Will new 'Agatha All Along' series reverse Marvel’s downward trend?



Marvel’s surrender to wokeness has all but ruined the franchise. Longtime comic book fans have fled for hills when their favorite MCU characters have been gender-bent, race-bent, or altered to be more socially acceptable.

However, Disney+ will soon debut a new series called “Agatha All Along,” which follows Agatha Harkness, the villain from Marvel Studios’ "WandaVision.”

Could “Agatha” reverse Marvel’s downward spiral?

Lauren Chen, Blaze Media’s cinema critic, discusses the upcoming series.

Disney's NEXT FLOP: 'Agatha' Trailer Breakdownwww.youtube.com

Although the series won’t drop until September, the trailer alone has Lauren fearing that the show will be yet another money pit.

First, she doesn’t think the series will generate enough interest.

“It's not like this was a particularly popular character in the comics and even in ‘WandaVision,’ the show that introduced her,” she says.

Further, according to rumors Lauren is privy to, “the reason they're giving Agatha her own series is not just because she's potentially another girlboss character they can exploit, but also because they are hoping to resurrect Scarlet Witch in the MCU.”

Even the show's producers seem wary about the series, given that it was announced in 2021 but is premiering three years later.

“It definitely seems like the prolonged production period was due, at least in part, to uncertainty on behalf of the show's creators,” says Lauren, adding that the series “has had four different names at different points in time” – names that “had already been announced to the public,” further solidifying the theory that there’s an air of doubt surrounding the show.

MCU fans are also skeptical about the series appearing to be “more horror-centric” than other MCU shows, but Lauren would enjoy a darker series “if Disney could pull it off.”

As for the series’ wokeness meter, rumors have suggested that “they may make Agatha herself gay or at the very least bisexual,” says Lauren, referencing a Bounding into Comics article.

“I think we should expect this show to be completely lockstep in line with the M-She-U as of late,” she predicts. “I personally cannot wait to see how much of a flop [‘Agatha All Along’] ends up being.”

For all its faults, Lauren does see a couple of bright spots for the show.

“It doesn’t look cheap,” she says.

And Aubrey Plaza stars in it, but Lauren doubts that “she's going to be enough to save this series.”

To hear more about “Agatha All Along,” watch the clip above.

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Disney’s 'Dr. Who' goes LGBTQ with cast of gender bending characters



It only took around four minutes for the first transgender character to show up in Disney’s new "Dr. Who" series — and viewers are overwhelmingly not pleased.

“Not only were we very quickly presented as viewers with a trans singer, but for some reason, the show’s writers also thought it would be appropriate and fun to portray this iteration of the Doctor as someone who, you know, likes to get down at gay dance clubs,” Lauren Chen comments.

The Doctor is also wearing a skirt in the opening scene.

“Him and the costume director have been very clear that he actually wanted to gender-bend the Doctor’s wardrobe in this series for some reason,” Chen says.

While the gayification of the series is undeniably a massive reason for the negative feedback, the show itself isn’t written well enough to make up for it.

“This shows attempt at providing fantastical yet sciency-seeming premises for these outrageous events to occur,” Chen explains is “failing awfully.”

The show predictably has a whopping 97% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes — but only a 36% audience rating.

“Because of course, it’s new, it’s gay, it’s black. That must make it wonderful,” Chen says, noting that one of the show's main villains is also a drag queen who used to be on "RuPaul’s Drag Race."

“I get that Russell T. Davies wants to be inclusive and affirming of LGBT people, but really I think it’s gotten to the point now where 'Dr. Who' just exists as a platform for him to expose the audience to diverse elements,” she adds.




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Disney headed for another train wreck: ‘X-Men’ gets woke remake with nonbinary character



On March 20, a new animated show called “X-Men ‘97” will drop on Disney+, and according to the top fan account on X, @XMenUpdate, the series “revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as the X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.”

But before you excitedly think that Disney is finally honoring an original fan base by creating a series set in the 90s, think again.

Instead of being “steeped in nostalgia,” as a 90s throwback should be, “X-Men ‘97” will feature nonbinary characters, which is interesting, granted "nonbinary" wasn’t even a concept in the 90s.

“From everything we've seen so far, it looks like ‘X-Men ‘97' is going to be exactly as woke as what we've now come to expect from Disney,” says Lauren Chen.

@XMenUpdate posted that the character Morph would be “nonbinary” and have “an interesting buddy relationship with Wolverine.”

Not only is the original character of Morph a man, but even the image of the new Morph @XMenUpdate attached to the post “very clearly shows a male,” sighs Lauren.

Per usual, "X-Men" fans are upset that Disney is once again ruining a beloved classic by pumping it full of political propaganda. In fact, people were so outspoken about their frustration with Morph’s revamp that @XMenUpdate “locked replies” on the post and then “proceeded to call everybody bigots in a follow-up post.”

“If Morph being nonbinary makes you angry, you clearly don't know what X-Men stand for,” the account posted.

In another post, it said: “The X-Men have and always will be symbols for inclusion and diversity. If you’re a bigot and have a problem with that, you’re not an X-Men fan and you don’t understand the slightest thing about them.”

“If you are a fan who doesn't like this new version of Morph, I don't think that automatically makes you a bigot for noting that. ‘Hey, you guys are departing from the source material for what seems like ideological reasons,’” corrects Lauren.

“Yes, the X-Men as a concept” was built on “the message of inclusion,” she continues, “but the idea of a nonbinary character doesn't really fit into that, if you ask me, because the point of the X-Men is treat everybody the same regardless of their differences, but when it comes to nonbinary people, it's more like they are the same as everybody else but they want to be treated differently.”

“The entire premise of a nonbinary gender identity is actually trying to make something that is really essentially the same as everyone else into a different category, which is the opposite of the X-Men's messaging.”

To learn more about the “X-Men ‘97” and the controversy surrounding it, watch the clip below.


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