The MCU has a Woman Problem

The full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXiboEuNGI&t=0s

A good story doesnt have to tell you its good

To put into perspective, imagine if the earlier Marvel movies constantly had the male leads cobstantly say, "this is why men are better" or constantly show how men could also do things not just women. Imagine if women were presented as weak and stupid.

As a woman, Black Widow remains my biggest personal MCU disappointment. They had an opportunity to tell the PERFECT darker and gritty origin story, which Natasha absolutely had with the Red Room. It should have been about her childhood, brutal training, time spent as a brainwashed operative (no mind control, that's world-shatteringly stupid), and how Clint was able to reach her, be about to kill her, and make the different call. It would have had a female lead, could have introduced plenty of diverse and memorable characters from Widow missions all around the globe. But what we got instead was worse than hot garbage. An idiotic villain. A forced protagonist replacement. Red Guardian as a punchline. The "heroes" casually murdering a prison full of guards and inmates alike without a thought. And the most boring "oh wow, Taskmaster is actually a woman" gimmick that tried to whitewash Natasha's actual dark history by pretending she never really killed Dreykov's daughter. Finally a plot so full of holes, contrivances, and stupidity that I gave up halfway through. I hate that movie so much ugh

"It's so new to make a movie with all female cast, the hero is a woman and the antagonist" Classic Disney princesses: 👁👄👁

Enough about women's rights, let's talk about women's wrongs

Actors are nobility. Not like the nobility of old. They are literally the nobility. Carefully chosen and uplifted based on a closed culture that thinks they are superior to the commonfolk.

I'm almost 30 years old woman and I never felt I was lacking female heroes. We had them, A LOT, just in other media/franchises. Superheroines? The japanese magical girl genre had it's best years in late 90s/early 2000s and quite a lot of those shows made it's way to the West! Sailor Moon had 30th anniversarry last year. Winx Club is 20 next year. 20+ years of animated Barbie movies. Disney Princesses from Disney renessaince. A lot of shows/books based on fashion doll lines that were focused on all-female friends groups. Totally Spies for non-magical action show. Kim Possible too. W.i.t.c.h. for girl-focused comics, VERY big in Europe. Young Adult Book section is dominated by female authors and feamle protagonists for like 15 years. I feel like people in those interviews ignore all of those because they are a few years older than me, maybe had less female heroes, stopped paying attention, because they grew out of cartoons and only remember things from 40 years ago and their childhood, ignoring "progress" that was made already, years ago. Or just really want girl-oriented Marvel/Star Wars in particular, ignoring that other stories exists.

As a green person with tentacles as hair, I’m glad to see someone like me finally respresented on screen in a superhero movie that gives me the delusion that I can fly and lift mountains. Thanks marvel

"Turning Marvel and Star Wars into girl brands will prove to be one of the costliest decisions in entertainment history." .-Chris Gore

Its sad how backwards we've gone as a society, obsessing so much over superficial diversity. No one cared about this nonsense in the 90s and we had much better Black films then. Because they put entertainment first and just happened to have black leads. Now its token representation first and no thought at all put into entertaining the audience.

Hearing you mention Hulk being the one to take out Thanos' ship makes me picture a scene where Thanos is in the middle of beating a few heroes in a fight, clearly in relish as he turns the battle in his favour, then turning as he hears the iconic Hulk roar and he sees this green monstrosity jump through the air like a cannon into his ship and start tearing it to pieces. Then you see that look on his face that he had when Carol destroyed it

No one wants to see themselves in super hero movies, they wanna see the characters on the screen.

Kurt Russell: “I’ve always been someone who felt we are court jesters. That’s what we do,” he said, adding: “As far as I’m concerned, you should step away from saying anything so that you can still be seen by the audience in any character,” he said, adding: “There is no reason entertainers can’t learn just as much as anybody else about a subject, whatever it is. But I think that what’s sad about it is that they lose their status as a court jester. And I’m a court jester. That’s what I was born to do.”

Anyone who says HER-story with a serious look on their face is not to be taken seriously

One of my favorite villains on the MCU was Cate Blanchett's very female Hela. I find her exceedingly more memorable than these cut-and-paste female "heroes" and for much better reason.

It also has a problem with not learning from their failures. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results."

My wife put it perfectly: "Woman went to see Marvel because of the hot MALE superheroes and Phase4/Phase 5 took them away." God I love her!

It also has a writing problem, a casting problem and a direction problem.

One thing that just crossed my mind: You always see stars wear the merch of the movie they are promoting at the moment. And that makes sence. But sometimes I think wearing merch for something else maybe even another movie would work even more. For example: Henry Cavill is a Warhammer nerd and at many occasions he just nerded about it. Very passionate I might add. And this, this real "advertising" for something they love makes me so much more interested in anything they touch. You feel like you know a bit about what makes someone tick. With the glorious message of Henry Cavil creating a Warhammer Series, I am so much more engaged because I know how deeply evolved he is in Warhammer.