Why The Internet Is Disturbed By This ‘X-Men’ Poster *Trigger Warning*

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253. A poster featuring Jennifer Lopez in "Enough" being choked would be over the line

That movie is based on a daily reality.

I think the context of superhero/fantasy films is something different. The author of one of these articles, without saying it, tacitly admits if a white man like Henry Cavill as Superman for example were being choked by Darkseid, no one would say a thing. They say there would be an outcry if it was a black man, let's say John Stewart's Green Lantern, or a gay man (ok how the fuck is a gay man depicted in a rendering so you know he's gay if you don't know shit about the character like so many of these idiots crying don't....) like Alan Scott also as GL were being choked. I think there'd be as much of an outcry as these people are putting on, which is not much. The fact is the buzz surrounding this film was that it's JLaw's last XMen movie possibly and therefore she's the one likely to be killed and that folks is a huge deal. She is the star of this film. She is being set up as the primary hero. And she's a woman.

I'll also say in the Civil War movie, Black Widow almost gets choked out by the Winter Soldier's bionic arm. It is an intense moment but never once do you think "Oh my God she's a woman she can't handle this" because her character is a badass but almost any other hero in that spot would be in trouble too.