As the meme would say, we live in a society. In one in which there are people who, above formal, technical or narrative aspects, are especially concerned that in an adaptation of the comic to the big screen change the gender —let alone race— to one of the characters. But this ends up bordering on the absurd when the complaint comes for having done it with an animal.
Good girl
This is the case of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’, among whose charming assortment of protagonists is cosmo, an animal used by the Soviet Space Program during the Cold War with telepathic powers that ended up settling in Wisdom. The “problem” is that in the latest MCU feature film, Cosmo no longer a good boy, but a good girl.
A Twitter user asked James Gunn what was due to gender-swap of Cosmo, and James Gunn, director of the feature film and who always has an answer for everything, has not hesitated to to answer clearly and concisely: “Because Cosmo is based on Laika the Russian dog, who was female, so I changed her gender again”. Easy, simple and for the whole family.
Of course, the tweeters stung by this change are legion, and it didn’t take long for others to appear, such as Buket Boi, who explained to Gunn that “it doesn’t make sense”, that it is “useless”, and that nothing has changed again because “it was never a female”. Good old James, of course, was not going to keep quiet.:
“I’d rather honor the real bitch who died in outer space. Cosmo wouldn’t have existed without Laika. By the way, I changed Mantis, Drax to High Evolutionary and others from humans to aliens, which seems like a bigger change. Why? does it bother you so much?”
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