Well I thought I had it all covered and then Lucasfilm brought out their new director that uses the "we need a woman to [activity] because it's [current year]" line. What is happening over at Disney?
Christian Bale Says Hollywood (and the World) Would Be Better If ‘White Dudes’ Weren’t in Charge of Everything The actor says there would be "so much better films and so much more interesting stories" if white dudes weren't running Hollywood. BY ZACK SHARF DECEMBER 19, 2017
Christian Bale has had enough of “white guys” running everything in Hollywood and beyond. The actor stopped by AOL Build with his “Hostiles” co-star Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi on December 18 and told the crowd that the reason he moved to the U.S. in the first place was because he wanted his kids to grow up in a “country of inclusion.” Unfortunately, that ideal hasn’t been too much of a reality.
So, it's perhaps not surprising that Gal Gadot has strong opinions on the topic of feminism. The actress - who had almost given up on her film career when she landed Hollywood's most badass female role - believes anyone who is not a feminist is by default sexist. "People always ask me, 'Are you a feminist?'" Gadot tells Rolling Stone, in a new interview out this month. "And I find the question surprising, because I think, 'Yes, of course. Every woman, every man, everyone should be a feminist. Because whoever is not a feminist is a sexist.'"
There's never been a time when Disney was a serious movie studio. They're always been calculating, it's just what they're calculating now is politically motivated because a guy named Bob thought for a while he could be a Left Wing Donald Trump.
Replacing successful MCU male characters with female superheroes who have no character arc, are overpowered and criticize the male characters is a recipe for disaster. The shitty self-insert writers don’t help either.
A great comment I seen elsewhere on this said it best, the problem modern hollywood has is they are making movies for themselves, not the audience. They live in an echo chamber bubble.
They could bring back the Avengers who are still around like Spiderman, Dr. Strange, Thor, and Professor Hulk to mentor the young ones. Even the old Steve Rogers. Oh, but they are all white... shit. We still have Colonel Rhodes as War Machine, people like him. But Marvel and Disney just seem content on losing more money.
No, because many men are trash. That's funny. You can have a hilarious show that highlights a lot of men being garbage with powerful females and still be funny. Harley Quinn, Goodgirls, Sex And The City, etc, etc. A lot of -people- men here seem to be intimidated by strong females for some reason. I'm older than most of you, I think. I had a Xena poster. I wasn't scared or intimidated by Lucy Lawless or the character of Xena...I had it for a different reason lmao Question for many men in the comments here: In your imagination are you already weaker than them even without their powers? I'm, personally, not afraid of a CGI Hela.
If they add Snowflake, Safe-Space and that generic looking cyberpunk guy who inhaled 'internet gas', they could actually make some money with the movies. Because the whole movie can be shot in a Starbucks, and they just go on twitter and own the chuds. Thats the plot, and the big bad. I mean, they had to step their game up from Thanos, and people who don't agree with you are like.... Thanos². I mean.... *_I_* won't go see it. But the whole movie can be shot like a livestream, so... the only cost is the coffee... so.... 5000$? And with movie prices, you'd only need 7 people to be dumb enough to go see it, and you'd already be in the green.
the black characters in the MCU suddenly realizing they are black like the audience had no fing idea this whole time still gets me rolling lmfaoooooooo
And the whole season of Secret Invasion, Fury was constantly being told he was old and useless lol ageism. Not to mention he got betrayed by his Skrull wife and STILL took her back because women are never wrong and accountability doesn't exist lol Oh and he got upstaged by a deus ex machina woman in the final episode because of course 😂
This universe is so broken they might as well maybe have a villain kill everyone in the main timeline to start a new one so they can reset all the plotholes, writing contrivances, and bland characters that have been created. Like how Ultron destroyed a bunch of universes in What if season 1
Imagine if the next Deadpool movie was the “Deadpool murders the rest of Marvel” arc and the MCU just reset right after that implying it was totally canon. Probably won’t happen, but I’d find it hilarious personally.
I kinda find it funny that Disney/Marvel puts all the emphasis on Kamala Kahn and not America Chavez, eventhough America Chavez checks all their diversity boxes. 😂
What they did to Falcon is unforgivable. He was a great character throughout several films, whether he was frontrunning or otherwise, and race was never necessary. He was a good person and good at what he did. The show was character assassination in order to push the message.
He was so great and would have continued to be great, but they made him live in Steve’s shadow and reduced him to a token. It’s so gross, and I’m dreading what they’ll do in his next movie
What about War Machine/Don Cheadle and being in Iron Man's shadow? Is this a fair comparison? I didn't get far enough into the old Iron Man comics to even know who War Machine was before the movies, but he didn't seem like an individual or new character.@@gregowen2022
They also tried to diminish Steves legacy in that he was chosen to be Cap because of his race rather than his Character. Sighhhh Falcon & Winter was a terrible show
I liked The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - and I have seen earlier Marvel films with Sam Wilson in them, but I really can not remember what The Falcon and the Winter Soldier did to ruin his character after watching the whole thing twice. Even when I knew it was pushing a message about _something,_ like deconstructing the idea of a black Captain America when systemic racism makes that controversial, or not providing resources to homeless people who need them after Avengers: Endgame brought back the half of people who had their homes stolen by the surviving homeless population, I actually liked The Falcon and the Winter Soldier for attempting to tackle these topics because they did not do the worst job with them. We liked it when the MCU took on a seriously divisive political topic in Captain America: Civil War, so what exactly changed about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to make that worse in this regard?
Remember when Hollywood writers were war veterans, world travelers, husbands and fathers? People who had lived lives and had experiences with the world and other people and cultures? Now we have a bunch of industry legacy babies who grew up in a bubble with money and went to high dollar film schools. Great video Greg!
Basically todays writers are activist that graduated from studying gender studies... and want to social engineer society through storytelling (sometime that has been done since forever, but they lack any sense of what good storytelling is).
@@casusolivas It also explains why so much stuff today is so meta, self-aware, and subversive. These industry legacy babies are always trying to deconstruct everything their more talented predecessors made, even though they lack the necessary skill or understanding to do so. It's like trying to take apart and modify a machine you only superficially understand.
@@BingBong67489 yeah exactly... its really annoying, because deconstructing is really easy, but constructing requires talent, and they lack any of it... and yes the main issue is that its all superficial and shallow, it lack true deep meaning in their stories.
Yep, these new writers are young enough to have grown up online, seeing that hyperbole of reality. Or they are older, but just swim in the LA bubble. From the way they write dialog, it’s painfully clear they have never met a living person outside of Orange County.
"Man bad. Racism bad." There Disney, I just wrote your script for the next 15 movies. $100 million dollars please, feel free to leave it in my checking!
Most of these female characters are the same character. Young flawless, Genius, warriors full of quips and ready to build a time machine out of old staples. Compelling
Cassie suddenly becoming a tech genius made NO sense and was completely forced it was such bs. Where the hell did she have the time to do that when everyone was dead lol
Accurate. The fact that you have teens-20 year olds who make sensors for stuff that they don't have access to and without government help, a 'telescope' which sees deeper than the subatomic beyond the skills of the expert with decades of experience or...I guess I don't know much about Ms Marvel. I guess shes a bad muslim?
@@weareharbinger914 To understand Ms Marvel you need to go back to Fawcett Comics, Atlas/Timely Comics, DC Comics, Warner Bros, Virgin/Liquid Comics, Deepak Chopra, and Richard Branson. The original Captain Marvel was created in the 40's by Fawcett Comics. DC Comics took them to court for copyright infringement, accusing them of ripping off Superman. Mind you, oddly enough, the creators of Superman has already been taking DC Comics to court but for other reasons. Originally th judge ruled in favor of Fawcett Comics l, but then s few years later it got appealed and overturned. By this time, Fawcett Comics had been losing money, so they decided to license out Captain Marvel to DC Comics. Around this time, Timely Comics, who had changed their name to Atlas Comics, has changed their name yet again to Marvel Comics. Also, there was another comic book creator who created a Captain Marvel of his own and he got taken to court by DC and lost However, during this time of limbo, Marvel Comics created their own Captain Marvel, aka Mar'Vell, the male alien superhero. This was around 1967. While DC had began to use Captain Marvel in 1969. Because Marvel had the Captain Marvel name, DC had began to put Shazam as the comic title and TV cartoon and live action TV series as such. Marvel then created a secretary at NASA for Captain Marvel aka Mar'Vell, who was working there as a scientist in disguise. An experimental machine exploded in front of Carol and Mar'Vell shielded her with his body to protect her and his DNA fused with hers. She would remain in the hospital for some time and years later, around 1977, she emerged as Ms Marvel. In 1982, Marvel put out a graphic novel 'The Death of Captain Marvel, where Mar'Vell died of Cancer'. It was a well received graphic novel. Mar'Vell left behind his wife, Elysius, who was an Eternal, and their son Genis'Vell. Also in 1982, Monica Rambeau was created. She was a police captain, the daughter of a firefighter Frank Rambeau, who she looked up to for heroic inspiration. Upon investigating a crime syndicate operation at the docks, she stumbled onto an experimental machine they had stolen and she tried to destroy it so they couldn't use it for nefarious purposes. This then gave her super powers in the process. Local citizens started calling her Captain Marvel because her powers reminded them of Mar'Vell Monica rejected this title at first, but eventually accepted it when the Thing of the Fantastic Four told her 'keep it: Mar'Vell wouldn't have mind". And so she did and even went on to lead the Avengers for some time. Monica kept this mantle for about 20 years until Genis'Vell showed up then out of respect for Mar'Vell, she relinquished the title over to him. Also, Genis'Vell had some confusing story where he created a sister, Phyla-Vell. You might have noticed her in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 as one of the new Guardians by the end of the movie. The MCU changed her backstory to have the High Evolutionary create her instead, and of course she has no ties to Mar'Vell, who was genderswapped and depowered in the Captain Marvel movie. An, of. Purse no Elysius or Genis'Vell to be seen in the MCU. Genis'Vell held onto the mantle for about 10 years, and it passed to another character who was a Skrull, then finally in 2012, Marvel hired some female feminist writer and they gave Carol Dancers the mantle of Captain Marvel, and changed her personality around so bad she would come off like a fascist villain at times and her comic books didn't sell well at all, needing to be rebooted six or seven times since Also around 2012 (after Marvel created Miles Morales in 2011 to take advantage of the hype of president Obama and to placate some fans who wanted actor Donald Glover to be the next Peter Parker and possibly also be bisexual (which Stan Lee objected to), so Bendis created Miles, a new comic book company had formed: It was called Virgin Comics It was created by Virgin Records owner Richard Branson and Indian writer Deepak Chopra. Deepak's goal was to bring mythological and folklore stories from India, Pakistan and other Asian regions to comic book form. So they would naturally hire people of that ethnicity as such. One of them was NJ socialite Pakistani American Sana Amanat, who had come from a wealthy family. Her brother had already been involved with several Hollywood movies and TV investments and he went to prison for I think embezzlement or fraud or something. Virgin hired Sana Amanat though her position there was unclear since she had no comic book or writing experience. Anywho, Virgin Comics did not last long at all and went under. Richard Branson backed out of the company, and so the NY based company has to relocate to CA by Deepak Chopra under a new name: Liquid Comics. Sana, being from NJ, didn't follow since she didn't want to relocate, but Marvel Comics, who has divisions in NY, poached people from there and picked Sana for a high job position which surprised her as she told them she has barely any experience but they said that's why they want her (?? Wtf??l So two years later, in 2014, Sana co-created Kamala Khan, who was the new Ms Marvel. Supposedly, they wanted Kamala to be a Mutant, but because of the whole Fox movie deal with them having the movie rights to th X-Men, Disney Marvel didn't want to promote X-Men material as much anymore, so they substituted them with the Inhumans, a group of characters as old as the 69's but never as popular. So you'd see Inhumans now more in the comics, as well as the ABC shows The Inhumans and Agents of Shield, which were produced by Jeff Loeb of Marvel Entertainment division under then CEO Ike Perlmutter, instead of Kevin Feige of Marvel Studios. Anywho, Kamala Khan, aka the new Ms Marvel was another attempt by Disney Marvel to promote characters of minority ethnicity, however, the character came off more as a self insert vanity project for Sana Amanat as well as social political agenda what with Sana being presented at th White House with Obama. Mind you , Kamala Khan, while a new character that's Pakistani American and from Jersey City (similar to how Sana herself was from NJ aka self insert) was created to be a fangirl of Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel, a character already unliked; and it looked odd that a minority teen was idolizing a fascist White woman character, so much so, that at one point, Kamala was going through identity crisis and with her inhuman powers that could reshape her form, she once reshaped herself to look like Carol Danvers. Weird Also, her powers weren't that original anyway. She was just a discount Reed Richards basically. So eventually when she was brought into The MCau, they decided to change her power set to be closer to light based powers derices off the space stone like Carol: only that Kamala uses 'hard light' Also, now that Disney has bought Fox, the whole ignoring Mutants over the Inhumans was no longer necessary, so the Ms Marvel show hinted that Kamala is a mutant, and the comics changed her to one as well. The Ms Marvel show was produced by Sana Amanat who specifically hired Muslim and Pakistani people to direct and write. One of them was this Sharmeen woman who is now going to direct the Rey Star Wars movie. Sharmeen directed episodes 4 and 5 of Ms Marvel, which were the lowest rated episodes of the show which overall was one of the least watched shows on Disney Plus and also had low ratings when put on ABC. Sharmeens direction was poor and needed to be re-edited as well, showing that sh indeed does not have the proper qualifications for material like this and Star Wars as she is not trained.
