Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
They will rise.
The Guardians of Arcadia reunite to battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who've reawakened the primordial Titans.
Wokeness: 60%
Overall Score: 10%
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DuskCreature4335
Extremely Woke Due to Pregnancy Subplot (and Other Things)
There are three main reasons why this movie is extremely woke: the subplot about a male character getting pregnant, the pronouns the main villain is referred to, and the most feminine supernatural being who took part in the creation of the universe, as the overarching influence who guides the hero to stop the villains, one of which is her explicitly masculine counterpart.
It's genuinely sickening to see that one of the main characters, Steve, ends up getting pregnant for most of the movie after having his seventh kiss with his extraterrestrial girlfriend, Aja.
When we first see Steve in the movie, he's shown looking like the average teenage male. However, when Steve has his seventh kiss with Aja approximately one-fifth into the movie, his stomach gets slightly bloated with a blue light inside, indicating that it's his and Aja's child. Steve asks, "I'm gonna be a father?" but immediately shifts it to "I'm gonna be a mother?" which can easily be interpreted as the filmmakers sending gender confusion to the audience.
And when the Arcane Order unleashes the titular Titans onto the Earth, we see that Steve is sitting on a chair while he's pregnant. His hair becomes frizzled. His stomach is bloated. He's constantly dipping pickles into ice cream before eating them which is something a lot of pregnant women may do. Later on, he tells his unborn child, "Mommy's a little upset" and it's unclear if he's referring to himself or his girlfriend. In the climax, Steve's friend Eli spouts out "My virgin eyes!" right as Steve is about to give birth.
Worse yet, Steve has to sit out all the following battles while Aja is the one to fight all the battles for him and is even one of the heroes who confronts the movie's main villain directly. It is explicitly clear that Steve, the boy, is portrayed as the feminine counterpart of the relationship in the movie tending to his babies while Aja, the girl, is portrayed as the masculine counterpart of the relationship who's fighting all the battles in her boyfriend's place.
And that's not all. The movie's villain, Bellroc, the leader of the Arcane Order, is referred to with both masculine and feminine pronouns, being called a "he" once by Toby and a "her" once by Jim, and Bellroc herself has feminine hair and a facial tattoo resembling a beard. (Of course, I'm just calling Bellroc by female terms because, if you remove the facial tattoos, you have just her feminine-looking hair, and I am not a respecter of persons.) It's made even worse because Bellroc speaks with both a masculine and feminine voice at the same time, and the creators of the franchise confirmed they wanted her to be androgynous.
The most explicitly masculine member of the Arcane Order, Skrael, is portrayed as a sadist who wants to remake the world like Bellroc does, while Nari, who is intended to be the most explicitly feminine member of the Arcane Order, is portrayed as the only good member of the Arcane Order and it's her influence which guides Jim to stop the Arcane Order. Nari tries to stop Bellroc and Skrael from fulfilling their evil plans, and while Skrael deals a fatal blow to her, Nari is still the one who ultimately kills Skrael. But what truly makes this a contributing factor to the movie's wokeness is that Nari is depicted as the highest authority of good because she's one of the three who created the universe alongside Bellroc and Skrael, who are the villains.
Both the pregnancy subplot and the Arcane Order's role in the movie serve to degrade the male to the role where he's subservient to the female. Another piece of woke garbage to add to the pile of woke garbage movies, and it's even worse considering that this is supposed to be a family-friendly film.
Created: 05-02-2024
Joe Grayson
Bad film, slightly woke.
The film just sucks narratively and the ending is one of the worst in any more.
Although I guess it isn’t woke. It has a male pregnancy subplot in it, but it is a thing with alien lore and ultimately while it is super cringe and unnecessary, it’s not necessarily woke as it won’t make your kids think males can get pregnant through normal relationships.
Created: 05-04-2024
