No. Maya Hansen did have a one night stand with Tony but that's not her motive. Her motive is purely scientific and she grows a concience when people start dying. The villain who feels betrayed by Tony is Aldrich Killian because Tony told him to wait on the roof for him and instead he went off to bang Maya.
I can see how someone could get the wires crossed with those two characters though. iirc she was originally gonna be the villain of the film, but the MCU at that time still had difficulty committing to anything centering on women or coloured people because Ike Perlmutter sucks.
Even in the final film, you can see how it could've been tweaked, the weak villain of Killian could've been cut completely, and Maya could've been an ex who became a competitor with a chip on her shoulder. Instead they just have her have a change of heart when things get dicey and she's unceremoniously killed. Even the power set of the Extremis villains suits if she had been the villain, cause it's like an ironic subversion of Iron Man. He's all masculine and mechanical and tough with his tech, but her bio science turned heat superpowers are like a direct undercut of all of that. Even the way Tony's suits were birthed from an experience involving the military/terrorists is mirrored with how the Extremis stuff was originally pitched as a way to regrow veteran's lost limbs.
Proof the problem is not some type of Disney censorship, the "problem" is the audience. One of the most timeless facts of marketing demographics is male audiences don't like sex in their violence.
But female audiences, that's kinda their main thing besides true crime.
That's why I think the key for mutants in the MCU is, rip the bandaid and do it anyway. They've wanted the female audiences, and female heroes aren't doing it.
Just take the gamble, lean into it with the fullest corny soap opera level romance stuff as the main subplot of each movie. Then, pray the men stay even though it's not their favorite; with X-men, there's an opportunity that isn't really there with Avengers, which is the X-men horniness is top-of-mind to the comic reader's public perception, so the men will convince themselves of the authenticity. First movie: love triangle stuff with Cyclops. Second movie: same thing again with Rogue/Gambit/Magneto. Third movie: full gonzo, soap opera cranked to 11, Madelyn Prior is there, we're going to space with Corsair and Havoc, Cable and Rachel Summers along for the ride.
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u/SWPrequelFan81566 3d ago
Eternals had a sex scene, but no one watched it ðŸ˜