Given the ratio of women to men who have been killed off as plot devices in these films
/cracks nerd knuckles
Spoilers ahead, obviously.
Let's get a count going from the MCU movies, shall we? Men : Women.
Iron Man - Tony is motivated to stop making weapons after several random male grunts get turned into confetti by weapons he makes. He nearly gets turned into confetti himself. Also Yinsen sacrifices himself so that Tony has enough time to boot up the Mk 1. 5:0
Incredible Hulk - No sacrifices take place in this movie except for Edward Norton's film career. 5:0
Iron Man 2 - Tony is motivated by his dead father in a film reel recorded decades ago only recently given to him by SHIELD. 6:0
Thor - Thor sacrifices himself to stop the Destroyer. 7:0
Captain America: The First Avenger - Steve is motivated by the deaths of both Abraham Erskine who is shot moments after Steve undergoes the super serum and then later by his life long friend James Buchanan Barnes after Bucky seemingly falls to his death after being knocked out a moving train. 8:0 9:0
Avengers - The Avengers are motivated after Coulson is killed by Loki. Fury even directly uses this to leverage them into action and cites this as "a push" the team needed after he throws Coulson's collector's cards on the Hellicarrier table despite said cards not being on Coulson at his time of death. Tony attempts to sacrifice himself by getting a nuke away from NYC 11:0
Iron Man 3 - Tony is motivated by his close friend and security chief, Happy Hogan, almost dying while investigating a series of bombings by 'The Mandarin'. This causes Stark to directly challenge the warlord to face him and results in gunship helicopters blowing up Stark's home with missiles, because why the fuck would you fight fair if you were a terrorist? 12:0
Thor 2 - Thor is motivated by the deaths of both his mother and step brother. 13:1
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Steve is motivated by the apparent death of Nick Fury to investigate TWS and SHIELD which reveals HYDRA being in control for decades. 14:1
Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter is motivated by his dead mother after a parallel between his mother asking for his hand while dying of cancer years ago and Gamora asking for his hand to stand together against Ronan. Bonus point for the GOTG being motivated by Groot sacrificing himself so that the others would live. Groot is voiced by Vin Diesel so that's a point for the men. 15:2
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron: Wanda is motivated by the death of her brother to go on a murder rampage against Ultron. 16:2
Ant Man: Nearest this comes to anything is Henry being motivated to protect his daughter after his wife previously sacrificed herself years ago to stop a missile. 17:3
Avengers 3 Captain America 3: Civil War - Black Panther is motivated by the death of his father to find who he thinks is thinks caused it. Tony is motivated by the revelation of his parents murders by Bucky to seek revenge on Bucky despite Steve's attempts to protect his friend[s]. Tony wasn't as close as some father-son dynamics can be and he does get pushed over the edge more by his mother being killed. 19:4
Doctor Strange: Steven is motivated by the death of The Ancient One, a character who was originally both male and from Tibet in the comics. China money no likey. 19:5
Guardians of the Galaxy 2: Peter is again motivated by the death of his mother after learning his father was the one that gave her cancer in the first place. She's not getting a second point for this, however. Yondu sacrifices himself so that his adoptive son, Peter, may live. 20:5
Spider-Man: Homecoming - No sacrifices take place despite it being a new Spider-Man. Uncle Ben has had enough. 20:5
Thor 3 - Thor is motivated by his dead father whose words convince Thor his power was never in Mjolnir. 21:5
Black Panther - BP is motivated by the spirit of his dead father in a similar way Peter was motivated by his dead parent a second time. The entire character of BP is just bad copies from others and doesn't deserve any praise in the slightest. Woke AF so obvs it gets lots of praise 🙄 Killmonger is motivated by the death of his father at the hands of his uncle. 22:5
Avengers 3: Infinity War - ... A lot of people die in this. The movie starts with most of the remaining Asgardians dying to Thanos and the Black Order. Heimdall and Loki are both killed in front of Thor in the first few minutes of the movie +2/0, Gamora is killed by Thanos and this causes Peter to screw up the fight on Titan 0/+1, Vision is killed by Wanda to prevent Thanos getting the Mind Stone +1/0 only to be brought back by the Time Stone and then killed again by Thanos +1/0 [This one counts twice for the double gut punch], and then Thanos kills half the universe which all things being fair means "+1/+1". 27:7
Ant Man 2 - No sacrifices take place. 27:7
