I think people do this because Black Widow is the most prominent, has been involved the longest, and receives the greatest amount of promotion and use of all women in all roles in all the films. The point being that if Black Widow is getting so little and getting treated so poorly, what does it say about all women that aren’t Black Widow?
Of course, you’re absolutely right in pointing out that all the others should be mentioned too. I hadn’t entirely considered why the others need to be mentioned in the process of discussion until now. That Black Widow gets so much attention in these discussions and all the other women do not is in itself proof of what’s wrong with how the MCU is treating female characters. They tokenized Black Widow to the point that even people arguing for more/better representation of women are unwittingly making the mistake of thinking she’s the only one that counts.
It’s strange how pole dancing is considered so “dirty,” cheerleading is considered pure fluff, both are often disregarded as anything to take all too seriously, and yet they’re each extremely physically taxing and can be a lot more dangerous than pop culture has made them look.
I mean that in a good way, of course. I can’t help thinking there’s some unintended sexism to blowing off the skill and risk in both activities.
After Sony gave in and sold the Spiderman Rights back to Marvel, I
really hope that 20th Fox stays strong. I dont want the X-Men being part
of the MCU and most of all I don’t want any other actors/actresses to
play this characters. Because (almost) everyone is perfectly casted.
I currently want Fox to hold out more because 1) I don’t trust Marvel to treat the X-Men franchise with the same level of respect anymore, and 2) I wholly expect Marvel would completely ignore Polaris if some deal was struck.
Marvel’s behavior toward both X-Men and Polaris in the comics when they can’t make films about them shows us precisely how little they appreciate both when the chips are down. Especially in Polaris’ case, the fact they exclude her from every major event and don’t promote things she’s on is proof that if the company somehow got the X-Men film rights back or struck a deal with Fox, they would never use her. With Fox, there’s an actual chance we’ll see Polaris in a film some day, assuming the girl in Days of Future Past wasn’t her.
Of course, if Marvel starts treating the X-Men franchise better in the comics and offers more use and promotion of Polaris, then I might be more inclined to trust that Fox should strike some kind of deal with Marvel. As it is, Marvel’s done nothing but make me think Fox is a better company for the X-Men and all related characters.
The picture was released without information about the girl alongside it. Because the dress is pink and Pietro is most often paired with his twin sister, people (understandably) jumped to the conclusion it had to be Wanda.
As the links above show, Bryan Singer later clarified the little girl is not Wanda, but Peter’s little sister.
Whether or not that’s really Lorna is anyone’s guess. As a Lorna fan I obviously very much want that to be the case, but realistically it could be Anya or a different character instead since Bryan Singer didn’t give an actual name.
That’s not to say Wanda doesn’t exist in the X-Men films. As the articles above note, one scene cut from the film mentioned Peter having another sister that’s never seen.
Frankly, while it’s more promising for everyone if the little girl is Lorna, it’s still more promising for Wanda for the little girl to not be her even if it isn’t Lorna. That means Peter and Wanda can still be twins and still have that close dynamic in a future film.
My personal hope is that we get both Lorna and Wanda in future X-Men films. Their sister relationship is full of badass awesome potential and I’m eager to see that relationship explored far moreso than Peter with Lorna or Wanda.
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