so yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing Avengers Endgame with my son as
well of what as one of my best friends so we go see the movie absolutely love
it cannot recommend it enough and when I get out my buddy rod from the band rkvc
he text me an article he's like hey this might be a video idea and it's talking
about how a specific character and Avengers Endgame is problematic and I
read this and I'm like oh yeah I need to make a video about this but
for all of you out there who have not seen Avengers Endgame yet there is
going to be one spoiler of a character so if you haven't seen it yet if you
don't want the movie spoiled turn this video off but make sure you come back
because this is definitely definitely something that we need to talk about
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
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stuff makes you subscribe and ring that notification bell so yeah my buddy rod
sent me this article and it was about how a character in Avengers Endgame was
problematic I'm like what character like who was problematic and the character
they're talking about is Thor and I'm like oh my god and I already knew what
was coming and I opened up the article anyways and I read it and after reading
that article I found that there were actually multiple articles from
different websites talking about how four was problematic and mainly the the
bullying how he was overweight the trauma that he went through and things
like that so they also talked about his alcoholism so what are my qualifications
to talk about this I'm not a licensed therapist or psychologist or anything
like that but here are my qualifications I'm a
recovering drug addict and alcoholic with almost 7 years clean I'm somebody
who put on over 200 pounds in my addiction and I worked at an addiction
treatment center for a little over three years
so I have some experience to talk about this subject alright so anyways his
article and I'm gonna be going out of the one from Mary Sue okay so this first
section right here says in ingame Thor's trauma and distress manifests in his
retreat from society and into primarily drinking there was the opportunity for
an Avengers movie which will be viewed by millions to explore mental illness
substance abuse and the process of grieving with sensitivity or even just
basic humanity I know I'm not alone in saying that would have been a much
appreciated surprise many of us would have felt seen by Marvel Studios biggest
movie today alright like that like that's ridiculous when I read that I'm
like stop stop it I just stop okay like there's a few reasons why that's
ridiculous okay like okay this is a fictional movie with fictional
characters alright now think about this real quick the Avengers are trying to
undo half of like all living beings being wiped out in the galaxy and people
wanted them to include like what like a rehab and mental health montage when
their priority is saving the galaxy and bringing people back to life like that
is ridiculous and that's one of the things like when people get like in
outraged culture just outraged culture right they want everything to be
included in everything and here's the thing too this is completely neglecting
like how much they actually did address this like this movie address that so so
so much like okay I lied there's gonna be multiple spoilers in here because I'm
gonna go down the list okay first it shows Steve Rogers in a support group
for people who lost people after Thanos did his little snap thing okay they
showed a support group right we saw Hawkeye's struggle right when he
lost his family he turned that into anger and revenge and all of that okay
it showed Black Widow Natasha how she was trying to find meaning and purpose
and continuing running the Avengers and you know doing right in the you know and
galaxies and everything like that like everybody like there was so much story
in this I think there was even a point like halfway through the movie I'm like
man I wish there was some more action and it's because there was so much story
in it they took just about every single
character and showed how everybody grieves differently how everybody
grieves differently so for them to hone in on Thor who isolated himself for five
years and say like they didn't address this is very very ridiculous and here's
one of the many issues I have with this article and people freaking out about
this you can tell there are people who are looking they are looking for
something to be outraged by so you get the biggest movie coming out right and
people are walking in there not to be entertained not to escape the reality of
what's going on in the world but they're going in there and they're like okay
what can I get upset about today you know what I mean and when your brain is
locked in on that you're not seeing all of the other ways they did what you're
saying they should have done and like think about it for a second like what
like the movie was like three hours on what do they want to do like do they
want to like show like therapy sessions with like Thor and like some kind of
psychologists in there or or like what what did they want like that's the thing
like one of the reasons I say we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution is articles like this they just talk about the problem they're like oh
well there should have been you know more representation and like talking
about this stuff and so in the process like what what explain it like explain
to us in a logical way how that would have worked like so then right here they
