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While LGBTQ inclusion is becoming more common in movies in general, and while Disney has added inclusive characters to movies like Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker recently, when we are talking about LGBT+ characters in movies the T is often overlooked, which is why a fan asked Kevin Feige specifically about transgender characters in future Marvel movies.
Speaking at a NYFA panel, Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige recently was asked about whether Marvel had plans to focus on LGBT+ stories in the future. He was specifically asked about the “T” in LGBT+ and whether that would be represented, to which Feige answered:
So, what’s shooting right now? Black Widow wrapped production a few months ago. Eternals is still very much in motion and is likely what Kevin Feige is referring to in his comments at the NYFA event; however, it’s worth noting the next movie after those two, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is also expected to film soon.
Right now a transgender superhero does exist in the Thor comics through a character named Sera. In the comics, that character pals around with Thor’s long-lost sister Angela. Angela and Sera end up taking on a monster who attacks the Temple of the Anchorites, and they bond over the event, eventually living together.
It’s unclear if that character will be a part of Thor: Love and Thunder, but that movie will be out in 2021 and could be a possibility for a transgender character as well. Director Taika Waititi recently introduced several LGBTQ characters in his 2019 movie Jojo Rabbit.
The news comes after Marvel already included an LGBTQ moment in Avengers: Endgame, when Joe Russo played a character who was impacted by Thanos’ snap, later known as “The Blip.” He lost his partner and is shown in a meeting with Captain America trying to work through his feelings over what happened.
Marvel has been looking to tell diverse storytelling a lot more of late, including through introducing its first headlining movie heroine Captain Marvel and the 2018 release of Black Panther. (Although probably a story about a talking tree and a trash panda before that was diverse in a more alien way.)
The addition of a “T” character, as the question asker put it, will be the latest in this shift for the superhero studio, which kicked off with a lot of very strong white dudes (and Iron Man) at its start.