The MCU is about to get more female and LGBTQ characters, says Marvel boss

Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok

The MCU is about to undergo an alm🅘ighty shakeup. Not only are female superheroes on the verge of outnumbering their male counterparts on the big screen in the near-future, Kevin Feige has said that openly LGBTQ characters are also on the way – both in terms of new and curr♊ent characters.

Far from being any sort of token gesture, Feige confirmed to that “I think we're getting to the point soon where we have so many great female characters that those are just our heroes as opposed to when are they all feಌmale, all male. It's just the Marvel heroes, more than half of which will be women."

While the culling of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Avengers: Infinity War did much to shelve many of the male contingent of the MCU, it’s clear that women are becoming more and more prominent in Marvel movies. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ant-Man and the Wasp is the first Marvel film to include a female character in the title and, of course, there’s the small matter of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain Marvel movie next year. That promises to be only the beginning of 🤪the changes.

Speaking to (Kevin Feige is a busy, busy man!), the Head of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios also took another progressive step, indicating that we’ll be exploring some LGBTQ themes in the near-future. In fact, a current MCU hero may also be part of that representation shift, with Feige saying that the LGBTQ characters will be “Both ones you’ve seen and ones you haven’t seen.” That follows on from Tessa Thompson’s declaration that Valkyrie in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thor: Ragnarok was bi, and may have played a factor in Feige&ꦗrsquo;s decision...

Superhero movies, on𓄧ce an entrenched male-dominated world, a shrine to overblown machismo, are changing. Yet again, Marvel aims to be at the forefront of it all.

Those 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new Marvel movies just got a whole lot more interesting, huh?

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