@alteori I think Marvel probably wants to go female focused because they are harder to cancel (looking at the Jonathan Majors situation). As a production company that creates long winded stories that span years, they would rather build their business around people that are safe to market even if it means deviating from the source, sacrificing quality and not what the fans want. They believe eventually fans will just roll with it. I believe it's more about money then an agenda.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

Mmmmmm that's a VERY interesting point. Wow. I never considered that to be honest. Holy shit.

@auracore-live

7 ай бұрын

If that the case we need to work speed the word faster then

@harlannguyen4048

7 ай бұрын

I doubt it. Marvel and Disney are losing money rapidly, mainly because of their current direction of pandering to the wrong crowd.

@JakNasty69

7 ай бұрын

Why not both? They get to push an agenda AND they get to make a shit ton of money all they have to do is alienate a PORTION of the fanbase and they still make money, and the weirdos that wanna use comic books to shovel their ideas also get what they want because let's face it with how pissed off and angry I've seen them when their opinions aren't agreed with there's a small part of me that thinks they would just do that for free the money is just a plus, and if there's anything comic book media in general has taught me that "some men (or women I guess lol jk) just want to watch the world burn"

@thelemonwho

7 ай бұрын

OMFG... you just Occam's Razored the whole thing into perfectly reasonable pieces! People keep focusing on politics like the Studio cares about anything but money.

The X-Men are already SO diverse with multiple characters from different backgrounds.... why lessen the group to only one "type" of people? It's unnecessary. The whole point of the X-Men team is to be UNITED AS ONE.... despite our differences. It's been a thing since the 80s to 90s and it sure as hell applies nowadays.

@DangericeDreams

7 ай бұрын

It’s like taking the population of Brazil and only targeting the audience of pure-blooded people and ignoring all of the mixed race people. Not only does it severely limit the amount of eyes on their movies - it also (ironically) limits the diversity they were pushing for in the first place!

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

​@@DangericeDreams Exactly!

@squ34ky

7 ай бұрын

_"UNITED AS ONE"_ ^ that's the problem they're trying to fix...

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

I'd also like to mention something a little bit more personal: my own grandmother dislikes a lot of superhero media, she's knows a lot of the classic superheroes like Superman and Spider-Man but she could care less about them..... expect for the X-Men. She loves X-Men for the reason I stated above. The fact that they're all so different from one another yet still do their best to work together as a team resonated with her, something that she always wanted the real world to do but knows it can't. The X-Men literally made someone who did not care about superheroes at all into a fan. I don't know many superhero teams that can do that and it's a shame this reboot wants to change them at all. Sure hope this won't be the case.

@VenathTehN3RD

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. It's an EXTREMELY reductive approach to the franchise. The reason why X-Men works so well as a message about bigotry is because it brings together characters of all kinds of different races, sexes, orientations, religions, and so on as a unified group under the "mutant" label, which allows the bigotry towards them to simultaneously serve as a stand-in for real-world bigotry while also providing fantastic representation for many different groups without diminishing any of them individually in order to emphasize the a specific trait. It's the same as the whole "The Force is female" gimmick. The Force is a universal property that exists in and around all living things without discrimination. Some may be more able to directly utilize it than others, but it still exists as a part of every living thing. Taking that universal feature of the story and saying "But now it's about WOMEnh" only serves to diminish its ability to impact a wider audience. It also makes it seem like the people in charge know nothing about the X-Men aside from the fact that it has "Men" in the title and are assuming that by default it must exclude women or something.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Captain America emerging from the super soldier chamber shirtless did more to put women in seats than any of the M She U pandering could ever dream of.

@devildavin

7 ай бұрын

pretty men do get women in the seats. only reason my wife wanted to see aquaman was because of Jason Momoa. it didn't get her to care about the DC in the slightest.

@sianais

7 ай бұрын

It did. It sure did 😩 💪🏻 This shorthand for that man.

@icecell

7 ай бұрын

Truee. I only got invested in MCU after seeing Thor. 😅

@sparking023

7 ай бұрын

It did, just like Chris Hemsworth's Thor and Jason Momoa's Aquaman did. Women like hot men, men like hot women. Simple as

@danielcain8136

7 ай бұрын

🤯No wonder nobody liked the marvels there were no shirtless women that's it if a female focus x men is gonna work show some top😃thanks bro.

It’s called target demographics. Who is consuming the product should maybe be kept in mind when making the product. They seem to be able to wrap their heads around this concept when making things like the Barbie movie.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

SAY IT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK !!!!!

@90snetworkproductions79

7 ай бұрын

Exactly, but in this case for example, it’s like making the Barbie movie, where Ken is the hero, and spends the movie sassing Barbie about politics and misandry. While hilarious, nobody would watch that… The same thing is the issue here. When you throw out decades of well established X-MEN comics, and replace it with all-female everything, nobody will watch it. It’s stupid, and is more evidence of SJW agenda-pushing.

@RJ420NL

7 ай бұрын

The Barbie movie opened depicting the Barbie world matriarchy as hollow, plastic and boring. Then in the middle of the movie the Barbies used deception and manipulation (toxic femininity) to try to win back power. The message in the movie was BOTH genders are capable of toxicity and we are best when we work together and support each other.

@jimmydean7219

7 ай бұрын

@90snetworkproductions79 oh my God that would make an amazing parody movie. I would watch the living crap out of that.

@VIK_1903

7 ай бұрын

Come on, you guys, you're being way too harsh! When doing something like this has ever failed?

Nothing good can come from removing most of the male characters from an established, predominantly male cast

@lordsathariel4384

7 ай бұрын

i wouldn't say that we got a demonstration of how disconnected a lot of these people are and also got some shows so bad they loop back to entertainment if only for the wrong reasons. although it does make one question do the people who want profit not understand or do they and they just can't do anything about the bad ideas.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

They might keep them but focus on the females but I'm not sure why, if this is true, they would choose to market it this way.

