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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
If you want pathetic inclusion attempts go look at Joe Russo's easily missable cameo in Endgame. There's a lot of reasons queer Bucky wouldn't be half a bad idea. He's a leading character with fairly high prominence in the films. A lot of people already think he might be gay or bisexual (even if a lot of it is due to Shipping Goggles, not all of it is). It'd be a good throwback to the fact that he's already a Composite Character with Arnie Roth
, a character who was canonically gay and the center of a rather touching and well-done Gay Aesop in the 80s. His actual comic book love interest, Black Widow, is pretty unavailable at the moment. And while he's definitely been on casual dates with girls, nothing too serious was shown either for it to be contradictory; he's from the 1940s so they could easily be beards as it was with Arnie, and 40's Brooklyn had a strong LGBT+ demographic so he wouldn't necessarily be unfamiliar with same-gender attraction.
If they absolutely must give Bucky some kind of Token Romance (which I'd rather avoid completely if possible) their choice is to pawn Sharon off from Steve onto him similar to what they did with Hawkeye's ex-wife Mockingbird on AOS, which as I already mentioned is not a great idea, or have him get with a brand new character, which would require wasting even more screentime in order to establish a connection in the first place. None of the choices are worth it unless some genuine risks are taken here, and since they won't, just don't bother at all.
Edited by AlleyOop on May 21st 2019 at 10:29:55 AM
Honestly, why would it even matter what the naysayers think? People caring that much and being afraid of taking risks is precisely what's holding a lot of representation back in the first place. They'd pore over it with a microscope looking for excuses to complain no matter what they do with Carol. Even if it's the most inoffensive and milquetoast thing possible.
- Mockingbird is more than just "Hawkeye's ex-wife." She has a long history in the comics.
- She wasn't "pawned" on AOS — they asked if they could use her and Feige approved. "Pawning" sounds like a negative, which it wasn't: the show made her a great character and gave her great episodes and moments and even when she left, it was a tearjerker.
So...no, I don't agree with you.
You probably mean Ayo rather than Okoye. Although it leaves us with a pretty hefty gender imbalance when it comes to LGBT rep when you add Jeri Hogarth to the picture.
I haven't watched AOS but I wasn't trying to disparage what they did with Mockingbird. The point is about the transplanting one character's love interest to another, and given how poorly they handled Sharon throughout the films, up to framing her as a lesser replacement of her great-aunt, pawning seems like the right word for Sharon.
Edited by AlleyOop on May 21st 2019 at 10:20:58 AM
The rumor on the wind is that Hercules is coming
So that’s something
Forever liveblogging the AvengersShe's depicted as being W'Kabi's wife in the films and the idea of her flirting with Ayo, who is an open lesbian in the comics, was shot down pretty early. Likely before they decided she and W'Kabi were a couple, because she doesn't seem like the cheating kind. So it seems like a What Could Have Been at this point.
Edited by AlleyOop on May 21st 2019 at 10:26:52 AM
Fanon is one thing but polyamory is even less likely to receive endorsement in the films than LGBT+ relationships, even as Getting Crap Past the Radar.

I do not want they to make Bucky gay, as a pathetic inclusion attempt. (As they did with Iceman.)
If a protagonist is gay or Bi must be Loki.
Edited by JoLuRo075 on May 21st 2019 at 6:19:03 AM