Like Tim Pool said “When you make a product that caters to 0.7% of the populace, you’ll only get 0.7% of sales.” He was referring to the ultra-gay Green Lantern comic that released recently, but I still think it applies here.
It really does. And the most funny part is that these companies don’t see the track record. Activists love to invade a thing, change it, then move on to the next crusade. Your real fans are loyal and have been giving you money for decades. Cater to them, because in the long run, they will be the most profitable
In the One Piece live action series there is a character named Koby, he is portrayed by trans actor Morgan Davies, the writers created a beautiful story arc for Koby that allowed Morgan to show off his talent, it was never mention by the production or the crew how BRAVE AND STRONG AND STUNNING One Piece is because they hired a trans actor and gave him an important role. They treated Morgan Davies with respect, as an actual person and at the same time, respected the essence of the source material. THIS is inclusion done right. I think 98% of the people complaining about all of this is because this DEI is affecting the stories directly, it's almost parasitic, writers and directors latching onto great franchises and stories to insert themselves and their own thoughts because they have no talent to create something new. It seems like Disney is just begging to go bankrupt at this point.
I’ve said it a hundred times, and I’ll say it again: Casting women and powerful females to be the main characters isn’t the issue. The issue is that they’re uninteresting Mary Sues, and male characters are treated like the dumbest beings to ever exist because “girl power”.
The X-Men have great, interesting, strong female characters already. Storm, Rouge, Emma Frost, Kitty Pride, and Jean Grey. Those are just the tip of the iceberg. But Disney will ignore 50 plus years of comic book stories and do what they want.
I genuinely don't understand why progressive writers refuse to write human flaws in their minority/female characters. Internal conflicts and the hero's journey are basic writing concepts. I get they don't want women to look "weak", but you just can't skip on those concepts and expect your characters to be well written.
@@Merchant1521 Yeah. The X-men have a lot of interesting memorable women. If they really wanted to be "subversive" they would make Cyclops the main character and make him interesting and compelling. Heh.
@@Trewq79 I do not agree with this, BUT the "reason" is they irrationally fear if a female character has flaws, that makes her look weak, and therefore that is sexist. If she needs a guy to save her? That is sexist as women do not need men to save them. Having flaws is weak and sexist. More importantly, they are petrified the leftist twitter mob will say they are sexist, so they pander to the rules and demand of the far left, as they are far left.
I made a perfect analogy to something like this on other channels but... hear me out The MC-Uterus or Force is Female movements are the equivalent of toxic men taking over Barbie or MLP, make more male dolls like Ken, telling the established consumer audience their love for old characters sucks and then call them sexist if they don't immediately love their new products
This is not mine, but I saw a commenter make a brilliant analogy. He said this would be the equivalent of Donald Trump buying the Hallmark Channel and retuning the stories to focus on false metoo allegations against heroic male protagonists. I dunno, I just imagined the audience reaction to that kind of scenario and it gave me a good laugh. But it would be so blatantly insulting to the core female audience. Which would be amplified when the new President of the network, Harvey Weinstein, came out and blamed the "femi-nazi" audience members for being a bunch of narrow minded misandrists. LOL, it sounds preposterous but it isn't that much different than what Disney is actually doing.
Unfortunately I find that this happens with all male dominated hobbies too. This includes gaming, liking anime (anime in general), comic books, playing and watching sports, etc it always gets called sexist for one stupid reason or another. People demonize male hobbies, and elevate stuff like romance official books and fan fiction, Barbie, MLP, stuff that I’m pretty sure “objectfies” men in some way by the same logic that other people use to call men sexist for their hobbies. Ken is used only as a rich hot center piece for Barbie after all.
The only way to save Marvel is to do a two part movie adaptation of Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe and then let it rest for a few years and start over fresh.
You know, Tony's daughter was perfectly set-up to inherit her dad's mantle with a lot of interesting potential for a character arc and reasons for her access to tech. That could have been cool.
How strange. They turned two franchises geared at boys and men into Disney Princess themed entities. What was the point of buying them if they were just going to jettison the very reason for the genre's existence ... and make them an exclusive "He-Woman's Club" that doesn't allow men to join?
@@budgiecat9039 To be fair, Dino Thunder was legit. But yeah, Disney basically acquired Power Rangers by accident (as part of a larger package deal) and wanted to kill it off the entire time they owned it, they were never interested in the franchise.
I think at first they thought that the fans would put up with anything and already had them, so they thought, "we have the hard core dumb guys, so why not try to get women too", so pandered to them like crazy. But then when the backlash came their politics kicked in combined with corporate hubris and refused to admit they screwed up and the dumb male fans would NOT put up with anything. Now they are doubling down out of spite
Actually what they did was take Marvel and make it the BIGGEST movie franchise in the world, launching these comic heroes into the mainstream. THEN the woke movement caught on by abusing people's misguided emotional responses to meanness and hijacked them and, everything else really, resulting in what we have now. That's why the MCU started out with Iron Man and Captain America, climaxed with defeating THANOS, and THEN fell flat on its face with fucking all this shit, with only a VERY few nuggets of gold left over from breakfast remaining in this massive turd.
I actually have a conspiracy theory about that. If you look at toy marketing data young girls spend massively more then young boys that how Disney became the power house it was. The Disney princesses, but that well is drying out and they’re trying to get marvel and Star Wars to fill the void. The problem is it didn’t work and they don’t know how to recover so they’re doubling down to see if they can salvage it.
It's funny, I was born in 92 and when we were kids teachers and the like always told us boys to play with the girls. I would have never imagined that as an adult most media would want genders to be as separated as possible
I have a theory………a film theory. Romance has been part of many different genres of film, from a comedy like Old School to horror/sci-fi like The Terminator. I’m pretty sure this is due to the fact that most people have had some kind of experience with romantic love, whether it’s just dating, or something more serious like marriage. Or maybe someone has never been in love, but knows it would be nice to have that in their life. This makes romance somewhat universal, so audiences would have more to relate to. “The main character trying to get the girl is relatable because I have also tried to get a girl.” So to my theory: what if the recent lack of romantic subplots is the result of modern writers not really knowing much about love? So instead they shoehorn in race and gender because they think that that is the relatable factor that brings in audiences. Or, an even more cynical take, they’re trying to socially engineer us to not care as much about love.
Wouldn't your point make more sense if the writer's experiences were more about dealing with race, gender identity and sexual orientation in the last decade or so.. you know, where we've had a lot of tensions around those issues lately? It's almost like... that would be more realistic than suggesting people are actively trying to dissuade a large population of people from experiencing love. I guess it's just a theory.
@@ahabwolf7580 six of one, half a dozen of the other. That last part was a conspiracy theory not to be taken seriously enough to defend. Edit: Your take is that race and gender just recently became an issue, but that’s not true. There have always been movies about those two things.
You have a point: they write about what they know, which ends up being a bunch of gender political nonsense. Considering that they aren't attractive people (not just looks; I'm talking personality etc), they wouldn't know how to write relationships beyond surface level attraction and sex. Hookups, basically, where they got ghosted afterwards. Maybe that's what makes them so bitter...?
Solid points. Newer writers have grown up consuming the simulated reality that is the internet. They’ve never really lived, so all they have is repackaged versions of content they have consumed.
The guy who wrote and directed the HTTYD trilogy was in a minority, but he never once tried to put anything like that in his story. He even wrote an incredible romance between a man and a woman, even though that wasn't him.
In my opinion, Marvel is kinda forced to stay on track with the current direction of the franchise because they heavily link the message to success. Because they ran their mouth about how successful pandering to this audience would be, deviating from it- and because they tie themselves so heavily with it, would basically be stating that the ideology they have is what caused them to fail. And they can’t have that because the people they say they support would turn on them on a dime.
It's Kevin Feige. He was emboldened by the success of Captain Marvel and Black Panther. Two movies that would have never been greenlit by his former nemesis and boss Ike Perlmutter, former CEO of Marvel. But Kevin pushed the pendulum too far to the left thanks to Disney's influence (who also helped ruin Star Wars and Pixar) and it's effecting the franchise negatively.
