Culture Disney reportedly pulls Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episode over trans athlete story - Artists imply decision was made over political climate

An unreleased episode of Marvel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur won’t air on Disney Channel over its politically sensitive LGBTQ themes, people who worked on the show say. The episode is about the recurring character Brooklyn, a trans classmate of Lunella Lafayette (aka Moon Girl), competing in a girl’s volleyball game and a “a narrow-minded coach” who tries to have Brooklyn barred from playing.

Early in the episode, “The Gatekeeper,” Brooklyn recalls her time spent playing soccer and “the darkness of me having to play on the boys team.” Brooklyn’s comments about her athletic past are overheard by the opposing team’s coach, Greer (played by Amy Sedaris), who tries to have the teenager disqualified from the game. But Brooklyn’s coach, gym teacher Coach Hrbek, tells Greer, “Brooklyn IS a girl, and she’s gonna play.” The episode then veers into supervillain territory, as Greer uses a magical key to confine Brooklyn, her teammates, and watergirl Lunella in the girl’s locker room.

Brooklyn, who is voiced by actor Indya Moore, identifies as trans to her peers in the episode. “I’m trans, my very existence breaks Greer’s rules,” she tells her teammates before breaking down into tears. Brooklyn’s trans identity is further communicated through imagery; Brooklyn wears Pride-themed kneepads and has a “Trans is beautiful” sticker on her water bottle. The episode’s color palette is saturated in hues from the transgender flag. Its themes of prejudice, exclusion, and finding support through progressive allies is unmissable.

Artists who worked on Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur took to social media this week to lament that the episode had been “shelved because of which party that won the recent election,” likely referring to Donald Trump winning the presidency and Republicans garnering a majority in the U.S. House and Senate. Conservative politicians have campaigned to ban trans and non-binary student athletes competing in girl’s and women’s athletics in recent years.

According to a source at Disney, the decision to hold the episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur was made more than a year ago and was not based the result of recent U.S. elections. That source said that “in this case, this decision was based on this specific episode, not because of the character being trans.” They said the episode is not specifically “banned” from airing, but being “held.” It’s unclear if the episode will ever see an official release.

The source said that Disney is “really proud” of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, noting that its target age range is kids age 6-12 and that the company is “respectful of the role that parents play in the discussions they have with their children.”

“The Gatekeeper” was one of a handful of episodes still to be aired as part of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur season 2. While the animated series was canceled earlier this year, Disney and Marvel still had about 10 episodes in the tank. And though “The Gatekeeper” may never officially air, on Friday, the full, completed episode was uploaded to YouTube, unofficially.

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur debuted on Disney Channel in February 2023. The show, which also streams on Disney Plus, follows the adventures of 13-year-old prodigy Lunella Lafayette and her T. rex sidekick, Devil Dinosaur. After Lunella accidentally brings Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City, the duo works together to protect the her neighborhood from danger, amid other hijinks. The show features the voices of Diamond White as Lunella, Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur, Alfre Woodard as Lunella’s grandmother Mimi, and Laurence Fishburne as The Beyonder.

Update (4:30 p.m. EST): This story has been updated with information from a source at Disney.

Correction: A previous version of this story indicated that Brooklyn does not explicitly identify as trans in the episode. She does, and this story has been updated to note that.

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Leaked episode: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/agni5qa5.mp4

 

[Karen of Human Resources]

Do you think Disney will ever just hire artists that aren't completely leftoid brain? I want to hope that they'll abandon this money-wasting business approach and just make shit that's Disney again.

A problem, entirely detached from Disney, is that "creatives" by and large skew heavily to the left.

The way you traditionally didn't find many hippies in the Army or Police, you weren't typically shocked when your favourite portrait artist was a bit eccentric.

I think it's a risk of the sector more generally, they've just got more vectors and flavours of crazy to "express" these days that need reigned in from higher up.

 

[merrybrandybuck]

Do you think Disney will ever just hire artists that aren't completely leftoid brain? I want to hope that they'll abandon this money-wasting business approach and just make shit that's Disney again.

It's one thing to have a liberal artist but every single artist that works in the Disney sphere is the most leftist leftoid on the planet. Palestine flags everywhere, pronouns, 'diverse' characters that look like racist stereotypes, Bluesky.. it's so cliche now...

This trash just isn't sustainable. It loses money, inspires no-one and causes division for the sake of ego stroking.
And beyond the plain ol' cringe... all this shit is just bland ontop of ugly.

It's as if these shows are made exclusively for the adults that work in the cartoon industry. Because who the fuck else watches this shit other than the weirdos making it and their colleagues-- all who want to prove to the rest of the hivemind in the industry that they are "progressive".

I know a lot of people are getting fired in the animation industry in general-- which brings hope there will be at least some sort of change.

