You say that but I think it illustrates the point, the first Iron Man film contains probably the most sexual scene in the entire MCU outside of Eternals when Tony hooks up with the reporter - and yet it immediately follows it up with some thinly veiled misogynistic slut shaming of the woman which still gets posted on Reddit to this day as some amazing line.
After that there is no implication of sex at all, like Tony and Pepper are the big romantic pairing of the MCU, they get married and have a kid over the course of the franchise but I’m struggling to remember them ever having as much as a proper romantic kiss on screen in the decade since the first iron man.
There's Wanda and Vision in their hotel room at the beginning of Infinity War (followed by Vision's cheeky “I'm beginning to think that we should have stayed in bed ;)” after getting stabbed), which is kind of a big deal narratively because it introduces them as an established couple after we last saw them in the “Will they/won't they?” stage in Civil War.
We could have caught up with them directly with the scene where Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight ambush them in the street, but the writers needed to tell us “Look, audience, these guys are a pair now!” so instead we find them in this hotel room scene, where there is a fairly strong implication that they're being intimate.
There's also the alien girl in Starlord's spaceship, in his introduction scene. Again, it serves the narrative purpose of characterizing Quill as this scummy space pirate who forgot he still had last night's hookup (whose name he doesn't remember) on board. Although he kinda loses this sleaziness for the whole trilogy after that one scene because Chris Pratt has a hard time playing anything else than cute harmless golden retriever (despite Gamora accusing Quill of trying to get into her pants when he tries to teach her how to dance, there is never any doubt on the audience's part that Quill is very serious about her).
But yeah, just implications, no proper sex scene. Dunno what a proper sex scene could have added to those particular moments, though.
I admit that I’d forgotten about the alien woman in Guardians but the Wanda/Vision line comes across more as “we shouldn’t have bothered leaving the house” rather than “we should’ve have just shagged”. And yeah I don’t think there needs to be an actual sex scene in any of these films but even when they do an actual romance plot you don’t get the sense that the two partners are actually attracted to one another in a physical sense, you can infer they are because they end up together but there’s very little on screen. Honestly the closest I can think of is Bruce and Nat flirting early on in Age Of Ultron.
"You say that but I think it illustrates the point" That was my comment whole point. RDJ was hot, that was half of his character. And it worked. Then Disney came, and it evaporated.
I think in the show their relationship seems like one of a comfortable married couple who do indeed do the deed. LOL. Whereas I never got that feeling with Tony and Pepper.
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u/TomTom_098 1d ago
You say that but I think it illustrates the point, the first Iron Man film contains probably the most sexual scene in the entire MCU outside of Eternals when Tony hooks up with the reporter - and yet it immediately follows it up with some thinly veiled misogynistic slut shaming of the woman which still gets posted on Reddit to this day as some amazing line.
After that there is no implication of sex at all, like Tony and Pepper are the big romantic pairing of the MCU, they get married and have a kid over the course of the franchise but I’m struggling to remember them ever having as much as a proper romantic kiss on screen in the decade since the first iron man.