go on to say about how this is a long-running joke like it's a
long-running joke about for being overweight and everything like that and
and here's the thing like I said I have experience with this I have experience
okay and here here's where the Avengers has always been like a great you know
series of movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe everything is because the
Avengers like they talk trash to each other like they mess with each other
they jump with each other Thor is somebody who's like been this
like ultra like male like God right and he's like always talking crap to
everybody and everything like that and it's something that continued in
this movie okay so like me with I got sober like me and my buddies my
best friends we talked trash to each other I love talking trash I love it so
much I love receiving it I love giving it like when it's in this like joking
like funny way I love it and that's one of the reasons I love the dynamics
between so many characters and the Avengers is because they did that so
they talked about how Thor was getting bullied throughout the movie so you know
it would be more insulting do you know what would be more insulting to Thor in
that movie is if everybody babied him and coddled him throughout the movie
that would have been insulting like tell me this like just be honest leave me a
comment down below is it not insulting to you when you're going through
something and everybody treats you differently like that's a real question
like how many of us want to be treated differently like especially when we lose
somebody when we when we grieve when we're going through something right like
we want people to be there for us but everybody's just like walking on
eggshells around us and being super careful like that is even more insulting
and I don't think this the author of this article is getting that now the
other thing like I've mentioned earlier is that they're focusing on the negative
there were so many points where people were there for for rocket was there for
Thor Hulk when Hulk went to go like get Thor like they were there for him there
were countless people in there who were there for him and that's the balance of
this all like when I told you like me and my friends talked trash to each
other like we did that constantly and joked around and mess around with each
other but there were also like many many instances where they were just there for
us were there we were there for each other
and they were there for me and I was there for them right and it's this
balance but like we live in this world where some people not all people but
some people believe like this should all be like coddling and babying and
everything like that like well we do need to be there and be supportive for
one another when we're going through this like grieving process like again it
is extremely insulting to just baby somebody especially when there's a god
of thunder the next thing is that they're talking about
they're talking about the grieving process and they're talking about the
trauma that and the stress that for went through that led to his alcoholism and
weight gain and everything like that something that this article neglected to
mention is that this was five years later everybody five years later
okay we all need time to grieve like we all need time to be in self-pity and
just be upset and everything like that Thor was doing this for five years
so what's the alternative what's the alternative that they were gonna baby
him even more then we're gonna promote even longer self-pity no there comes a
certain point where we gotta get up my ass and put in some work and that's what
the Avengers did they got over there they're like yo dude it's been five
years get your ass up we need to put in work quit wallowing in
self-pity it's time to get out of the problem and get into the solution that's
what they were doing for Thor and that's what I needed when I was in depression
when I first got sober and I was still thinking about taking my own life and
all that stuff I needed people to pull my ass out of bed and say yo we're gonna
go to a meeting we're gonna go out for coffee we're gonna go see a movie we're
gonna go play cards we're gonna go play board games get up off your ass and
we're gonna do something Thor was in self-pity for five freaking
years all right and like just again like one of the biggest issues I have is that
people like this it's not everybody but people like this who wrote this article
promote this idea of self-pity and we should all just sit around feeling bad
for ourselves don't get me wrong there is a time and a place for that but how
long how long do we sit around feeling sorry for ourselves so the last thing
I'm gonna touch on to end this thing on a lighter note is as a fat dude I am
happy as hell that we have some representation in this movie did you see
that end fight did you see that in fight scene though with Thor just finally
suited up and he was doing work I'm like I got a fellow chubby dude out there
doing work on fails in his army so that was a nice thing
and that ladies and gentlemen is what you call the glass is half-full all
right but let me know what your thoughts are on this topic down in the comments
below if you see the vendors in-game or if you haven't and you watch this movie
anyways let me know your thoughts on this do you think we live in a time
where there is just outrage culture and people are just trying to find things to
get upset about alright let me know down in the comments
below let me know what your thoughts of the Avengers alright anyways that's all
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