Posted on 06/27/2018 5:45:19 AM PDT by Ennis85
After the media decided to take Marvel executives to task for not having enough LGBTQIA representation in their live-action films, Marvel Studios runner Kevin Feige was pressured into confirming that there will be more out and about characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a means of attempting to assuage the Rainbow Reich.
Speaking with The Playlist, the outlet practically coerced Feige into confirming that LGBTQ heroes or heroines will be featured in upcoming movies after they complained that Ant-Man and The Wasp didn’t feature any flamboyantly gay characters, with the outlet writing….
“The context for the interview was for “Ant-Man and the Wasp” where despite the film’s San Francisco setting there isn’t a gay character to be found (it should be noted it is technically the studio’s first film with a female lead in the title). With Pride month in full effect, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to ask the Feige when its LGBTQ+ fans would get to see themselves represented on screen”
They proceeded to pepper Feige with questions about heroes or heroines who would be out and flaunting their homosexuality on-screen. The exact exchange went as follows:
“The Playlist: When are we getting a Gay, Bi, LGBTQ, out character in the MCU? Is it even in the works?
Kevin Feige: Yes.
The Playlist: That’s the answer?
Kevin Feige: Yeah, that’s the answer.
The Playlist: It’s not someone we’ve seen yet, I’m guessing?
Kevin Feige: Both.
The Playlist: Both?
Kevin Feige: Both ones you’ve seen and ones you haven’t seen.”
The one character that The Playlist assumes was already confirmed as LGBTQ was Tessa Thompson’s character in Thor: Ragnarok, where the actress confirmed via social media that the character was supposed to be a bisexual lesbian of sorts.
The other character who is LGBTQ hasn’t been put to film yet, so it’s going to be someone in either Spider-Man: Far From Home or Captain Marvel. Given the fact that Carol Danvers is portrayed as extra-masculine in the comic books of Captain Marvel, it wouldn’t be entirely shocking if she was the first out and about lesbian in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Comic book fans have long held the belief that this newer Captain Marvel has all the trademark trappings of a lesbian in everything but name. The question is: would Marvel be so bold as to make their leading lady heroine bite the sociopolitical bullet and munch on the carpet of social justice?
I guess we’ll find out who the LGBTQ character is within the next few Marvel films that make their way into theaters. The real test will be whether or not the character is explicitly gay or if their homosexual character trait is little more than background noise.
Let God Burn Them Quickly. And their movies go up in flames.
From my same era too. I always enjoyed the good guy wearing the white hat riding off into the sunset with the rescued girl and beating the bad guy wearing the black hat and the type of message that was sent watching those type of movies. Stories that had a moral message to them. They taught us that good was always the best way to go and that evil was not the good guy in any sense of the word. American culture has lost its way. It lost its moral compass.
Hollywood current output ought to be put out...to a landfill. Oh,wait...isn’t Hollywood itself a landfill now?
No Blu-ray no HBO. I stream whatever you want to watch. I have several ways to do that. Smart TV…easy peasey
I am a big film fan and have a fairly huge collection of Blu-rays, DVDs and Laserdiscs. However, 90% of my collection is of fairly old films with dead actors. The last couple of Blu-rays I bought were film noir classics during the Kino/Lorber sale.
I seldom see anything new. The SJW crap is too offputting. I saw several of the Marvel films as I was a big fan of their comics in the 60's and 70's. The last one I saw was Captain America 2. They're all pretty much the same now.
The Netflix Marvel shows all have some form of it now. Not as offensive as it could be, but still not what you’d want your children watching.
Back in those days, going to the movies was an enjoyable experience. The only time it wasn’t was if the movie you saw was boring. It was a rare movie back then that bored me. Today,movies go beyond boring. They are nauseating. And you pay a steep price to be bored and nauseated.
Maybe Marvel can do a complete suicide and have the Avengers all take a knee.
What happened to comics for kids?????????
Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio have already been seen on screen ... so there’s that.
I’m waiting for LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ movie. It’s where BLT meets KFC in a knock down, drag out fight over a hot grill. LSD shows up and transforms reality, however, MDA aka “Mr. Angel Dust” can withstand the mind bend and comes back with his sidekick MDT to totally distort reality the other way. It’s action packed and a great way to learn the alphabet.
It’s queer that they are only talking about LGBT heroes where are the villains???
As a comic book fan, although not a rabid fan, I know of only two actual gay characters in the Marvel Universe.
The first is the obvious one. In the pages of Alpha Flight, which is the Canadian superhero group, there is Northstar. In the comics, his real name is Jean-Paul Beaubier, a French Canadian. In fact, he is the only married gay person in the Marvel Universe, and his marriage is the one and only time that a gay marriage was shown in comics.
The other gay character is the X-Man known as Iceman. Bobby Drake is the character’s name. The only reason he was outed as gay was that Jean Grey accidentally read his mind and found out about it.
Neither one of these characters is anywhere near the current Marvel Universe scene. Unless they take one of the current characters and out them (highly unlikely), I don’t think we’re going to see anything anytime soon. Yes, it’s rumored that Captain Marvel, AKA Carol Danvers, may be a possible lesbian character, but I wouldn’t put too much stock in that. Unless it comes out in the upcoming Captain Marvel film, I wouldn’t worry.
Marvel has another 26 movies planned
The whole superhero movie/comic book thing seems pretty lame anyway. Dragging it into the leftist agenda indoctrination realm will only serve to make it worse.
Still not going to watch what I wasn’t planning to watch in the first place.
I only went to the theater once this year, for the Star Wars movie which was another disappointment, getting pretty fed up with it it looks like in the future the theater will NOT be on my agenda, its fine with me to wait for the Bluray to come out.
I watch a lot of TCM on the 55”.
Every so often, I go to a screening of a classic at a theater.
Ass Man and Nancy Boy.
Just go back to the classics. It’s how I survived disco.
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