to begin "disrupt" doesn't mean taking anything away from them
furthermore ..
I think that brehs deserve more than side-men or subordinate lead roles. they have the big three presented as "gods" (as the movie scripts keep telling us) .. meanwhile they keep short changing brehdom.
thor's "arms are like pylons" .. "thor looks like an angel" ... "thors has women throwing themselves at him"
cap "is perfect" "has an imperfection (a non ubermensch non blue color
) in his BLUE eyes" "has women throwing themselves at him"
tony "is everything in the MCU"
(all under feige's watch)
meanwhile we get diminutive cap-minor (falcon) and BP as leads ... neutered scripts, no female fawning, no comments about how "perfect" they are. nada.
attention within the MCU and MCU fandom will follow the cues of the narrative and focus on those elevated by these constant cues. so even now we find that we still have a dearth of black frontline hero types in the MCU. there is no one who could even step up into the now vacant BP platform.
even the BP film (and marketing) were presented through the eyes of white proxy characters. the first two characters in the first trailer were ...
superheroes draw from the concept of ubermensch. heroic representation and idealism play a role in how kids learn to see heroes, themselves, their peers and groups relative to each other.
while some might brush this aside I find this relegating of brehdom absurd and an abomination.
feige's latest production gives us Phastos (another side breh).
