#I HATE MARVEL

[hadersversion]

x-men ‘97 spoilers!

i’m watching x-men ‘97 for the first time…..and when rogue said “i cant feel you”….it felt like i was in my own wandavision episode.

MARVEL I HATE U

[sunflowerdigs]

Mobius literally dropping all of his kids toys to show Loki jet skis, COME ON

[springybreak]

selfcest and a clock and a human??? wtf more is marvel gonna do to try and put off making gay ppl real

[gildeddlily]

side characters ONly can be gay!!11!1! yep

I could write an essay about the way Marvel is just the reflection of how mass media deals with the queer representation "problem" nowadays

(I should study for my exam but fuck it I have time)

first of all, how many queer characters actually are part of mcu's big ass cast?

Searching on the internet they'll tell you about twenty- but it's enough to read who is queer to understand that they only care about seeming all woke and you know, kind and allies and all that good shit, but the truth is that if you're queer you'll get no more than five minutes of screen time

Loki is a bisexual genderfluid god, it's canon in the comics and in the shows/film, but does he actually acts on it? like, does he ever talk about the men he had a thing with? does he talk about his gender identity? no. and you know what, I don't want a long speech about feeling accepted and finding your place in the world and understanding yourself, I'd be ok with him being like "yk what, i feel like cunt today" and poof tom hiddleston is no more man.

we have a two second shot were he's labeled as genderfluid. that's it. he has a love story arc with his female alternative version.

like saying the bar can't get lower- all the time there's a man at his side, and they're so queer coded guys. they are so fucking queer coded. they'd have all the potential to be a good couple, and they prob could since Loki is canonically attracted to males too! but no.

let's choose the female you over the dilf grabbing your waist and telling you that you're more, that you matter and have a chance to be good.

can Loki count as representation? maybe.

it's shitty representation, tho.

then there's America.

America's a lesbian, daughter of two lesbian women, and they were proud of it probably- if it weren't for the fact that America's there, she live the adventure, and she has a lgbtqia pin. a pin. all her identity is expressed in a pin.

one could say, but the film is not ab America and her non-male partner, is about the story yk?

then why does every fucking marvel film features a man and a woman being in a relationship?

i guess that when it's about man Tony Stark and woman Pepper Potts everything's ok, you can give all the minutes you want to their sweet relationship- but if they're queer I'm sorry, the best thing you'll have is a pin.

then a few gays out there.

random man in endgame missing his bf. random girl in hawkeye mentioning her wife (slay). that one sexy dora milaje who has a sexier gf. slay you too ig. that Eternals guy who kissed his bf on screen (first time ever, and they feel revolutionary. fucking 2021).

the only thing that can be saved is Thor 3/4 because of Taika Waititi. the queerness is something Taika did because he wanted to.

Ragnarok's about this dude, his bi brother, this guy who flirts with both of them and has orgies with all kind of beings, a lesbian valkyrie and a gay rock. Love and Thunder is about this guy, his bamf ill girlfriend, a lesbian valkyrie who's trying to find some girl to eat out, a gay rock that ends up having strange sex with his bf, and greek people fainting after seeing said guy's naked body. (and that weird moment between Thor and Peter? that was made to be gay guys)

while it's not perfect, it's one step above everything else.

Taika Waititi's film's queerness is not there for looking more inclusive, it's there because gay people are there, we actually exist dude, and they deserve their space, and they should have it.

and like Taika Waititi's said, the world will be healed when people will stop saying "oh you know that new marvel series? yes, there's a gay gal in there", when people will treat queer people like the people they actually are.

it's like walking around in a forest and being like "oh look, a tree!". we aren't a different species ffs

representation is good, and of course gay characters sometimes are gonna be just there on the side cheering on the main character- because that's how life goes. I'm the cheering-from-the-side girl queer friend to my straight friend, and mcu stories are told by straight people, so it's kinda natural that we're kinda useless.

the thing that really, really makes me want to cry our is how they're able to destroy any queer "lead" they put here for us, for me, and I'm starting to believe behind those scripts there are some seriously repressed gay dude who can only express themselves by writing those things.

like Steve and Bucky? the classic we're best friends and we totally didn't have sex?

or Bucky and Sam?

why was the chair scene necessary? If i see something like that happening to a woman and a man my first thought is "they're a thing", and it was the first thing I thought with Sam and Bucky too- but ofc people will tell us "y are you making everyone gay?" it's not my fault princess it's the writers'

or, again, Loki and Mobius?

