 So yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing Avengers Endgame with my son 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 texts me an article. And he's like, hey, this might be a video idea. And it's talking about how a specific character in 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 problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, I try to pull different topics from TV, movie shows, the YouTube community, pop culture in general, and try to see what lessons that we can all learn from this. So if you're into that stuff, make sure 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. And I'm like, what character? Like who? 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 Thor was problematic. And mainly 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 seven 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, here's the article and I'm going to be going out of the one from Mary Sue. So this first section right here says, in end game, 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, that's ridiculous. When I read that I'm like, stop. Stop it. Just stop. There's a few reasons why that's ridiculous. This is a fictional movie with fictional characters. Now think about this real quick. The Avengers are trying to undo half of all living beings being wiped out in the galaxy. People wanted them to include a rehab and mental health montage when their priority is saving the galaxy and bringing people back to life. That is ridiculous and that's one of the things when people get an outrage culture. Just outrage culture, right? They want everything to be included in everything. And here's the thing too. This is completely neglecting how much they actually did address this. This movie addressed that so, so, so much. Okay, I lied. There's going to be multiple spoilers in here because I'm going to go down the list. First, it showed Steve Rogers in a support group for people who lost people after Thanos did his little snap thing. They showed a support group. We saw Hawkeye's struggle. When he lost his family, he turned that into anger and revenge and all of that. It showed Black Widow, Natasha, how she was trying to find meaning and purpose and continuing running the Avengers and doing right in the galaxy and everything like that. There was so much story in this. There was even a point 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. 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 the movie was like three hours on. What do they want to do? Like did they want to like show like therapy sessions with like Thor and like some kind of psychologist in there? Or like what did they want? Like that's the thing. Like one of the reasons I say we talk about the problem, the 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, a more representation and like talking about this stuff and showing 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 Thor being overweight and everything like that. And here's the thing. Like I said, I have experience with this. I have experience, okay? And here's where the Avengers has always been like a great, you know, a 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 joke 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 when I got sober, like me and my buddies, my best friends, we talk 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 just in this like joking, like friendly 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 talk about how Thor was getting bullied throughout the movie. So you know what 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 when 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 Thor. 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 messed around with each other. But there were also like many, many instances where they were just there for us. We were there for each other and they were there for me and I was there for them, right? And it's this balance. 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 they're the god of thunder. The next thing is that they're talking about grieving. They're talking about the grieving process. They're talking about the trauma and distress that Thor 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 going to baby him even more? They were going to promote even longer self-pity? No, there comes a certain point where we got to get up off our ass and put in some work. And that's what the Avengers did. They got over there and 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 going to go to a meeting. We're going to go out for coffee. We're going to go see a movie. We're going to go play cards. We're going to go play board games. Get up off your ass and we're going to 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 going to touch on to end this thing on a lighter note is as a fat dude, I am happy as hell that we had some representation in this movie. Did you see that end fight? Did you see that end 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 Thanos and 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've seen Avengers Endgame or if you haven't and you watched this movie anyway. 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? All right? Let me know down in the comments below. Let me know what your thoughts of the Avengers. All right? Anyways, that's all I got for this video. 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