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Reasons I love Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok

Played by Tessa Thompson. Immediate awesome points

Finally the major supporting female character is a woman of color in a Marvel movie

Wears practical clothing/armor and doesn’t fight like a damn acrobat coughBlackWidowcough

Zero hints of any forced romance subplot with Thor

Treated with absolute respect by Thor, who doesn’t feel entitled to her attention or affection in any way

In fact Thor openly hero worships her. That’s right, the male hero has looked up to a female warrior and an all-female warrior team since childhood and doesn’t in any way feel threatened or emasculated by it

For once a female character gets to be the snarky, persistently drunk lovable asshole wash-up with a Tragic Backstory™ who needs to be persuaded by the male hero to do the right thing and fight for what’s right

Bottom line is that Valkyrie in this movie is basically a female sidekick in a male led superhero flick done right. She isn’t alternatively sexualized and loathed by the male hero, she isn’t treated as a prize the male hero is entitled to by the end of the film, her fight scenes aren’t relentlessly filtered through dismembering male gaze ass shots and she isn’t the moral “conscience” of the team there to tame all of the male egos around her like their fucking mom. Other Marvel/superhero directors take note.