They also hired a whole bunch of lefty True Belivers ™️ who are in positions of leadership...and even worse, hiring. So they phased out people with actual talent & skills for progressive zealots.
@@budgiecat9039 I personally have this idea that Kevin Feige was a geek who never was much successful with women. Now he has a bunch of beautiful Hollywood actresses telling him how awesome he is by catering to (in Critical Drinker's voice) 'The Message' and he loves it, so he's going to keep doing it, by getting the praise of all these lovely women. Even if it sinks his billion dollar ship. It's just a theory!
That’s a very solid point. They made their movies out to be a fight for human rights and against the forces of evil. Once you go that hard, it’s impossible to turn back.
@@budgiecat9039Didn't he try for years to get a Black Panther movie made with Wesly Snipes? If Captain Marvel as a stand alone movie it would have bombed.
yeah, and they are all very similar in character. They are geniuses but no one respects their genius. How are you going to make a team with 6 of the exact same person?
I find this really depressing. It's just as important for boys to have strong role models to look up to as girls, but men are constantly and consistently portrayed as incompetent, stupid, corrupt or just plain evil. Disney acquired both Lucasfilm and Marvel because of their appeal to males, I don't understand why they've spent a decade trying to erode this appeal. Bonkers
Definitely. It’s also that they aren’t the normal Pg13 movies they are Rated R and what kids that grew up with marvel would want now with now holding back from gory scenes or cursing as much as they want.
What is Disney known for? Princesses. They are doing everything they can to make more. No matter what. South Park was spot on “Put a chick in it and make it gay and lame”
What if season 2 literally created a new Disney princess character towards the end of the season and made Captain Carter nearly invincible, fighting an evil Dr Strange (who somehow became 'evil again' despite him already going through that character arc in the first season but hey he's a straight white male so they're always evil am I right lol) while she had the power of the Infinity Stones, a magic sword, Hela's helmet AND the 10 Rings. While the new Marvel Disney Pocahontas princess had the power of the Space Stone (which she singlehandedly owned Killmonger with despite the fact he had all the Infinity Stones) and Mjolnir....wtf 😂 And yes a woman wrote it.
@@budgiecat9039yeah She needed all those things to defeat strange yet you don't complain about him being op. A character arc doesn't mean a character can't change or regress, strange was simply too far gone in his quest to save Christine.
@@ANNIE_R_U_OK oh no Strange being zoP was BS too Especially since last season he could defeat Killmonger or Ultron on his own but now he's taking out multiple not to mention suddenly his prison lair is like 50 times the size it was before inexplicably. The writing was revisionist lazy and stupid. All they did was repeat the same arc for him over at the last minute are you serious come the fuck on dude don't defend this lazy shit
Hit the like button for ya! :) Here’s the thing…if this were truly about “representation”, then they would be including men in their stories, because well…there are men in the world who watch movies. But the fact that they *aren’t* doing this, and actively excluding/replacing men, it shows their true intentions. It isn’t representation, it’s replacement under the guise of representation. It’s Mao-level social engineering…and if you (the hypothetical “you”), likes being socially engineered, then I don’t know what else to say…
Excellent breakdown! I was explaining this to my wife. It's not about representation, it's about pandering. And pandering is so disrespectful it hurts!
After the scene in EndGame where all the girls meet in one place to do the feminist pose during a war, I Understood from there in which direction they would go 💀
The finale of What If season 2 was genuinely just peak OC mary-sue fodder. Like, sure, you can just beat the shit outta the guy who *_ate an exploding universe that he was standing in_*
I still haven’t watched any of it, but I HAVE seen the slobbering headlines about Marvel being historic and creating an indiginous heroine, so I’m certain it’s going to be spectacular
The only recent success Marvel has had was Loki season 2. That was their “Jack Ryan/Reacher”moment. A time to see what actually excited their audience and try to run with that. Unlike Amazon Disney seems to be ignoring their audience completely. It’s only gonna get worse for them from here.
A good example of effective subversion is Mad Max: Fury Road. The film starred Max but ended up having an (actual) strong female-led group for a lot of it. But Max wasn't some joke or weak character. He still remained the focus. Marvel could do something like this with X-Men - just make a film with men and women and maybe showcase the women more in the end - but that's too risky for Disney.
Yes. They even meet up with a tribe of women who hate men, but depict them as just as savage and controlling as the men (because that's what survival requires). They get some forgiveness though because they accept the men in the group after they've proven themselves to be "reliable." Complexity and grey morality is subversive in Hollywood now.
I’m interested in seeing your opinions on the new Percy Jackson show, and how because the author was involved the characters that were apparently “switched” don’t rely on their skin tone for the plot. it’s been really solid so far especially as a fan for so long. Definitely check it out!
Rick Riordan has always made sure each character was fully developed and 3 dimensional. Even when he clearly was trying to represent each race in his team or the LGBTQ, those characters had a personality beyond racial stereotypes, and some even defied it. That’s why when Annabeth was casted as black instead of white, it didn’t feel like forced diversity.
I’ve not seen it yet, but I’m planning to. Personally I was hoping we’d get characters who looked like the ones in the books, but as long as it’s handled well I’m sure it won’t be bad.
I don't know why Disney likes taking shows with a majority male audience, and then trying to make it all about women, while spitting on men just for being men... AND making it have terrible writing to insult _everyone,_ including the females they are advertising towards.
I love Marvel comics from 1962-1968. That was the peak of Marvel. That was also when they were the most popular around the world when it comes to comics. Stan Lee even said that he wanted to include more female heroes because there weren't many, but he never made them the focus and had them demonize men.
My only problem with her is how fast she took out Kingpin and was unharmed despite him ragdolling her. They should have showed Clint wheelchairing her into his house in the final scene
Yeah I mostly give Hawkeye a pass, but the Kate/Kingpin fight was pretty unforgivable and that GODDAMN MUSICAL NUMBER was *totally* unforgivable. As a joke at the beginning of the show, when Clint and his kids are rolling their eyes at the musical, that worked just fine, but then making it the show's "post credits scene" was just the wrong move. It was supposed to be a dumb musical using revisionist history of the Battle of NY, but then they tried to play it seriously at the end of the show and it made me cringe so damn hard.
I just don't get why they want to make an essentially boy brand into a girl brand. In the process they alienate the original audience that made them filthy rich, without driving women in droves to the theatres to see the strong female centric stuff. So they hit -15 birds with one big ass stone. It's like forcefully contorting the Barbie movie into a World War 2 flick. That wouldn't have had an audience.
There are plenty of really cool female superheros, and its cool to see some of them - but when they feel the need to make a female (only) version of an existing male IP, or they write the characters to be so stupid and unlikable (I'm looking at you Capt. Marvel) They're missing the point. X-men is a great example of male and female character working together - as equals. Not a movie or series dedicated to bashing one side or the other, trivializing established (male) characters and using terrible "marry-sue" sorts of writing.
These same people will smugly respond to you with "Comics were ALWAYS woke! X-Men was a civil rights allegory" while ignoring why that wasn't a problem with X-Men but it a problem with [current year] MCU. It's almost as if the former was much better written than the latter and didn't demonize one group just to prop the other group up.
@@PumpkinSwag I agree. I am fine with characters of various persuasions or backgrounds, gender or preference; "whatever" being in a film or TV show. I don't mind seeing diversity and different types of characters ! But not when the whole point is to break down previous (usually male) characters and throw in other details that have no bearing on the story at hand. or if that "whatever" facet of the character is the ONLY reason they're in there. It's bad writing If you want to represent some one do it as a whole person: No one is just one aspect of themself (nor should they be). If you write a character that (for example with the current MCU and Capt Marvel) Is a woman first and everyone else is soooo inferior. you know, because of that one aspect. That's the whole point of the movie now... ?? Yeah, its just really bad writing. imo.
Agreed. We have so much history of successful diverse stories being told, because the story was priority. Now they lead with skin color, and it usually ends up being the only thing of interest about the character.
Sadly Dwayne McDuffie, the man most responsible for making Static such a good character, died in 2011 at just 49 years old. Honestly it's hard to imagine the character without his input.
Clearly from who Disney hired to direct the new Star Wars movie they have learned nothing nor do they intend to. Now they hire women of color directors just to check that box but you saw how Iger threw the Marvels director under the bus for that movie's failure. But if the only reason you are hiring a director is their identity then it is poor odds things will work out. Iger will destroy the company if he remains in charge.
The funny thing is the women end up not even being happy with them. Jessica Gao's She-Hulk show isn't getting a second season despite her bragging how she was able to 'bully Kevin Feige into doing what she wants', Tatiana Maslany is fired most likely due to what she said about Bob Iger during the strikes, the director for the Marvels was pretty vocal about how she wasn't that happy directing the movie and her restrictions, Brie Larson supposedly has friction with others on the set of The Marvels, Disney had issues with Shuri actress and Wasp actress in the past, and the head female writer for What if quit. Not to mention how Disney screwed over ScarJo.
I enjoyed Tom Holland as Spider-Man, especially with his arc in No Way Home, it left me excited for what was next. But with the current state of the MCU, I really hope he backs out before they ruin his character. I was disappointed with how Insomniac treated Peter’s character in the sequel game and would be surprised if the MCU didn’t do something similar.
So, I clicked the LIKE button, and waited for the candy to come tumbling out of ... well, either my PC or at least the monitor. And NOTHING HAPPENED. Imagine my shock! I tried UNclicking the Like button... but there was SO much melted sugar on it that it only stayed stuck to "LIKE". What? You never promised me candy? GAH! You're right. Well, keep the like. It's a freebie.
I'm actually kinda hype we're still going down this road, I'm curious to see how far down this road we can go. So Disney is still entertaining me, in a way
We need a new company to just make movies with plot and interesting characters without caring about any kind of politics outside of in-universe politics. Then when they've established themselves as a muilti-trillion dollar company, maybe disney will start to notice that they've done something wrong.
I agree. The real problem isn't that they cast women, it's that that they are casting women specifically to annoy me personally. The thing is, I don't care. I love women. I love strong women, and dislike weak women. They are not hurting me just simply by casting women. But then every time they do, the anti-woke dudes show up and proudly proclaim that, yes, men do in fact hate when they do that (for the record, I love watching a lot of the anti-woke UA-camrs because they tend to be very funny but that doesn't mean that they necessarily represent me personally) and since they are the loudest voices in the room, that's what Hollywood responds to. It's like being a civilian in a country that's being invaded for some vaguely historical and political reasons, watching the two armies battle it out on the wreckage of my home while I sit in the shelter and can't do anything about it. I just want to watch good movies. Is that too much to ask?
It’s so weird to see a big studio go to war with the internet. Jessica Gao admitted she basically made She-Hulk to troll the trolls. That explains why the writing was garbage.
