#oyoke

matching black panther icons (okoye & nakia)

So here’s the thing: this moment was nothing more than a nod towards the feminists. It was jarring in how obvious, and tone-deaf those forty seconds were. How had all the female heroes managed to end up in the same place to drop perfectly? Why were they needed against Captain ‘I Can Do Anything Because I Am Strongest Person Ever’ Marvel? Why did Oyoke leave her king, and the rest of the Kingsguard? How did she even traverse that far that quickly? How the hell did Shuri -who can’t fly, and has none of the Black Panther powers -even get there? Hell, with no other heirs, why didn’t Oyoke immediately send Shuri away from the heaviest of the fighting, the most dangerous location on the battlefield at that moment? Wasn’t Wasp helping Ant-Man get the time machine going again? Didn’t Valkyrie’s horse take a massive hit and crash land? Mantis has shown no real initiative in combat before, usually following Drax’s lead, or other members of the team if he’s not there; why did she show up there at random?

There were so many ways Disney could’ve gotten their ‘good ally’ tokens here; why not have the Kingsguard escort Peter? How cool would that have been? POC women, with no superpowers, only years of intense training, escorting Spiderman across the battlefield? Not only would it have given Disney those good ally tokens, but it would’ve been amazingly kick-ass, and fit in better with the scene as a whole. This is personally what I would’ve liked to see the most, with T’Challa telling Oyoke that the gauntlet is more important than he is, the Kingsguard needs to protect it at all costs. So Okoye gathers up her remaining warriors, and they fight their way to Peter. Peter makes some quirky quip about how cool their tech is or something, then says they can’t get through all that. Oyoke smirks, calls out a Wakandan war cry, the Kingsguard lines up, and tears across the field, leaving blood and destruction behind them. This would’ve been the best -in my opinion -but there are others.

Now, Wanda, Pepper, and Valkyrie have already had their moments, so we can sort of leave them out of this (I suppose, although I think Wanda is one of the baddest of bad asses and I would’ve loved her moving Peter through).

But what about Shuri with all her tech toys? She shows up with some sort of flying capabilities, and her and Peter -the two kids, the next generation of the Avengers -deliver the gauntlet through? Shuri driving/flying something, blasting away while Peter batters away enemies? How nifty would that have been? We get to see these two young heroes start their relationship as the next generation of heroes, allowing the two quippers of the movies to have some great dialogue. Peter goes on about how nifty the tech is, while Shuri claims that this is nothing; Peter responds by asking her something about how it works with ‘x law/rule’, and Shuri laughs, asking if the Colonizers are still adhering to that ‘old’ principle, then tells him he’ll have to come and see her lab some day. Peter says its a deal, before taking off to the van, leaving Shuri to make her way back to T’Challa or Oyoke to make a comment, and her saying something along the lines of he actually seems intelligent. This also gives us something to work with later, when these two presumably become heroes in their own right, apart from the ‘adults’ or older generation -the foundations of a working relationship, or a friendship even, have been set.

Or Gamora and Nebula could’ve done it; these two show up, and simply take it -Nebula pushing Peter back down as she takes the gauntlet, Gamora telling him to stay down, and let the adults handle things. Peter -who has no idea who they are -debates on fighting them, before seeing Quill or Rocket nodding, and he lays back down, watching as Gamora and Nebula hack and slash their way across the field -this also has the added benefit of having the Daughters of Thanos using everything he taught them, everything he made them, against him as they shred through his armies. 

Or, in the worst alternative, but still better than what they did, Captain Marvel simply shows up, does her little ‘hi, Peter Park’, and flies it away.