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- It couldn't get any more flawless. Well... if Hawkeye was a lady, both removing the tokenness of Black Widow and being a super hot plot twist.
And not even just sexy (because I think people would probably cry 'exploitation!' as if the comic world does not routinely and often impossibly contort its representations of women) (as if much of their audience is not boys and lesbians) (as if lesbians cannot be used and attractive without it being exploitative) (as if it's fine to sexualise the men's bodies and encourage a bit of homo subtext, but because of some negative history they couldn't-) (I am going off-topic, it's just that I was thinking about this today) (personally I think Joss would be more than capable of presenting a lesbian couple as hot and funny and sweet) not just sexy, but with the whole bond between them -
Barton's been compromised ... *frozen anguish* - it would have been so cute/great! People have been disappointed by the total failure of the Avengers on the Bechdel test (two named female characters, do not talk to each other, and basically only talk about men) (Maria Hill had such potential! Why did they sideline her so!) if they'd just been willing to reboot one of the heroes as a woman - acknowledging that it has been 49 years since the original team, which was just had one lady, Wasp; adds Mantis ten years later; currently has Quake and Spider-Woman; along the way also had Ms Marvel, Tigra, Mockingbird, She-Hulk,
I got distracted by Black Widow researching and then reading ScarJo's page and then realised
she has the same birthday as me which has
blown my mind sufficiently that I think it's time for bed. (Half-eleven.)
basically they should have played with characters for diversity, because times
have changed and I think as long as who they do keep remains relatively the same, let's away! with sexism and racism and homophobia by text, subtext or mere omission. I got into heated arguments with close friends who were complaining (after Thor) that they made Heimdall black.
Good for them. As was pointed out during the web debates on it, the Norse 'gods' were not
Norse-ian gods, they were gods
of the Norse people - i.e. though some resembled the Norse people, neither were descended from / created by the other: and if Heimdall remained at the Gate, guarding it, there was no reason for him to have been seen and reported on as black. I am not saying that Heimdall existed (and in said existence was an African-American guy) but I think if there is no
very good argument against a change/revision/reboot, where said alteration improves the text's accessibility/representation/diversity - giving non-white non-straight non-male non-able people someone to look up to who shares a characteristic with themselves - go for it! "Because this is how [the character] is defined" is an appeal to tradition as empty as "this is how marriage is defined" or "this is how 'voter' is defined" or any other hollow attempt to maintain the status quo for no more than to maintain it, yes?
I don't know if any of that made sense goodnight
Can't have any spoilers ruining my feels.
and it had it's share of laughs too. I loved when Hulk went all...Hulk on Loki OMG I was dying at that part. 