@Goremize

7 ай бұрын

@@Alteori Or do what we expect, the men are there but are there to be put down to make the woman look better :D Because that's what Disney thinks we want from our movies right? xD

@brandonscott5544

7 ай бұрын

HOLLYWOOD PUSHING FEMALES AND MALES CHARACTERS EQUAL SERIOUSLY EXCELLENT WORK. @AITEORI,

@renatoramos8834

7 ай бұрын

It wasn't even predominantly male.

Have you ever had an annoying little cousin who you wouldn't let play with your toys, and you admit you don't have a good reason not to let her. Eventually your mom finds out ant tells you to let her play with your toys, and then she almost immediately breaks them, and you mom does nothing about it. That's what feels like is happening to these franchises.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

Omg that happened when a little girl wanted to play with my guy friends and me and then her ass was crying every minute. So fucking annoying

Lets be honest: The problem is not marvel focusing on female x-men. It is not even political messages, because the x-men are a walking political message. It is a symptom of a culture of bad and/or uninspired writing, of bad plotting and worse character writing. Because we all know we will not see female characters, but comical stand-ins for lectures.

@Khann_2102

7 ай бұрын

Yeah the real problem is the untalented writers

@bloodlustshiva1

7 ай бұрын

I could give a damn about gender, wasn't thinking about that at all while watching Logan, was just thinking about how I loved both Logan and his daughter as CHARACTERS, not what genders they are.

@robertgray1365

7 ай бұрын

But it is the result of political messaging. If companies still hired people based on ability instead of checking diversity boxes they would have the talent to create compelling stories and interesting ideas.

@Lugent25

7 ай бұрын

This, making the argument about gender not only makes the KZreadr look Misogynist but ignorant at the same time.Smh but based on his like ratio, I think it's safe to say that the Misogynist individuals are the main ones that have a problem with most Female casted movies.😜

@muhammadfaizmohdnasiruddin2889

7 ай бұрын

Somehow I enjoyed it more when Captain Planet did it.

X Men legit has some of the most diverse people in their group and usually their plot focuses on a unity against discrimination and prejudice. Heck the most powerful mutant in the OG movies was a WOMAN - Jean Grey. They had a bunch of great characters, and has one of the best represented openly religious characters i ever saw, that being Night Crawler, a open minded loving catholic Christian. The most popular mutant in the world is a short Canadian guy and the second most popular mutant is a beautiful Kenyan woman. trying to write this story with an added diverse agenda by focusing on one demographic of characters legit counters the message of the XMEN

It’s crazy how many times oppression, discrimination and bigotry against mutants were tackled in the X-Men comics. Men, women, and children were mutants, not raging feminist, woke weirdos out to turn us all into pod people. The audience is overwhelmingly male, *it’s always been,* and focusing on only women to do everything is *NOT how the comics went.* I’m convinced they just want to piss fans off…

@alejandromolinac

7 ай бұрын

It’s even more hilarious when you see the X-Men in the late 80s…. Let by a whole bunch on diverse women…. Granted they were not written to be insufferable

@Cerebrum123

7 ай бұрын

It's a standard demoralization tactic mixed with propaganda. These movies aren't made to be good entertainment they are made to push an agenda.

@dysfunctionalthor4719

7 ай бұрын

I had a feeling Marvel would do something like this once they got their hands on mutants

@TheLimeinacoconut

7 ай бұрын

Just imagine how many of the amazing female characters we have in the comics that they are going to butcher on the big screen. I'm a woman that loves superhero comics and movies and a lot of my favourite characters happen to be the men. I don't know who they think they're catering to but it's like Alt said, the women that like these genres are already here because we like it how it is

@TF2CrunchyFrog

7 ай бұрын

What always baffles me is this bizarre US-American belief that _people can only "identify" with characters who are like them (in gender, ethnicity, subculture)_ and their obsession with "demographics", so they think all shows aimed at teenagers have to feature annoying kids, stories "aimed" at women should feature only women, stories "for men" should only feature men.... WHEN THAT IS UTTER NONSENSE! Hey, maybe us hetero women and gay men want to see some male superheroes, and not female superheroes with bouncy anime breasts wrapped in skintight spandex? Also, I much prefer the female heroines of the pre-woke era, like Ellen Ripley from _Alien,_ over constantly smirking sneering arrogant bitches (like that travesty of the WonderWoman TV pilot of a series thankfully canceled before it began).

Even as a child, I never liked “girl power” films or shows. They were boring and cringy. First, I knew I could do whatever I put my mind to. It never occurred to me that some ppl thought women were being oppressed. I knew I was free to do whatever I wanted. Second, I liked guys so I wanted to watch GUYS. They were hot and the boy shows were so much better than girl shows. These ppl treat women like they’re weak, fragile things that are too scared to follow their dreams unless they see some woman empowered on screen. THEY are the ones who look down on women and tell them they are oppressed. The rest of us view them as equals.

@Niclouyat

7 ай бұрын

Same here 💯 %

@SC-mf1gc

7 ай бұрын

They call your reaction " internalizing your misogyny"

@Niclouyat

7 ай бұрын

@@SC-mf1gc what does that mean?

@VenathTehN3RD

7 ай бұрын

Not a girl, but the cringy and formulaic way they were handled always kind of bugged me, even as a kid when I couldn't quite put my finger on WHY it bugged me. As an adult, I feel like I can pinpoint one of the main reasons why I always disliked the nigh-inevitable "girl power" episodes of cartoons and t.v. shows: Because I'm just sexist, of course. Or also possibly because I never actually thought of the women any differently than the men until the show took an episode to specifically fixate on telling me that they're just as good as the boys. Like in X-Men: Evolution. At no point prior to the episode that went out of its way to have Cyclops and Nightcrawler inexplicably act like sexist dicks (which they'd never really done prior in the series) so that Jean could talk about how she feels like she's treated as the weaker sex (which she'd never even been hinted at feeling prior in the series) and form a one-episode an all-girls vigilante team, I literally never thought of the girls as being anything more or less than equals to the guys. Because prior to the episode where they specifically created a divide between them for the sake of telling a story about the divide between them, the writing never TREATED the female characters differently than the male characters. It's one thing if the show actually has consistent themes about discrimination, violence, etc., and actually addresses things in a fluid and believable way that carries through the arcs of the characters or story in general. Avatar and Static Shock, for instance, generally did a pretty good job of addressing issues like sexism and racism in a very fluid, grounded, and relatable way. But it's a very different thing when the characters just go drastically OOC for a single, one-off episode that seems to come completely out of nowhere and never seems to have an impact on anything again. That just makes it come off as if it's a 100% corporate-mandated "Battle of the Sexes" episode. Because who cares if the writing itself already depicts the women as strong characters in a completely natural way, we need to stop and just outright TELL those silly, clueless girls in the audience that they're strong independent women if we want them to understand it, right?

