Woke Stephen King Mocked for ‘Marvels’ Defense
Horror guru questions reasons behind MCU flop, gets schooled by X users
Stephen King is no J.K. Rowling.
Both became rich and famous via their fantasy yarns. Their stories may be wildly different, but they transfixed generations with their rich characters and unforgettable thrills.
Culturally speaking, the two couldn’t be further apart.
King genuflects to the woke crowd, apologizing for saying talent should matter more than diversity when it comes to art. Rowling refuses to back down after sharing her opinions on the trans movement.
He went woke. She stood up for free expression.
Now, King knows he must continue appeasing the far-Left mob lest it turn on him in a New York minute.
That explains why he ran to “The Marvels” defense on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The latest MCU film bombed at the box office over the weekend, earning dramatically less than its predecessor and most Marvel titles.
Its $47 million haul stateside, combined with its tepid global take, will make it the lowest-performing MCU title … ever … without a miraculous word-of-mouth comeback.
Some right-leaning news sites and film fans alike trumpeted the news, which coaxed King to fire off this message.
Some of the rejection of THE MARVELS may be adolescent fanboy hate. You know, "Yuck! GIRLS!"
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) November 13, 2023
It’s a common refrain. Whenever a mediocre (or worse) Comic-Con style project fails it’s always the fans’ fault. Remember how the Left and the media (but we repeat ourselves) reacted to the Lady Ghostbusters film?
King’s comment is merely a variation on that theme, ignoring the fact that “Barbie” remains the year’s highest-grossing film. And it had many “yucky girls” in it. So did recent hits like “Wonder Woman” and, of course, the 2019 “Captain Marvel” blockbuster.
“The Marvels” downfall is due to the MCU’s inability to build on its past success, reliance on “diversity” over grand storytelling and the loss of iconic characters like Iron Man and Captain America. Plus, the recent MCU films can’t match the glory of the first dozen or so entries.
Several X users hammered King for defending such a weak film in that manner.
Since you don't go to MCU movies and don't care for them, that means you rejected The Marvels, right?
Does that mean you hate women? pic.twitter.com/6RI3UtcodV
— ThatUmbrellaGuy (@ThatUmbrella) November 13, 2023
@SouthPark already made an episode explaining all of this. Must watch.
— Eduardo (@Eddieuel) November 13, 2023
Or the The Marvels movie just sucks because Disney focused on diversity instead of quality — just like the Biden administration
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 13, 2023
No, its the terrible writing. We all loved Marvel when it was good, no one had an issue a few years back and Marvel was one of the biggest franchises in the world. Bad writers = bad movies
— R Hutchison (@hutchison1987) November 13, 2023
Or maybe, just maybe, people are sick and tired of bad movies on a consistent basis from Marvel.
Kind of like your books.— Joshua (The Bowtie) Boston (@JoshuapBoston1) November 13, 2023
Ouch.
The MCU and by extension, Disney seem less interested in pleasing the fans and more driven by diversity quotas and gender politics in recent years. That better explains why many are piling on “The Marvels,” not any teen boy rejection.
It’s not a quality film.
Plus, exit polling showed 65 percent of the people who actually saw the film over the weekend were men.
No, Marvel Films are so far from the Comics that they might as well be another corporation altogether. The fun and thrill of all in color for a dime is lost on these ‘screenwriters’. It has nothing to do with misogyny or racism and all do do whith story and character. King knows the truth. He’s so radically different from the writer once published in Twilight Zone magazine as to be another person.
The culture war is starting to shift. People are absolutely sick of all the diversity thrust in their face at every turn. Just about all new shows have a gay person in the first few scenes. And not just gay, but in your face gay, so that there is no misunderstanding on the part of the viewer that the character is, in fact, gay. It is also common to take a shot at the “white patriarchy” right out of the gate, or to give a nod to climate change.
People are so done with all the woke nonsense.
So there’s in your face gay, and then there’s people…
No matter how hard studios try, most straight people dislike gay scenes because they prefer heterosexual couples. That’s why they are straight and not gay to begin with. Repeatedly forcing gay scenes on straight people doesn’t change this, only increases the aversion to woke films.
At this point I’m convinced that Marvel scripts, along with Stephen King novels, are written by AI.
All hail the Panderverse!
I’d bet my paycheck that you’ve never read so much as a Stephen King short story.