Kevin Feige Defends How Avengers: Endgame Handled Marvel’s First Openly Gay Character

It was a very casual mention, the kind of thing you could miss if you weren’t listening closely. The fact that the man’s sexuality was treated as an afterthought was applauded by some, but seen as disappointing by others. This was Marvel’s first openly gay character? The disappointed fans saw a frustrating missed opportunity. They weren’t happy when the Russos did a post-Endgame interview with Deadline talking about how “Representation is really important” to them, and since they did four MCU films, “we wanted a gay character somewhere in them.” That was it — an unnamed man with a cameo?

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