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Marvel Courts Controversy Again By Casting Woman In Typically Male ‘Fantastic Four’ Role
Daily Wire ^ | Apr 4, 2024 | Katie Jerkovich

Posted on 04/05/2024 6:36:46 AM PDT by Red Badger

Marvel and Disney are once again courting controversy by casting a female actress to take on the typically male “Fantastic Four” role of the Silver Surfer in the upcoming reboot.

Actress Julia Garner has been picked to play a female version of the iconic comic book character and Herald of Galactus, Deadline magazine reported. Sources told the outlet that the Emmy-winning “Ozark” star will play the Shalla-Bal version of the Silver Surfer from the comics.

Bounding Into Comics reported that Marvel Studios dived deep into the comic book lore to find justification to not use the Norrin-Radd version of the comic book hero played by a male.

In 1968, in an issue titled “Silver Surfer Vol. 1,” Shalla-Bal is depicted as the Silver Surfer’s love interest. For the next fifty years, her role is just that, a supporting one. Then in 1997, her character is part of the final two issues of “Earth X” when she’s briefly granted her lover’s super powers so she could stop an invading force, the Blaze noted.

Shalla-Bal’s total time as the Silver Surfer was four pages across two issues. In 2016, in Silver Surfer Vol. 8 #2 “Things Change,” writer Dan Slott changed Shalla-Bal from “Radd’s love interest” to Zenn-La’s Keeper of the Great Truth, Bounding Into Comics reported.

In the 2007 film “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” the title character was played by male actor Doug Jones. His character was also voiced by male actor Laurence Fishburne, the Blaze reported.

Even in the official Marvel Guide, the company uses he and him to describe the “Silver Surfer.”

“Since his debut in 1966, readers have seen the Sentinel of the Spaceways serve as Galactus’ loyal Herald, revolt against his leader, live on Earth and cruise the cosmos on his trusty board,” a description on the site reads. “In that time, we have learned the answers to some of the burning questions about the Silver Surfer!”

And now, the decision by Marvel to cast an actress as the Silver Surfer has sparked a debate online.

“Love all the female Silver Surfer fans that are popping up out of nowhere using the one image on her wiki,” one person wrote. “Nobody tell them the character only appeared in 4 comics. They might strain something.”

Another added, “They should’ve casted Julia garner has Nova, a actual female character who is a equally powerful herald of galactus, instead of making her silver surfer for ‘Fantastic Four.'”

While a third wrote, “Not to sound like one of those ‘everything’s woke’ guys, but why change Silver Surfer to a woman? I know there was a female silver surfer in the comics. But the main Surfer was always the guy.”


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bobigerliedagain; boycottdisney; boycottmarvel; disney; fantasticfour; galactus; gay; homofascism; silversurfer; waronmen; wokeidiocy
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1 posted on 04/05/2024 6:36:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Comic nerds tend to be leftists... but, if you mess with their comic book canon, they are likely to reject your offering.


2 posted on 04/05/2024 6:40:31 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Red Badger

She’s a fantastic actress.


3 posted on 04/05/2024 6:41:47 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Red Badger

Still wondering if Hollyweird now exists to launder money for Deep State...


4 posted on 04/05/2024 6:42:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Red Badger

They just keep trying to make it stick.


5 posted on 04/05/2024 6:43:15 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Red Badger

I find 95% of comic book hero movies incredibly boring. I also find the “All Women Good/All Men Evil” shoved down our throats hideous.

I’d boycott it if I could but since I’d neve let anyone drag me to a superhero movie regardless...


6 posted on 04/05/2024 6:44:16 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Red Badger

More unwatchable hot woke garbage from Pedowood.


7 posted on 04/05/2024 6:45:27 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Red Badger

A chick playing Nickel Nose sounds like the stuff of the Yancey Street Gang! (typed in my best Ben Grimm voice as I imagined it as a kid)


8 posted on 04/05/2024 6:45:31 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

When it comes to comic book movies, some are pretty good and some ain’t.......the problem is there are now literally dozens of them......why?

Because Hollywood can no.longer think up anything original.

A perfect example is Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has been remade yet again.


9 posted on 04/05/2024 6:49:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Tri3d watching dr strange movie the,other night as I had never seen them... got about half hour or so in and wham- they Trott out the lgbtq crap. Girl with “two moms” who were so 8n love” blah blah blah. Turned it off at that point, but no big loss as the movie was crap anyways.

Hopefully the networks can see when someone is watching a show or movie, and then turns it off at key points. Maybe someday they will understand that the object is to make money for the company, and not to preach their godless Immorality non stop to audiences that do not want that crap.


10 posted on 04/05/2024 6:51:11 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Just... No. Silver Surfer was a favorite of mine as a kid.

Hell, I’m still pissed that they had Idris Alba playing Heimdahlr THE WHITE...

It has only gotten worse from there.


11 posted on 04/05/2024 6:54:35 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Red Badger

The girl bosses in media cannot let go of their fables. They would be the first to scream for help in a fight with a man however.


12 posted on 04/05/2024 6:54:53 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Really? I pretty much disliked her character in Ozark. I also didn’t like her as that fake rich girl in the movie about a huge money scammer in NYC and other places “Inventing Anna” IIRC.


13 posted on 04/05/2024 6:56:17 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Bob434

That’s just it. They never talk to anyone outside their bubble safe spaces.

They cannot perceive anyone not loving their garbage.

All they get is positive feedback from like-minded morons and yes-men.

Then they are stunned when the movie flops at the box-office when exposed to real Americans.

Just look at Jimmy Kibble.

He is in total shock that the polls for Biden are terrible. He cannot understand why, because everybody he knows praises Biden and the Democrats and trashes Trump and the MAGA people as absolute evil morons. He is so insulated from reality that he cannot make a rational connection to the world as it really is.

As Ayn Rand once said, “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”...........................


14 posted on 04/05/2024 6:59:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
The "court controversy" by doing again what they've been doing all along. If the movie loses money (again) they will say it's because Marvel fans hate women, but no one will care who isn't paid to care.

It's as if they aren't in business to make money.

15 posted on 04/05/2024 7:00:07 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Dead Corpse

My mom threw away all my comic books when I went into the Marines.

I had some really classic ones, especially Silver Surfer issue #1, which is now worth about $10,000 last time I checked.

And I had many others as well..................


16 posted on 04/05/2024 7:02:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Of course. What a joke. They might as well spit on Jack Kirby’s grave.


17 posted on 04/05/2024 7:02:25 AM PDT by far sider
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To: Salman

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time. - Einstein................


18 posted on 04/05/2024 7:03:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I still have some of my X-Men, Lobo, and a few others. Most have been read so much they aren’t worth anything. I even had the mid-70’s large re-print editions of Batman, Superman, and Tarzan.


19 posted on 04/05/2024 7:04:24 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Red Badger

Put a chick in it and make her gay.


20 posted on 04/05/2024 7:07:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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