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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8679688" data-attributes="member: 58416">What can I say? Different experiencesYou know people who felt it hit the nail on the head. I know people who felt it didn't (and that other movies -such as Black Panther's portrayal of female characters- did a better job of addressing those issues). Carol spends her whole movie fighting against stereotypes, just to find her power by embracing it. She then follows that up in her next appearance in the MCU by adopting an attitude which barely differs from the toxic a-hole guys that  her whole movie's character arc spent rebuking.That's all also layered over what I said previously: her movie seemingly designed to go against the grain of everything else that was being established around that time.As far as forced, it's hard to quantify feel. That's simply how it came across to me. It seemed like a lot of ideas concerning story and character development were rushed so as to hurry up and fit the character into the MCU before the fight with Thanos.Edit: I think part of it might be what I've said already. The movie appears to violate what had already been established as how things usually work in-setting. That by itself isn't necessarily wrong. Other characters and movies have done so; however, there is typically at least some barebones explanation given to explain why. In that case there isn't. There could have been some connection made between Carol being blasted by the stone and how MCU Wanda received her powers via manipulation of a stone. There could have been any number of reasons but there weren't. In the end, what was the overall narrative gain for all the effort to do things in a way which went against what had been established by virtually everything else up to that point?</blockquote>

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