Marvel Chairman Who Opposed Women in the MCU, Black Panther, and Favored “All-White’ Avengers Sells His Entire Stake at Disney

Over the course of the last few months, a proxy fight has been happening at Disney. Former Marvel chairman Ike Perlmutter, who teamed up with Nelson Peltz to secure two seats on Disney’s board, saw their effort fall short.

Peltz’s activist campaign, which began in January, aimed to place himself and Rasulo on the board. Despite pledging his shares to Peltz, Disney won the shareholders’ vote in April, with Peltz receiving only about 30% of the votes he needed and Rasulo losing by a significant margin. Following this, Perlmutter sold his entire 25.6 million-share stake in Disney, according to The Wall Street Journal. Perlmutter’s spokesperson declined to comment.

For most of you, that name doesn’t mean a single thing and you’re likely unaware that both he and Peltz have campaigned pretty hard over the years for MCU to become “less woke.”

Both Peltz and Perlmutter heavily opposed women and diversity in the MCU, which some of their statements reflected. Peltz made headlines earlier this year when he claimed that he doesn’t need “Marvel movies” that are all women or with an “all-black” cast:

Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women? Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that? Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?

Perlmutter on the other hand will go down in history as a person who opposed ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Captain Marvel’ one of the most profitable MCU movies. The chairman frequently butted heads with Bob Iger, and as the CEO revealed in his memoir if they listened to Perlmutter the movies would not happen at all:

We had a chance to make a great movie and to showcase an underrepresented segment of America, and those goals were not mutually exclusive. I called Ike and told him to tell his team to stop putting up roadblocks and ordered that we put both Black Panther and Captain Marvel into production.

Perlmutter also allegedly wanted Avengers to be comprised of white middle-aged men and opposed Black Widow becoming an Avengers.

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