@SC-mf1gc

7 ай бұрын

@@Niclouyat it is a way for feminists to underhandedly say women who dont agree with them are just too stupid to know whats good for them, and only think they are happy.

Lego did a study when they created the Lego Friends line for girls where they discovered that when a boy plays with a toy of a character, he tries to become the character, and when a girl does the same thing, she tries to make the character become her. So if you give a boy a Batman toy, he's gonna want to know everything there is to know about Batman, and he'll try to think and talk like Batman when he plays with the toy. The little girl on the other hand is going to make Batman go shopping, bake cookies, and go to the prom. That's not to say there aren't exceptions on both sides but that's the data that allowed Lego to finally get a foothold on the girls' market after decades of failed attempts. If you look at how women approach things like Star Wars or remakes of animated movie, is it any wonder that so many of them want to reinvent the IP, either by feminizing it or changing the main character to look like them?

@sianais

7 ай бұрын

Plus, women with toxic traits push these innate tendencies to the extreme.

@pristineparadox

7 ай бұрын

Where did u hears this and where can I read or see this?! Very curious

@GiRR007

7 ай бұрын

@@pristineparadox there's the "how to play like a girl" story by the Atlantic that talks about the study. And there's another one that references the same study called "How Lego click: the super brand that reinvented itself" by the guardian.

@sakurahirawa

7 ай бұрын

That’s pretty neat. I wonder what would cause that behavior and its exceptions? Or why? 🤔

@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051

7 ай бұрын

@@sakurahirawa The enigmatic and non-existent patriarchy perhaps?

My 13 and 11 year old sons have completely checked out if Marvel and Star Wars. "Why do I want to watch stuff that is made for girls and makes the boys and men look weak and stupid." Even the kids have picked up on the anti-masculinity and social justice cynicism. Thankfully I introduced them to Godzilla in 2014, so that is their favorite franchise.

@cy-one

7 ай бұрын

Monsterverse Godzilla or Japanese Godzilla?

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

Oh wow. If the kids are checking out of it then that's even messed up. We as the audience are telling the sellers that we don't want to buy what they're selling. I don't know if they're just not hearing us or they don't care. If they don't care then what is the point? At this point, why not just make original stories and completely new franchises?

@nb3016

7 ай бұрын

Toho Godzilla primarily, but they enjoy the Monsterverse for all of its silliness. @@cy-one

@grahamstrouse1165

7 ай бұрын

@@cy-onePresumably Monsterverse if he’s talking 2014. (They’re both good, btw. Toho’s always been chill about licensing Godzilla to American studios. 🙂)

Whoever wrote that article about female representation in superhero teams should visit a military cemetery and count the number of men vs women.

@incomingincoming1133

7 ай бұрын

Don't need to go that far. Tell them to go outside in a city/town and ask how many of the things they see were built by women. They don't need to go outside. Ask them to spin around in whatever room they are presently in, and estimate what percentage of the things that surround her were made by women vs men.

@Iron-Bridge

7 ай бұрын

Article writer would change his mind if he was on the Titanic. Maybe in the 20 minutes it would take to wait for the ship to completely go under and him to freeze his nads off.

@openyoureyes909jones6

7 ай бұрын

@@incomingincoming1133 I have literally had this conversation with some stubborn female friends. They dont like it when I tell them men build civilizations, women move in and decorate. Show me the female construction crew. Show me the female road crew. Show me the female roofers, bricklayers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, heating / air, even landscaping. Women literally expect men to build a building, start a company, attain success, and then move women into all the important positions because they show up. OP- good mention on the cemetery. I was in the Army with some females, most were useless sick call babies. A few could carry their weight tho, they got it and stepped up. Only a few tho.

@nkemnoraulmanfredini7286

5 ай бұрын

You are saying a bunch of dumb shit fr fr@@openyoureyes909jones6

Well I'm just so amazed how they think that they can sell a male product to women by just making it more female focused without really making it truly appealing to women. I just looked up the gender distribution of Genshin impact players and saw that 45% of the players are female.

@javelinmaster2

7 ай бұрын

@Ni-dk7ni are

My problem is that Hollywood thinking having the main hero be a bad ass woman is new when it isn't it's been around for god knows how many decades the fact that they think it's new and never been done before shows that they don't know how story telling works and they think it makes them less sexist while it actually feels like they think that the audience are idiots that have never seen a female action movie before. I love characters like Lara Croft but that's not because she's a woman that so happens to do bad ass things but because she's a bad ass in general the fact that Hollywood finds that hard to understand is honestly sad.

Why can't these studios focus on both, why does it have to be one or the other?

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

Because they don't believe accomplishing multiple things at once is a thing and will actively avoid doing so.

Disney/Marvel WILL go through with this despite any sort of fan backlash. Yes, it is completely stupid. No, it is not needed, wanted, necessary. Nobody is threatened by these so-called "strong female characters." In fact, people are put off by the MODERN "strong female character" because they are NOT strong female characters. They are personifications of cold, shallow, heartless, narcissistic, "girl bosses" that can do no wrong. I miss the days of characters like Ripley (Alien), Sarah Conner (Terminator pre Dark Fate), Lewis (Robocop), even Buffy (you know the thing). Girl bossing these franchises only ruins them. You wanna throw a strong woman into a lead role, go ahead, just give her a good story arc, facing trials and turmoil the way that ANY good character should.

