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Simu Liu, who starred in one of those crappy Marvel movies everyone’s already forgotten, took to the Twitterz Tuesday to attack legendary directors Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese as racist.

Screenwriter and actress Michaela Coel said she joined Disney-owned Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” because “my character is queer” and she felt it was “important for me to step in” and tell a LGBTQ story, which she hopes the anti-gay country of Ghana will see.

A woke backlash appears to be brewing against Disney’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” director Taika Waititi over old tweets that some have deemed “transphobic.”

While studios continue to make spin-off, sequels, prequels, reboots, and remakes of superhero movies no one asked for — each seemingly more woke than the last, see here, here, and here — Americans’ enthusiasm for men and women in capes is waning, a Morning Consult survey found.

The Disney-owned brand Marvel is rolling out more transgender characters, with transgender co-creator Charlie Jane Anders touting the addition of Escapade! “And she’s not alone,” Marvel says, “She’ll also bring along her best friend and fellow trans mutant Morgan Red.”

Actor Tom Hiddleston said that the character coming out as bisexual in the Disney+ series “Loki” was a “small step” forward. He said there is still “further to go” in terms of sexual representation.

The Benedict Cumberbatch-Elizabeth Olsen Marvel adventure, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $185 million this weekend in its debut, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

The latest Marvel vehicle “Moon Knight” — now steaming on Disney+ — got hit with an avalanche of negative reviews, including from one of the studio’s very own stars in response to the Mandarin spoken by Ethan Hawke’s character in a recent episode.

Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, Pixar, and Disney Parks are protesting anti-grooming laws amid Walt Disney Co. employees at corporate locations across the U.S. walking out of their offices in attempt to force the company to fight Don’t-Groom-Kids laws, such as the Florida bill that restricts the teaching of sexuality and transgenderism to kids in kindergarten through third grade.

Marvel Comics in under fire for revamping its popular Punisher character by not only making him the leader of an Asian assassin group but redesigning his iconic skull logo, a move some fans have blasted as cultural appropriation.

Several countries in the Middle East will not show Disney’s and Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Side Story” reportedly because of the inclusion of actor Iris Menas, who claims to be “nonbinary,” playing a queer character. 

Actress Angelina Jolie says she is “proud” that Marvel refused to cut “Eternals” scenes featuring an openly gay superhero for Middle Eastern countries that censor LGBTQ content, and said that anyone who doesn’t “appreciate” gay content in movies is “ignorant.”

Eternals, the latest from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a dreadful mix of Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Justice League (2017).

Disney-owned Marvel Studios’ latest superhero epic, “Eternals,” has so far been barred from showing in markets in the Middle East, and many wonder if it is because the film features an openly gay character.

Disney’s Eternals, the big offering meant to launch Marvel’s “Phase IV,” is now officially classified as “rotten” by Rotten Tomatoes.

Marvel’s “Eternals” has earned unenthusiastic reviews, and when you consider all the factors involved, that tells you this sucker must really stink.

Andy Serkis, the director for Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man spinoff, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, said that the film represents the alien symbiote’s gay “coming out party” and depicts a “love affair” between the CGI alien and star Tom Hardy.

In a possible massive blow to Disney and Marvel Studio’s coffers, Chinese officials are mulling the idea of banning from their theaters the new all-Asian superhero film, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” Officials claim to be incensed because the story has its origins based on the 100-year-old Fu Manchu character.

Actress Scarlett Johansson’s lawyer called Disney “misogynistic” in the latest round back and forth amid the “Black Widow” lawsuit.

After “Black Widows'” quick death, online movie pirates might be the very scourge that saves movie theaters from extinction.

The National Association of Theatre Owners is blasting Disney for making its summer superhero tentpole “Black Widow” available on its premium paid streaming service at the same time it opened in theaters.

Marvel Studios’ “Black Widow” earned $80 million in theaters and a whopping $60 million on Disney+. This is a game-changer.

Marvel Studios executive vice president of film production Victoria Alonso says the Marvel Cinematic Universe aims to bring more LGBTQ “representation” to the big screen in the coming years.

The third episode of the Disney+ series “Loki” has confirmed that actor Tom Hiddleston’s Norse God is the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first bisexual lead character.

The star of Disney’s streaming ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ had hoped to add a dig at Donald Trump during his woke closing monologue.

The popular Disney+ streaming series “WandaVision” was originally set to feature a cameo by Marvel superhero Doctor Strange, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch. But Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said the “white guy” was cut so as to avoid him teaching Wanda, the strong female lead, “how power works. 

This month, Disney launched its much anticipated follow up-spinoff to the “Avengers” movie franchise with the debut of “The Falcon and Winter Soldier.” But along with the big budget action scenes, viewers were also assailed with one woke moment after another.

The far-left Walt Disney Company blinked bigtime this week. Marvel’s “Black Widow” is moving to streaming.

As the release clock ticks, the big question now is what to do about Black Widow, F9, and No Time to Die in a world where most movie theaters remain closed and Wonder Woman 1984 just crashed and burned at the box office.

Members of the Marvel universe, including Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo, have defended actor Chris Pratt against attacks from the leftist cancel culture campaigners who pounced after the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star didn’t participate in an Avengers-themed fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

I’ve written more than once about the handful of years — the first years of our marriage (1989 to 1993) — when my wife and I pretty much spent every summer Friday night at the drive-in movies. Those articles are filled with nostalgia and longing and sentiment and all the other emotions you feel as your past becomes the long past.

Marvel Comics has announced the superhero lineup for its New Warriors comic featuring characters named “Safe Space” and “Snowflake,” a tongue-in-cheek attempt to mock the terms often applied to leftists.

Marvel and Disney have announced they will temporarily shutter production on Shang-Chi after its director Destin Daniel Cretton was asked to self-isolate by a doctor over suspicions he might have contracted the coronavirus. 

Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is going Hollywood and launching a new production company with the directors of Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame.

If Marvel wants to make a $250 million superhero blockbuster for gay people, fine. I’m just not going to go and see it.

Whether you agree or not, how refreshing is it to see someone in this increasingly fascist culture stand by an opinion that has been deemed “incorrect” by  Twitter bullies, nerd bullies, and the like…