6. ...And Not Reaching Out To New Audiences
Whilst the Marvel movies are great in a lot of ways, they're not so hot on the whole diversity thing - when Guardians Of The Galaxy came out fan boys joked that they had made a movie involving a talking tree and a raccoon before DC had even considered bringing Wonder Woman to the big screen. Which Warner Bros. are now doing, first of all, but, second of all, it was a case of pot-kettle-black. The MCU is a cloyingly straight white male landscape. Three of its leading men so far as pasty dudes called Chris - Pratt, Hemsworth, Evans - and Scarlett Johnasson's Black Widow appears to be the only member of the Avengers who's never going to have her own movie. When Marvel announced their Phase 3 line up, they looked to be attempting to fix that problem. Fan-favourite Captain Marvel was heading to the big screen and, what's more, she would be following Black Panther - Marvel's first black leading man on-screen, apparently due to be introduced in Age Of Ultron. But now both films have been pushed back for the new Spider-Man film, meaning they're continuing to not try and reach out to a wider audience they've so far been ignoring.
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