We're probably less than 2 years away from full length animated shows rendered from scratch by AI and produced by a rando in his mom's basement.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

A problem, entirely detached from Disney, is that "creatives" by and large skew heavily to the left.

The way you traditionally didn't find many hippies in the Army or Police, you weren't typically shocked when your favourite portrait artist was a bit eccentric.

I think it's a risk of the sector more generally, they've just got more vectors and flavours of crazy to "express" these days that need reigned in from higher up.

This was fine when money men held the creatives back. They either needed to follow the orders, be sneaky to get the past the censorship or do what they wanted with less. This all made them come across as less retardly one sided. They were still left leaning overly emotional morons because those people excel at arts but muted so it was less oblivious from their work and even they knew it was for the better.

 

[Asscrackistan]

I like the part where he says "It doesn't matter how many doors [to women's spaces] you lock me out of, I'll always find my way through." And the part where the trans flag blasts a hole through a woman's torso.

 

[Broadside]

That's right Disney, bend the fucking knee.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Greer uses a magical key to confine Brooklyn, her teammates, and watergirl Lunella in the girl’s locker room.

Weird place for the transmisic supervillain to lock the tranny up. Or maybe the perfect place. Want to rape women and girls? The key is TRANS.

 

[Positron]

"Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur"

Literally what even is this?

MovieBob likes that show. This is all you need to know.

 

[Safir]

The episode then veers into supervillain territory, as Greer uses a magical key to confine Brooklyn, her teammates, and watergirl Lunella in the girl’s locker room.

Note, the allegedly troonphobic coach locks the troon junior sex offender with the girls.

“The Gatekeeper” was one of a handful of episodes still to be aired as part of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur season 2. While the animated series was canceled earlier this year,

!!!
And I was about to rain on everyone's parade and point out the groomer show, minus the episode, was continuing.

Any time that the stunning and brave transwomxn has to talk at a volume above a mutter, xir voice no longer passes.

It's played by an adult male. Even boys are typically voiced by women.

Wow, what an ugly cartoon.

This. I was about to say I'd seen uglier characters in better cartoons, then realized these faces are ok for a mascot but are unsuitable for a range of expressions in a cartoon, they immediately become stupid. The colors are ugly, too (see Eva's random screenshots -- no blue or green in sight, it's all very dirty).

I think it's a risk of the sector more generally, they've just got more vectors and flavours of crazy to "express" these days that need reigned in from higher up.

It's mostly because of cronyism and "art" as a profession being a sinecure for the large adult children of the upper class. Notice how SFF is thoroughly woke and pedo, and has been for generations, but the "greats" that come to mind are majority "conservatives" even for their time.

I keep telling people, before they make generalizations, to look at the USSR and see what happened there (here), it's the same thing: people who hate the country weasel into being in charge of "the arts" in a generation or so. In 1980, a Jewish woman made a movie about how it's inherently retarded for a poor person to be an actor (not "many poors, few vacancies, it's risky to try" but "the poors are apes, they're unsuited for culture").

The other factor is the generous tugboat for the workshy: lots of retards who don't want to do honest work get the opportunity to be "artists".

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Awesome.. baby steps.

Thankfully i found a reddit thread and the first few posts clears up all the confusion about this topic and series. Thankfully further down people start calling the letter shippers out.
The seethe from these types of people is real though.. and the derangement. rofl

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Yeah Disney had this be a thing a while ago that they wanted to move away from shoving gays down people’s throats. This episode especially is so political it’s insane, given how heavily trannies affected the election.

They say this on public but a massive amount of producers and "creatives" are desperate to put the LGBTQIA+ in everything

Z-grade IP as envisioned by Z-grade storyboardists and Z-grade CalArts Beanmouthers

(the fact that sentence makes sense is a stunning indictment of Current Year)



It's telling the only animation of late that people liked and did okay at the box office was Inside Out 2, and only then because the Mouse gave strict orders that if they made Riley even one little bit gay they'd all be fired. Funny how that works.

Hehe "beanmouthers" aka Steven Universe shitty art style

Also, I promise you some people on Inside Out 2 were CHAMPING at the but to make Riley either Gay or Trans. Badly....

Do you think Disney will ever just hire artists that aren't completely leftoid brain? I want to hope that they'll abandon this money-wasting business approach and just make shit that's Disney again.

It's one thing to have a liberal artist but every single artist that works in the Disney sphere is the most leftist leftoid on the planet. Palestine flags everywhere, pronouns, 'diverse' characters that look like racist stereotypes, Bluesky.. it's so cliche now...

This trash just isn't sustainable. It loses money, inspires no-one and causes division for the sake of ego stroking.
And beyond the plain ol' cringe... all this shit is just bland ontop of ugly.