@cy-one

7 ай бұрын

*"Disney/Marvel WILL go through with this despite any sort of fan backlash."* Then they will continue to loose money.

@grahamstrouse1165

7 ай бұрын

@@cy-oneI agree, except it’s spelled “LOSE.”

@openyoureyes909jones6

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this....while we are at it, can we seriously scale back on the movies where some girly girl just plows through 3 or 4 guys? That horse has been rode to death, let it die. I was, however, thinking about a series I watched that had several outstanding female roles. Stranger Things.

I was watching a review on the Marvels recently, and it struck me just how misogynist this so called "female empowerment", push in Hollywood actually is. We see self-obsessed actresses talking only about how important they themselves are, and how everyone of the same ethnicity should look up to them for "representation", we see writers who create sociopathic, power hungry female characters, whose worst actions are excused as heroic, while all male characters are tacitly or overtly castigated, or missed out entirely. We see directors attack anyone who doesn't instantly admire what they do with vile insults. Rather than show women at their most relatable and heroic, we constantly see the most toxic form of femininity in the guise of "empowerment", narcissism, gas lighting, playing the victim, closedmindedness and lack of acountability. Hollywood couldn't have done a better job at showing women in a bad light if they'd tried. Heck, pick any movie with a traditional damsel such as original snow white, and you'll see a far more sympathetic and virtuous portrayal of a woman than what's going on now. Announcing a push for a "female lead x men", just seems more of the same, not representing actually heroic and selfless female characters like Rogue, Storm and Jubilee, just creating more selfish boarder line villains who mistreat and belittle the men around them. I have never read them, but I gather that in the comics the real She hulk was an actual heroic character motivated by selflessness and the desire to do the right thing! The sad thing is, X men, with their message of unity and their fight to preserve peace between humans and mutants could've made for a film with an actually good "message", if they'd gone down the route of the 90s cartoon, but of course, like almost everything in Hollywood, it's got to be "female lead", which unfortunately these days, seems to be a synonym for more of the same. Whatever happened to good, as in not only well-written, but morally good, likable and actually relatable and selfless, female characters?

@sharzinlalebazri5673

7 ай бұрын

Was it by any chance The Little Platoon's video on the movie?

@darktenor4967

7 ай бұрын

@@sharzinlalebazri5673 Yes, indeed it was!

@sharzinlalebazri5673

7 ай бұрын

@@darktenor4967 Love the guy.

@incomingincoming1133

7 ай бұрын

I've been watching film recaps a lot lately. I've realized that male leads are not allowed anymore.

@andrewdowns3673

7 ай бұрын

Everything changed when Kathleen Kennedy, Laura Dern, Jada Pinkett Smith, and other such misandrists attacked and took over Hollywood. Now we no longer can simply enjoy things as they once were - Disney animated films are no longer like the Renaissance, Marvel is no longer like Phase 1-3, white characters (especially males) are being race and gender swapped, and history is being rewritten in a misandrist/ anti-white view point (ex The Woman King and Cleopatra) - now we get only table scraps of what once was and are demeaned for any dislike we may have towards the crap they try to force us to watch.

Doing the same thing & expecting different results is the literal definition of Insanity.

@Kowalski_5

7 ай бұрын

And yet its a action that is forever trending.

@IN-tm8mw

7 ай бұрын

But the results they're getting IS what they want. A studio is like a factory, someone paid them to make a product and they have to make it and the ones that paid them are expecting it to fail. when it fails, the rich can still write it off and send a message.

@zen7RZ

7 ай бұрын

@@IN-tm8mw And all that at the cost of an industry. Victoria's Secret learnt their lesson. Hopefully these studios will. Before they destroy themselves beyond repair.

@IN-tm8mw

7 ай бұрын

@@zen7RZ It reminds me of the Video game crash of 1983. Caused by the same type of people and nearly killed the industry then. They'll just move on to the next high profile investment while leaving us in ruins.

@zen7RZ

7 ай бұрын

@@IN-tm8mw Exactly

"Count me out. You've already lost me." Same.

Oh my God, I found your video randomly on my for you page, and in the first couple of minutes you have thoroughly explained my frustration with Marvel and how they constantly feminize or make male focused IPS geared toward women. While also explaining how the women who do like these male focused IPS like them for how they are. Instant sub from me.

I immediately rolled my eyes upon reading those news. I bet the majority of readers did the same or sighed out of uncare.

If I were to promote diversity in my work, it would be with the message that “Anyone can be a hero. Anyone can do good and help others.” Not “This group of people is the best by virtue of their gender or skin color or any other surface level trait” or “This group of people is intrinsically evil or inferior because of their surface level trait and needs to be taken down a peg or several” We won’t make the world a better place by tearing each other down, we make it better by helping each other, by protecting the ones we love. That’s the message I want to convey.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

Exactly, which honestly, kind of is the underlying message of X-Men isn't it? X-Men was already successful at conveying that message and I never once focused on them being men or women.

To sum things up Guys like characters like Black Widow because shes badass and hot Girls like characters like Thor or Steve Rogers because they're badass and hot Some probably find both attractive and thats fine too Why change it?

@charg1nmalaz0r51

7 ай бұрын

I disagree, i think its the trend guys like guy characters when they are badass and the women characters for being hot. I dont think women really give a shit about women characters being badass and like watching hot guys.

@maximumdeejay

7 ай бұрын

I prefer Mystique (Rebecca), but this is still fact.

@blacklivesorblackvotes2985

6 ай бұрын

@@charg1nmalaz0r51 nothing you said refutes anything he said. If anything, all you did was make his point stronger. What was the point of disagreeing?

@This-is-a-commentt

6 ай бұрын

People also like them because, y’know, they’re 3 dimensional characters with development and personality that can be appealing to people?

No it's not, ask Amazon on how they turned a female focused story of The Wheel of Time and made it MORE female focused! (Sarcasm I know you talked extensively about that show.)