As a woman, I liked the MCU when it was more a male-focused brand. I like seeing strong, capable dudes on screen. Them going about their journey with their own unique talents and flaws, they were believable and very relatable, even if I didn't share a gender with them. Now I'm just embarrassed to be associated with these Mary Sues pretending to be superheroes. It's a shame how far the MCU has fallen, someone should wipe this universe clean and start a new one. 😅
Deadpool kills the marvels universe (just like in the comics )and then restart it again in a couple years👀. And don't worry we don't associate rationale women with these deluded woke women.
I walked out of Love & Thunder and said I'd never watch an MCU movie again. I haven't even gone back to watch the old ones; they've been poisoned retroactively. Which is the really sad part for me.
Men want to see movies where women act like women. These new MCUterus women are being forced to act like men. Take Black Widow/Natasha for example, men love her. She's a badass spy who can hold her own in a fight but still behaves like a woman. She's not invincible either like they portray the other examples in your video. I'm reminded of the scene where she's running in sheer terror from the Hulk. Earlier in the movie she managed to take down 5 guys by herself but there's nothing she can do against the Hulk. That scene showed vulnerability, which is what makes characters seem real to the audience.
Blue Eye Samurai is the best strong female character writing I’ve seen in recent years or contemporary work. And the show has been received well. I wonder why that might be… It’s almost like having her work to earn her strength and skills, but also have her need help from others, fail at times, and have flaws makes her relatable, interesting, and dynamic. She is extremely formidable to fight and can take on platoons of enemies on her own… but with injuries that makes her have to stop, recover, drag herself away bleeding, or unable to fight off the next opponent that entered the fight. And she doesn’t beat everyone, just most. She is extremely convicted of her own cause that gives her the determination she needs, but at the expense of those who are around her, whether it’s to-be-friends or innocent civilians. And she is a victim of great trauma and abuse, but doesn’t play victim and decides to do something about it. That’s interesting.
For me Greg, I believe Thor's adopted child, love could me a good addition to the roster given that she's just starting and doesn't have any bad blood put into her by writers...yet thus she deserves a chance and I believe that's why thor's fifth movie is coming maybe its coz of the need to give her some character growth and an official introduction to the rest of the MCU characters in a long shot🤷 heck she even has potential to be our new Thor if they play her well of course
I hope KKKathleen KKKennedy also creates a male Rappunzel, a male Snow White, and the male Beauty with a female Beast that would balance out that universe in the same way.
The funny thing is, the X-Men traditionally have some of the best female characters in all of comics. Jean Grey. Storm. Rogue. Kitty Pride. All amazing and well fleshed out characters. There is no need to make it female focused. Just make it accurate and well balanced. The team has also been very nicely diverse in the past. Characters of all races without the need for race swaps. The first (to my knowledge) openly gay character in Northstar. They don’t have to change things. Just adapt the 80s/90s team and you have a diverse group already with no changes or swaps needed.
I honestly hope we don't see this come to fruition. As a throw away joke, however, I can see America Chavez reaching into another dimension and pulling the two sons The Scarlet Witch was looking for. The team would be like, "Hey, didn't their mom try to kill you and take your powers?" And she would shrug her shoulders, smile and say, "ha, yeah, she did..." Making the events of Dr. Strange MoM even less impactful.
I am reminded of Little Platoon's video breaking down all the horrible actions Ms. Marvel did that led to the outcomes in "The Marvels" and how is arguably more villain than hero by if not the whole planet's worth of blood on her hands, than her willful actions to abandon a planet she swore to help, and instead destroy their society that eventually led to a civil war and destroy their sun.
They cannot rewrite my natural instincts. If they make the M-She-U all nude, then I'll watch it. I might also watch it if they hire good writers for a change.
Hollywood gives us this trash of female 'caracteres' meanwhile we get masterpieces like Frieren and Apothecary Diaries (both with female MCs) from the Japanese media. Really shows how politics ruin good writing.
How long do you think it will take for people to realize that sexism doesn't apply only to women? Because most of what Disney has been spitting out is actively discriminatory towards men. Being oppressed does NOT justify becoming an oppressor. All that does is flip the scales.
So many missed opportunities. Instead of a new generation Jedi, we got a whiny simp who's only character is that he's obsessed with a girl who barely gives him the time of day.
Disney went into the sequel trilogy coming up with things as they were going and didn’t have a main plan… It’s really sad because of how much things they could’ve done
It's no surprise that the person to stand up to Finn (Ep 8) was 1) Chinese and 2) female. Chinese are incredibly racist. Just look at their posters for Episode 7,
“Many of these writers are actively antagonistic to one segment of the audience, then they get mad when that segment doesn’t hand over its money” I thunk it, you said it!
I write fanfics and I try to think how this character would react to situation. It can be tricky especially with characters that are shallow. It is fun.
Hey Greg. Thank you for this video and all your content. Really love your work and your take on things. Would be really great to see you do a video with Critical Drinker or Nerdrotic, if you have the time of course 😊
The Boys/Gen V and Invincible are pushing the boundaries of this genre and showing how great it can be. It will accelerate the demise of the MCU even more.
The interesting thing is that Disney doesn't seem to like money anymore. Star Wars and Marvel were purchased to reel in men and boys. Now they are taking the male-preferred physical action adventure genre away from those who enjoy it. Think of what the Hallmark Christmas romance movies would be like if suddenly men took over and said these need a few more car chases and shootouts. The Hallmark Channel would lose much of their primary audience. This is what Disney is doing. I have no problem with female heroes in these escapist fantasies, but for the female characters to take over these films and shame the male characters, and even be over 50% of the heroes in a male-preferred genre is a formula for losing the primary audience and losing their money.
I watched 4 of your videos. But I think where you shined the most was breaking down the scene of Iron heart vs Hulk. I think you should do more of those I was disappointed to not find more great scene break downs. The sarcasm was a bit much but only becuse you where so amazing at the break down you really shine in that serious moment.
I think, if Disney is smart, they'll one-up themselves and start offering root canals prior to viewing the films at local theatres. It's gonna be a hit.
I must have been blind in doctor who, i really just realized that rose was trans. Must have come so far that the gender scoodoolidoo thing is getting so general like billionairs going to space.
It takes too much energy to be irritated by the crap they keep putting out. Several IP's went from the originals to interesting universal variations, to just horribly written fanfiction. Its astounding how many characters and stories they butchered. Instead of "please no! Don't hurt em! They're already dead!" to just "...oh noo. So anyway I hear manga has been great lately."
Yep. It’s getting so bad and boring that I’m looking ahead to other topics for the future. Pretty soon, it won’t even be fun to make fun of Disney anymore, it’ll just be sad
4:52 I did remember that sealing Donna's memories was a way to keep her alive, and it was at the cost for her to live ignorant of her newly acquired potential, and for the Doctor to lose a friend. To lose *touch* with a friend. Permanently. She would have died for real otherwise. Thanks to your video I find out this got shredded in the name of rainbows. All is worth to be shredded in the name of rainbows, apparently.
8:08, When Deadpool 2 cracked a joke about X-Men having a sexist name so Deadpool decided to call his team “X-Force” instead “but isn’t that a little derivative” the joke worked. But when Raven in Dark Phoenix says it should be called X-Women it was a forced and annoying line.
In addition, with Wakanda Forever, they were focusing on the women being gay, and Iron Heart and Sherri having a thing. Many of us Black women caught that and hated it!
Well I thought I had it all covered and then Lucasfilm brought out their new director that uses the "we need a woman to [activity] because it's [current year]" line.
What is happening over at Disney?
Christian Bale Says Hollywood (and the World) Would Be Better If ‘White Dudes’ Weren’t in Charge of Everything The actor says there would be "so much better films and so much more interesting stories" if white dudes weren't running Hollywood. BY ZACK SHARF DECEMBER 19, 2017
Christian Bale has had enough of “white guys” running everything in Hollywood and beyond. The actor stopped by AOL Build with his “Hostiles” co-star Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi on December 18 and told the crowd that the reason he moved to the U.S. in the first place was because he wanted his kids to grow up in a “country of inclusion.” Unfortunately, that ideal hasn’t been too much of a reality.
So, it's perhaps not surprising that Gal Gadot has strong opinions on the topic of feminism.
The actress - who had almost given up on her film career when she landed Hollywood's most badass female role - believes anyone who is not a feminist is by default sexist.
"People always ask me, 'Are you a feminist?'" Gadot tells Rolling Stone, in a new interview out this month.
"And I find the question surprising, because I think, 'Yes, of course. Every woman, every man, everyone should be a feminist. Because whoever is not a feminist is a sexist.'"
There's never been a time when Disney was a serious movie studio. They're always been calculating, it's just what they're calculating now is politically motivated because a guy named Bob thought for a while he could be a Left Wing Donald Trump.
Disney got used to burning money and inhaled the fumes too much.
Now its their form of opium and they just cant get enough!
Replacing successful MCU male characters with female superheroes who have no character arc, are overpowered and criticize the male characters is a recipe for disaster. The shitty self-insert writers don’t help either.
A great comment I seen elsewhere on this said it best, the problem modern hollywood has is they are making movies for themselves, not the audience. They live in an echo chamber bubble.
All of the female characters are overpowered. Even in What if, the most powerful characters are the women.
They could bring back the Avengers who are still around like Spiderman, Dr. Strange, Thor, and Professor Hulk to mentor the young ones. Even the old Steve Rogers. Oh, but they are all white... shit. We still have Colonel Rhodes as War Machine, people like him. But Marvel and Disney just seem content on losing more money.
No, because many men are trash. That's funny. You can have a hilarious show that highlights a lot of men being garbage with powerful females and still be funny. Harley Quinn, Goodgirls, Sex And The City, etc, etc. A lot of -people- men here seem to be intimidated by strong females for some reason.
I'm older than most of you, I think. I had a Xena poster. I wasn't scared or intimidated by Lucy Lawless or the character of Xena...I had it for a different reason lmao
Question for many men in the comments here: In your imagination are you already weaker than them even without their powers? I'm, personally, not afraid of a CGI Hela.
If they add Snowflake, Safe-Space and that generic looking cyberpunk guy who inhaled 'internet gas', they could actually make some money with the movies.
Because the whole movie can be shot in a Starbucks, and they just go on twitter and own the chuds. Thats the plot, and the big bad. I mean, they had to step their game up from Thanos, and people who don't agree with you are like.... Thanos².
I mean.... *_I_* won't go see it. But the whole movie can be shot like a livestream, so... the only cost is the coffee... so.... 5000$? And with movie prices, you'd only need 7 people to be dumb enough to go see it, and you'd already be in the green.
the black characters in the MCU suddenly realizing they are black like the audience had no fing idea this whole time still gets me rolling lmfaoooooooo
And the whole season of Secret Invasion, Fury was constantly being told he was old and useless lol ageism. Not to mention he got betrayed by his Skrull wife and STILL took her back because women are never wrong and accountability doesn't exist lol
Oh and he got upstaged by a deus ex machina woman in the final episode because of course 😂
There was so much going on in that show, it almost makes you forget about Nick’s speech about riding in the colored car, complete with slave accent
This universe is so broken they might as well maybe have a villain kill everyone in the main timeline to start a new one so they can reset all the plotholes, writing contrivances, and bland characters that have been created. Like how Ultron destroyed a bunch of universes in What if season 1
Have galactus eat the marvel universe and start over.