"you can be good, just in case no one ever told you" WHAT THE HELL DUDE

and you know, those things can be said between two friends too, but people gets disperate. I get disperate, after watching hours upon hours of two guys eye-fucking each other and ending up being all "yeah bro i love you this is my girlfriend amy". so I wrote, I draw, I think about them being "hey dude, d'you want to be the amy to my myself?" because the alternity is writing a fic about a random man who says he misses his husband on a three second scene.

(in a fandom like good omens I don't have to worry about it. I have my queer besties, my fav lesbian couple, and a lot of representation.)

so.

mcu's representation is bad representation.

every time they write a queer characters they're all "you see that? we did that!" like they did something special- but they didn't.

they write gays for the straight, in order to feel better about themselves and make straight racist sexist homophobic ppl (the "I'm inclusive guys!!!" kind of person) watching it feel better ab themselves.

(I'm not gonna start talking about the fact that this entire post talks more than anything else about the way the mcu treats women, bc it's a rabbit hole I'm not ready to talk ab cause I've been jumping in it for too many years.)

(sorry anon ily)

10/20 edit: valkyrie is bi my bad🧎‍♀️

[gina-chan1979]

AFTER MANY, MANY, MANY GIN AND TONICS…I ended my boycott and watched X-Men 97 episodes 7-9 tonight in one go….I don’t even know what to say?! I am glad I was numb to watch…here’s to episode 10 😭

[h0t-p1nk-ch33tah-pr1nt]

Why am I hyperfixated on him of all people.

[maggotmommy]

why is it as soon as i start falling in love with a character they fucking DIE LIKE WHATS UP WITH THAT

[not-that-syndrigast]

I'm not a fan of Sam Wilson as America.

This is not about racism, it's the complete other way around, please stick with me.

Back when Endgame came out and Sam got the shield, I thought it was cool, you know? He deserves it.

But the title of captain America? In my opinion it's absolutely downgrading Sam and we are seeing the same thing with Peggy right now. Instead of having their own character traits, they get reduced to being compared to Steve (because hell, the producers compare him to Steve)

See, if you Google captain America, every result will be Steve Rogers as captain America. If I say, captain America, you'll most likely think, Steve rogers. And you know what? Sam as a character deserves better than to be a replacement for a fan favourite character.

Especially in the MCU, endgames been out for nearly 5 years and we still whine about captain America/Steve rogers.

I see why people like Sam Wilson as captain America; in theory it's great, having a black man as one of the main superheroes and not just a sort of sidekick, but we all knew exactly how fucking stupid and racist some of the marvel fans were and still are. In a perfect world I would love to see Sam as Captain America. But in this one? It's not even possible for him to have his own character.

I'm getting all my money that in the next captain America movie he will be 100% like Steve and will have lost every character trait of his own.

[esouliie]

still not over the hawkeye finale where yelena has a breakdown over natasha. the part where clint tells her all natasha cared about was lena’s safety & she was like “you had so much time with her”… all yelena ever wanted was her sister. now it’s too late.

[aloneinentropy]

an MCU stan just shot martin scorscese dead in the street and its actually getting a hugely positive response from the fandom and kevin feige just started a press conference but hes not saying anything hes just standing there trying to replicate homelander's smile

[radiantmists]

at the urging of my D&D group I started agatha all along today and the first ep was really good but like. i guess i have to watch wandavision so i can actually understand the show i want to watch?

[urnextlineis]

A vivid reminder for my distain of the Marvel franchise is that for some reason tumblr thinks my fyp needs to be filled with Matt Murdock exclusively :|

[denebolablack]

LOOK AT HIS BAMBI EYES I CAN'T, I'M CRYING 😭😭😭😭

[lena-luthor]

No one in history has had special treatment like you.

[historicalcord]

Not a fan of Logan as a character, basically because my favorite x comics always is the Messiah trilogy and Logan in it as a huge hypocrite who doesn’t care the extinct of mutant also acts like he is a moral paragon as he ALSO do lot of ugly things. And what the hell of him want to kill a teenage girl after he decided to protect all the kids and get them in a school? (what the f*ck the AvX writer thinking???)

[cruucigerglobus]

as we dance to the masochism tango