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Phase 3+4: evolution, the series, and reflection

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 Evolution: Within the world of diverse casting, we see a huge improvement from earlier films. In Ant-Man wasp, we do get to see a non-light-skinned black man as a brilliant scientist who worked along with Hank Pym who created the Ant-Man suit. In Spider-Man Homecoming Spider-Man's best friend Ned is a Filipino-American boy,  and both of the love interests are mixed women of color.  In Endgame, there was a scene during the last big fight where are all of the female characters, in the end, see you joined together to take the glove with the Infinity Stones.  it was an obvious Ode to feminism end came off very stiff,  however with Marvel’s history of a complete lack of feminism or respect a woman's this move was very much appreciated although it could have been executed in a much smoother manner. The scene in Wakanda where Black Widow is fighting with Okoye against an alien comes off as more genuine use of “girl power” and female Aid. Source: https://disney.f...

Week 3: Phase 3

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Marvel's White Washing Problem, Queer Bating, and Long Due Diversity “In Marvel’s main comic universe (Earth-616) series of events, Magneto (Max/Magnus) saves Magda from concentration camps in 1936, where she was targeted for her Roma ancestry. Like any convoluted love story, the rest is history, because Magda and Magneto later had the twins. Throughout mutant and non-mutant history—seeing as the twins aren’t necessarily mutants—Marvel Comics has changed and retrofitted Wanda and Pietro’s family.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.themarysue.com/mcu-whitewashing-problem-roma/amp/ Source: https://twitter.com/mcu_direct/status/1224452753386278912 The Maximoff twins are Romani people and the fact that their heritage is ignored is even more problematic because the Romani people were one of the groups persecuted by the nazis and the main antagonist group Hydra is a fantasy nazi science group. The Macimoff twins were also experimented on by Hydra which was a fate that the Nazis cast upon ...