it just kinda bugs me when it's obvious that it was never really planned and they squeeze in a character or "moment".
the whole female avengers assemble thing from avengers endgame, where all these character who were never really developed and were never given there own movie team up to protect Cpt marvel who is so powerful and just flies through all the villains anyway because she's the only one with her own movie. hey black widow is dead how about ur own movie now. though the upcoming line-up of marvel movies finally seem to be pretty diverse leading roles.
I see a lot of people online knock this scene as "cringe" or "pandering," but I know women in real life who
loved that scene and think of it as one of their favorite moments of the film. Come to think of it, I don't know a single woman IRL who criticized it for being forced or pandering or whatever. And I have a pretty nerdy social circle, and we talk about Marvel movies a
lot.
So it's probably good to remember that not everyone is terminally online and tuned into The Discourse and constantly navel-gazing about whether or not even this thing that seems positive is actually positive or if it's actually negative and only seems positive because of the decades of oppression that came before it, and are they really hoodwinking us by exploiting our desire for such a scene and selling it back to us as something progressive and groundbreaking, and if you read theory you'd understand…
Sometimes, for some people, fun things can just be fun things.
Could Marvel (both on-screen and behind the camera) be better at reflecting the diversity of our world,
especially in the first decade or so of the MCU? Of course. Does it suck that it took until Ant-Man and the Wasp for a woman to be a named title character in a Marvel movie and until Captain Marvel for one to be the lead? Heck yes. Was that scene in Endgame still meaningful for many women, who appreciated it even with this history? Anecdotally, I'd say yes. Was it worth including in the film? I think of all the young girls who got to see that scene, with not just one superheroine, but a whole team of them, all having their Big Moment and saving the day on IMAX, and…
I sort of doubt those girls are thinking "well, none of those heroines even matter because Captain Marvel is so OP"