Officer Specter in Disney-Pixar's "Onward" | Pixar Animation Studios
Posted on 02/24/2020 7:31:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The upcoming film “Onward,” which will be in theaters on March 6, will feature a self-identified lesbian heroine with a girlfriend, the first-ever animated LGBT character in the Disney-Pixar universe.
The character, named Officer Specter, will be a Cyclops cop, voiced by openly gay screenwriter and actress Lena Waithe, Yahoo Entertainment reported.
“It just kind of happened,” the film’s producer, Kori Rae, was quoted as saying. “The scene, when we wrote it, was kind of fitting and it opens up the world a little bit, and that’s what we wanted.”
Director Dan Scanlon stated, “It’s a modern fantasy world and we want to represent the modern world.”
The film is set in a magical universe with fantastical citizens, who have lost their connection to the magical arts. According to the film's description, "two teenage elf brothers ... embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there."
While this is Pixar's first LGBT character, this isn't the first time Disney has featured such persons on the smaller screen. Disney Channel series “Andi Mack” depicted the network’s first teenage gay couple last year.
The season three finale of the series concluded with the scene between Cyrus Goodman (played by Joshua Rush) confessing his attraction to his classmate TJ Kippen (Luke Mullen).
While this was Disney’s first depiction of a teen same-sex relationship, the first same-sex adult couple in a Disney show for kids occurred in 2014 on "Good Luck Charlie.”
The multinational mass media and entertainment company has been slowly adopting and promoting LGBT views, as seen on its television shows and movies such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Doc McStuffins” in 2018. In 2017, “Star vs. the Forces of Evil” introduced the company's first male princess on the same show that previously drew controversy for featuring the first same-sex kisses.
Sony also reportedly plans to feature Spider-Man as a bisexual in an upcoming movie.
The entertainment blog We Got This Covered recently said, citing anonymous but reliable sources, that Sony is developing a live-action Spider-Verse movie that would unite Tom Holland with his predecessors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, and that the studio is “particularly keen on getting Garfield back, as they want to portray his version of the hero as bisexual and give him a boyfriend in the film.”
In an interview with The Sunday Times last year, Holland, who currently plays Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was asked if a gay Spider-Man could make it into the movies. “Of course,” he responded. “I can’t talk about the future of the character because, honestly, I don’t know, and it’s out of my hands. But I do know a lot about the future of Marvel, and they are going to be representing lots of different people in the next few years.”
Last year, a major gay rights organization, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, started pushing for 20 percent of all television characters to be LGBT by the year 2025.
In a report called “Where We Are on TV,” GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis noted that “less than one-quarter of Americans have a close friend or family member who is transgender,” meaning that many Americans “learn about trans people from what they see in television, movies, and news.”
Grooming a new generation of victims for the sodomites to predate upon.
And they will be euphoric, as this will be pushed as some giant step forward for LGBT rights. Breaking barriers and all that will be the story here.
What will never be questioned, is why the adults who created the character, felt the strong need to insert a “lesbian” character into a cartoon aimed at children. Nobody will ask that.
Pretty much.
Homosexual acts should have always remained illegal.
They should have lots of scenes of every conceivable sex act
If it’s supposed to be a fantastic world, why include sexuality at all?
Of course it’s just virtue signaling, but worse, it’s bad writing! If you’re gonna virtue signal, go all the way; don’t try to give a stupid fig leaf on it.
Great news for kids struggling with “gender issues.” s/
Crap! I was planning to see this.
What’s next? Loony Tunes?
And another Hollyweird disaster I can simply avoid.
BTW, anyone have any opinions on “Ford vs. Ferrari”? Worth plunking down a few bucks as a rental?
The previews themselves don’t make this film look all that good...
Since Disney has bought out Pixar to make TS3, can anyone name a memorable Pixar film?
I sure can’t.
Because the lavender mafia runs Hollywood, openly.... with the Pedo Patrol pulling their strings.
Go see it! A great story of American ingenuity vs. European elitism played out on a race track in France. Sort of like "Bottle Shock", but with race cars instead of Chardonnay.
Sounds like 3rd grade field trips will be needed to boost box office sales.
Oh cool! I LOVED “Bottle Shock” btw. Alan Rickman was great in that (rest in peace). I’ll rent it ASAP.
He probably looks more like Camel Joe from the side.
RE: Since Disney has bought out Pixar to make TS3, can anyone name a memorable Pixar film?
I thought the following films post Disney purchase were quite good:
* Finding Dory
* The Incredibles 2
Poor Walt!
Onward? More like “Goneward”...from the Disney product world.
Disney was the only one doing good last year...there headed down the wrong road..
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