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Disney and Lucasfilm firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian may have given a lot of people exactly what they wanted, but it’s also opened up a can of social media worms that nobody seems able to stuff the lid back onto. One half of Twitter rejoiced that the actress had finally been given the boot, while the other immediately mobilized with a series of campaigns.
So far, we’ve seen petitions launched to have the former MMA fighter reinstated to the series, both studios accused of double standards and hashtags demanding Pedro Pascal also be dropped from the hit streaming exclusive. Obviously, though, none of this is going to happen and the higher ups in Hollywood never listen to any sort of fan movement, unless they’ve got a costly new streaming service to shill in the case of Zack Snyder’s Justice League.
The relentless wave of cancel culture attacks usually tend to blow over in no time at all, in fact, with the controversy stemming from Black Panther star Letitia Wright‘s misinformed tweets from the end of last year having already been largely forgotten about after she wound up deleting her account entirely, and she’s largely maintained complete radio silence ever since.
A new report digging deeper into the Gina Carano affair says that Disney simply allowed Letitia Wright‘s online firestorm to run its course and blow over, never to be mentioned again. The difference is probably down to the former Cara Dune continually needling people with her posts, but there were no grounds to fire her until she crossed a line in the eyes of the Mouse House brass. Having your own political and/or religious beliefs won’t get you fired, but there’s always going to be a breaking point.
Tom Holland’s Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War was completely shoehorned in and contributed very little to the narrative in the long run, but audiences didn’t care in the slightest.
If you remove the web-slinger from the story altogether, then you get pretty much exactly the same movie, albeit one that’d be ten or fifteen minutes shorter, not to mention the fact that the studio have freely admitted in the past that there was an alternate version of the script ready to go that didn’t feature Spidey at all if the Sony deal fell through for any reason.
That’s not a dig at either the franchise or Holland’s contributions to Civil War by any means, and one of the highlights of his brief screen time was his battle against Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes during the epic airport showdown between Team Cap and Team Tony, with the frenemies putting their mutual hatred of each other to one side briefly in order to try and beat a fifteen year-old kid into submission.
Falcon, in particular, has a habit for rubbing his fellow Avengers the wrong way with his confrontational style, as we’d already seen by that point in Ant-Man, and insider Daniel Richtman is now claiming that Spider-Man will get his rematch against Disney Plus’ upcoming mismatched duo in a future project, although any further details remain scarce.
The tipster doesn’t divulge the when, where, how or why, so we’ll just have to wait and see how Phase Four continues to play out before we discover if The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s title heroes will indeed get the chance to settle their score with Peter Parker.