Why does Thor: Ragnarok want us to embrace Valkyrie, but not necessarily all of her?

By all accounts, Valkyrie is one of the best parts of Thor: Ragnarok, so why has the decision been made to not show a certain part of her character?

Marvel Studios knows that people already like Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok. A brief peek at Rotten Tomatoes shows that quite a few reviews mention Tessa Thompson’s take in positive tones.

Even what seems like a late-released poster, considering the film’s release date is in just two days on Nov. 3, has her bigger than anyone aside from Thor and Hela, otherwise known as the protagonist and the antagonist.

Yes, she’s even bigger than Loki or the Hulk, and she gets a majestic pose to boot:

(A brief aside: this poster is ridiculously stylish, and anything that has Thor wearing his helmet is fine by me, as I’ve been saying since the first trailer.) This is all well and good. The Marvel Cinematic Universe could always use more women — another point that Valkyrie has helped me make already.

But what apparently doesn’t work quite yet is Valkyrie’s bisexuality. CBR, citing Rolling Stone, shows that the film won’t explicitly confirm it, instead removing a scene due to it causing viewers to perhaps be “distracted from the scene’s vital exposition.”

Frankly, that does not sound like the greatest reason to cut it out. To call what Rolling Stone refers to as a “bit,” implying it’s at least mildly funny, is its own problem, but on a greater level, it’s a shame that casual confirmation of an already-known comics fact can’t get its own, however brief, moment to shine. To make a comparison, if Wonder Woman can allude to bisexuality at minimum with that also-hilarious scene between Steve and Diana on the boat … Thor: Ragnarok, it seems, has missed its own boat to push the conversation forward.

Alas, “vital exposition” will have to win the day, and we might have to wait for that all-female Marvel movie that Thompson really wants to make to give Valkyrie’s bisexuality its own scene.

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At some point, one has to wonder how long it’ll take, though.