 It is official Park Soo-Joon from Itaewon Class will be playing Prince Yan aka Captain Marvel's husband in an upcoming Marvel production, David. This is big news and there's a lot of different people saying different things. Oh, I saw so many articles on Asian media about it. Obviously Reddit was going crazy. People are this hot, take that hot, take the movie. Marvel geeks are sort of really getting into it. And I'm telling you anybody who's a fan of K-pop, K-dramas should be excited because this is the new way they're going with phase four and phase five to be more diverse. Some people like it. Some people hate it. Other people got some conspiracies out of left field, but we got to get into it. All right guys, real quick. Let's just talk about Park Soo-Joon real quick. He is from Itaewon Class. I didn't really watch Itaewon Class, but he's very well respected as an actor and for his soft skin. And yeah, I heard his skin is soft like butter and he is famous for having no plastic surgery. That's what I heard. Also, Andrew, interestingly enough, Andrew, looks like a K-pop pill version of you. I'll take it, man. I missed the K-drama pill that he got. But yeah, we just got hit with the mushroom. Andrew, he's the third Korean actor in a Marvel movie. Number one is Claudia Kim. Number two is somebody that I would more get compared to Marang Suk and then Park Soo-Joon, Park Soo-Joon. Phase four right here, as you can see, Andrew Black, Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals actually had the first sex scene, but between a, I believe, an Asian woman and a white guy. It was Gemma Chan. Yeah, so a lot of people are saying there better be a sex scene between Park Soo-Joon and Brie Larson. Brie Larson. Who would have paid? No, no. Hey, that's what was going on all over the Asian male reddits. I'm just throwing it out there that they were speculating that he could get played out a little bit, sort of like how Simu Simson's character was sort of losing an announcement over at the Lisa Simson Tour. So basically, of course, the Asian male subreddits are always basically like, yo, man, don't fall for it. They're just throwing us a bone with this Western media. It's going to be like a fake marriage or something. They never going to show the Asian man actually being a true Western sex symbol. Well, you know, if I'm going to be the actor and I can have any input, I want to make love to Brie Larson on camera. I think I would do a good job. So I hope they write that in. No, they should write it in, man. But in all fairness, we don't know what the position of being a husband is. If you read into Prince Yann's story, which I don't want to ruin it for people, but I had to read it because I didn't know who that was. He's the prince of a planet called Aladna where you have to sing to communicate. So listen, there might be some K-pop connection here too. I'm just saying what if they have to communicate in like BTS songs or something. So also there's like this whole marriage thing that he goes through. So there's a lot of speculation, right? That potentially, I hope it's a real marriage, man. I hope they actually love each other. Of course, I thought it was like Prince Yann from Yann Dynasty in China. Ancient, but it's more Marvel universe. I knew a guy named Prince Yann, but he was from Yantai Shandong, China. I would say right here, Andrew, it's cool that they like made him Asian. Oh, this is the original character, Andrew, that people thought he was going to play Amadeus Cho, which is like this Korean Hulk from an alternate universe. But back to the original cartoon version. Amadeus Cho got the faux Hulk. I think this was in 2010 when that kind of thing was really popular. Shout out to them for giving him an Asian American haircut. Go back to that one, yeah. But I would say he looks like Prince Yann, looks like a little bit like a Russian model. So it's cool that they replaced him, obviously, with a Korean guy. However, Andrew, this sparked some racism because obviously, Andrew, there's like the diversity of phase four, phase five Marvel. Versus the legacy fans that are like, why are you guys trying to make me understand Captain Marvel, getting Captain Korea and all these things? I don't like it. It's messing with my worldview. Captain K-Drama. He is Captain K-Drama. All right. So let's read through some of these offensive comments because Yahoo always got the fire. Yeah. Yahoo is very representative of almost like a smattering of like Middle America comments, but real comments, though. Let's see. Yeah. This one right here. Get Marvel still checking all the boxes. They didn't get any African American. Mids yet though. So they aren't even 100% woke. I got a feeling this is going to be a dumpster fire. Never. Somebody else said, yeah, you know, Disney dumped its old super woke leadership team. So hopefully they won't go in the other direction. I get it. White's used to be racist, but now everybody's racist against whites. How was that fair? That's an eye for an eye methodology. Yeah. David, taking it out to the macro a little bit. But here's my overall take. I think that I get it that the Marvel movies look different than they used to. But we're done with all the