Imagine if the next Deadpool movie was the “Deadpool murders the rest of Marvel” arc and the MCU just reset right after that implying it was totally canon.
Probably won’t happen, but I’d find it hilarious personally.
@@doctordee6321 and then as a fourth wall break have Deadpool break into Kevin Feige's office
@@doctordee6321I'd watch that.
I kinda find it funny that Disney/Marvel puts all the emphasis on Kamala Kahn and not America Chavez, eventhough America Chavez checks all their diversity boxes. 😂
What they did to Falcon is unforgivable. He was a great character throughout several films, whether he was frontrunning or otherwise, and race was never necessary. He was a good person and good at what he did. The show was character assassination in order to push the message.
He was so great and would have continued to be great, but they made him live in Steve’s shadow and reduced him to a token. It’s so gross, and I’m dreading what they’ll do in his next movie
What about War Machine/Don Cheadle and being in Iron Man's shadow? Is this a fair comparison? I didn't get far enough into the old Iron Man comics to even know who War Machine was before the movies, but he didn't seem like an individual or new character.@@gregowen2022
@@gregowen2022I'm defo not watching cap 4 after the Falcon show mess
They also tried to diminish Steves legacy in that he was chosen to be Cap because of his race rather than his Character. Sighhhh Falcon & Winter was a terrible show
I liked The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - and I have seen earlier Marvel films with Sam Wilson in them, but I really can not remember what The Falcon and the Winter Soldier did to ruin his character after watching the whole thing twice. Even when I knew it was pushing a message about _something,_ like deconstructing the idea of a black Captain America when systemic racism makes that controversial, or not providing resources to homeless people who need them after Avengers: Endgame brought back the half of people who had their homes stolen by the surviving homeless population, I actually liked The Falcon and the Winter Soldier for attempting to tackle these topics because they did not do the worst job with them. We liked it when the MCU took on a seriously divisive political topic in Captain America: Civil War, so what exactly changed about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to make that worse in this regard?
Remember when Hollywood writers were war veterans, world travelers, husbands and fathers? People who had lived lives and had experiences with the world and other people and cultures?
Now we have a bunch of industry legacy babies who grew up in a bubble with money and went to high dollar film schools.
Great video Greg!
Basically todays writers are activist that graduated from studying gender studies... and want to social engineer society through storytelling (sometime that has been done since forever, but they lack any sense of what good storytelling is).
@@casusolivasthen the studios need to vet their writers better or else continue to bleed money
@@casusolivas It also explains why so much stuff today is so meta, self-aware, and subversive. These industry legacy babies are always trying to deconstruct everything their more talented predecessors made, even though they lack the necessary skill or understanding to do so. It's like trying to take apart and modify a machine you only superficially understand.
@@BingBong67489 yeah exactly... its really annoying, because deconstructing is really easy, but constructing requires talent, and they lack any of it... and yes the main issue is that its all superficial and shallow, it lack true deep meaning in their stories.
Yep, these new writers are young enough to have grown up online, seeing that hyperbole of reality. Or they are older, but just swim in the LA bubble. From the way they write dialog, it’s painfully clear they have never met a living person outside of Orange County.
It’s going to be real diverse having 5 female super heroes with 1 personality.
It's like the inverse of Dissociative Identity Disorder 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No disrespect to those with DID...
The director said she wants to make men uncomfortable? How weird. I'm sitting here at home quite comfortably, saving my money.
And that was said by her 8 years ago so imagine how more emboldened she's gotten since then.
Never made sense to me, no director should want to make 50% of the population uncomfortable nor admit it.
@@Markus2E5I6 And no sane producer would want to hire such a person.
That's the problem: Disney is run by the insane 😂
I have a feeling that whatever she ends up making is going to be great for UA-cam business, so I’m more comfortable already, lol!
To be fair she was talking about Palestinian men
"Man bad. Racism bad."
There Disney, I just wrote your script for the next 15 movies. $100 million dollars please, feel free to leave it in my checking!
Based on what they’ve been spending on projects, your price is crazy low. Don’t undervalue yourself!
You must be a diverse woman to be hired though 😅
Don't worry, you just have to identify as a diverse woman
Most of these female characters are the same character. Young flawless, Genius, warriors full of quips and ready to build a time machine out of old staples. Compelling
Cassie suddenly becoming a tech genius made NO sense and was completely forced it was such bs. Where the hell did she have the time to do that when everyone was dead lol
Makes for a great team, right? 6 identical characters working together for….some reason.
Accurate. The fact that you have teens-20 year olds who make sensors for stuff that they don't have access to and without government help, a 'telescope' which sees deeper than the subatomic beyond the skills of the expert with decades of experience or...I guess I don't know much about Ms Marvel. I guess shes a bad muslim?
@@weareharbinger914
To understand Ms Marvel you need to go back to Fawcett Comics, Atlas/Timely Comics, DC Comics, Warner Bros, Virgin/Liquid Comics, Deepak Chopra, and Richard Branson.
The original Captain Marvel was created in the 40's by Fawcett Comics.
DC Comics took them to court for copyright infringement, accusing them of ripping off Superman.
Mind you, oddly enough, the creators of Superman has already been taking DC Comics to court but for other reasons.
Originally th judge ruled in favor of Fawcett Comics l, but then s few years later it got appealed and overturned.
By this time, Fawcett Comics had been losing money, so they decided to license out Captain Marvel to DC Comics.
Around this time, Timely Comics, who had changed their name to Atlas Comics, has changed their name yet again to Marvel Comics.
Also, there was another comic book creator who created a Captain Marvel of his own and he got taken to court by DC and lost
However, during this time of limbo, Marvel Comics created their own Captain Marvel, aka Mar'Vell, the male alien superhero. This was around 1967.
While DC had began to use Captain Marvel in 1969.
Because Marvel had the Captain Marvel name, DC had began to put Shazam as the comic title and TV cartoon and live action TV series as such.
Marvel then created a secretary at NASA for Captain Marvel aka Mar'Vell, who was working there as a scientist in disguise.
An experimental machine exploded in front of Carol and Mar'Vell shielded her with his body to protect her and his DNA fused with hers.
She would remain in the hospital for some time and years later, around 1977, she emerged as Ms Marvel.
In 1982, Marvel put out a graphic novel 'The Death of Captain Marvel, where Mar'Vell died of Cancer'.
It was a well received graphic novel.
Mar'Vell left behind his wife, Elysius, who was an Eternal, and their son Genis'Vell.
Also in 1982, Monica Rambeau was created.
She was a police captain, the daughter of a firefighter Frank Rambeau, who she looked up to for heroic inspiration.
Upon investigating a crime syndicate operation at the docks, she stumbled onto an experimental machine they had stolen and she tried to destroy it so they couldn't use it for nefarious purposes. This then gave her super powers in the process.
Local citizens started calling her Captain Marvel because her powers reminded them of Mar'Vell
Monica rejected this title at first, but eventually accepted it when the Thing of the Fantastic Four told her 'keep it: Mar'Vell wouldn't have mind".
And so she did and even went on to lead the Avengers for some time.
Monica kept this mantle for about 20 years until Genis'Vell showed up then out of respect for Mar'Vell, she relinquished the title over to him.
Also, Genis'Vell had some confusing story where he created a sister, Phyla-Vell.
You might have noticed her in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 as one of the new Guardians by the end of the movie. The MCU changed her backstory to have the High Evolutionary create her instead, and of course she has no ties to Mar'Vell, who was genderswapped and depowered in the Captain Marvel movie. An, of. Purse no Elysius or Genis'Vell to be seen in the MCU.
Genis'Vell held onto the mantle for about 10 years, and it passed to another character who was a Skrull, then finally in 2012, Marvel hired some female feminist writer and they gave Carol Dancers the mantle of Captain Marvel, and changed her personality around so bad she would come off like a fascist villain at times and her comic books didn't sell well at all, needing to be rebooted six or seven times since
Also around 2012 (after Marvel created Miles Morales in 2011 to take advantage of the hype of president Obama and to placate some fans who wanted actor Donald Glover to be the next Peter Parker and possibly also be bisexual (which Stan Lee objected to), so Bendis created Miles, a new comic book company had formed:
It was called Virgin Comics
It was created by Virgin Records owner Richard Branson and Indian writer Deepak Chopra.
Deepak's goal was to bring mythological and folklore stories from India, Pakistan and other Asian regions to comic book form.
So they would naturally hire people of that ethnicity as such.
One of them was NJ socialite Pakistani American Sana Amanat, who had come from a wealthy family. Her brother had already been involved with several Hollywood movies and TV investments and he went to prison for I think embezzlement or fraud or something.
Virgin hired Sana Amanat though her position there was unclear since she had no comic book or writing experience.
Anywho, Virgin Comics did not last long at all and went under. Richard Branson backed out of the company, and so the NY based company has to relocate to CA by Deepak Chopra under a new name: Liquid Comics.
Sana, being from NJ, didn't follow since she didn't want to relocate, but Marvel Comics, who has divisions in NY, poached people from there and picked Sana for a high job position which surprised her as she told them she has barely any experience but they said that's why they want her (?? Wtf??l
So two years later, in 2014, Sana co-created Kamala Khan, who was the new Ms Marvel.
Supposedly, they wanted Kamala to be a Mutant, but because of the whole Fox movie deal with them having the movie rights to th X-Men, Disney Marvel didn't want to promote X-Men material as much anymore, so they substituted them with the Inhumans, a group of characters as old as the 69's but never as popular.
So you'd see Inhumans now more in the comics, as well as the ABC shows The Inhumans and Agents of Shield, which were produced by Jeff Loeb of Marvel Entertainment division under then CEO Ike Perlmutter, instead of Kevin Feige of Marvel Studios.
Anywho, Kamala Khan, aka the new Ms Marvel was another attempt by Disney Marvel to promote characters of minority ethnicity, however, the character came off more as a self insert vanity project for Sana Amanat as well as social political agenda what with Sana being presented at th White House with Obama.
Mind you , Kamala Khan, while a new character that's Pakistani American and from Jersey City (similar to how Sana herself was from NJ aka self insert) was created to be a fangirl of Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel, a character already unliked; and it looked odd that a minority teen was idolizing a fascist White woman character, so much so, that at one point, Kamala was going through identity crisis and with her inhuman powers that could reshape her form, she once reshaped herself to look like Carol Danvers. Weird
Also, her powers weren't that original anyway. She was just a discount Reed Richards basically.
