the-grey-tribe:mugasofer:skygemspeaks:rayneislame:bellowscactus:rootbeergoddess:vaguelyconcernedtria
the-grey-tribe:mugasofer:skygemspeaks:rayneislame:bellowscactus:rootbeergoddess:vaguelyconcernedtriangle:rootbeergoddess:She is right and she should fucking say it What a nice theory, verifiably false but nice all the same.Except it’s not? It’s been proven? Are you are professional dumbass?Isn’t this the actress from Black Panther?You know, the movie with a majority Black cast. I don’t recall people obsessing over the the backstory and motivations of agent Ross Also, is anyone else forgetting about how Bucky literally only showed up for like half a minute in the after-credits scene, yet there was a viral post about him getting adopted by Wakanda’s royal family.Guys … there are over 7,000 MCU fics on AO3 tagged “T’Challa” and less than 700 tagged “Everett Ross” (whose first name I had to look up.) If you exclude crossovers (why?), there are still almost 7k tagged T’Challa but less than 600 tagged Everett Ross. (And over 4k for Shuri, over 1k for Killmonger - surprisingly low, that - and over 1k for Okoye. Ross does beat M’Baku by 11 fics though at time of writing.)I suppose it’s possible that >90% of the Black Panther fanfics have been written after @sorrywat searched this, but it seems more likely that they messed up while searching or, y’know, lied.On the one hand, yes, on the other hand, if you make a show with an ensemble cast, and they all have a quirky personality gimmick or superpowers, then the one normal character without superpowers or a gimmick will usually be the most #relatable. I don’t think anybody focused on Martin Freeman in this movie. Black Panther is a poor example.But if the movie is not ostensibly about a group identity, you see this as a common screenwriting technique: Add a normal relatable everyman to ground the story, like April O’Neill. If you make a show with an ensemble cast of women, and they all have different gimmicks, but you include one man without a gimmick, it’s easy to make the women all feel two-dimensional while the man feels like an actual person.It only becomes a problem when your narrative puts identity into the foreground and one group in particular. If you have a #relatable woman with a group of male ninja turtles, nobody will accuse you of sexism because the turtles are two-dimensional. The turtles are parody characters anyway. People will accuse you of sexism because the ninja turtles are awesome and know kung-fu, while April is only a reporter.I know one show with an ensemble where just that happened by accident. The women were an ensemble cast full of quirky personalities, but the one old male foil was the most believable and fleshed out next to the female lead who got most of the screen time of course.I have also seen it the other way round, with an ensemble cast of men, and one well-written, relatable and grounded soccer mom, but the gendered implications were so very different that you wouldn’t notice. -- source link