When a movie,show, or series can have all of its minority, female, lgbt+, etc characters removed, and still have a coherent and understandable plot or story
This movie clearly suffers from the Rian-Russo effect, if you remove all these characters the movie would only be shorter by 5 minutes.
The Russo Brothers, directors of three MCU movies created “groundbreaking” LGBTQ+ representation in Avengers: Endgame with their three second cameo of a nameless character at a therapy group implying that he went on a date with a male character. The Russo Brothers proceeded to brag about how progressive that made them for the entirety of the press tour. That nameless character, and the person who portrays him can be both be referred to as “gay joe russo.”
person 1: gay joe russo threw the first brick at Stonewall
person 2: but who willthrow the first brick at gay joe russo?