So eventually when she was brought into The MCau, they decided to change her power set to be closer to light based powers derices off the space stone like Carol: only that Kamala uses 'hard light'
Also, now that Disney has bought Fox, the whole ignoring Mutants over the Inhumans was no longer necessary, so the Ms Marvel show hinted that Kamala is a mutant, and the comics changed her to one as well.
The Ms Marvel show was produced by Sana Amanat who specifically hired Muslim and Pakistani people to direct and write.
One of them was this Sharmeen woman who is now going to direct the Rey Star Wars movie.
Sharmeen directed episodes 4 and 5 of Ms Marvel, which were the lowest rated episodes of the show which overall was one of the least watched shows on Disney Plus and also had low ratings when put on ABC.
Sharmeens direction was poor and needed to be re-edited as well, showing that sh indeed does not have the proper qualifications for material like this and Star Wars as she is not trained.
don't forget they will all kick some man the balls at some point.
Like Tim Pool said “When you make a product that caters to 0.7% of the populace, you’ll only get 0.7% of sales.” He was referring to the ultra-gay Green Lantern comic that released recently, but I still think it applies here.
It really does. And the most funny part is that these companies don’t see the track record. Activists love to invade a thing, change it, then move on to the next crusade. Your real fans are loyal and have been giving you money for decades. Cater to them, because in the long run, they will be the most profitable
As a black man, comic/movie lover, and intelligent human, I say bravo 👏. Movie studios have lost their way especially with hiring terrible writers.
We can say they're trailblazers, the direction tho--Ugh
In the One Piece live action series there is a character named Koby, he is portrayed by trans actor Morgan Davies, the writers created a beautiful story arc for Koby that allowed Morgan to show off his talent, it was never mention by the production or the crew how BRAVE AND STRONG AND STUNNING One Piece is because they hired a trans actor and gave him an important role.
They treated Morgan Davies with respect, as an actual person and at the same time, respected the essence of the source material. THIS is inclusion done right.
I think 98% of the people complaining about all of this is because this DEI is affecting the stories directly, it's almost parasitic, writers and directors latching onto great franchises and stories to insert themselves and their own thoughts because they have no talent to create something new. It seems like Disney is just begging to go bankrupt at this point.
I’ve said it a hundred times, and I’ll say it again: Casting women and powerful females to be the main characters isn’t the issue. The issue is that they’re uninteresting Mary Sues, and male characters are treated like the dumbest beings to ever exist because “girl power”.
Exactly they can write powerful female characters and make them interesting!
without making the men look stupid
The X-Men have great, interesting, strong female characters already. Storm, Rouge, Emma Frost, Kitty Pride, and Jean Grey. Those are just the tip of the iceberg. But Disney will ignore 50 plus years of comic book stories and do what they want.
I genuinely don't understand why progressive writers refuse to write human flaws in their minority/female characters. Internal conflicts and the hero's journey are basic writing concepts. I get they don't want women to look "weak", but you just can't skip on those concepts and expect your characters to be well written.
@@Merchant1521 Yeah. The X-men have a lot of interesting memorable women. If they really wanted to be "subversive" they would make Cyclops the main character and make him interesting and compelling. Heh.
@@Trewq79 I do not agree with this, BUT the "reason" is they irrationally fear if a female character has flaws, that makes her look weak, and therefore that is sexist. If she needs a guy to save her? That is sexist as women do not need men to save them. Having flaws is weak and sexist. More importantly, they are petrified the leftist twitter mob will say they are sexist, so they pander to the rules and demand of the far left, as they are far left.
I made a perfect analogy to something like this on other channels but... hear me out
The MC-Uterus or Force is Female movements are the equivalent of toxic men taking over Barbie or MLP, make more male dolls like Ken, telling the established consumer audience their love for old characters sucks and then call them sexist if they don't immediately love their new products
This is not mine, but I saw a commenter make a brilliant analogy. He said this would be the equivalent of Donald Trump buying the Hallmark Channel and retuning the stories to focus on false metoo allegations against heroic male protagonists.
I dunno, I just imagined the audience reaction to that kind of scenario and it gave me a good laugh. But it would be so blatantly insulting to the core female audience. Which would be amplified when the new President of the network, Harvey Weinstein, came out and blamed the "femi-nazi" audience members for being a bunch of narrow minded misandrists. LOL, it sounds preposterous but it isn't that much different than what Disney is actually doing.
Both of these analogies are correct and hilarious!
We need the cast to include Andrew Tate, Don Frye, Sylvester Stallone, Tim Allen, and Alex Jones for a bit of comic relief. 5 stars
There you go, making sense... and making sense is misogynistic!! Careful, they may ban you😂🤣😂
Unfortunately I find that this happens with all male dominated hobbies too. This includes gaming, liking anime (anime in general), comic books, playing and watching sports, etc it always gets called sexist for one stupid reason or another. People demonize male hobbies, and elevate stuff like romance official books and fan fiction, Barbie, MLP, stuff that I’m pretty sure “objectfies” men in some way by the same logic that other people use to call men sexist for their hobbies. Ken is used only as a rich hot center piece for Barbie after all.
The only way to save Marvel is to do a two part movie adaptation of Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe and then let it rest for a few years and start over fresh.
Can Deadpool help?
Yes! Deadpool/Punisher crossover. They kill everyone and the day is saved
@@gregowen2022 It's a legit comic. Highly recommend it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher_Kills_the_Marvel_Universe
You know, Tony's daughter was perfectly set-up to inherit her dad's mantle with a lot of interesting potential for a character arc and reasons for her access to tech. That could have been cool.
But she's so young you would have to wait for her to grow up
they should just let iron man type characters be dead completely as tony is, no one else can fill that role and will just be an eye sore.
@@Markus2E5I6there is also harley keener the ironman 3 kid who showed to the tony's funeral he could have could also been the iron lad
If writing was the priority instead of politics, John Walker would be the protagonist of FaWS
Yep! It’s so funny that they tried to make him a bad person and the audience loves him.
How strange. They turned two franchises geared at boys and men into Disney Princess themed entities. What was the point of buying them if they were just going to jettison the very reason for the genre's existence ... and make them an exclusive "He-Woman's Club" that doesn't allow men to join?
Reminder Disney bought Power Rangers and did absolutely nothing with it for nearly a decade only to go echo and sell it back to it's creator.
@@budgiecat9039 To be fair, Dino Thunder was legit. But yeah, Disney basically acquired Power Rangers by accident (as part of a larger package deal) and wanted to kill it off the entire time they owned it, they were never interested in the franchise.
I think at first they thought that the fans would put up with anything and already had them, so they thought, "we have the hard core dumb guys, so why not try to get women too", so pandered to them like crazy. But then when the backlash came their politics kicked in combined with corporate hubris and refused to admit they screwed up and the dumb male fans would NOT put up with anything. Now they are doubling down out of spite
Actually what they did was take Marvel and make it the BIGGEST movie franchise in the world, launching these comic heroes into the mainstream.
THEN the woke movement caught on by abusing people's misguided emotional responses to meanness and hijacked them and, everything else really, resulting in what we have now.
That's why the MCU started out with Iron Man and Captain America, climaxed with defeating THANOS, and THEN fell flat on its face with fucking all this shit, with only a VERY few nuggets of gold left over from breakfast remaining in this massive turd.
I actually have a conspiracy theory about that. If you look at toy marketing data young girls spend massively more then young boys that how Disney became the power house it was. The Disney princesses, but that well is drying out and they’re trying to get marvel and Star Wars to fill the void. The problem is it didn’t work and they don’t know how to recover so they’re doubling down to see if they can salvage it.
It's funny, I was born in 92 and when we were kids teachers and the like always told us boys to play with the girls. I would have never imagined that as an adult most media would want genders to be as separated as possible
I have a theory………a film theory. Romance has been part of many different genres of film, from a comedy like Old School to horror/sci-fi like The Terminator. I’m pretty sure this is due to the fact that most people have had some kind of experience with romantic love, whether it’s just dating, or something more serious like marriage. Or maybe someone has never been in love, but knows it would be nice to have that in their life. This makes romance somewhat universal, so audiences would have more to relate to. “The main character trying to get the girl is relatable because I have also tried to get a girl.” So to my theory: what if the recent lack of romantic subplots is the result of modern writers not really knowing much about love? So instead they shoehorn in race and gender because they think that that is the relatable factor that brings in audiences. Or, an even more cynical take, they’re trying to socially engineer us to not care as much about love.
Wouldn't your point make more sense if the writer's experiences were more about dealing with race, gender identity and sexual orientation in the last decade or so.. you know, where we've had a lot of tensions around those issues lately? It's almost like... that would be more realistic than suggesting people are actively trying to dissuade a large population of people from experiencing love. I guess it's just a theory.
@@ahabwolf7580 six of one, half a dozen of the other. That last part was a conspiracy theory not to be taken seriously enough to defend.
Edit: Your take is that race and gender just recently became an issue, but that’s not true. There have always been movies about those two things.
You have a point: they write about what they know, which ends up being a bunch of gender political nonsense. Considering that they aren't attractive people (not just looks; I'm talking personality etc), they wouldn't know how to write relationships beyond surface level attraction and sex. Hookups, basically, where they got ghosted afterwards. Maybe that's what makes them so bitter...?
That makes sense to me.
Solid points. Newer writers have grown up consuming the simulated reality that is the internet. They’ve never really lived, so all they have is repackaged versions of content they have consumed.
Remember when self-insert in movies was just the director making a cameo appearance? I miss those times.
The guy who wrote and directed the HTTYD trilogy was in a minority, but he never once tried to put anything like that in his story. He even wrote an incredible romance between a man and a woman, even though that wasn't him.
Young Avengers can only be young for one movie. By the time a sequel comes out the actors will be as old as the original Avengers in the first movie
In my opinion, Marvel is kinda forced to stay on track with the current direction of the franchise because they heavily link the message to success. Because they ran their mouth about how successful pandering to this audience would be, deviating from it- and because they tie themselves so heavily with it, would basically be stating that the ideology they have is what caused them to fail. And they can’t have that because the people they say they support would turn on them on a dime.
It's Kevin Feige. He was emboldened by the success of Captain Marvel and Black Panther. Two movies that would have never been greenlit by his former nemesis and boss Ike Perlmutter, former CEO of Marvel.
But Kevin pushed the pendulum too far to the left thanks to Disney's influence (who also helped ruin Star Wars and Pixar) and it's effecting the franchise negatively.
They also hired a whole bunch of lefty True Belivers ™️ who are in positions of leadership...and even worse, hiring. So they phased out people with actual talent & skills for progressive zealots.
@@budgiecat9039 I personally have this idea that Kevin Feige was a geek who never was much successful with women. Now he has a bunch of beautiful Hollywood actresses telling him how awesome he is by catering to (in Critical Drinker's voice) 'The Message' and he loves it, so he's going to keep doing it, by getting the praise of all these lovely women. Even if it sinks his billion dollar ship. It's just a theory!
