![]() And let's not even talk about Black Widow and Hulk. (Forgot about that one, huh?) Other comic-book romances start out endearing but ultimately undermine the women involved, like Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts in the Iron Man movies (who gets a nice arc in the first film but isn't nearly as fleshed out in the sequels) or Zoe Saldana's Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy (who really has no reason to fall for Star-Lord but does anyway, because Chris Pratt). ![]() ![]() ![]() Think Natalie Portman's Jane Foster in the Thor films, or Liv Tyler's Betty Ross in Incredible Hulk. Nearly all of them are as vanilla as they come many of them are chaste and taken for granted. However, when Marvel's romantic subplots are held under any sort of scrutiny, it's hard to see them as anything but anemic. Superhero movies tend to put spectacle (and jokes) above all else, and they're good enough at those things to make you forgive them for this in the short term.
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