‘New Warriors’ Marvel TV Series Canceled for Allegedly Being ‘Too Gay’

Marvel was gearing up to bring several starring heroes of the New Warriors series to television a few years back. But now, according to a report from Gizmodo, the former showrunner Kevin Biegel revealed in a now-deleted chain of tweets that the show was allegedly scrapped because of a homophobic executive, who said the series was essentially too gay.

“A SINGULAR power that be killed that show,” Biegel wrote. “Because it was too gay. A rich, straight, Brentwood turd. He got fired for being vile at his company. We, on the other hand, live.”

He added, “I have nights where I can’t fall asleep because I get so mad we couldn’t have characters say stuff like this.”

The show was green-lit back in 2017 to air on Freeform, featuring Milana Vayntrub (Squirrel Girl), Derek Theler (Mister Immortal), Jeremy Tardy (Night Thraser), Callum Worthy (Speedball), Mathew Moy (Microbe) and Kate Comer (Debrii) in the series and had a complete, filmed pilot.

Biegel also tweeted (and deleted) a series of behind-the-scenes pictures and footage from the pilot. The material was largely focused around Doreen Green, or Squirrel Girl, and her squirrel companion, Tippy-Toe.

Regarding the alleged reason for the show’s cancellation and following a slew of Marvel fan theories, Biegel said the executive who axed the show was not Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb, who left Marvel after the company scrapped Marvel TV, along with allegations against him regarding racist comments on the set of Netflix’s Iron Fist.

Many Marvel fans are pushing for more queer representation in the MCU, and so far, the only canonically LGBTQ superhero in the universe is Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, who was revealed as bisexual earlier this year. Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie from Thor: Ragnarok would have technically been the first, but the scene confirming her bisexuality was edited out of the film for unknown reasons, though Thompson indicated that her queerness will be explored in 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder during a Comic-Con panel.

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