themeatbridge ,

The word you should use is "pandering," but I still disagree that the movie was pandering to anyone except comic book fans. It wasn't a great film, but it was fun and true to the source material (with some understandable changes to Ms. Marvel's powerset).

The heroes are women. The primary antagonist is a woman. Half of all people are women, so it's not some crazy statistical anomaly to have a cast of primarily women.

Yes, they gender-swapped Dar-Benn. I'd wager all the money in my pockets that nobody complaining about "wokeness" had ever heard of Dar-Benn before this movie came out. Gender-swapping characters isn't even a bad idea, considering the rampant misogyny in the history of comic book publishing (and, like, reality in general). Superhero teams have been sausage fests for like 100 years, and the women that were included were little more than eye candy and thinly-veiled fetish caricatures.

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