Posted on 07/24/2019 7:01:59 AM PDT by Ennis85
The wildly-popular Marvel Cinematic Universe, previously one of Hollywood’s last bastions of entertainment that stayed mostly above the political and cultural fray, dipped its toe in LGBT “representation” with April’s Avengers: Endgame, and is slated to introduce a lesbian subplot with the next sequel for one of the team’s founding superheroes, the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth).
Marvel Studios announced its next two years’ worth of films and streaming series this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, concluding with Thor: Love and Thunder in November 2021. The film will see Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) continue as ruler of the titular hero’s surviving Asgardian people on Earth, including a development that LGBT activists have long demanded, but will likely surprise mass audiences.
“As new king, she needs to find her queen,” Thompson told the crowd, io9 reports. “That will be her first order of business. She has some ideas. Keep you posted.” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige subsequently confirmed the statement, but wouldn’t confirm the size or prominence of the subplot. “How that impacts the story remains to be seen with that level of representation you’ll see across our films, not in just Thor 4,” he said.
Love and Thunder will also adapt a recent story from the comics in which Thor’s former love interest Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) takes over his name and powers, leading some left-wing fans to hope that she may become Valkyrie’s “queen” (Foster has been depicted as straight in both the comics and previous films, however, so this is pure speculation for the moment).
LGBT activists previously assailed Marvel for deleting a shot from the previous Thor film, Thor: Ragnarok, that would have hinted at Valkyrie’s sexual orientation by showing a woman exiting her bedroom, as well as similar omissions from other films.
The studio extended an olive branch to “representation” enthusiasts with a brief scene in Avengers: Endgame in which an unnamed man (played by co-director Joe Russo) at a group therapy session mentions going on a date with another man. Despite Marvel declaring that the moment demonstrated its commitment to “diversity,” many LGBT activists condemned it as too small and insubstantial.
While comic-book and geek-culture blogs are teeming with enthusiastic headlines about the news, not all fans are welcoming the new direction.
“Staring at the floor, I began to realize that whatever good the Marvel Cinematic Universe brought to the world would be undone by the heathens of Hollywood,” William Usher wrote at One Angry Gamer. “Whatever memories or joy that you thought you could embrace from the previous three phases of storytelling, are gone. Your joy is being systematically erased by the diversity agenda, and Phase 4 will taint these legacy characters… forever.”
How do you add a Lesbian sub-plot without going soft core porn?
Do the two female superheroes go on a date to Lilith Fair?
Thor spends a night with this beautiful Valkayrie and the next morning he says, “I have to tell you who I am... I’m Thor.”
She says: “You’re Thor? I can hardly walk.”
Hollywood is so infested with homosexuals and other assorted freaks that they just can't help themselves.
Edging closer and closer to 1980’s late night Cinamax fare.
Emmanuelle XXIV 10:pm-12:30 am, PG-18
Do the two female superheroes go on a date to Lilith Fair?"
They drive around in a vintage Pontiac Aztek.
I’m glad to see these LGBT characters being presented in these fantasy movies. It’s time we stop ignoring half of the population!
;)
BTW, /s
“stayed mostly above the political and cultural fray”
There’s a big lie.
> She says: “You’re Thor? I can hardly walk.”
The punch line I heard was:
“You’re thore? I’m tho thore I can hardly pithth.”
Batfag and Throbbin
Had to clean it up a little.....................
The Green Horny, Flesh Go in,
Wut the-——————Pontiac Azteks are now vintage? Didn’t think that would happen that soon. As for the movie, it seems to me that the audience (of which I will NOT be one) would be surprised if there’s NOT a gay component these days. Does it really add to the storyline? Uh, no.
God has given them up to depravity. We should never be surprised that the world is evil, and will continue to become more evil.
Wonder Tranny, Captain Tranamerica
The Marvel films have made, what, billions of dollars. But they still feel the need to placate the LGBT crowd? And risk alienating a lot of their audience. Stupid.
Most people thought Endgame was so great when it was pure leftist social engineering. The gay director doing a maudlin gay cameo was only part of it.
I’m sure some will accept this but I also predict Marvel will start to lose audience. Many parents will not take their kids to see gays in movies.
The world needs another Marvel movie like I need a hole in my head.
Hollywood and the media are full of gays. They don’t just want to placate, they ARE the gay mafia.
This “adulting” of alleged superheroes has gone on continuously since the first Batman.
All the darkness, “conflict”, “complex personality”, sexual situations, all show tendency to doing what is “now” and hip, rather than what is right and fit for children. It is no surprise they’d be obsessing on sexuality because that has already been done. Why not just a tweak to sexuality?
I’m sickened by the TV shows where all this homo stuff is rampant, never mind the other hetero immorality and PC illegal promotion etc.
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