My Revolution-PARTs

Marvel Studios has a lot to look forward to in the coming weeks, particularly with the upcoming theatrical release for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Ahead of this film, Marvel and Funko have released their next round of Pops! to celebrate the rookie and veteran heroes joining forces in this story.  However, not all the response to these Funkos has been of the positive variety. ADVERTISEMENT Xochitl Gomez is set to make her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as the Multiverse-jumping heroine America Chavez, and she has as big of a role as anybody alongside Doctor Strange and Wanda Maximoff. This made her unquestionably deserving of getting her own Funko, but upon its arrival, its appearance incited some major backlash from Marvel fans. Specifically, the complaints pointed out that Chavez's skin was much lighter in color than her on-screen actress in Gomez, with the fan base calling Funko and its developers out for whitewashing. Thankfull

Fans await the day the MCU machine starts back up again and the cycle of hype surrounding the franchise to kick into full gear yet again. However, there has been a bit of a rain cloud hanging over Disney at the moment as the company faces backlash for its general silence around Florida's controversial 'Don't Say Gay' bill.  The piece of legislation would ban the discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in schools in a state where Disney bases much of its operations. ADVERTISEMENT In direct relation to this, the company came under fire from members of its Pixar animation division. LGBTQ+ employees at Pixar came forward and revealed that Disney had cut instances of queer representation in their films. Disney CEO Bob Chapek has since come forward and apologized in a memo internally. He also shared intentions to donate $5 million to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) LGBT advocacy group. This has left some fans wondering where Kevi

To finish off its 2021 slate of projects, Marvel Studios ended the year with the conclusion of Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye series on Disney+, and it came with some huge reveals in Episode 6. Much of this centered around the long-awaited debut of Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin, who is now officially MCU canon after the actor reprised the role he made so popular in Netflix's Daredevil from 2015 to 2018. D'Onofrio spent the entire season subtly-but-not-so-subtly teasing that his Wilson Fisk was the man behind all the mayhem, which came as early as Episode 3 with Maya Lopez's mysterious uncle from the flashback sequence. Episode 5 fully revealed that the Kingpin existed in the MCU thanks to a grainy cell phone picture alongside Eleanor Bishop, and with that, the game officially changed. ADVERTISEMENT In D'Onofrio's one episode where he got to shine as Kingpin, one aspect of his character that brought mixed reactions from fans was t