Marvel Studios
If there’s one criticism that’s commonly levied against the Marvel Cinematic Universe — other than its seemingly increasingly poor CGI, lack of compelling villains, and formulaic third-act conclusions — it’s that, despite the fact that everyone is incredibly beautiful, nobody ever sleeps with each other.
In fact, that’s what actually made the recent Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law such a breath of fresh air: she was open and honest about getting laid, but more importantly, her *desire to do so*. And that, unfortunately, is quite revelatory when it comes to the MCU.
This criticism is perhaps best exemplified in this detail from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as Marvel fans have noticed that Namor’s — a.k.a Tenoch Huerta’s — buldge was digitally shrunk since the release of early trailers.
Disney said you can slang bombs but you can’t slang that thang https://t.co/hBv1JvPlSl
— jabari mcdonald (@Jabartender) November 16, 2022
"Congratulations on finally getting a VFX job for Disney!
Now for your first assignment: You must erase Namor's Dong from every shot." https://t.co/G9cM1vuoaP
— Kaleb (@KalebPrime) November 17, 2022
This is a HATE CRIME https://t.co/pHVw9eo6Zb
— Hanna Ines Flint – Free 🇵🇸 (@HannaFlint) November 16, 2022
Some Marvels fan have pointed out that this isn’t the first time they’ve pulled something like this.
they did it to loki too. always remember what they took away from you. https://t.co/RXrSbBBrbs pic.twitter.com/UjL1yxvea5
— Pramit (@pramitheus) November 17, 2022
hollywood is so goddamn sexless these days it gives me stomach ulcers https://t.co/u7LPfDbeMx
— tony hawk’s pro letariat (@madsydotjpg) November 17, 2022
First they erased the buttholes in cats and I said nothing … https://t.co/xsoJQGqSS8
— Princess Weekes Discourse Free (@WeekesPrincess) November 16, 2022
There were plenty of punchlines about “this is what they took from us.”
https://twitter.com/IWriteAllDay_/status/1593016428638048257
the underpaid VFX artist keying out Namor’s eel for the 12th hour that day: https://t.co/UUwJS6Oq0b pic.twitter.com/61bdA09kwZ
— Joe-B.Wan Cannoli (@J_Bologna) November 17, 2022
The editor after the 11th time of going back and editing the frame where his bulge is still visible https://t.co/v6tbrOAxw3 pic.twitter.com/Nlqw5gu9tR
— typo queen🇵🇸 (@usoppenjoyer) November 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/fearzome/status/1592994555967987712
Someone probably worked 80 hour weeks, ruined their body, and missed time with a child to scrub Namor’s schlong from this movie. https://t.co/5tPzIRm3eH
— Ernie LuckMan (@ErnieLies) November 16, 2022
In addition to Huerta’s scene-stealing Namor, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — which hit theaters in the United States on November 11 — stars Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Winston Duke, Letitia Wright, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, and Martin Freeman.
The film is the final entry in the MCU’s Phase 4, which also featured the films Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Stange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder. Phase 4 also boasted a bevy of Disney+ series such as WanadaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye, What If…? Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and the aforementioned She-Hulk.
Phase 5 of the MCU, which first began back in 2008 with Iron Man, kicks off with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in February. That movie will then be followed by the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in May and The Marvels, the sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel, in July.