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Marvel Fires Back Over ‘X-Men ’97’ Creator’s Claim He Was “Stripped” of Season 2 Credit, Cites “Egregious” Investigation Findings

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Marvel Fires Back Over ‘X-Men ’97’ Creator’s Claim He Was “Stripped” of Season 2 Credit, Cites “Egregious” Investigation Findings (Exclusive)

Beau DeMayo completed his duties on season two prior to his firing in March.
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Five months after Marvel Studios fired X-Men ’97 creator Beau DeMayo for mysterious reasons, the writer claimed Thursday he no longer will get credit on the second season of the hit Disney+ show, which he completed work on before his exit. DeMayo made the claim on social media, saying it was part of a “troubling pattern” he endured while working for Marvel.
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“Above is #XMen fan-art I posted on Instagram for Gay Pride in June. On June 13, #Marvel sent a letter notifying me that they’d stripped my Season 2 credits due to the post,” DeMayo wrote on X Thursday, along with an illustration of a shirtless version of himself as the superhero Cyclops.

DeMayo, who spent several years at Marvel working on a draft of a long-gestating Blade feature as well as on the TV show Moon Knight, added: “Sadly, this is the latest in a troubling pattern I suffered through while on working on #XMen97 and #Blade.”
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Marvel responded by saying that DeMayo’s behavior was the cause of his firing and for him losing his credits.

“Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an internal investigation,” said a Marvel spokesperson in a statement. “Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him immediately, and he has no further affiliation with Marvel.”

Sources say that following his exit, an agreement was reached between the two parties over the issue of tweeting about the show, something that DeMayo had continued to occasionally do. In light of the breeches, his credit for season two was removed. While no details of the cause of the termination or the internal reviews have surfaced, sources say it involved sexual misconduct.
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TLDR dude tried to play the victim and claim Marvel was homophobic. Marvel shot back and said he was fired (turns out he was sexually harassing people) and his credit was removed not because of his pride month post but because he broke the termination agreement.
 
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Toons

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Its more likely the truth is somewhere between their two claims, but marvel clearly isn't playing around if they are willing to drop the sexual misconduct wording. Clearly trying to send a message to back off.

I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't pleased to find out about his more adult oriented endeavors, but I doubt a post was enough to get him fired.

Either way, he absolutely killed it on this show and made a blueprint for all future x men adaptations to work off of. Its a shame he won't be sticking around but it seems to be for good reason.
 
ManaByte

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Toons said:
Its more likely the truth is somewhere between their two claims, but marvel clearly isn't playing around if they are willing to drop the sexual misconduct wording. Clearly trying to send a message to back off.

I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't pleased to find out about his more adult oriented endeavors, but I doubt a post was enough to get him fired.

Either way, he absolutely killed it on this show and made a blueprint for all future x men adaptations to work off of. Its a shame he won't be sticking around but it seems to be for good reason.
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People are saying he did the same stuff on The Witcher.
 
ManaByte

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AJUMP23 said:
Show the contract show the breech problem solved.
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They did. They asked him to stop Tweeting about the show. He wouldn't. They removed his credit. He played the victim claiming that Marvel was homophobic and removed the credit over a pride post, they responded and said it was removed because he violated the terms of the termination agreement that forbade him from promoting himself connected with the show and that he was fired because of sexual misconduct.
 
AJUMP23

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ManaByte said:
They did. They asked him to stop Tweeting about the show. He wouldn't. They removed his credit. He played the victim claiming that Marvel was homophobic and removed the credit over a pride post, they responded and said it was removed because he violated the terms of the termination agreement that forbade him from promoting himself connected with the show and that he was fired because of sexual misconduct.
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If you lose your credit does that mean you lose residuals?
 
Big Baller

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ManaByte said:
Dude was sending nudes of himself to staffers as "inspiration" for the show. Holy shit.

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arnold schwarzenegger terminator GIF
 
Haint

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You'd have to be a Gold Medal Master Retard to earnestly claim Disney fired you for posting some gay shit on Pride month. Like guy Disney already pays people hundreds of millions of dollars to do that.
 
