Tue Jul 26, 2022 – 3:44 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – With the recently-released Thor: Love and Thunder proving to be the Disney-owned Marvel Studios’ “gayest” movie yet, its eccentric director Taika Waititi is doubling down on the film’s LGBT content in the wake of its lackluster performance.
In 2019, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that the fourth Thor installment would feature a subplot in which supporting character Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), now serving as “King” of the titular hero’s surviving Asgardian people on Earth, would set out to “find her queen.”
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Three years later, that subplot did not make it to the final product, but Love and Thunder still satisfied LGBT activists’ demands of “representation” with dialogue references to Valkyrie’s bisexuality, and more significantly via alien sidekick Korg (voiced by Waititi himself), who is revealed to have two dads (contradicting the previous film, Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok), indicated to belong to a species comprised entirely of males who naturally reproduce together, and by the end of the film has a male partner of his own.
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