beyond Gunn's favoritism like he was so casual about killing Gamora... leading woman of color, and he talks constantly about how he just wanted to kill her, that's, uh, that's not great.

Mantis drives me crazy because you could not convince me that that man has read a single comic starring her. How do you adapt someone so horrifically? Comic Mantis isn't great, nor am I ever gonna claim she is, but she's still somehow better than the MCU depiction.

#q & a #kicking gunn in the face as we speak

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hydrasaura · 5 months

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i'm insane so i'm always comparing characters and shit, but i just remembered all the people who would say that Diana was ''ungrateful'' to the Solari, because despite the fact that she was rescued by them she proceeded to question the world around her and ultimately to question them (which culminated after a long period of abuse into her ultimately slaying the elders). I feel that a lot of people don't get that this isn't because she had any malicious intent but because it was in her nature to be curious of the world, in this case, the night sky and the moon, and she was constantly severely punished for any inquiry she had regarding the subject. And I just thought abt what if Hange would've been constantly punished for her weird passion of studying the titans, how she would have turned to be? Funnily enough she was also constantly having arguments with the church and on several occasions nearly murdered Pastor Nick so she wasn't too far off from what Diana did. Everyone would look at Hange as being batshit-crazy but they still reluctantly supported her research, imagine if nobody did this, even punished her (luckily people there realized that they need this insane person to help them figure out fighting an insanely powerful enemy, something that the solari feel like they don't need - the moon - to fight off the void)

I honestly always saw Diana's relationship to the Solari similar to the one Quasimodo had with Frollo. Like sure, they rescued her but they also forced her to live under their strict doctrine and would severely punish her if she even dared to ask a question. They preached being kind, good, and warm while hiding a dark secret and past.

This is why despite the fact that Diana has ended up being a warrior mage or whatever she is these days, I always somehow saw her as a researcher, as a scientist in her own right who was always fighting against the church to uncover the truth about the world. And this is why her finding the Lunari and them making her their leader and expecting her to lead them into battle against the Solari, doesn't really click with me. Because I see her as being more or less forced by that parasite aspect and now her ''newfound people'' into this leader, warrior role which doesn't really fit her. Like sure, she is a skilled fighter but at her core, wasn't she a bookworm first? Someone who studied countless nights the stars and celestial bodies above and searched for this lost civilization that praised the moon? I feel like that part of her has completely died off (not that it has been different in the og lore). And I find it sad, in a way, I kinda wish that if they want to go on the revenge route they should show her passion slowly dying off and being replaced with emptiness and hatred. Same way if they want her to make her the leader, have her struggle with her passion vs her role same way Hange did when she became commander.

And despite the fact that I honestly couldn't care less about the universe and space because it lowkey terrifies me (there is a reason why i love creepy CRAWLERS if i could i'd like to turn into a snake and live under a rock) , I could always relate to her pursuit for knowledge. If i ever were to grow in a place where I would've never been allowed to interact with the things I'm passionate about i.e. nature, i fear i would legit be dead by now (i don't have Diana's resolve to fight against my oppressors but eternal mad respect to her👍)

#rant #text #long text #ramblings #tbh there's a constant contradiction in my brain between diana going on the vengeful path like guts #or being more tied to her research like hange #but i blame riot for constant changes and inconsistent writing #i don't even know what Diana's current lore is if it even changed or whatnot

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