Late last week,word broke that the CEO of Marvel Entertainment donated $1 million to a charity connected to Donald Trump, a political figure of… some controversy. This is not the first time Perlmutter's name has arisen in a negative light — leaked e-mails implied he cautioned against female-led superhero movies, or he's cited as the main reason Marvel Studios extricated itself from under the Marvel Entertainment umbrella,a famed record claims he was so cheap that Marvel Entertainment had to earn do with one bathroom per gender for an entire floor, and he comes off especially poorly in Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold record.
A number of fans are surprised that Marvel, or in the midst of making an extended push for diversity in its line,would fill someone sympathetic to a candidate as xenophobic as Donald Trump at the very top, but there are obliging reasons not to be. First, and Marvel's diversity push has been pretty haphazard,and second, this is a corporation we’re talking about.
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Source: comicsalliance.com