Marvel’s ‘The Eternals’ Will Introduce the MCU’s First Openly Gay Character

Entertainment Tonight ^ | August 27, 2019 | Scott Baumgartner‍

[C19fan]

The upcoming Marvel film, The Eternals, is going to include the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first openly gay character.

Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, confirmed the news during a recent interview with Good Morning America while not clarifying which character it's going to be.

"He's married, he's got a family, and that is just part of who he is," Feige states in a segment of the interview, which was shared online.

[Vince Ferrer]

If you look at websites like I09, which focuses a lot on science fiction, comics, and cosplay, you'll find out that the hard core comic/cosplay audience is probably the gayest non-explicitely-gay group of people out there. They take Gene Roddenberry's diverse Enterprise crew and made it a cornerstone of their lives.

Disney and Marvel know their audiences. These new movies will be successful, although maybe not as much as these first phases. Eventually they will even condemn Iron Man or Captain America as racist and homophobic.

[.44 Special]

I grew out of Mad Magazine when I was fourteen. How does bad art, simplistic dialogue, and convoluted story lines attract any adult?
When reading a novel I find it comes alive in my mindseye.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Homos are boring.

[Tell It Right]

I used to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding the numbers. Maybe most pro-abortion Dems didn't really know we aborted over a million per year.

Then Bush brought up the partial-birth abortion ban again that Clinton had vetoed twice. It was happening thousands of times a year, and even involves holding the baby's arms and legs still while you....never mind...it's too ugly to type.

And the Dems wanted that to keep happening!!!!! I've had exactly zero respect for the pro-abortion Dems since then. There is now way they can not know that what they're pushing is murder.

[siberianheat]

Disney/Marvel can go Solo to the box office without me.

Your statement made me remember that I did, in fact, see Solo. It was so uninspired I can barely remember that I saw it, much less the plot. If I recall, it was mostly about a woman who starts out as a fun-loving teen, and ends up super evil just because (and Solo was there, too).

One overarching theme that the Star Wars people have never gotten correct on the big screen is the concept of evil. Episodes 4-6 never had to address it because the source of evil in the empire was mostly left offscreen. Vader is cast as evil, as is the Emperor, and the audience is left to paint them in. That's probably proper as you wouldn't sell many Vader dolls if you described how he was a child-killing world-plundering psychopath.

Episodes 1-3 never got it right because the character of Anakin wasn't believable as an evil person. In fact, toward the end of ep 3 when he does evil things, it sucked you out of the movie because it was done so hilariously wrong. One minute he's hanging out with Yoda and the kids, the next minute he's killing all the kids just because... And future Vader complaining about sand in his swimsuit. Yikes. Real evil there.

Which brings me to the latest three movies. I truly believe Hollywood has lost the ability to spin a yarn about good old fashioned good versus evil. They have no understanding of true evil, so writing a story about an evil empire is beyond them. This is why they had to make the hilariously dumb First Order (Spaceballs would have been more believable) and the scene with Han and his son was absolutely stupid and unbelievable. The movies only got worse because they had no moral foundation. The long haired galoot who plays new Vader never makes me think for one second he is evil. Stupid, yes. Evil, no.

Perhaps the glorification of abortion, perversion in their private lives, and endless derangement against Christians and people of faith has taken away Hollywood's ability to see and write about real evil. And, to bring this around full circle, even Thanos--the Marvel universe's ultimate bad guy--was cast as not truly evil, but simply a powerful dude who loved his daughter, and was generally misunderstood. I get it this is entertainment, but think how kids view good and evil after watching this stuff. They won't recognize real evil when it appears.