We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.When “Avengers: Endgame” arrived in theaters, there was plenty of praise from Marvel Cinematic Universe fans around the world, but there was one celebrated moment that wasn’t quite the home run it should have been.
In the film’s final battle, all of the (surviving) female characters from across the history of the MCU suddenly come together to help Captain Marvel accompany the Infinity Gauntlet and all the Infinity Stones into the Quantum Realm portal that has just been activated in the wrecked van Scott Lang has been driving around after being stuck in the atomic world for five years.Aside from the fact that Captain Marvel immediately proves after this moment that she doesn’t really need anyone else’s help to deal with Thanos, this felt like a contrived feminist tribute to acknowledge Marvel’s mishandling of female characters over the years.
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