It's as if these shows are made exclusively for the adults that work in the cartoon industry. Because who the fuck else watches this shit other than the weirdos making it and their colleagues-- all who want to prove to the rest of the hivemind in the industry that they are "progressive".

I know a lot of people are getting fired in the animation industry in general-- which brings hope there will be at least some sort of change.

Yep. Too bad the gatekeepers into the industry are still insufferable leftist, insane trannies or 'male feminists "

Technology is such that you don't even need a studio to produce a good quality cartoon, nor the backing of a major network to release it.... the whole "traditional" industry is shriveling up before us as those with actual talent and love of the medium are abandoning the old heads who've gone hopelessly woke.

This was probably going to happen eventually , just like the newspapers going extinct, but, the decision to be hyper-political with hard-left ideals certainly sped the end up by at least a decade.

Maybe, maybe not

Let's see

 

[Rei is Shit.]

They said the episode is not specifically “banned” from airing, but being “held.”

Great bit of newspeak.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

"Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur"

Literally what even is this?

Marvel cannot die soon enough.

I wondered the same question, that doesn't sound good as "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl".

 

[TowinKarz]

Maybe, maybe not

Let's see

Helluva Boss has comparable quality to what was on the air 10 or so years ago, maybe even a little better at times, and was made in the digital version of someone's basement..... yes, they still had to source some professional VA's and other stuff. But, the bulk of the stories and character designs were done by "outsiders" who never were or currently aren't in the biz.

The instant someone makes an all-audiences friendly hit to that model?

Like say, a Bluey clone?

A lot of offices in Burbank are gonna go dark for good.

 

[Señora Airi]

What is it with trannies and demons?

Demons also call themselves they/them.

 

[cypocryphy]

Demons also call themselves they/them.

"Legion, for we are many".

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

This trash just isn't sustainable. It loses money,

they already said that they dont care about losing money

inspires no-one and causes division for the sake of ego stroking.
And beyond the plain ol' cringe... all this shit is just bland ontop of ugly.

I wish it were that simple, but these shows are basically acting as a sigil, the goal is to prep kids for submission to satanic rituals and practices (like trans shit, homosexuality, etc)

Spoiler: Witchcraft/sorcery explanation

The thing is, when doing witchcraft, the easiest way to get what you want is to prove your allegiance and submission to the demon. The most effective way to do this is to kind if flaunt and publicize the commitment. Satan and his boys are prideful, in order for them to give you stuff, you need to show you belong to them. It's like gloating. So you basically have to SHOW and wear your satanism if you want to get anything out of it[. Its not enough to be a satanist faggot, its not enough to molest little girls, its not enough to fuck a mans asshole. You have to SHOW and celebrate that you do them. /SPOILER]

In short, it's grooming

 

[Back me up!]

Helluva Boss has comparable quality to what was on the air 10 or so years ago, maybe even a little better at times, and was made in the digital version of someone's basement..... yes, they still had to source some professional VA's and other stuff. But, the bulk of the stories and character designs were done by "outsiders" who never were or currently aren't in the biz.

The instant someone makes an all-audiences friendly hit to that model?

A lot of offices in Burbank are gonna go dark for good.

I just wish the Flashgritz boys would get some actually backing. I know they are going okay on patron but I really feel if would have gotten a show already if it was the mid to late 2000.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Witchcraft

Nigga, it’s just a bunch of soys wanting to look progressive. It’s not a great plot by the devil cult, lol.

Next you will be like “ah shit! Black peoples want free gibs!! Let me consult my star chart to show you Lucifer started a demonic splinter cell in the negro community via telepath beams sent to cocobutter bottles at every Walgreens!”

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

Nigga, it’s just a bunch of soys wanting to look progressive. It’s not a great plot by the devil cult, lol.

It's not. They want to look progressive but the standard of what progressive means came from somewhere else. None of this progressive shit is new, it's been common practice in European and Egyptian cults since practically the beginning of time

It isn't progressive, it's the same shit from 4000bc

Your regular degenerate faggot might be unaware (like you are, like most are), but the executives and organizations who make these decisions are fully aware of why this is so important to them

Next you will be like “ah shit! Black peoples want free gibs!! Let me consult my star chart to show you Lucifer started a demonic splinter cell in the negro community via telepath beams sent to cocobutter bottles at every Walgreens!

No, it started way way way before Walgreens bro. The curse of ham/canaan

 

[TowinKarz]

What's more likely? This disaster of a woke show is a plot by a super-secret-but-not-secret-at-all cult to brainwash kids?

Or, modern day woke executives are just so clueless they think gendersparkles is what all the kids are into these days because all THEIR friends talk about it incessantly?

Never assume malice over gross stupidity without some hard evidence.