Consider the plight of the superhero actor with a penis.
It’s a tall order, playing pretend while having to manifest impossible physical ideals and also wear elaborate costumes that mimic those drawn on the page without much regard for physics. Furthermore, these costumes are not built for real life but for the screen. This sometimes makes it awkward to be a real human — assholes can get in the way of what a superhero movie is trying to achieve. In the case of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the task is often to portray heroes as attractively conventional and as non-sexual as possible. Sometimes this is difficult.
This came to mind in the week following its release Black Panther: Wakanda forever. Crew members have been sharing behind-the-scenes footage on social media, and fans have spotted one in particular, Noticeable difference from the finished shot of the movie: Actor Tenoch Huerta, who played the role underwater villain Namor in the movie, it seems that the puffiness of his outfit has decreased.
Not only did Marvel fix his bulge, but these shorts aren’t pretty? that namor is still very attractive even though these factors are working against him is a testament to his ability to make love on a nuclear level pic.twitter.com/GxG7p12ns8
– alex (@alex_abads) November 16, 2022
Before we go on, it’s worth noting that “outfit” is a generous term. In the comics, Namor’s most iconic outfit is a green Speedo made of some sort of scale, combined with his bad attitude. For Namor’s Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, the costume was made a bit more elaborate. The Speedo has been swapped out for tight-fitting swim trunks and it’s been supplemented with a lot of jewelry really make a shirt but charity can be called a chest patch. However, the math of the situation is simple: Put a penis in swimming trunks in water and the results can be obvious.
Puffiness is a constant concern in superhero costume design, as well-fitted outfits that accentuate — or enhance — the ideal body leave little to the imagination and even help. for design. But cultural ideas about “fitness” must also be observed, and Disney is arguably the most rigid in its quest to be the “best.”friendly family“Super corporation in the field of entertainment. Usually, this means working very hard to deny the existence of sex, or everyone has the ability to have it.
This, as many on social media has noted, leads to an extremely humorous and very reasonable assumption that there are people somewhere in the Marvel or Disney offices working very hard to edit. each video may have the smell of a penis, lest the world be scandalized for the existence of genitalia. (A Disney journalist did not respond to Polygon’s request for comment.)
Seen from this angle, this is ridiculous. People have dicks! Context isn’t clear, and taking an issue seriously is a great way to draw attention to it.
However, there are several other plausible explanations – Disney’s nastiness about the brats is just the most entertaining way to ponder. For example, it’s also possible that simple capitalism is at play here, as footage deemed “non-offensive” has the longest reach for various social and cultural practices across the globe. Global. It is also possible that Huerta herself did not want her member to indirectly appear on the silver screen in one of the biggest films of the year.
In that case, please allow us to express our sympathy. Superhero comics can be great character but also genderless, and their claim to box office domination meant that real people had to be molded into shapes completely defined by muscles and ideals, which were then reflected in costumes. But this is only the first step, as the person wearing the garment is just another fabric for digital tailors to sculpt, cut and sew as necessary, until there is little difference between the character’s look and feel. seen on the screen and the character cannot be spawned on it. Page.
