riantiada replied to your post:OH RIGHT YEAH so i really enjoyed guardians of the...
I felt like it was implied that his actions were related to his abandonment/abduction, and I felt like they did a good thing more or less terminating his relationship with Gamora after the “pelvic sorcery” thing
yeah...i mean, i would believe more in it being intentionally implied if they'd given him any sort of reaction to gamora rejecting him because of his reputation. like even a nonverbal second of "oh shit i'm conflicted; what do i want?"
and also if it wasn't just...such par for the course with Morally Ambiguous Male Accidental-Hero types. it just feels like the default assumption the writers/directors/whoever make about Straight Guy Heroes. (which is because the default assumption about real-life men is that they want to have a lot of sex all the time and resent being in relationships. which is bullshit and pretty insulting because there is soo much more human variation than that.)
so i guess i feel like, even though i could make the necessary assumptions that tie his behaviors in with the rest of his character, the existence of that Casual-Misogyny-As-Default means it has to be a little more intentional-feeling for me to buy it? because otherwise i'm going to be confused about what level of awareness the writers were putting into it. if that makes sense? or maybe i'm just being an asshole? idk.