legacy characters. They've been exhausted. They all are dying off and they're going to retire. Hulk, Soon's, Spider-Man, Iron Man, all these ones that we grew up with without before Marvel movies came out. We all grew up with these characters. So we already love them, right? And we knew them. They're part of American culture. But now you're digging deep in the bag of Marvel characters. And these Marvel characters are newer or they were the less known ones, the less popular ones. So of course they're not going to be as loved right off the bat. To be honest, it makes sense to me. But I think the beauty and what they're trying to pitch is that it all works together in this big crazy like Marvel universe, of course, and it's supposed to all come together. However, I will say, yeah, you got a bunch of characters that nobody knows about. So yeah, I mean, ultimately, like I said, guys, everybody gets into entertainment for a different reason. Obviously the execs in the studios, they're going to say that we're doing this for diversity reasons. If you were more cynical, you could say you're doing this for global marketing purposes because you're already fully saturated in your own local domestic markets. Other people would say this globalist agenda trying to make us weak for what's coming. And other people would be like, man, I ain't against other colors of superheroes, but it's just not something I relate to because in my town that I'm growing up in, and it's not like that. But David, like, you know, I think the global market is like the market now. So you just have to cater to everybody, you know? And having Park Soon-Joon as Prince Yan, I think it's a good. I think it's a good. All right. You've convinced me. I guess I'm going to go watch all the old seasons of Itaewon class to try to catch up so I can, you know, enjoy the Marvel series better. Hey, guys, if you don't like any of this and you're sick of seeing all these diverse characters, then don't watch it. Simply don't give them your money. You know, listen, Marvel's trying to build a new fan base worldwide because they're like, oh, actually, there's a whole world of people that are not exposed to Marvel movies and that we can. Because they didn't grow up in America. Yeah. Even Star Wars was trying to do the same thing. They were trying to. Star Wars had super low market penetration in essentially Asia, but specifically China. Like, nobody knew what Star Wars was. Yeah. So the new Star Wars is trying to appeal to them. But then why they got to put all these Chinese Jedi's swinging around doing kung fu? Now, I got to see kung fu in a Star Wars movie. It's real weird to me. Well, David, if they don't like diversity, what can they still watch? I'm just watching old reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger. Just watch Friends. You can watch pretty much any show from that. Anything from the past 110 years from when cinema, but you almost cannot watch anything like from like 2020. No, of the past four years, I think it's going to start to piss you off. Anyway, guys, huge shout out to everybody. You know, K-pop, K-drama, doing things. I know they're also doing, what's it called? Silk? Silk? Oh, yeah. Who's an Asian woman? She's Korean, right? Yeah, she's a Korean woman. So, like, I'm going to be really excited for who ends up playing Silk. Maybe if they can get, like, Yuri, that would be pretty good. But I know she's, like, a little bit older, so I don't know if she can do the physical stunt. You know what I was thinking? Like, what if they got Lisa from Blackpink? Lisa? Even though she's, like, not Korean, but she is Korean. You know, she's K-pop, but she's not Korean. So, like, what if we got Lisa? That could be good, too. All right, guys, get Lisa in Blackpink. Andrew, you played basketball with JYP in Seoul, Korea. Oh, man. Maybe you can hit them up and, you know, talk to them. Yeah, that's how the entertainment industry works. You play basketball with someone once, years ago, and then you hit them up and say, hey, JYP, I look like 30% like Park Soon-Joon. Get me in something. All right. Anyways, guys, thank you so much. Let us know in the comments down below if you're excited about this or what you think about the Marvel movies right now. I know that some people have mixed feelings, but honestly, the movies are still pretty good. I think that there's a lot going on, so maybe it's hard to follow, but that's not that bad. I think here's my final takeaway, and I'll say this, and I think it's a pretty balanced take. You know, to make an industry that was previously not diverse, diverse, it's not going to be a perfect process. The transition's not going to be like, oh, yo, hitting home runs like every up to bat, there's going to be some singles and some bunts and some misses and some outs in terms of the process is clunky, but it's a worthy process to undertake. I think so. And we can still make stuff that people like. It's not just automatically, just because they're trying to be diverse, it makes the whole thing crap. All right, everybody. I look forward to being playing Prince Yen in the new Marvel production. All right, everybody. Thanks for watching Hop Hop Boys. Until next time, we out. Peace.