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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'll have to agree with Swanpride here: if a transwoman actress decides to audition to a role of a male, I don't really see the issue. If she's comfortable with it, the discussion ends there, really. It's her decision, and it's not like anyone can force her to take the role.
Or at least, I sincerely hope that's not the case.
I'd say the only clear-cut issue is if we have a cisgender actor playing a character who was assigned their gender at birth but identifies as the other one. Openly trans actors are rare enough that if a trans actor is playing the gender they were assigned as at birth then it's still a form of behind-the-scenes trans visibility during a time when there isn't much to begin with.
Re: nonbinary, most of the people I've seen who identify that way consider themselves as part of the trans umbrella, aside from rare cases of openly intersex individuals.
Edited by AlleyOop on Jan 16th 2019 at 7:41:13 AM
I swear, the movies are so weird on whether Loki can do stuff like shapeshifting or not. Like, there's that scene where he messes with Thor in the second movie, but while he's clearly casting illusions the characters talk like he's actually transfiguring.
They were so indecisive about Asgardian magic in general.
Ragnarok referenced some of Loki's weirder powers, like the time he turned Thor into a frog. And the story about how Thor picked up a snake that turned out to be Loki would make much more sense with shapeshifting than if he had used an illusion.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Has anyone considered the possibility that it might have a framing device set after Endgame, with the bulk of the movie being set before it? I think that's a route they could take.
Oh God! Natural light!I think it's after Endgame. No reason for it not to be.
Edited by LordVatek on Jan 16th 2019 at 10:31:47 AM
This song needs more love.Far From Home is all but outright confirmed to take place after Infinity War, and that Endgame involves the surviving heroes hitting some sort of Reset Button. The big mystery is what that Reset Button is and what the exact effects of it are - some people will die and/or stay dead, surely, but who? (The popular theory at the moment is that Iron Man and some other "old guard" characters will get killed off so that newcomers like Spidey and Captain Marvel can become the new main heroes.)
Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Jan 16th 2019 at 7:39:50 AM
Hopefully some of the "dusted" characters'll keep being dead, I don't want that scene to end up being cheap drama thanks to a Cosmic Retcon or whatever.
I'm fine with all the Snapped characters coming back. Endgame definitely seems like Earn Your Happy Ending: The Movie.
Edited by alliterator on Jan 16th 2019 at 8:24:43 AM

"transgender" is not a gender. Trans men are men who were born with female bodies, and trans women are women who were born with male bodies. If you're talking about people that are neither male nor female, that's not "transgender", that's varying shades of non-binary. If you're talking about people that are comfortable as either male or female, that's gender-fluid.
Fun fact: Loki is gender-fluid. At least in the comics and mythology.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jan 16th 2019 at 5:26:26 AM