That’s a very solid point. They made their movies out to be a fight for human rights and against the forces of evil. Once you go that hard, it’s impossible to turn back.
@@budgiecat9039Didn't he try for years to get a Black Panther movie made with Wesly Snipes? If Captain Marvel as a stand alone movie it would have bombed.
America Chavez’s so powerful that only bees can take her down
I think they’ll probably include Patriot in the lineup. Either him or T’challa Jr.
What's up with all the junior geniuses? Like everybody is a super genius now. So it kind of cheapens the actual genius aspect of a character.
yeah, and they are all very similar in character. They are geniuses but no one respects their genius. How are you going to make a team with 6 of the exact same person?
I find this really depressing. It's just as important for boys to have strong role models to look up to as girls, but men are constantly and consistently portrayed as incompetent, stupid, corrupt or just plain evil. Disney acquired both Lucasfilm and Marvel because of their appeal to males, I don't understand why they've spent a decade trying to erode this appeal. Bonkers
I dropped a like just for the "M-C-Uterus" label.
We’ll just stick to the boys and invincible now. they’re carrying the superhero genre
The Boys season 4 and the second half of Invincible S2 comes out this year I cannot describe my excitement in just words
Definitely. It’s also that they aren’t the normal Pg13 movies they are Rated R and what kids that grew up with marvel would want now with now holding back from gory scenes or cursing as much as they want.
Well, not a huge fan of Boys season 4. It's been on a downhill slide since season 2 for me.
What is Disney known for? Princesses. They are doing everything they can to make more. No matter what. South Park was spot on “Put a chick in it and make it gay and lame”
What if season 2 literally created a new Disney princess character towards the end of the season and made Captain Carter nearly invincible, fighting an evil Dr Strange (who somehow became 'evil again' despite him already going through that character arc in the first season but hey he's a straight white male so they're always evil am I right lol) while she had the power of the Infinity Stones, a magic sword, Hela's helmet AND the 10 Rings.
While the new Marvel Disney Pocahontas princess had the power of the Space Stone (which she singlehandedly owned Killmonger with despite the fact he had all the Infinity Stones) and Mjolnir....wtf 😂
And yes a woman wrote it.
@@budgiecat9039yeah She needed all those things to defeat strange yet you don't complain about him being op. A character arc doesn't mean a character can't change or regress, strange was simply too far gone in his quest to save Christine.
@@ANNIE_R_U_OK oh no Strange being zoP was BS too Especially since last season he could defeat Killmonger or Ultron on his own but now he's taking out multiple not to mention suddenly his prison lair is like 50 times the size it was before inexplicably.
The writing was revisionist lazy and stupid. All they did was repeat the same arc for him over at the last minute are you serious come the fuck on dude don't defend this lazy shit
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Here’s the thing…if this were truly about “representation”, then they would be including men in their stories, because well…there are men in the world who watch movies.
But the fact that they *aren’t* doing this, and actively excluding/replacing men, it shows their true intentions.
It isn’t representation, it’s replacement under the guise of representation.
It’s Mao-level social engineering…and if you (the hypothetical “you”), likes being socially engineered, then I don’t know what else to say…
Excellent breakdown! I was explaining this to my wife. It's not about representation, it's about pandering. And pandering is so disrespectful it hurts!
After the scene in EndGame where all the girls meet in one place to do the feminist pose during a war, I Understood from there in which direction they would go 💀
The finale of What If season 2 was genuinely just peak OC mary-sue fodder. Like, sure, you can just beat the shit outta the guy who *_ate an exploding universe that he was standing in_*
I still haven’t watched any of it, but I HAVE seen the slobbering headlines about Marvel being historic and creating an indiginous heroine, so I’m certain it’s going to be spectacular
The only recent success Marvel has had was Loki season 2. That was their “Jack Ryan/Reacher”moment. A time to see what actually excited their audience and try to run with that. Unlike Amazon Disney seems to be ignoring their audience completely. It’s only gonna get worse for them from here.
Greg you've upped your game what with the alliteration and "Silver Surf-her" etc. Bravo!
Thank you! Gotta keep upping my game to go big league
@@gregowen2022 shoot, you're big league in MY BOOK! Keep up the great work Man of God
A good example of effective subversion is Mad Max: Fury Road. The film starred Max but ended up having an (actual) strong female-led group for a lot of it. But Max wasn't some joke or weak character. He still remained the focus. Marvel could do something like this with X-Men - just make a film with men and women and maybe showcase the women more in the end - but that's too risky for Disney.
Yes. They even meet up with a tribe of women who hate men, but depict them as just as savage and controlling as the men (because that's what survival requires). They get some forgiveness though because they accept the men in the group after they've proven themselves to be "reliable." Complexity and grey morality is subversive in Hollywood now.
That’s a bad example. Mad max was sidelined in that movie. Now furyosa has her own movie coming out; so effectively Max has been replaced.
Fury Road was just the bait-and-switch.
I don't even like that movie. But even though Max was sidelined, he got to be the hero in the end.
I’m interested in seeing your opinions on the new Percy Jackson show, and how because the author was involved the characters that were apparently “switched” don’t rely on their skin tone for the plot. it’s been really solid so far especially as a fan for so long. Definitely check it out!
Rick Riordan has always made sure each character was fully developed and 3 dimensional. Even when he clearly was trying to represent each race in his team or the LGBTQ, those characters had a personality beyond racial stereotypes, and some even defied it. That’s why when Annabeth was casted as black instead of white, it didn’t feel like forced diversity.
I’ve not seen it yet, but I’m planning to. Personally I was hoping we’d get characters who looked like the ones in the books, but as long as it’s handled well I’m sure it won’t be bad.
Never seen a company try so hard to not get my money.
I don't know why Disney likes taking shows with a majority male audience, and then trying to make it all about women, while spitting on men just for being men... AND making it have terrible writing to insult _everyone,_ including the females they are advertising towards.
Marvel is going to tank their movie franchises like they did their comic books.
I love Marvel comics from 1962-1968. That was the peak of Marvel. That was also when they were the most popular around the world when it comes to comics. Stan Lee even said that he wanted to include more female heroes because there weren't many, but he never made them the focus and had them demonize men.
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I agree about Kate Bishop. I don't dislike her. In fact I didn't hate the Hawkeye show. Yeah, it had big problems, but it was fun as a Christmas show
My only problem with her is how fast she took out Kingpin and was unharmed despite him ragdolling her.
They should have showed Clint wheelchairing her into his house in the final scene
Yeah I mostly give Hawkeye a pass, but the Kate/Kingpin fight was pretty unforgivable and that GODDAMN MUSICAL NUMBER was *totally* unforgivable.
As a joke at the beginning of the show, when Clint and his kids are rolling their eyes at the musical, that worked just fine, but then making it the show's "post credits scene" was just the wrong move. It was supposed to be a dumb musical using revisionist history of the Battle of NY, but then they tried to play it seriously at the end of the show and it made me cringe so damn hard.
Oooh ooh oooh, compare Marvel Girl to Spider-man who was thrown right into the middle of civil war fighting people he thought were heroes.
I just don't get why they want to make an essentially boy brand into a girl brand. In the process they alienate the original audience that made them filthy rich, without driving women in droves to the theatres to see the strong female centric stuff. So they hit -15 birds with one big ass stone.
It's like forcefully contorting the Barbie movie into a World War 2 flick. That wouldn't have had an audience.
There are plenty of really cool female superheros, and its cool to see some of them - but when they feel the need to make a female (only) version of an existing male IP,
or they write the characters to be so stupid and unlikable (I'm looking at you Capt. Marvel) They're missing the point.
X-men is a great example of male and female character working together - as equals. Not a movie or series dedicated to bashing one side or the other, trivializing
established (male) characters and using terrible "marry-sue" sorts of writing.
These same people will smugly respond to you with "Comics were ALWAYS woke! X-Men was a civil rights allegory" while ignoring why that wasn't a problem with X-Men but it a problem with [current year] MCU. It's almost as if the former was much better written than the latter and didn't demonize one group just to prop the other group up.
@@PumpkinSwag I agree.
I am fine with characters of various persuasions or backgrounds, gender or preference; "whatever" being in a film or TV show.
I don't mind seeing diversity and different types of characters ! But not when the whole point is to break down previous (usually male) characters and
throw in other details that have no bearing on the story at hand. or if that "whatever" facet of the character is the ONLY reason they're in there. It's bad writing
If you want to represent some one do it as a whole person: No one is just one aspect of themself (nor should they be).
If you write a character that (for example with the current MCU and Capt Marvel) Is a woman first and everyone else is soooo inferior.
you know, because of that one aspect. That's the whole point of the movie now... ?? Yeah, its just really bad writing. imo.
Agreed. We have so much history of successful diverse stories being told, because the story was priority. Now they lead with skin color, and it usually ends up being the only thing of interest about the character.
If what they made since phase 4 to now was what we saw back then, we wouldn't have become fans of the franchise.
Agreed. We’d all be saved so much disappointment
It was the assassination of JFK that ruined the MCU. It would have never gotten so political if that had never happened.
Surreal how happily and quickly they threw their future in the garbgae, simply to check some boxes to please a minor amount of fans.
You missed the opportunity to put a clip from the "black falcon" Key & Peele skit!
im pretty bummed that we'll never see a live action static shock from dc because the writers wont know how to write him at all
Sadly Dwayne McDuffie, the man most responsible for making Static such a good character, died in 2011 at just 49 years old. Honestly it's hard to imagine the character without his input.
The MCU is a franchise stuck in time. 2019, to be exact. Great video, Greg.
For many of us, we like to think it ended in 2019 as well.
The assassination of JFK ruined the MCU. It would never have got so political if that hadn't happened.
Dude makes some good content with solid points
Thank you!
I like your vibe. Wait, the SilverHERfer? 😂
Subscribed.
Yes! Thank you!
Clearly from who Disney hired to direct the new Star Wars movie they have learned nothing nor do they intend to. Now they hire women of color directors just to check that box but you saw how Iger threw the Marvels director under the bus for that movie's failure. But if the only reason you are hiring a director is their identity then it is poor odds things will work out. Iger will destroy the company if he remains in charge.
The funny thing is the women end up not even being happy with them.
Jessica Gao's She-Hulk show isn't getting a second season despite her bragging how she was able to 'bully Kevin Feige into doing what she wants', Tatiana Maslany is fired most likely due to what she said about Bob Iger during the strikes, the director for the Marvels was pretty vocal about how she wasn't that happy directing the movie and her restrictions, Brie Larson supposedly has friction with others on the set of The Marvels, Disney had issues with Shuri actress and Wasp actress in the past, and the head female writer for What if quit.
Not to mention how Disney screwed over ScarJo.
They can’t use the name Black Falcon, That’s a DC character
I'm not aware of any DC character called "Black Falcon".
