With the X-Men getting rebooted in the MCU following Avengers: Secret Wars, the wokies are all coming out, throwing their names in the bag.
Following rumors that Hunter Schafer – and maybe even Elliot Page – are being eyed for an X-Men role, now the trans actor who recently appeared on Disney’s Doctor Who, Jinkx Monsoon, comes out and wants to play Mystique.
The actor appeared on Vulture’s Good One podcast and said a trans actor should play Mystique.
What did Jinkx Monsoon say about the X-Men and Mystique?
“Can I manifest something? Marvel has now regained the rights to X-Men. I think it would be a really cool to have a trans woman be Mystique,” Monsoon said. “She is my favorite Marvel character of all time, and I relate to her so much.”
“And I think a lot of trans people do, and we think about how nice it would be to just blend in and not have everyone pay attention to us if we don’t want,” Monsoon continued. “And then, we also relate to the fact that she’s not accepted in her original form, so she has to transition to even walk around.”
“I texted my agent, I was like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on there, but please start dropping my name,’” the actor added.
Wokies unite
Worth noting, Marvel Comics recently got retconned by the woke crowd, who decided Mystique and another female character are now Nightcrawler’s “mom” and “dad” (pictured above).
This is part of a larger trend where woke activists latch onto characters and IPs to claim them as their own. Take He-Man: the LGBTQ+ crowd has long embraced the character, so when Kevin Smith produced that Netflix series, the gay producer injected himself into the series — including an episode featuring He-Man’s bare butt — while redesigning some female characters to look like butched-out trans men.
With the X-Men, the woke crowd often argues the franchise is really about LGBTQ+ themes. In reality, X-Men has always been about adolescence — kids hitting their teenage years, discovering who they are, and awakening to new powers. That’s why they all get their abilities as teens. It’s something EVERYONE can identify with, not just one small group of people.
Feige and Iger butting heads over the X-Men
Rumors offer Kevin Feige and Bob Iger are butting heads over the X-Men.
It’s said Feige wants the X-Men to be about social messaging, while Iger wants the X-Men movies to be big spectacle movies like Avengers and Spider-Man.
I think it’s crystal clear how Feige’s woke agenda has worked out post-Endgame. That can’t be argued.
