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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Infinity War got its official rating.
PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude references.
edited 11th Apr '18 10:47:01 AM by TargetmasterJoe
"Rated PG-13 for sifi depiction of a man in an exoskeleton being torn in half"
edited 11th Apr '18 12:19:13 PM by Whowho
Eh, Kate's assault doesn't have to be sexual and could very easily be done simply.
"Kate is a Spoiled Rich Girl who gets shot in Central Park, then decides to become Batman."
edited 11th Apr '18 12:26:46 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I don't see what's wrong with "bored rich girl sticks it to crime dad by becoming a superhero at a wedding"
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI don't necessarily see why the rape has to be done away with anyway. I know women are subjected to this disproportionately, but I've seen a number of rape survivors who said they identify with Kate and found her arc cathartic. It's also handled fairly tastefully in the comic itself; we aren't actually shown the rape (just the lead-up and aftermath), so it's not like it was exploitative fanservice or anything gross like that.
edited 11th Apr '18 2:55:49 PM by comicwriter
At the same point and time, some women find the association of superheroism motivated by sexual trauma to be frustrating and insulting. What’s empowering for some women won’t be empowering for others. That doesn’t mean your friends are wrong, just that not all women have the same response to rape as backstory.
IIRC, Captain Marvel is about to be the only female heroine in the films not defined in some way by abuse, so perhaps it's something they should hang back on.
One of the big problems female characters in superhero universes suffer is that Most Writers Are Male, and thus a vast majority of female characters are defined by either the actions of men, their feelings towards men, or just men in general, and there are less characters who have strong backstories and identities divorced from the idea of a man needing to be there in some way than there should be.
Could they do Kate Bishop with her abuse-laden backstory and make it work? Actually, I'd say they probably could - with the right writer/director. But at this point it's just something we need less of. We need more heroines who do the right thing because of who they are, not because how men affected them.
It's one of the reasons Wonder Woman was such a good first step. Steve was there, he's in many ways her guide, but he isn't responsible for who Diana is. And it's one of the reasons people collectively groaned when Whedon - back when he was on Batgirl - summed up his approach to the character with "what kind of suffering must she have endured to become a heroine?"
edited 11th Apr '18 3:13:58 PM by KnownUnknown
The gold standard that I’ve seen cited for handling Rape as Backstory is Mad Max Fury Road: we don’t need to see it, or hear it described; simply establish that it happened and focus on the character’s actions afterward.
Fury Road had people being witnessed...
Sorry, I couldn't think of anything insightful to say.
Didn't know it was seen as being that cool though.
One Strip! One Strip!

After I see the film I'm going to watch one of these "All trailer footage in order" videos and marvel at how much (or perhaps little) is given away in promotional material now.
I'm surprised Tony still drinks in the MCU. I figured he'd have started recovering by now (I was expecting it to happen in Homecoming, but you see him drink there too I think)
edited 11th Apr '18 10:40:10 AM by Whowho