Diversity in The Avengers - September 13, 2015

In films today both racial and gender diversity have sparked controversy of the basic male and female roles in both reality and imagination creating wrong thoughts of what we the people are truly meant for in this world. Men in films have been portrayed as muscular, romantics, funny, or serious leaving the women in films to appear as hopeless, adventurous, and witty at times. The percentage of women to have been known to have lead roles in movies is below 15%, while men have been portrayed to have the main role in films at a percentage of over 85%. Its unreal how men can be portrayed from modern day father, to at night father killing people left to right, tracking down his kidnapped daughter (Taken with Liam Neeson), and women to being the beautiful blonde neighbor next door, to badass kung foo master killer (Kill Bill).

Marvel Inc. has been known for films, comic books, toys, shows and much more. The films created and inspired by Marvel comics has had a surplus of male roles as many super heroes are portrayed as, but what many people do not look or pay attention to much is the color of the skin and whether the lead role is by a male or female. Now, all superheroes are believed to have the simple traits of being tall, handsome, strong, smooth, smart, etc. From Spiderman to The Hulk both characters have these traits which make them approachable to the mind thought of a superhero, and in past Marvel films they have both been portrayed by white men, where in society today many know the controversy the film would have if possibly a Mexican, or an African American man. Throughout the movie The Avengers only one woman is portrayed to have a major role in the movie and that is Black Widow,beautiful, trained, sharp shooter woman, who is unafraid to die, kill, and stand up for what she believes in. In the Avengers there is a 5 to 1 ratio of men to women in the movie, some may say its not intentional but the roles have been like this in all of Marvel films and comics for years. The amount of omen superheroes are barely found in movies today,if she is not pretty or has a unrealistic power, its not what the people want or would even care about. The next films that are going to come out and even things up about the racial and gender diversity are Captain Marvel(Emily Blunt Date Not Released) a superwoman with the ability to fly, have super strength, and shoot lasers from her hands and also Captain America 3 where the character Falcon(Anthony Mackie May 6, 2016) will have a major role where it might possibly lead to a movie of his character in a later on film. Overall i see a huge difference on roles in both men and women racially and gender-like growing in the world, many of today's films continue to show what both men and women are more capable of doing then just having one gender be more dominant than the other.