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The Marvels revives a ridiculous old ’80s trope — and almost redeems it
15.11.2023 - 15:39 / polygon.com / Carol Danvers / Monica Rambeau
There’s a particular disreputable character type that used to be all over the thriller genre, but that we don’t see much in media anymore — at least, not until The Marvels, which summons it back from the grave, howling all the way. It’s one of the movie’s worst, most ludicrous moments — a beat that’s meant to feel like an emotional crisis, and lands more as cheap manipulation. But at the same time, The Marvels eventually makes it meaningful and even touching, in a slapdash sort of way.
Back in the ’90s, I started thinking of this character as the John Grisham Whiny Wife, because I saw it so often in Grisham’s work — though it popped up a lot back then, in books and films and TV, and even in Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Picture the protagonist, deep in the action of some stressful, life-defining heroic business: exposing the Mafia, infiltrating the Klan, psychoanalyzing a murderous antihero. Now picture a particularly important person in the protagonist’s life nagging them to knock off all that heroism, or scolding them for getting so deep into it in the first place.
Nobody likes this character. Nobody is meant to. The JGWW character — which could be the protagonist’s husband, sibling, parent, child, or friend, but is usually a wife or girlfriend — only exists as a road bump to the story’s action, to the exciting bits the audience wants the hero to get on with. A JGWW is always faithless: They don’t believe in the hero’s capabilities or choices. A JGWW is always selfish: They prioritize themselves (and maybe their kids) over the hero’s Big Important Work. A JGWW is almost always boring: They’re rarely drawn well, or characterized with any empathy. They’re minor villains in any story where they appear, and they only exist to make the hero’s life a little more stressful and fraught.
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In The Marvels, Monica Rambeau is given the deeply thankless task of playing that role. When Monica (Teyonah Parris) and Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) finally reunite, 30 years after they last parted, Monica is clearly still hanging on to some big emotions. Naturally, they come out at a particularly stressful moment, right after Carol has lost a big battle and failed to protect her alien husband and his planet of gaily dressed singing celebrants. Monica wants to know why Carol never came back to see her on Earth. Carol awkwardly points out that she’s been off fighting planet-sized battles, among people who needed her. “I needed you!” Monica snaps.
In the moment, it reads like just another John Grisham Whiny Wife subplot, no different from those ’80s and ’90s characters freaking out at the main character for doing dangerous or
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