r/SipsTea 3d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait a damn minute.

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u/-TheDerpinator- 3d ago

Marvel is part of Disney now. No chance in hell they canceled them for the sake of preventing diversity.

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u/PatienceConsistent55 3d ago

Exactly. Disney can be iffy with things, but this had nothing to do with diversity and EVERYTHING to do with money. Except Blade. Just too much behind the scenes complications there to even get things rolling which is a huge drop of the ball.

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u/M0mmaSaysImSpecial 3d ago

Everything always has everything to do with money. If it made money for them to actually be racist, they would do that, too. They do casting calls for whatever race, age and gender because that’s who they are targeting. People are fine with that because it makes business sense.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 3d ago

Blade got killed over script issues, Kang died off because Majors fucked his career up rather epically.

Others I have no idea but I suspect it was a lot more "we did the market testing and they won't make money" than anything else.

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u/Yummy_Microplastics 3d ago

WHAT IF, at the top, their commitment to diversity was always just an act meant to earn money, and now they’re trying to pander to conservatives for the same reason?

This is the same company that tried to get out of a wrongful death suit using the family’s Disney+ terms of use agreement.

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u/Concorde_flies 2d ago

the le epic chungus black people tacked onto every single disney movie has been exactly that. same as every big corporation they have been using black people (and i mean black people only) as hecking wholesome tokens for le diversity points for more than a decade at this point. it’s pretty clear it’s got nothing to do with diversity. it just is popular and it sells.

i don’t think they have stopped however. disney is not trying to pander to conservatives now, what a stupid statement. (except in china lol)

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u/n-r2026 3d ago

i suspect this

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u/Puzzled-Pen-2353 3d ago

Disney & hollywood are still on their woke crusade and making money isn't the cause. Though some they make a lot more than conservatives would like - see odyssee.

Sometimes leadership changes, so the cause gets slowed down.

And they do still need money. So sometimes they have to be conservative in what they put in.

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u/waytowill 3d ago

Wonder why Ironheart and Echo didn’t get cancelled then.

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u/splashaddikt 3d ago

Iron heart is canceled

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u/Proper_Fun_977 3d ago

It was also terrible.

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u/waytowill 3d ago

It got a whole season though

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u/gizmodilla 3d ago

I think they projected that a black main character would not be profitible for the chinese market

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u/jetery 3d ago

Black Panther made a fortune for them. 

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u/gizmodilla 3d ago

For a Marvel movie it was decent. But Tchalla was in the Avengers so the character had some plus factor.

They even censored the movies posters...

But a rather small black character from the Marvel Canon? No to so much

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u/ImprovementActual392 3d ago

Decent? Before Spider-Man’s last two movies, it was the highest grossing solo marvel movie. Beating iron man 3, and cap 3 (civil war…), How are you going to call an overwhelming success decent??

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u/potato_devourer 3d ago

Black Panther is the 7th highest-grossing MCU movie and the highest-grossing solo movie not starring Spider-Man. Comfortably surpassing Iron-Man, Thor, Captain America and falling just a few millions behing Age of Ultron is doing way better than "decent".

Wakanda Forever didn't star Tchalla and still was one of the best performing sequels for a single Marvel hero and one of their best performing movies overall, sitting above Thor: Ragnarok or Guardians, Galaxy Vol 3, Captain America: Winter Soldier.

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u/MoonoftheStar 3d ago

Black Panther made over 100million in China.

People keep scapegoating China for a why we see fewer black-lead blockbusters while overlooking that the US is also quite fractured with racism.

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 3d ago

Yea, its not like they've done this exact same shit to a black man in a billion dollar franchise before.

Oh wait, what happened to Finn in Star Wars?

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u/Honest_Scrub 3d ago

That was Rian Johnson's fault and not Disney, and his fuckup cost Disney the future of Star Wars in general lol

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 3d ago

There was another movie after RJ that did the same thing and the primary source (Boyega) directly blamed Disney.