Captain Marvel - I didn't watch this movie. I am never going to watch this movie. Nobody should ever watch this movie. 27:7
Avengers 4: Endgame: Black Widow dies, motivates the rest of the Avengers to finish the mission 0/+1, Nebula kills a past version of herself but it doesn't actually motivate anything, the Snap is undone [-1/-1?], Tony sacrifices himself to stop Thanos. All things considered: 28:8
Spider-Man 2: Far from Home - Peter is mostly motivated by Tony having died in Endgame, that's it. Also everything after this point starts to get retarded. 28:8
Black Widow: Nobody actually watched this film because the titular protagonist dies in a later movie just like with Star Wars: Solo. No sacrifices take place. 28:8
Shang-Chi and the movie nobody cared about: Shang-Chi is motivated by the sacrifice of his father. 29:8
Eternals - Aka, how to fuck up the existing comic source material so badly it doesn't even resemble fanfic. Ajak is killed off screen, eventually revealed to have been murdered rather than outright killed by monsters. Gilgamesh is killed on screen but nobody really seems to care at the time. Ajak's death sort of motivates the other Eternals for a bit while they figure out what happened until they figure out what happened and things turn into a FFA brawl. 29:9
Spider-Man 3: No Way Home - This is roughly where the article in the OP starts whining about things so just to reflect on how many men vs women have been killed and used as plot points it's almost 3 times as many men when compared to women. This movie bumps up the women to double digits finally, something men reached with movie 6/The Avengers, when Aunt May is killed because Uncle Ben doesn't exist to get killed off again. 29:10
Doctor Strange 2: MOM - Wanda is motivated by the "deaths" of her children. That aren't real, so they don't count. She tries to hunt down and murder America Chavez which all things considered would have been a better outcome for everyone involved. Various other versions of Doctor Strange from other universes die for different reasons, an analogue to The Avengers are all killed by Wanda but nobody really cared [+3/+2 for the split of deaths], and in the end Wanda "sacrifices" herself after realizing what a turbo Karen she became after being the antagonist for all of her own mini series and this movie. Except she's probably still alive so it doesn't count. 29:10
Thor 4: Woke and Pander - Gorr is motivated by the death of his daughter named Love of all things, who is his son Agar in the comics ofc, to kill all Gods because they forsake mortals in the MCU. Jane Foster has stage 4 cancer just like her comic self did at the time when wielding Mjolnir. Things end with Foster dying [yay], Gorr dying, Gorr wishing for his daughter to be brought back, and said daughter taking up Mjolnir because why the fuck not it's that stupid a movie anyway at this point. 29:12
So the final count for Men vs Women in terms of plot based deaths in the MCU is 29 Men to 12 Women. Cue various memes but regardless the point is the article OP is a massive whiny faggot as expected of this trash.
Also this doesn't even account for the various tv shows and shorts like Agents of SHIELD [which sadly isn't counted much anyway], WandaVision, Falcon and TWS, Loki, What if...?s, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and Ms Marvel. All of which bar AoS are shite and shouldn't be watched anyway.
Edits: Added Erskine to Cap 1 and Yondu to GotG 2. Any others I may have missed please do let me know.
Captain America: The First Avenger - Steve is motivated by the death of his life long friend James Buchanan Barnes after Bucky seemingly falls to his death after being knocked out a moving train. 8:0
Erskine needs included in this one as his death and final gesture about having heart motivate Steve just after the super serum has been used.
Incredible Hulk - No sacrifices take place in this movie except for Edward Norton's film career. 5:0
Oof. Poor Eddie, god forbid the guy care about his work beyond cashing his cheque right? Small wonder they ever tapped him for the MCU. It's like asking Terry Gilliam to direct the Avengers.
Really good work, but switching from 0:0 ratio format to 0/0 format when you started adding deaths like powering up a monster in MtG bugged me more than it should have, lol.
Frequently used, but also considered to be a sign of lazy writing. It is called "fridging" after Green Lantern's girlfriend was murdered and literally stuffed in a refrigerator for him to find later
Any character that needs a qualifier before some other hero's name is derivative at best, blatant trash by usually. Even Beta Ray Bill is just that, Beta Ray Bill. He's not "Space Thor". Lady Thor on the other hand...
tl;dr article is full of shit
/cracks nerd knuckles
Spoilers ahead, obviously.
Let's get a count going from the MCU movies, shall we? Men : Women.