@darthmalgus232

7 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t say it was female focused. It had a lot of females in positions of power compared to the men in that world, and had many female viewpoints throughout all the books, but I still wouldn’t call it female focused. The five main characters are Rand, Mat, Perrin, Nynaeve, and Egwene, with the first three being male, but if you were to choose the main character out of those five, it would be Rand. He’s the most important character by right of who and what he is (not trying to spoil too much), and is the main focal point (the main one, not the only one) of the The Wheel of Time. Just about everything leads back to Rand one way or another. However, just because Rand is the most important out of the five, that doesn’t mean that the others aren’t important at all. They’re more important than everyone else, just not Rand, at least in the grand scheme of things.

@thatsnotoneofmeatsmanyuses1970

7 ай бұрын

@@darthmalgus232 I would say it was female focused. He started doing more POV with the women characters around book 4 (which not surprisingly was when the books got even longer), and most of their storyline seemed like just filler to me ( it felt like 3 women in a village scrubbing pots for hundreds of pages). There was a lot of such filler between books 4 and 11 (where I tapped out, but it probably continued). It's a shame, because books 1-3 were some of the best fantasy I've ever read.

I can't believe people actually have to explain these concepts. It should be common sense.

@trevorthornley8835

7 ай бұрын

You know what I can't believe? That they're still people who have the gall to say 'there's no agenda' when there's reports like this.

@dream6562

7 ай бұрын

I mean they are attempting to rewrite history into saying females were better hunters

@blacklivesorblackvotes2985

6 ай бұрын

Common sense was never common tbh.

XD they basically said "we want a superhero movie that we will enjoy but we hate everything that make a superhero movie, a superhero movie"

I miss 2000s marvel cartoon movies

@repstylegaming9730

7 ай бұрын

Yeah those were fire fr.

@kaykutcher2103

7 ай бұрын

At this rate Roger Corman's two bit Marvel movies are almost appealing to me.

Wasn’t Phoenix literally the main character of 2 movies, and other females have been just as important as the men in X-Men? L-Like…huh?

guys guys i know the last few movies haven't worked out but hear me out we'll try it again this time they'll love it

As a former tomboy from Poland, I completely agree with you. I grew up watching American action movies/series where the main characters were men and I accepted what I got. I understood that this was not cinema for me, that as a woman I should be more fascinated by romances... but I have never been a "normal" woman. I always wanted to have a strong character, I wanted to be able to defend myself, stand up for myself, and it was ONLY thanks to male role models that I could develop this state of mind in myself. Now I'm married, I can count on my man who will help me in any situation. However, when I was younger, I was in a different situation. Young women should follow the example of men, not pretend to be them (we will never be as strong as them, but we can at least try). Positive male role models are needed and worth taking lessons from for your own safety. Women are naive by nature, we are easy to manipulate... men clearly show us how to resist this.

@christiananderson2633

7 ай бұрын

big yikes. are there no female role models in which women can look up to? is physical strength the only thing that differs the sexes? idk living in a binary world is so limiting.

@axiss5840

7 ай бұрын

​@@christiananderson2633'big yikes' what are you, a 5-year-old? Also where did she say there are no female role models?

Just imagine a Barbie sequel, but no Barbie at all. Just Kens. Kens everywhere. And the movie is like The Expandable.

What's also annoying is the "bait and switch" method of pulling audiences in for a movie or TV show centered on an already established male hero and then constantly degrading him to build up a female replacement character when the audience didn't know the main guy was even going to be replaced. A replacement that displays absolutely none of the qualities of a hero, basically she's a snide and condescending bully-ish person who had everything given to her. Because that's who the writers are in real life, they've moved their "Mean Girls" schtick from the school cafeteria to Twitter - and now everything has to be about self-inserts. "Because I want to see myself reflected onscreen". Maybe entertainment needs psychological testing before allowing people into it to screen out narcissists, predators, and sociopaths. Take a TV show whose audience is predominantly women, and then for the next season change it to something more male-focused. Take whatever "Real Housewives" show is popular and then change it over to a dirt bike racing reality show, and when viewers complain say "this wasn't made for you" and other insults on Twitter/X. Demean the entire female population of the world, and then have the gall to later complain about losing ratings and saying "women aren't supporting us". See how well that works out.

@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051

7 ай бұрын

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@axiss5840

7 ай бұрын

I genuinely want to see this play out, but I know for a FACT it never will.

@Alteori >>> *_"We're going together. I'm taking the 12 gauge, you take the .45, and we go together."_* _Dear Lady,_ you are a _keeper._ 😉

but the logan drag thumbnail is pretty cool! Let me state 2 shoking facts about the x-men: 1. x-men were always diverse in any shape or form 2. there are slightly more females presented in the x-men univer cuz (spoiler!) everyones likea cool guys but more so cool women! I wonder way this seems to be a problem nowadays T_T

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

Oh yeah Logan looks totally badass in the thumbnail ain't gonna lie 😄

@brandonscott5544

7 ай бұрын

AWESOME! BOTH EQUALITY MAN AND WOMAN SERIOUSLY EQUALITY!

@01Seraph

7 ай бұрын

@@brandonscott5544 wonder why hater always write in capslock xD seems like thats the reason we never got the " voice massage" option since it would only be screaming :P

"Female focused X-Men without the major male characters"... anyone else here remember New Mutants? How did that work out?

All the studios need to do is look at the current state of American comics....since they are following the same path. Curent state of comics is well they are close to bankruptcy while Japanese Manga is kicking their buts ten ways Sunday. You have a great channel and I hope you have a great Christmas.

@javelinmaster2

7 ай бұрын

Yh and Manga has more variety than the mainstream comics...

Why? Why female focused? X-men out of all the things? X-men has a big freaking cast of both males and females! There is Rogue, Storm, Jean, Mistique, Psylocke, Kitty Pride, plenty of women! And plenty of guys too! And ironically, removing guys they will lose most of the small female audience they'd want to aim at. Women like eye candy too and competent men, not a fumbling fools so female characters can look better in comparison.

