The Moral Confusion of Avengers: Endgame - Crisis Magazine

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I actually read the article and find their critiques nit-picky and insignificant.
 
Let’s take these one by one:
  1. So Cap is in a support group, one where people are devastated because half of everyone vanished, and this guy tells a story about going on a same-sex date. The story ends where both he and the date end it crying their eyes out. The author of this article would very much have liked Captain America to respond with something like, “I know you’re hurting. We all are. But you have to realize that acting on your SSA is a sin!”
  2. First of all, the idea of killing Hitler as a baby is a well-known time travel trope,; so this wasn’t out of the blue. Second, they didn’t explain that it was wrong because they didn’t have to. I think Hulk gave something of a “C’mon” as to how wrong it was, and that was that. The movie is three hours long. We don’t need 5 minutes on the morality of killing someone who hasn’t yet done something wrong.
  3. The author is upset that two characters, Thor and Hawkeye, didn’t handle the loss of half the universe well. How many of us would? I’m surprised it’s only two. The fact is it’s good to show that different characters acted differently (not to say that one should praise either one’s actions).
  4. Finally, the author is mad that in Infinity War that Vision and Gamora were attempted to be sacrificed by their friends in a show of consequentialism in order to save half the universe. Then he’s upset that Hawkeye and Black Widow fight each to sacrifice themselves to get the soul stone and restore half the universe. In the first case, it was Vision and Gamora pleading to be sacrificed. They would have self-sacrificed (like pre-serum Captain America jumping on a grenade) if given the chance. The same kind of self-sacrifice is in place in Endgame for the stone. Black Widow was a martyr.
In the end, I agree that the author was being nitpicky. He just wanted an article touching on a pop culture topic to get eyeballs on the site.
 
Mike_from_NJ said:
The author is upset that two characters, Thor and Hawkeye, didn’t handle the loss of half the universe well. How many of us would? I’m surprised it’s only two. The fact is it’s good to show that different characters acted differently (not to say that one should praise either one’s actions).
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I have actually seen some comments online about the movie from people who suffer with depression that they greatly appreciated Thor’s characterization in Endgame. He reacted as many do not with sulking, but with putting on a smile and pursuing empty, fleeting pleasures like alcohol, food, and video games.

I don’t think anyone watching the movie would look at that as something to emulate, but it does make his character more relatable, and I think it could be a means of giving hope for those who are beaten down by life.
 
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