I hope not! The theater I saw NWH in checked everyone’s vaccination status, and people who didn’t have their “card” weren’t allowed inside. There were a dozen or so of them standing outside and they were very, very upset. Everyone who watched in my screening appeared to keep their masks on too.

Gotta run the rage machine to generate them clicks!

Nor are they mutually inclusive or synonymous.

Sure, but there’s nothing that indicates they are trans in the comic. But they are quite explicitly non-binary.

Imagine a Gizmodo writer slipping up on something as simple as that while they try and attack something.

Terec and Ceret, a pair of bond-twin Kotabi who were revealed to be Star Wars’ first Transgender characters, as they appear in Marvel’s Star Wars: The High Republic comic series

Thanks for this. I mainly know David Cage games as being incredibly pretentious.

the way RJ handles gender and gender dynamics...... is pretty bad. I am curious as to what about race that you found problematic?

I am a little surprised that they give no mention of the existing gender themes of the books. I think making “souls” gender fluid is a great way of updating the narrative for TV, for a bunch of reasons, but I’m a bit disappointed that they are pretending the books had nothing to say on this topic. It’s hard to deny…

I’ve said this before, but I wonder how many nights Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has lain awake in his bed, staring at the ceiling, and cursing the former Marvel Television Department for screwing up the Inhumans so, so, so badly.

What kills me about that aspect is that he wasn’t even doing a non-white voice in Mystery Men! He was doing an effete, posh, white British accent, and even explicitly says he’s British. Only Sith deal in absolutes, but there is no good-faith take where Azaria was trying to portray a non-white character here.

I’ve noticed this growing trend in journalism, where someone picks out some arbitrary movie from 10 or 20 years ago and dunks on it for no discernible reason.

Kinja really wants Azaria to be some kind of awful racist.

All you have to remember is that this is the site that decided having a full body suite Maui costume for children was “problematic” because perhaps a non-Hawaiian child would want to dress up like a Hawaiian character.

The movie does nothing to mock Indian people or suggest that it would be a great idea for white Americans to dress up in Indian costumes or anything along those line.

Mentioning them doesn’t make them good things. Maybe the reason Germain didn’t comment on those characters is right there in the quoted portion of the article:

Azaria’s character, the Blue Raja, is an American pretending to be British but he’s dressed as if he is Indian. If this sounds problematic, that’s because it is.

I remember quite a few things about Mystery Men (which I remember fondly, but I’m guessing doesn’t hold up even before reading this), but I have no memory of All Star being in there.

The fact that you have to dig that hard to find good things (and most of them are just “things,” not even really all that good) more or less makes his point.

The Smash Mouth song “All Star,” one of the things the film is best known for,