OUT: The age of ‘wholesome’ Marvel films. IN: The age of ‘woke’ Marvel films:
BBC – The Marvel Cinematic Universe is set to get its first transgender superhero.
“And very soon. In a movie that we’re shooting right now,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said during a Q&A at the New York Film Academy.
Asked by a fan whether there were any plans for more LGBT characters in Marvel’s films, “specifically the T, trans characters”, Kevin said: “Yes, absolutely. Yes.”
It’s believed the only movie they are shooting right now is The Eternals, so it must be that one.
According to the BBC, The Eternals will also introduce Marvel movies’ first gay character in 2020:
It stars Angelina Jolie, Game of Thrones’ Richard Madden and Kit Harington, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek and Brian Tyree Henry, among others.
Kevin Feige confirmed that the film would star Marvel’s first gay character.
“He’s married, he’s got a family, and that is just part of who he is,” he said last year.
I’m a huge Marvel film fan and I hate all this politically correct ‘wokeness’, which is ruining everything. Hollywood continues to shove the LGBTW movement down the throats of fans.
Heck, they are even trying to wreck the Thor series, which has a new film coming out in 2021:
The next Thor film, Love and Thunder, is scheduled to come out in 2021.
Tessa Thompson’s character Valkyrie – who was made the King of New Asgard by Thor in the last Avengers film – revealed what the “first order of business” would be for her in the film.
“As new king, she needs to find her queen,” she said.
In the comics Valkyrie identifies as bisexual.
It’s not just Marvel. The CW’s DC universe introduced lesbian Batgirl in 2019 and they have used several seasons of Supergirl’s show to make one of the main characters gay. I don’t watch either show, and honestly, I don’t know how much of this I can take from the Marvel universe either. It may be that the good old days of watching Marvel films is over for me.