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ManaByte

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EviLore said:
*googles Beau DeMayo*

Welp. This guy really likes publishing sexually suggestive photos of himself and imagining himself as a porno superhero.

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So
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He claims that's why Marvel stripped his credit from Season 2, but Marvel said that it was because his termination agreement said he couldn't promote himself with the show; which he continued to do.

Then he played the victim, and now his career is over.
 
EviLore

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ManaByte said:
He claims that's why Marvel stripped his credit from Season 2, but Marvel said that it was because his termination agreement said he couldn't promote himself with the show; which he continued to do.

Then he played the victim, and now his career is over.
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A lot of he said/they said to sort out, but either way, it’s going to be a problem when someone in charge of a big corporate project is hypersexualizing themselves in public, using the IP they’re working on too. Can’t be doing that, and pride month isn’t a valid excuse.
 
ManaByte

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EviLore said:
A lot of he said/they said to sort out, but either way, it’s going to be a problem when someone in charge of a big corporate project is hypersexualizing themselves in public, using the IP they’re working on too. Can’t be doing that, and pride month isn’t a valid excuse.
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When he was originally fired it was being speculated that it was due to him promoting his onlyfans. But now it's come out that he was sending nudes to staffers.
 
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Why is it always the good stuff that's tainted? X-Men 97 is one of the better things to come out on Disney+ but of course the show runner had to be iffy.
 
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Madflavor

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So I'm glad the guy's gone, but was he the reason X-Men '97 was so good? Wondering if the writing will nosedive in Season 2. Happened with Castlevania when Warren Ellis was fired, and the quality from Castlevania to Castlevania Nocturne shit the fucking bed.
 
EviLore

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Extreme personalities make the most interesting stuff. The show will probably suffer. Obviously no way around this though if he acted as the allegations described, have to remove him from the project.
 
Neon Xenon

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Back in March when Beau DeMayo was fired, I had a feeling that there was something more ugly about this than what was being shown to the public. That it wasn't worth rushing to defend the guy when not all of the details were known.

But I don't think anyone was expecting that Beau DeMayo was apparently being such a fucking gross sex pest. Sending unsolicited nudes to staffers (and young male staffers, at that, even after being asked to stop), groping people, and abusing staffers...and he was already let go for similar behavior on The Witcher?

So now people are going to be looking at Marvel/Disney and asking, "How did you NOT know about this dude's history?"
 
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He did some great work on the writing, which I am not going to deny, but it sucks to hear about his behavior. Sending that last Instagram image in isolation wouldn't even be a problem. It's simply the straw that broke the camel's back, etc. and cost him the season 2 credit, but the real mess is what happened earlier.
 
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FunkMiller

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Neon Xenon said:
So now people are going to be looking at Marvel/Disney and asking, "How did you NOT know about this dude's history?"
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I mean... they probably did. But he's from a demographic that Disney enjoys cultivating relationships with for PR reasons, and they will likely look past a lot of indiscretions that others would be fired for - until even they can't look the other way anymore.
 
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ManaByte

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FunkMiller said:
I mean... they probably did. But he's from a demographic that Disney enjoys cultivating relationships with for PR reasons, and they will likely look past a lot of indiscretions that others would be fired for - until even they can't look the other way anymore.
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The producer at Marvel who oversees most of the TV stuff including X-Men 97 has admitted that he failed to look into why he was fired from The Witcher.
 
ManaByte

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His lawyer came out with a very carefully worded statement that says he never sent lewd pictures to his direct reports.

The discovery phase of the lawsuit is going to be glorious.
 
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt said:
I hope they go the Scott Summers/Emma Frost Romance

Jean Grey can just suck it, such a bland Mary Sue character
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That Scott was cheating on his wife with an evil(?) version of her was AWESOME! So many awkward subtext bits, including Rogue bouncing on Magneto and being all "it was in the past....." to Gambit such that he suicides afterwards :p
 
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