Iron Man - Tony is motivated to stop making weapons after several random male grunts get turned into confetti by weapons he makes. He nearly gets turned into confetti himself. Also Yinsen sacrifices himself so that Tony has enough time to boot up the Mk 1. 5:0
Incredible Hulk - No sacrifices take place in this movie except for Edward Norton's film career. 5:0
Iron Man 2 - Tony is motivated by his dead father in a film reel recorded decades ago only recently given to him by SHIELD. 6:0
Thor - Thor sacrifices himself to stop the Destroyer. 7:0
Captain America: The First Avenger - Steve is motivated by the deaths of both Abraham Erskine who is shot moments after Steve undergoes the super serum and then later by his life long friend James Buchanan Barnes after Bucky seemingly falls to his death after being knocked out a moving train.
8:09:0Avengers - The Avengers are motivated after Coulson is killed by Loki. Fury even directly uses this to leverage them into action and cites this as "a push" the team needed after he throws Coulson's collector's cards on the Hellicarrier table despite said cards not being on Coulson at his time of death. Tony attempts to sacrifice himself by getting a nuke away from NYC 11:0
Iron Man 3 - Tony is motivated by his close friend and security chief, Happy Hogan, almost dying while investigating a series of bombings by 'The Mandarin'. This causes Stark to directly challenge the warlord to face him and results in gunship helicopters blowing up Stark's home with missiles, because why the fuck would you fight fair if you were a terrorist? 12:0
Thor 2 - Thor is motivated by the deaths of both his mother and step brother. 13:1
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Steve is motivated by the apparent death of Nick Fury to investigate TWS and SHIELD which reveals HYDRA being in control for decades. 14:1
Guardians of the Galaxy: Peter is motivated by his dead mother after a parallel between his mother asking for his hand while dying of cancer years ago and Gamora asking for his hand to stand together against Ronan. Bonus point for the GOTG being motivated by Groot sacrificing himself so that the others would live. Groot is voiced by Vin Diesel so that's a point for the men. 15:2
Avengers 2: Age of Ultron: Wanda is motivated by the death of her brother to go on a murder rampage against Ultron. 16:2
Ant Man: Nearest this comes to anything is Henry being motivated to protect his daughter after his wife previously sacrificed herself years ago to stop a missile. 17:3
Avengers 3Captain America 3: Civil War - Black Panther is motivated by the death of his father to find who he thinks is thinks caused it. Tony is motivated by the revelation of his parents murders by Bucky to seek revenge on Bucky despite Steve's attempts to protect his friend[s]. Tony wasn't as close as some father-son dynamics can be and he does get pushed over the edge more by his mother being killed. 19:4Doctor Strange: Steven is motivated by the death of The Ancient One, a character who was originally both male and from Tibet in the comics. China money no likey. 19:5
Guardians of the Galaxy 2: Peter is again motivated by the death of his mother after learning his father was the one that gave her cancer in the first place. She's not getting a second point for this, however. Yondu sacrifices himself so that his adoptive son, Peter, may live. 20:5
Spider-Man: Homecoming - No sacrifices take place despite it being a new Spider-Man. Uncle Ben has had enough. 20:5
Thor 3 - Thor is motivated by his dead father whose words convince Thor his power was never in Mjolnir. 21:5
Black Panther - BP is motivated by the spirit of his dead father in a similar way Peter was motivated by his dead parent a second time. The entire character of BP is just bad copies from others and doesn't deserve any praise in the slightest. Woke AF so obvs it gets lots of praise 🙄 Killmonger is motivated by the death of his father at the hands of his uncle. 22:5
Avengers 3: Infinity War - ... A lot of people die in this. The movie starts with most of the remaining Asgardians dying to Thanos and the Black Order. Heimdall and Loki are both killed in front of Thor in the first few minutes of the movie +2/0, Gamora is killed by Thanos and this causes Peter to screw up the fight on Titan 0/+1, Vision is killed by Wanda to prevent Thanos getting the Mind Stone +1/0 only to be brought back by the Time Stone and then killed again by Thanos +1/0 [This one counts twice for the double gut punch], and then Thanos kills half the universe which all things being fair means "+1/+1". 27:7
Ant Man 2 - No sacrifices take place. 27:7
Captain Marvel - I didn't watch this movie. I am never going to watch this movie. Nobody should ever watch this movie. 27:7
Avengers 4: Endgame: Black Widow dies, motivates the rest of the Avengers to finish the mission 0/+1, Nebula kills a past version of herself but it doesn't actually motivate anything, the Snap is undone [-1/-1?], Tony sacrifices himself to stop Thanos. All things considered: 28:8
