Spider-Man Needs to Be White and Straight, Say Leaked Sony Emails

variety ^ | june 19, 2015 | dave mcnary

[lowbridge]

Peter Parker and his alter ego Spider-Man must be heterosexual and Parker must be Caucasian, according to a legal licensing agreement between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment.

The information was disclosed in a massive document release by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which released this week 276,394 private files, emails and financial data onto its servers.

Sony Pictures and Marvel reps declined to comment on the licensing agreement, first reported by the Gawker website.

The contract went into effect in September 2011. It lists “mandatory” character traits for both Peter Parker and Spider-Man — and the agreement includes the caveat that Spider-Man is “not a homosexual (unless Marvel has portrayed that alter ego as a homosexual).”

[taxcontrol]

Sad that this is news.

[MrB]

Is there an equivalent graphic that can be captioned

“the homosexual community FROWNS on your shenanigans”

?

[MrB]

We’re taking great strides toward the goal of the left...
“They want to kill white people” is incomplete.
They want to kill white people with government guns backing them up to make up for numerical inferiority.

[pepsi_junkie]

Not commercialy viable... But funny as all get out I’d bet. Nothing funnier than a really gay black man.

Chris Tucker played an over the top flamboyant TV announcer in "The Fifth Element" and it was excruciatingly annoying.

[Fresh Wind]

Given recent events, I think it would be acceptable for Peter Parker to be a black Lesbian who says she’s white, male, and straight.

[Mr. K]

OMG NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BURRRRNN THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHUN THE DISBELIEVERS!!!!

SHUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

[I want the USA back]

Can’t have a limp-wristed Spider man now, can we?

[minnesota_bound]

My spidey senses say that the liberals are going to be upset... yet again.

[golux]

...But he can identify as a woman, can't he?

[Senator_Blutarski]

That’s not a spider, that’s a crab.

[Jagermonster]

We’re on a bridge Charlie!

[Durus]

But he wasn’t gay.

[T-Bone Texan]

It’s a SpiderCrabWookie.

[T-Bone Texan]

"....Arabs have lower IQ’s ...

Actually, in Arab cultures possessing low levels of Social Trust, 1st cousin marriage is common.

As we in the developed world know, 1st cousin marriages beget birth defects and lower IQs in the long term.

That's why as a culture reject 1st cousin marriages.

[Mr. K]

Look! A liopleurodon! ... A MAGICAL liopleurodon!

[Bratch]

It appears that paradigm has changed.

EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man Miles Morales — popular biracial version of the hero — joins main Marvel comics universe this fall

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Comic book geeks’ spider senses are tingling.

After battling evil-doers in an alternate comic book line, a popular biracial version of Spider-Man is getting a promotion to the official Marvel Comics universe.

The first issue of the relaunched “Spider-Man” hits comic stores, tablets and smartphones this fall with more fanfare than a typical new series, because the hero under the mask is Miles Morales, the teen son of an African-American father and Puerto Rican mother.

“Many kids of color who when they were playing superheroes with their friends, their friends wouldn’t let them be Batman or Superman because they don’t look like those heroes but they could be Spider-Man because anyone could be under that mask,” says writer and co-creator Brian Bendis. “But now it’s true. It’s meant a great deal to a great many people.”

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[Bratch]

Of course, Peter Parker is still the same character, but now Spider-Man can be anything they want him/her to be.

[fuzzylogic]

oh the horror...I suppose it would only be ok if it’d stated that Spidey be a black female gay transgender! Then it would be blessed.

[ForAmerica]

Look back on those movies where the white hero guy was replaced by a black and how well they did (or didn't) Annie Wild Wild West McHale's Navy Now they want a black to play James Bond Just plain pandering. Let's promote George Clooney to play 0bama

Why is this a problem for you? Is it because that's how it's always been or what? Also I don't think black give a damn about if a character is black or with, you need to go and check with white liberals that promoting this crap!

[ForAmerica]

Nick fury? black guy.

There was a black Nick Fury in the Marvel Alternate Universe, just like there can be a black Green Lantern which people also didn't like!