To be fair and keeping a level head the female X-Men characters are some of the better marvel superheroines that exist i mean storm, jean grey, rogue, psylocke, kitty pryde, armor, dust, emma frost, marrow even jubilee

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

I 100% agree with that but another problem that could arise is even if they do go down this route and ONLY focus on the female X-Men... they're not going to be as fantastic as they would be. Instead of giving us badass, strong, attractive women who still have souls and weaknesses to balance them out just like everyone else and being amazing characters... we'll pretty much get the exact opposite.

The only message they understand is personal bankruptcy

@kaykutcher2103

7 ай бұрын

By now I firmly believe they think bankruptcy is a good thing.

1:55 I am a girly-girl and I can enjoy it either when men get their save space in the film industry, lol. And I actually enjoy X-Men very much as it is...actually, I already think that there is a very strong female representation. More representation is really not ncessary and would be very strange!

There is a superhero subgenre that is already geared towards women, if studios really wanted to push that. It's called "magical girls", and it's also not hard to bring men into these sorts of shows, with a little retooling. Madoka Magica being a great example of bringing in male viewers to a traditionally female genre, although that was more about specifically targeting men. My Little Pony was designed for little girls but it attracted an unexpected big audience of men, and it didn't require gender swapping all the girl ponies. Expanding your audience can be done, and it doesn't have to destroy the core of the series.

the irony is that the x-men are already by far the most female centric team with iconic heroines: storm, rogue, jean, jubilee, psylocke, dazzler, x21. and even the villains have emma frost and cassandra nova as two of the most powerful mutants overall + jean turning into the phoenix

@grahamstrouse1165

7 ай бұрын

Rogue was probably my fave X-Man was teenager in the ‘80s. The female characters were definitely drawn in a way that would appeal to teenage boys but they also had very relatable backstories. You could vibe with what they were going through. Rogue’s mutant power, her ability to absorb powers (and psyches) from anyone she touched was really strong, and also really tragic, they eventually had her yeat Carol Danvers’ powers 1) to provide a means to get her to shift her allegiance from Magneto to Charles & 2) to make her more useful role the team on a day-to-day basis. Most of the time her mutant gift was more of a curse. It’s something that anyone whose ever struggled with extreme loneliness & a a fear of intimacy can relate to, I think. (BTW: The best part of the first X-man movie, IMO, was the father-daughter dynamic between Logan & Rogue. It’s not too late, Feige! Anna Paquin is still in her early 40s. You can still have her steal Carol’s powers! Might want to just leave it at the. Flight, strength & durability, though. Let her keep the laser blasts. I could tolerate Carol as a squishy energy projector.)

That thumbnail, got me acting up

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

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If they are looking for the films to fail, then they are definitely making the right decision.

Idk, the "there should be more women in the team" really depends on the story? Like, if women wanted to be a part of the conflict? I kinda get about the representation thing, but for me... A movie with a story has "a story" and everything depends on the "Story" idk why people say like, "Noo, you represented us in the wrong way" But aren't all people different? not because a character in the movie has the same gender, race or what as yours, that doesn't represent you? That's just the story and their character? Idk, just my thoughts.

I’m kinda surprised since they shoved a male X-Men (Beast) cameo in MCU. Another bait and switch once again

@atibamorales9380

7 ай бұрын

Probably because, and I hope that this women focused thing is just a rumor. It the same can be said about Professor X's cameo. I doubt they'd make the X-Men a female focused team, as they just did the Marvels and that didn't do too well.

@kaykutcher2103

7 ай бұрын

Because everyone know blue werewolf man. Blue werewolf man equalls people clap and point and give money.

@blacklivesorblackvotes2985

6 ай бұрын

They tried to cash in on that Avatar money with another blue person. 😂😂😂 RACICICIST!!!

Considering the current M-She-U woman boss empowerment We don't need no man phase, the X-men, an already super diverse universe only focusing on the woman is a weird choice but an expected one.

@johnsantos507

7 ай бұрын

Then that person is a damn fool. MCU is for both men and women. That M-She-U boss woman is 100% destroying the MCU! And Kevin Feige doesn't have the stomach to fired her!

The reason these studios feel that they need to be doing this I suspect is because at some point in time a set of people calling themselves feminists who are no such thing and are actually people who have a grudge or deep-rooted animosity towards the male gender as a whole got into these companies and started to preach the gospel of their twisted version of what feminism is. That's why the movies have gotten more and more terrible it's not because it's female focus at all The aim is actually to destroy the franchises because it upsets men.

@sianais

7 ай бұрын

It's not just to upset men, it's to take away everything they think men have over them because they're the ones with internalized misogyny. They devalue everything female and then they target males. They destroyed rom-coms. Those were a thing when I grew up. But toxic witch after toxic witch tore into everything from Barbies to Disney Princess movies. But romcoms, films that use to stand up there with action films of yesteryear, are forgettable cinema nobody expects to be remembered now. 50 Shades and Twilight were the most notable romance films of the 21st century. Because they ignored the feminist propaganda and did the same tropes women liked without shame. It wasn't good storytelling but it wasn't ashamed to give the dramatic bs women like. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, bs happens, they have babies, happily ever after. But they already taught the girls and women who liked them to be ashamed again, so there's nothing left on the female end to destroy. Something might break through, but the genre is dead. So now the target is everything male. Good luck. I'd say y'all had comics to seek haven in like romance readers do with novels, but those rancid women and weak-willed men already destroyed that too. And video games. They can't touch sports though.

@sjent

7 ай бұрын

_people calling themselves feminists who are no such thing and are actually people who have a grudge or deep-rooted animosity towards the male gender as a whole_ That is a feminist. Feminism was never about equality. Anyone familiar with history of this cancerous cult will tell you that. It was always about bashing men and endless entitlement and privileges for women, with no responsibilities attached. It is not something new, from suffragettes to 4th wave, it is all the same shit, only goalposts are moving. There are some feminists that genuinely believe all those things, but they are a tiny minority and do not represent movement as a whole.

