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Marvel Studios boss Kevin Fiege reveals plans to get first transgender superhero
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is set to get its first transgender superhero.
In July last year, Geeks WorldWide suggested that Marvel was seeking a trans woman for a project being filmed in 2020.
“And very soon. In a movie that we’re shooting right now,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Fiege said during a Q&A at the New York Film Academy. Asked by a fan whether there were any plans for more LGBT characters in Marvel’s films, “specifically the T, trans characters,” Kevin said: “Yes, absolutely. Yes.”
This year, The Eternals will introduce Marvel movies’ first gay character. There have been reports since 2019 that Phase 4 of the MCU – the films following the Avengers Infinity saga – would star a trans character.
Marvel has also said it will introduce its first deaf superhero in The Eternals and its first Asian-American superhero, in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
“You look at the success of Captain Marvel and Black Panther. We want the movies to reflect the audience and we want every member of our global audience to see themselves reflected on the screen,” Kevin Fiege previously said.
They pointed out that the only existing trans superhero in Marvel Comics is the recently introduced Sera – from a group of all-male angels called the Ancharites – who transitioned to a female identity.
“She exists very much in Thor’s world – being kept inside a temple in the realm of Heaven before meeting Thor’s long-lost half-sister Angela, going on a bunch of adventures and eventually becoming her romantic interest.”
The next Thor film, Love and Thunder, is scheduled to come out in 2021.
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