Runaways (TV series)

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Name: Marvel's Runaways
Abbreviation(s): Runaways
Creator: Josh Schwartz,Stephanie Savage
Date(s): November 21, 2017 - present
Medium: live-action TV series
Country of Origin: United States
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Runaways is a television series produced by Hulu based on the Marvel comic of the same name.

Canon

After discovering their parents are super-villains in disguise, a group of teenagers band together to run away from their homes in order to atone for their parents' actions and to discover the secrets of their origins.

Fandom

The fandom for the show started small and grew larger towards the end of the first season after Chase/Gert and Karolina/Nico became canon, gaining interest in particular thanks to migratory femslash fandom trends. Fan theories are popular within the fandom, with much speculation on how the series will handle different aspects of the comics, most notability who the mole will be if that plotline is used.

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Discussion & Controversies

Boycott Runaways

Before the show begain airing there was some activity behind the hashtag #boycottrunaways.[1] The boycott came about due to the original Runaways comics killing its only black member, Alex, after he betrayed his team and the worry that the TV series would do the same. It was created in a similar vein to the discussions around Iron Fist at the time "The hastag #boycottrunaways is meant to create a discussion and raise awareness to the issues surrounding Runaways and its problematic elements, similar to the boycott of Iron Fist and Dr. Strange. It is meant to encourage people to come up with ideas of proper representation of POC/LGTBA characters so that people don’t feel left out. Diversity matters so does proper representation."[2]

Changes Between Comics and Series

  • Staff of One: Fans generally weren't happy about the staff being technology rather than magic, especially since Doctor Stange had shown that magic does exist in the MCU.
  • The Church of Gibborim: Some opposed changing Karolina's backstory from having wealthy movie star parents to being raised in a new-age religious cult.

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