I enjoyed Tom Holland as Spider-Man, especially with his arc in No Way Home, it left me excited for what was next. But with the current state of the MCU, I really hope he backs out before they ruin his character. I was disappointed with how Insomniac treated Peter’s character in the sequel game and would be surprised if the MCU didn’t do something similar.
So, I clicked the LIKE button, and waited for the candy to come tumbling out of ... well, either my PC or at least the monitor. And NOTHING HAPPENED. Imagine my shock! I tried UNclicking the Like button... but there was SO much melted sugar on it that it only stayed stuck to "LIKE". What? You never promised me candy? GAH! You're right. Well, keep the like. It's a freebie.
I'm actually kinda hype we're still going down this road, I'm curious to see how far down this road we can go. So Disney is still entertaining me, in a way
We need a new company to just make movies with plot and interesting characters without caring about any kind of politics outside of in-universe politics.
Then when they've established themselves as a muilti-trillion dollar company, maybe disney will start to notice that they've done something wrong.
Back in my day movies were plot-focused but now they’re “female-focused” like the new x men movie
I agree. The real problem isn't that they cast women, it's that that they are casting women specifically to annoy me personally. The thing is, I don't care. I love women. I love strong women, and dislike weak women. They are not hurting me just simply by casting women.
But then every time they do, the anti-woke dudes show up and proudly proclaim that, yes, men do in fact hate when they do that (for the record, I love watching a lot of the anti-woke UA-camrs because they tend to be very funny but that doesn't mean that they necessarily represent me personally) and since they are the loudest voices in the room, that's what Hollywood responds to.
It's like being a civilian in a country that's being invaded for some vaguely historical and political reasons, watching the two armies battle it out on the wreckage of my home while I sit in the shelter and can't do anything about it. I just want to watch good movies. Is that too much to ask?
It’s so weird to see a big studio go to war with the internet. Jessica Gao admitted she basically made She-Hulk to troll the trolls. That explains why the writing was garbage.
As a woman, I liked the MCU when it was more a male-focused brand. I like seeing strong, capable dudes on screen. Them going about their journey with their own unique talents and flaws, they were believable and very relatable, even if I didn't share a gender with them. Now I'm just embarrassed to be associated with these Mary Sues pretending to be superheroes. It's a shame how far the MCU has fallen, someone should wipe this universe clean and start a new one. 😅
Deadpool kills the marvels universe (just like in the comics )and then restart it again in a couple years👀. And don't worry we don't associate rationale women with these deluded woke women.
I walked out of Love & Thunder and said I'd never watch an MCU movie again. I haven't even gone back to watch the old ones; they've been poisoned retroactively. Which is the really sad part for me.
Your request for me to hit the like button always makes me smile. Happy New Year!
And your liking is highly appreciated. Happy New Year!
Men want to see movies where women act like women.
These new MCUterus women are being forced to act like men.
Take Black Widow/Natasha for example, men love her. She's a badass spy who can hold her own in a fight but still behaves like a woman.
She's not invincible either like they portray the other examples in your video. I'm reminded of the scene where she's running in sheer terror from the Hulk.
Earlier in the movie she managed to take down 5 guys by herself but there's nothing she can do against the Hulk.
That scene showed vulnerability, which is what makes characters seem real to the audience.
Blue Eye Samurai is the best strong female character writing I’ve seen in recent years or contemporary work. And the show has been received well. I wonder why that might be…
It’s almost like having her work to earn her strength and skills, but also have her need help from others, fail at times, and have flaws makes her relatable, interesting, and dynamic.
She is extremely formidable to fight and can take on platoons of enemies on her own… but with injuries that makes her have to stop, recover, drag herself away bleeding, or unable to fight off the next opponent that entered the fight. And she doesn’t beat everyone, just most. She is extremely convicted of her own cause that gives her the determination she needs, but at the expense of those who are around her, whether it’s to-be-friends or innocent civilians. And she is a victim of great trauma and abuse, but doesn’t play victim and decides to do something about it. That’s interesting.
For me Greg, I believe Thor's adopted child, love could me a good addition to the roster given that she's just starting and doesn't have any bad blood put into her by writers...yet thus she deserves a chance and I believe that's why thor's fifth movie is coming maybe its coz of the need to give her some character growth and an official introduction to the rest of the MCU characters in a long shot🤷 heck she even has potential to be our new Thor if they play her well of course
I hope KKKathleen KKKennedy also creates a male Rappunzel, a male Snow White, and the male Beauty with a female Beast that would balance out that universe in the same way.
The funny thing is, the X-Men traditionally have some of the best female characters in all of comics. Jean Grey. Storm. Rogue. Kitty Pride. All amazing and well fleshed out characters. There is no need to make it female focused. Just make it accurate and well balanced. The team has also been very nicely diverse in the past. Characters of all races without the need for race swaps. The first (to my knowledge) openly gay character in Northstar. They don’t have to change things. Just adapt the 80s/90s team and you have a diverse group already with no changes or swaps needed.
I honestly hope we don't see this come to fruition. As a throw away joke, however, I can see America Chavez reaching into another dimension and pulling the two sons The Scarlet Witch was looking for. The team would be like, "Hey, didn't their mom try to kill you and take your powers?" And she would shrug her shoulders, smile and say, "ha, yeah, she did..." Making the events of Dr. Strange MoM even less impactful.
Who is their father though? Can't be Vision.
My take is it would be Wonderman. And I'd cast Ashton Kutcher
Wow, MC uterus, haven’t heard that one yet
I am reminded of Little Platoon's video breaking down all the horrible actions Ms. Marvel did that led to the outcomes in "The Marvels" and how is arguably more villain than hero by if not the whole planet's worth of blood on her hands, than her willful actions to abandon a planet she swore to help, and instead destroy their society that eventually led to a civil war and destroy their sun.
They cannot rewrite my natural instincts. If they make the M-She-U all nude, then I'll watch it. I might also watch it if they hire good writers for a change.
This is the most real youtube comment ever, thank you for gracing us 🙏
0:22, they deserve well-written heroes
100%
Hollywood gives us this trash of female 'caracteres' meanwhile we get masterpieces like Frieren and Apothecary Diaries (both with female MCs) from the Japanese media. Really shows how politics ruin good writing.
How long do you think it will take for people to realize that sexism doesn't apply only to women? Because most of what Disney has been spitting out is actively discriminatory towards men. Being oppressed does NOT justify becoming an oppressor. All that does is flip the scales.
I'm still sad that Finn wasn't a Jedi
So many missed opportunities. Instead of a new generation Jedi, we got a whiny simp who's only character is that he's obsessed with a girl who barely gives him the time of day.
Disney went into the sequel trilogy coming up with things as they were going and didn’t have a main plan…
It’s really sad because of how much things they could’ve done
It's no surprise that the person to stand up to Finn (Ep 8) was 1) Chinese and 2) female. Chinese are incredibly racist. Just look at their posters for Episode 7,
“Many of these writers are actively antagonistic to one segment of the audience, then they get mad when that segment doesn’t hand over its money”
I thunk it, you said it!
I write fanfics and I try to think how this character would react to situation. It can be tricky especially with characters that are shallow. It is fun.
Hey Greg. Thank you for this video and all your content. Really love your work and your take on things.
Would be really great to see you do a video with Critical Drinker or Nerdrotic, if you have the time of course 😊
Thank you so much for the kind words!
I, too, would love to hang out with those guys. One of these days. Notice me, Drinker-Pai
The Boys/Gen V and Invincible are pushing the boundaries of this genre and showing how great it can be. It will accelerate the demise of the MCU even more.
The interesting thing is that Disney doesn't seem to like money anymore. Star Wars and Marvel were purchased to reel in men and boys. Now they are taking the male-preferred physical action adventure genre away from those who enjoy it. Think of what the Hallmark Christmas romance movies would be like if suddenly men took over and said these need a few more car chases and shootouts. The Hallmark Channel would lose much of their primary audience. This is what Disney is doing. I have no problem with female heroes in these escapist fantasies, but for the female characters to take over these films and shame the male characters, and even be over 50% of the heroes in a male-preferred genre is a formula for losing the primary audience and losing their money.
Nailed it. As always. I can't believe you don't have 100.000 subscribers.
M C UTERUS!! 🤣🤣🤣 omg you’re killin me 😂
I watched 4 of your videos. But I think where you shined the most was breaking down the scene of Iron heart vs Hulk. I think you should do more of those I was disappointed to not find more great scene break downs. The sarcasm was a bit much but only becuse you where so amazing at the break down you really shine in that serious moment.
I think, if Disney is smart, they'll one-up themselves and start offering root canals prior to viewing the films at local theatres. It's gonna be a hit.
This is happening to Star Wars and Pixar.
Disney is screwing themselves over.
Is tiring and depressing
This video made me want to rewatch Zombieland. And I will.
Edit: I'm a western woman and I know for a fact that I am not oppressed.
I must have been blind in doctor who, i really just realized that rose was trans.
Must have come so far that the gender scoodoolidoo thing is getting so general like billionairs going to space.
It takes too much energy to be irritated by the crap they keep putting out. Several IP's went from the originals to interesting universal variations,
to just horribly written fanfiction. Its astounding how many characters and stories they butchered. Instead of "please no! Don't hurt em! They're already dead!"
to just "...oh noo. So anyway I hear manga has been great lately."
Yep. It’s getting so bad and boring that I’m looking ahead to other topics for the future. Pretty soon, it won’t even be fun to make fun of Disney anymore, it’ll just be sad
4:52 I did remember that sealing Donna's memories was a way to keep her alive, and it was at the cost for her to live ignorant of her newly acquired potential, and for the Doctor to lose a friend. To lose *touch* with a friend. Permanently. She would have died for real otherwise.
Thanks to your video I find out this got shredded in the name of rainbows. All is worth to be shredded in the name of rainbows, apparently.
the silver herfer was bang on ,they cast a female for silver surfer 🤣
"BLACK GIRL MAGIC!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I amost fell out of my seat I was laughing so hard! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not sure why they’re doubling down on failure.
8:08, When Deadpool 2 cracked a joke about X-Men having a sexist name so Deadpool decided to call his team “X-Force” instead “but isn’t that a little derivative” the joke worked. But when Raven in Dark Phoenix says it should be called X-Women it was a forced and annoying line.
That’s the difference between sarcasm and activism. Activists have no humor, so the jokes NEVER land
@@gregowen2022 Exactly
'Silver HERfer' that made me chuckle
5:47 SNL has always noticed it, they just got bold enough to make a joke about it and they found ways to not be found offensive.
In addition, with Wakanda Forever, they were focusing on the women being gay, and Iron Heart and Sherri having a thing. Many of us Black women caught that and hated it!
M-She-U. Nerdrotic
M-C-Uterus. Greg Owen
Okay...Gary said M She U...and you made your own thing....I respect that. 🤣
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