’Avengers: Endgame’ taken to task for 'fat-shaming' and PTSD-shaming

SPOILER ALERT!

If you’ve not seen Avenger’s: Endgame and you plan to see it, stop reading right now.

If you followed the story from Avenger’s: Infinity War, you’ll know that the Avenger failed to stop the elimination of half of all life from the entire universe.

It’s not hard to image that the superheroes who battled the evil Thanos and failed to stop his evil plan to kill half of all life, could be suffering from a touch of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The one Marvel Universe superhero who shoulders most of the blame for missing the chance to stop Thanos is ... well ... I don’t want to write his name just in case you still plan to see it. We’ll just say it rhymes with ... Shor.

In the follow up Endgame, ‘Shor’ is no longer the picture of amazing physical fitness. Instead, he’s ... well ... fat.

And he drinks a lot.

He’s let himself go.

The Guardian in the UK writes:

Using a fat person as a punchline is cheap and lazy. So why was everyone in the cinema audience laughing except me?

Thor has seen war, death and destruction and as a result he has PTSD. I applaud Marvel for highlighting mental illness, particularly as it relates to veterans, but it could have been treated more sensitively. 

 My issue lies not with Thor’s alcohol consumption or his turning to food for comfort – both are common coping mechanisms; my issue lies with his physical appearance. I thought we were finally past the days of the fat suit.