@openyoureyes909jones6

7 ай бұрын

That theory makes more sense than anything I could come up with tbh. I just figured the studio execs figured they could pick up female viewers by catering to them while simultaneously shitting all over the males who have supported them for decades. You know, just good ol fashioned greedy pricks. I could be wrong tho.

“you never learn!” Erik Lensherr

"We don't need you to market it for us!" Yes, yes, yes! They really don't see the problem here. Plenty of ladies like to go see a good action movie. And they go see an action movie BECAUSE it's an action movie and that's what they want to see. Mucking around with the formula doesn't just alienate the male audience but the female audience there were already inclined to see that kind of movie without the payoff of bringing in a broader female audience because they... just... don't want to see that kind of movie. "Women aren't being included" not because they are somehow being locked out of the genre but because it's not their interest. If a woman wants to see a movie that interests her, she can go see it. Thinking that women will want to see a movie entirely because there are prominent characters with whom they share genitalia is ridiculous. I'm pretty sure the old MCU had plenty of ladies in the audience without feeling the need to pander. Just make a good movie and the audience will sort itself out.

This is about popularity. Not diversity. As mentioned they're designed to be a diverse team. Magneto is Jewish, Xavier is handicapped, Storm is African. Jean is the most powerful,but Wolverine is the most popular. Teamwork means everyone takes part. People can resent that the mostly male audience prefers the male characters, but that's how the marketplace works.

@openyoureyes909jones6

7 ай бұрын

Not to mention Wolverine's sordid past. He is.. Canadian

God bless you and your work Alteori. I like the cute fox-cat. Miauuu 💜💜💜

I'm particularly blown away by Marvel's attempts to make Carol Danvers a thing when they've never really tried to giver her a personality. The only characterization they give her is that "she strong", "most powerful", and yet no one likes her because no one gives a shit about how powerful she is when she's boring and has zero personality. Even better they don't even realize they were far more successful with that kind of a character with Rogue from the X-Men. I consider Rogue to be one of the most powerful X-Men. When I see her in a story I fully expect her to kick ass. I LOVE seeing Rogue in action. I LOVE her personality. I love how goddamn beautiful she is. And I love her relationship with Gambit. Ironically you can solve the Captain Marvel issue with Brie no longer interested in the role nor can she carry it anyway by introducing Rogue and have her drain Carol of her powers putting her into a coma and taking her place as one of the post powerful X-Men as long as you do it like they did in the comics which these days is asking for too much to have source material accuracy.🤷

It's like Marvel and Disney saw the South Park Panderverse special and they keep saying "Eff South Park and what the fans want! Put more chicks and diverse women in it and make it lame as eff". It's like screaming at a brick wall at this point.

This clearly shows that most females don’t read comics because Phoenix and Wanda is the strongest X-men character (female empowerment) plus Rogue with broken powers and they want more? 😂

You are taking them on good faith altiori. They aren't making these on good faith, they hate the franchise and the characters and want to write themselves

I told folks that they would kill off Wolverine in Deadpool 3 and replace him with X23 for the mainline movies and was called crazy. Now look.

Love the use of scientific studies! Yes this is what we need more of! I agree with you on all counts with this movie. As a woman, a “focused on the women” X-Men makes my interest fade immediately. I would add there is one very visceral violent urge women do have evolutionarily, and that is the “mother bear” insanity. Having 4 kids, I have experienced this - your kid is threatened and every cell in your body goes into “I will rip this threat into shreds and destroy it down to its atoms”, and you lose all regard for personal safety or whether or not you’re strong enough. This is a SUPER rare phenomenon (I’ve only had it happen a few times and my kids are grown) and somehow your biology just knows when it is necessary. If they focused on the strengths of women in the ways we are biologically strong (instead of the ways men are biologically strong, just in women), I think it would really resonate with audiences. One reason Sarah Connor was so iconic is she was the ultimate mother bear. That’s real stuff.

"I take the 12 and you take the 45 and we go together" I laugh at that

I would laugh bro, imagine an X-Men movie without, Professor X, magneto, heck Mother Freaking Wolverine, i'de love to see how Kevin thinks this'll be good but it's sure as heck gonna be "unique" al right.

@penelopesparrow

7 ай бұрын

Oh they'll be there, but they'll all be broken down deadbeats who can't do anything right 🙄👍

"Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're stupid . . ." Why'd you say that while I was drinking 😂

The 90's cartoon story opened up focused on Jubilee, a teenage girl. The first movie's plot opened up and focused on Rogue, another girl. Then, the sequels focused on Storm and Jean Grey a lot. And the new series of movies were very Mystique based, before swerving into Jean Grey again... so I'm confused by anyone saying it wasn't woman centric. The guys have routinely been there just for thin side plots filled with action scenes and shiny muscles to attract more women into seats.

Hey umm Alteori can’t you make video about Acrocanthosaurus x Charcaradontosaurus?

If women don't take risks because of pain why do they play the victim and enjoy it so much?

Your accents always get me 😂😂😂. It really cheered me up this morning

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad I could cheer you up and hope you have great day! 😃

On the bad side, Disney won't be getting my money. On the good side, I'm too apathetic towards their movie to pirate it.

If Marvel ruins the X-Men they are finished.

I wouldn't be surprised if the people making it hate the xmen

For whatever it might be worth, I am grateful that you did so much leg work in researching your arguments. I have had to sit through college lectures that had less thought put into their poorly worded speeches.

I guess that old saying is true, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." They didn't learn from Star Wars crashing and burning and they're not going to learn from this.

I feel like Kevin Fiege is this unstoppable force where shareholders are trying to halt Mister Fiege, but the man is fuel powered with ESG.

Hello I accidentally tapped on this when I was trying to type. First

Everything you said is true, I think there is also another reason why they “keep” presenting a particular point of view. They think that this is important. They think that it’s important and their friends and colleagues think that. So when they are looking to produce a new movie/tv show, they are wanting it to be successful…they also want to include this very important point of view. They know there are people out there who will not agree, but they think those people are wrong (or in the best case, ignorant) and need to be shown they are wrong. If It doesn’t do well, then it’s not that their product was bad…it’s that it was made to fail by that wrong group of people….and they double down. There are a few who are doing this as a grift but I don’t think that’s most of them.

