Posted on 12/15/2020 12:26:41 PM PST by Red Badger
I haven't met a kid yet that doesn't want to be a superhero. My own daughters love to pretend they are Jedi (I have trained them well) or princesses with magic powers.
Superheroes are meant for kids. Yes, there are large numbers of nostalgic adults – my own particular penchant for Star Wars included – that love the adventure and lore of fantastical worlds, but the target market is and always has been children.
You might one of a few adults who will buy that $300 Captain America shield replica, but there are 50 million kids who will beg their parents for the $20 plastic version.
The rise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has further brought nerdom into mainstream culture, making it cooler and thus more desirable for children to emulate their favorite heroes in real life. If Superman punching Hitler in the 1940s seemed cool to a 10-year-old, today's menagerie of on-screen and in-comic superheroes is more appealing to kids than ever before.
Now that I've cemented this point in your head, let me present you with this headline:
Yes, Star-Lord Peter Quill – played by actor Chris Pratt – is now cool with whatever sexual fantasy floats your boat.
In the most recent comic issue, the superhero finds himself teleported to a mysterious dimension named Morinus after everyone thought he had been killed fighting the Greek god Zeus and the Olympians (because why not?). Morinus is seemingly a place of "rebirth," where Star-Lord spends 150 years with an alien man and an alien woman while only a few short months pass in our world.
(Wasn't there already a movie where Chris Pratt spent a lifetime adrift in space with Jennifer Lawrence?)
Twelve years into this rebirth experience, Star-Lord accepts his fate and declares his love for his two companions, saying, "Time to accept the truth... Morinus is my home. You're my home."
As he embraces his two lovers, the male alien tells him his old identity is gone and his new life is ready to begin, which totally isn't symbolic in any way.
"Congratulations, Peter Quill. The you-that-was is over. You're newborn, and ready to learn our ways."
Before we continue, let's take a moment to consider my original point:
"Superheroes are meant for kids."
The next question: If superheroes are meant for our kids, what message is being told to our kids through this comic?
And finally, if this is easily published about one particular superhero, what other messages have and will be sent to our children through hundreds of other superhero stories about polyamory, polygamy, pornography, bestiality, or any other sexual flavor of the week?
I guess I won't be surprised when people readily celebrate Superman becoming a pedophile 10 years from now. #PrOgReSs
To my knowledge, the story arc of this newest comic issue is a way of bringing Star-Lord's original origin story into the new Marvel Universe. His experience in "Morinus" is supposed to an expansion and rebirth of the character that blends the origin story of the current cinematic universe with his original 1975 debut.
Why that had to include polyamorous bisexuality is beyond me, but hey, I'm just an old fashioned weirdo who likes good characters and doesn't need to know the sexual behavior of my favorite cartoon sponge.
There are plenty of Woke fans who are super pumped about this news, of course. "Star-Lord" was trending on Twitter after the news broke, with most tweets mocking Chris Pratt for his Christian faith and his attendance at LA's Hillsong Church.
For reference to Pratt's beliefs, here's a screenshot of an Instagram post he made when people started cursing him for believing even the most basic, vanilla Christian teachings:
"Love one another?"
What a radical lunatic.
"Make our children's cultural icons sexually promiscuous with all sorts of fetishes in a slide toward abject debauchery?"
Heroic.
What a time to be alive.
Congratulations on Marvel trashing yet another franchise.
It is almost like they hate their fans...
At least not many kids read comic books anymore. These days the audience is mostly aging nerds and Hollywood producers who depend on comic books for movie ideas.
Marvel is now owned by DISNEY, so it’s no surprise........................
Quite a while back they made one of their old Western characters-The Rawhide Kid into a gay cowboy. I guess he simply wore the chaps and hat after that.
Everytime you spend hard earned money on a Hollywood Movie, you are giving them the Money they need to DESTROY YOUR LIFE and This Country.
JUST SAY NO!!
C’mon Andy!
This is the comic, not Chris Pratt...
'ships' is short for imagined relationships between specific anime/comic characters. Sometimes the ships are more like friendships and sometimes more like marriages. Sometimes its a male and female, sometimes two females, and sometimes two males.
There are entire fan clubs organized around specific ships. Most of these clubs are populated by very young children who write fan fiction, draw pictures of their ships, etc.
All very, very creepy.
He's been proudly heterosexual since his creation in the 70s, but SJW Kevin Fiege has decided he now likes The D.
By the way: Pratt was attacked by Ellen Page -- oops, I mean Elliot Page -- for supposedly belonging to a church that was transphobic. It wasn't. But Pratt had to put up with SJW attacks on a lie pushed by a lunatic bitch.
I'm sorry -- I mean lunatic bastard. She's a dude now, man! (But "he" will continue to play female roles, of course. None of that rule that you must only play your own sexuality for them! That's a rule that applies to normal people only.)
Kevin Fiege has now declared that the character played by the Christian, normie actor is bisexual.
That will now put Chris Pratt through a whole new cycle of embarrassing questions and then SJW attacks when he fails to be enthusiastic about playing a gay character to the precise (ever-escalating) level demanded by the SJWs.
The Daily Mail is already pushing that angle.
Oh, by the way, forgot to mention: He's not just bisexual. He's also polyamorous, in a three way cuck/bisexual sex triangle with a woman and a man.
I want to stress that Kevin Fiege took over Marvel Comics, the publishing arm, not just the movie studio, over a year ago so this is being done at the top boss' order.
Is everyone psyched to see Guardians of the Galaxy 3?
Had enough yet?
Via HeelzvsBabyface.
I wonder if Chris Pratt will suddenly become sick so they have to bring in a replacement star? Really any excuse will do.
Hollywood loves to punish non-leftist actors by changing their roles to either humiliate them and ruin their careers, or get enormous payouts for contract clause violations.
That’s why “character diminution and dilution” clauses have become more popular.
All he has to do is say CGI that scene.....................
You’re lucky to have gone this long without knowing about them.
I discovered shippers back in college when I saw a blurb somewhere about Kirk and Spock (early 70’s when Star Trek reruns were starting to gather steam with the fanzines).
Eewww!
Yes, but now Chris will have to choose whether he wants to play that character any more.................
Sounds a lot like Furries...................
“Superheroes are meant for kids.”
I’m in no way justifying the recent changes. But this statement is demonstrably false and anyone who’s read comics the last 40 years or so would easily disprove it.
Fiege seems a bit light in a loafers to me so I wonder why so many Star Wars fan boys are such big fans of him.
There are comics like Maus, etc. that are aimed at adults, but the type of comics that become big movies or TV shows tend to be the ones that appeal to children as well.
Quite a while back they made one of their old Western characters-The Rawhide Kid into a gay cowboy. I guess he simply wore the chaps and hat after that.
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Ironically posted by Sans-Culotte!!
Chris Pratt has nothing to do with it.
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