….anyway, this was a shitpost, esp seeing as it’s a screencap from modern family.



but alrighty folks let’s do a headcount and some mathematics.

so, i think we can agree that these are the “main characters” of iw:

steve rogers tony stark bruce banner thor natasha romanoff t’challa okoye

sam wilson rhodey bucky barnes peter parker stephen strange vision wanda maximoff peter quill gamora groot rocket drax mantis nebula



and these are the main characters who are either a) poc, or b) played by poc

t’challa okoye

sam wilson rhodey gamora drax mantis

and these are main characters who survived the end of iw:

steve rogers tony stark bruce banner thor natasha romanoff rhodey rocket nebula

and to expedite things, these are the characters who are either a) poc, or b) played by poc and survived the end of iw:

okoye

rhodey

and just for funsies, here are some of the other things i picked out of iw or have seen other people comment on:



making thanos a “sympathetic” villain despite him basically being the kind of (white) bad guy you learn about in history books for his colonialism/conquering/slaughtering indigenous peoples

retconning gamora’s original backstory, as it was established in vol. 1, to make thanos seem almost human (i.e., thanos killing her entire population, leaving her as the sole survivor in vol. 1 vs. thanos killing half her starving, poor, probably “inept” indigenous people out of mercy, and then actually insisting that he “loved” gamora [via the soul stone appearing to thanos, unless it not being real love and thus not a real sacrifice worthy of control of the soul stone is going to be his downfall in a4] despite killing her parents, abusing her for all of her childhood, erasing all of her connections to her culture and species, etc.)

kinda mentioned in the last point but going the “poor indigenous struggling” route at all for gamora’s ppl when they could’ve been like. a capable species minding their own business and refusing to swear loyalty to thanos, which would then prompt him to wipe them out



idk if this rly counts but i feel like anything featuring doctor strange also just features his whole problematic ordeal (ORIENTALISM!!!!!)

gamora literally had Zero Agency in the entire film



did we establish that out of a cast of 21 ppl, only 2 poc survived

i mean, i guess you can argue the 1/3 ratio (7 out of 21 originally alive characters were poc) stayed almost proportionately the same, but like. come on. we all know they could’ve done better



but also if we count scott and clint in as survivors, assuming they’ll show up to fight in a4, the ratio does not stay as close to the same and only 2 poc out of a cast of 23 ppl survive



and yes i understand that this was also probably to a) defy our expectations that steve, tony, whoever from the og 6 avengers would die in iw, and b) set up for a4 to be the Big Final Battle for the og 6 avengers to Do Their Thing before steve retires/dies/whatever and the others either stay or go

also!!!! they recast thanos as a white man (josh brolin) after being played by a black man (damion poitier) at the end of the avengers

of the four important deaths pre-snap–heimdall, loki, the collector (kinda i guess bc reality stone?), and gamora–half of them were poc

basically this is me pointing out that heimdall also died and he was one of the pre-snap deaths which is like. a different tier, u feel me?



so yeah, those were my Thoughts while i was making this shitpost. again, it started out as just a shitpost, but thank u for making me realize it has so much more meaning, it truly warms my heart