Spider-Man 2: Far from Home - Peter is mostly motivated by Tony having died in Endgame, that's it. Also everything after this point starts to get retarded. 28:8
Black Widow: Nobody actually watched this film because the titular protagonist dies in a later movie just like with Star Wars: Solo. No sacrifices take place. 28:8
Shang-Chi and the movie nobody cared about: Shang-Chi is motivated by the sacrifice of his father. 29:8
Eternals - Aka, how to fuck up the existing comic source material so badly it doesn't even resemble fanfic. Ajak is killed off screen, eventually revealed to have been murdered rather than outright killed by monsters. Gilgamesh is killed on screen but nobody really seems to care at the time. Ajak's death sort of motivates the other Eternals for a bit while they figure out what happened until they figure out what happened and things turn into a FFA brawl. 29:9
Spider-Man 3: No Way Home - This is roughly where the article in the OP starts whining about things so just to reflect on how many men vs women have been killed and used as plot points it's almost 3 times as many men when compared to women. This movie bumps up the women to double digits finally, something men reached with movie 6/The Avengers, when Aunt May is killed because Uncle Ben doesn't exist to get killed off again. 29:10
Doctor Strange 2: MOM - Wanda is motivated by the "deaths" of her children. That aren't real, so they don't count. She tries to hunt down and murder America Chavez which all things considered would have been a better outcome for everyone involved. Various other versions of Doctor Strange from other universes die for different reasons, an analogue to The Avengers are all killed by Wanda but nobody really cared [+3/+2 for the split of deaths], and in the end Wanda "sacrifices" herself after realizing what a turbo Karen she became after being the antagonist for all of her own mini series and this movie. Except she's probably still alive so it doesn't count. 29:10
Thor 4: Woke and Pander - Gorr is motivated by the death of his daughter named Love of all things, who is his son Agar in the comics ofc, to kill all Gods because they forsake mortals in the MCU. Jane Foster has stage 4 cancer just like her comic self did at the time when wielding Mjolnir. Things end with Foster dying [yay], Gorr dying, Gorr wishing for his daughter to be brought back, and said daughter taking up Mjolnir because why the fuck not it's that stupid a movie anyway at this point. 29:12
So the final count for Men vs Women in terms of plot based deaths in the MCU is 29 Men to 12 Women. Cue various memes but regardless the point is the article OP is a massive whiny faggot as expected of this trash.
Also this doesn't even account for the various tv shows and shorts like Agents of SHIELD [which sadly isn't counted much anyway], WandaVision, Falcon and TWS, Loki, What if...?s, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, and Ms Marvel. All of which bar AoS are shite and shouldn't be watched anyway.
Edits: Added Erskine to Cap 1 and Yondu to GotG 2. Any others I may have missed please do let me know.
Erskine needs included in this one as his death and final gesture about having heart motivate Steve just after the super serum has been used.
Added.
Oof. Poor Eddie, god forbid the guy care about his work beyond cashing his cheque right? Small wonder they ever tapped him for the MCU. It's like asking Terry Gilliam to direct the Avengers.
Thank you for typing all this out. I enjoyed it.
Really good work, but switching from 0:0 ratio format to 0/0 format when you started adding deaths like powering up a monster in MtG bugged me more than it should have, lol.
Woops >.>
there was a woman killed in the ambush in iron man 1
women being killed off is a plot device because the man will very often go and kill the people responsible for murdering his woman...
if a man is killed off, the woman is most likely gonna go sleep with the people responsible for murdering her man lol.
Frequently used, but also considered to be a sign of lazy writing. It is called "fridging" after Green Lantern's girlfriend was murdered and literally stuffed in a refrigerator for him to find later
Lol never mind Jason Todd getting brutally murdered in a long, page long beating. But somehow crowbarring never caught on.
And they still act like Wanda was the hero of wandavision. By any normal metric she is the villain and the shield guy is the hero.
Lady Thor is a terrible character before and always will be.
Any character that needs a qualifier before some other hero's name is derivative at best, blatant trash by usually. Even Beta Ray Bill is just that, Beta Ray Bill. He's not "Space Thor". Lady Thor on the other hand...
Mjolnir is bigger than any part of Natalie Portman in one of the first pics shown.
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