#Literally screaming ''HEY WE GOT QUEER SHIT'' and then not delivering sure is queer baiting | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kaluawoo · 7 months ago

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Tbf there was one movie where a ridiculous amount of marketing was "HEY THERE IS A GAY CHARACTER IN THIS!"

Only for it to be a 20 second scene where some unnamed unimportant guy mentioned his husband or something. Disney's dozen First Gay Character Queerbait style.

Other than that the post is right though.

People accusing the MCU of queerbaiting has always seemed off base to me because queerbaiting implies a level of emotional character interaction that the MCU has overall staunchly refused to feature. Nobody is even friends

#Like #Queerbait is a marketing technique and yeah #Literally screaming ''HEY WE GOT QUEER SHIT'' and then not delivering sure is queer baiting #I used to really live Marvel #But I think somewhere between the second and the third Avengers i just kinda fell off #Watched a bit of stuff afterwards but. meh.#I do sometimes feel like a lot of the internet has lost the plot if what queerbaiting is #It's promising queer without delivering #It can happen but it's RARE for that to be entirely in universe #Most often it's showrunners and actors and whatever hinting and not delivering #Supernatural wasn't queerbait because there were some suggestive jokes between Dean and Cas #It was queerbait because a lot of the marketing leaned into it #And Marvel sure did that a few times

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