@axiss5840

7 ай бұрын

What's disturbing is this has been going on for almost 10 years now. It starts to feel less like trying to help something and more like trying to spite everyone else.

@jonathanbowling3129

7 ай бұрын

@@axiss5840 There might also be hubris involved (I’m sure there is some). Where they don’t want to admit (or can’t) that the reasons for their behavior is….now questionable.

I just want to say, I love you for stating this, I wish more women had the same mindset as you. Your husband is one lucky man. Merry Christmas and Happy new years! 😊

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

I appreciate that. Merry Christmas!

It feels more and more like the deliberate sabotage of any IP considered not progressive enough. Disney hasn't made a profit since 2019, She-Hulk and Velma both openly mocked their fan base, The Marvels pushed 3 heroes nobody cared about in what was meant to be the new flagship of the MCU, and Star Wars and Witcher got so lost up their own backsides they are barely recognizable from their original series.

Interesting to see battle bit gameplay

My God the only sliver of hope I had for the MCU was the introduction of the Fantastic 4 and the X-Men but first I hear they’re making Silver Surfer a freaking woman and making Sue Storm the main character or main focus and now this?? Who…and I mean who are these people making these dumb decisions? Do they not like money?? In a decade someone needs to study this and make it into a book titled “How to tank your business for dummies”. On God I’ll just keep skipping this garbage until they realize we just want justice to be done to our beloved characters and their stories. Ffs 🤦🏾‍♂️

"I take the 12 gauge you take the .45 let's go together" sounds like a great movie plot.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

Mr. And Mrs Smith

Great video. But their reason is political. Its why they continue despite the declining sales (look into Marvel and DC superhero comic book sales). They are convinced they are morally right, so sales, and what "you want" , don't matter to them.

why is this a thing nowadays? Cartoon about He-Man, kills He-Man. Cartoon about Scott Pilgrim, Scott dies on first ep.

Love your insight and work.

This is a loving perspective. I feel like that because a lot of decisions are made by fear and money, and it seems like you just want the spotlight back on art, plots, stories, characters, etc

1st, honestly this is true..

The AI images in your thumbnails have been kinda bomb lately

We live in a world where something can be posted online that's the most obvious rage bait and people still run with it like fact 🙈 What a time to be alive

@openyoureyes909jones6

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, Ive taken that bait a time or two. Timestamped their video, my rebuttals, then sat back. It wasnt until later i got to thinkin maybe I did the work for them. They got a view and comments, mofos

They don't want Marvel superheroes, they want Disney princesses... because that's all Disney knows...

The reason they keep doing this is not about appealing to women, it's about pushing the DEI agenda plain and simple. They are willing to take a hit financially as long as it furthers their political and social goals. Twenty years from now, the kids that grew up on this schlock will just accept it as normal and even be nostalgic for it. That's why they keep putting this crap in their movies despite there clearly being NO appetite for it whatsoever. They are playing the long game.

The xwomen line was so cringe.

I honestly don't know why these takes are considered even controversial they are LITERAL FACTS!!!

Studios have completely forgotten that audiences - men and women - like their eye candy. I'm a woman. When the X-Men movies first came out, part of the reason I wanted to see them was because I love action movies, and the other - and I will admit larger - part was Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.

Watch it be called "X-People"

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

Lol! Honestly, I can totally see them doing that.

@Saurondür

7 ай бұрын

​​@@treyrex5987yep... and i will have lost all hope (i love the xmen)

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

@@Saurondür Same, brother. Favorite superhero team. Which is why I'm extra hurt by this news.

@Saurondür

7 ай бұрын

​​​@@treyrex5987yeah and the X-Men have amazing female characters, Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey, and i love those characters but i wouldnt want a whole movie where they are the focus and the characters i much more relate to be just pushed off to useless side character, I want them to be main characters in a massive xmen team up movie, I want my boy Charles Xavier, hell an X-men movie where the Villain is the main focus would be so interesting as i loved the Magneto Side of First Class. I would love for the X-men movie to have the same feel as the 2000s films and have the same neutral gender and race outlook like those films

@treyrex5987

7 ай бұрын

@@Saurondür Couldn't agree more! Just improve the writing and it will be a hit. Don't have any faith for these modern writers though.

These people will not be happy until they have ruined everything in this world that we hold near and dear even something as trivial as movie characters

Dang I have not seen you pop up in my feed since the monster hunter movie came out and I am a subscriber.

@Alteori

7 ай бұрын

That happens to people I'm subscribed to as well. It's pretty weird, but I think the algorithm just shows you more videos that are along the lines of what you're already watching.

It's incredible how much the people making decisions are blinded to the simple notion of "People will enjoy different things." and that's okay to stay in their consumer's lane, but nooooooooooooooooooo... If something is mostly enjoyed by guys they need to "equal the play field". And there's intersections of both genders in tastes and something that would bridge this gap a little more would be good writing, but them again Modern Marvel and Good Writing can on be used in the same phrase if a "don't have" is between them.

The X-Men were a metaphor for racial injustice. That's like taking Spider-man's story and having him be a hero for hire where if you don't contact his business info, you're shit out of luck. It takes the premise and flips it upside down. The reason Iron Man 2008 was so popular was because the director knew the comic. MCU is so mainstream that it seems people only recognize popular characters and go any route

Can’t wait for your ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ trailer analysis soon. 🙂

Excellent video! Bravo!

In hind sight I find it shocking how this AH once decided to DECLARE there are not enough women in super heroes and everyone went with the statement. Yeah, yeah true this is such problem. And no ever bothered to check the fact that they have always been there. In the case of the Xmen, arguably the most powerful of them are all women. Jean, Storm, Scarlet Witch, Emma Frost... All Omega level. All very well liked characters. How did everyone got gaslit into believing this lie. And how was it a problem to begin with?

Storm lead the X-men in the comics so they could have Storm be the lead protagonist but the movies still need the male characters to supplement the story.