Lame and gay

Removed. Of all three characters, I would say she is most likely to be “bisexual” based on some dialogue options found in The Witcher 3. 

UPDATE (12/06/25): I am currently reading through The Witcher books, some of which I had previously read. “If you don’t think Eric Cartman can be a Black woman, then maybe the problem is you,” he says.

Maybe that premise sounded edgy in 2022, but now it just looks desperate and dumb.

If “Elio” teaches Disney anything, it’s this: Wokeness isn’t a narrative. In this episode, the character Eric Cartman experiences unsettling dreams that lead him to an alternate universe where South Park's residents are racially diverse women opposing the patriarchy.

While this is at least accurate to the evil and predatory nature of homosexuality, I don’t think this will stop the narrative leads from using it to push the game in the direction they want to.

CD Projekt is not the same company it was and most of the talent behind the first three games have left the company. But other Lucasfilm titles — ranging from Obi-Wan to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — haven’t fared so well.

But instead of doing the real work, I instead turned to the panderstone. But even that was enough to stigmatize both films as woke propaganda, unfit for children and alienating to mainstream audiences.

Executives at Disney and Pixar likely concluded that “Lightyear” and “Onward” flopped because of the gay content. There have been multiple high profile games that released to both disappointing sales and critical reception.

The result has caused right-wing celebrities ranging from Elon Musk to former Mandalorian star Gina Carano to weigh in. That’s the vision Pete Docter championed. There are no shortage of Snoys (Sony Fans) who will buy anything they release but I expect this will have less appeal to the mainstream audience. The episode particularly took aim at Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy — while at the same time knocking online trolls who have piled on the executive in recent years.

And it’s over.

But that version never saw the light of day.

After disappointing test screenings and intervention from Pixar’s chief creative officer Pete Docter — the force behind hits like “Toy Story,” “Up,” and “Inside Out” — the studio sidelined the film’s openly gay director, Adrian Molina, and toned down the “queer-coding.” According to one Pixar artist, “Studio leaders were constantly sanding down these moments in the film that alluded to Elio’s sexuality.”

Gone was the scene where Elio designs clothes from pink trash and holds “trash-ion shows” for crabs.

“You probably don’t like there’s a Black Spider-Man,” to which the kids retort, “No! In a fantasy or science-fiction setting, it is generally fine as it is in setting that eschew realism like most video games used to do. If The Witcher IV is ever released, I doubt it will come anywhere close to the success of the previous games.

Before finishing, I want to note something that really should have come first and that is why the sexual proclivities of any of these characters should be relevant at all.

Being replaced is exactly what happens when a portal to the multiverse opens up, which replaces him with a Black woman while sending Cartman to a universe populated only by women of color. A more flamboyantly queer lead might have offered marginal character development — but at the cost of turning yet another kids’ movie into a vehicle for ideological affirmation.