Gender/Racial diversity analysis

Within the film Age of Ultron, diversity and social acceptance is heavily present with many characters from many different cultures. Having one of the main super heroes as a women is very different in the movie genre of superhero films. In the first film we have black widow who is very strong and skilled female spy who uses her looks to distract enemies. In the second film we see her start to fall in love with one of the other characters which seems to follow the convention that the girl always falls with the main male hero. Even with black widow we really don't see her as a super hero due to her only set of skills being good at martial arts but not actually having any super powers. This however does follow the conventions of super hero films.

While in comics the range of female super heroes is very abundant. That then all changes as we are introduced to Scarlett witch. A character who has very strong super powers, does not have a love interest and isn't a hopeless character who needs saving. This brakes the conventions of the super hero film genre which may be why the film was so successful. Diversity between cultures is introduced with characters, they head to Europe and Africa to protect the nations and also have characters from south Korea helping them out.

The reason why this is very different from most super hero films or just films in general is that because in the past, movies have had a men as the powerful and always saving the day, now in recent years and especially with Disney taking over a huge part of the film industry, we are getting more important female characters and they are even getting their own movies like captain marvel coming in 2018. Also films like wonder woman will have a female super hero. In this film we see that while there are more important female characters, the main heroes the film focuses on (hulk, iron man, Thor, captain america) are all male but not only that they are more powerful.

Male characters are actually represented as very aggressive in this film as the majority of the male characters in the avengers seem to argue and fight each other due to the others egos. The female charters seem to stay neutral and don't exactly get involved.