An eagle-eyed fan spotted that Disney+ edited out a racial slur from the MCU short All Hail The King from Iron Man 3.
Marvel fans will know of the studio’s penchant for hiding Easter eggs and post-credit scenes into their movies. The studio DVDs, however, sometimes also come with short one-shot movies – supposedly extra scenes that happen during the canon storylines of the movies, but do not directly contribute to it.
With Disney+ acquiring the Marvel library, some of these one-shots have made their way to the streaming platform. Now, an eagle-eyed fan has spotted that Disney+ has censored a racially-charged term from the Iron Man 3 short All Hail The King.
Following Iron Man 3 villain Trevor Slattery, All Hail The King shows the character receiving varied kinds of welcome in prison, with some revering him and some questioning whether he truly is the Mandarin.
The original dialogue in the movie goes so:
White Power Dave: You know what I want right now?
Trevor Slattery: Autograph?
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Dave: I want to give the world exactly what it’s been crying out for. Your dead body laid out on a goddamn slab.
Herman: Hey, cracker! What’s up?
Trevor: Ahhh, it’s the fan base. Kiss my rings, bitch.
In the Disney+ version, however, Herman’s dialogue has been changed to “Hey, what’s up?”
The aforementioned term is used against people of Caucasian descent and thus considered derogatory.
According to The Direct, however, it was curious why Disney+ decided to remove said term when, moments later, Slattery uses the term ‘bitch’. This isn’t the first time that the platform has edited shows and movies – shortly after the release of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, fans noted that some fight scenes had been altered to make them less violent. These changes were, however, later reversed.
Check out a clip from All Hail The King:
