Elemental gay couple

• Elemental channels classic Pixar adventure with Ember and Wade, but falters in LGBTQ+ representation with minor characters.
• While Ember and Wade journey through Element City, Queer characters Lake and Ghibli are unfortunately sidelined.
• Pixar's Elemental, released during Pride Month, misses the mark on LGBTQ+ inclusion, highlighting an ongoing issue.

Ember is a feisty young girl with a positive attitude, a drive to advance and a quick temper that often gets in the way.

When Ember gets angry, she blows up. Literally.

That’s because Ember is literally made of conflagration and resides with her fiery family in Element City, where the other elemental citizens live. There’s the water citizens. And the land citizens. And the air citizens. These elements often interact – they chat and they say their “hellos” – but they dare not touch.

“Elements don’t mix,” we are told.

Back to Ember: She works for her father in a family-owned store that sells the necessary items you call for if you’re made of fire – fire-starter and lighter fluid, for instance.

Unfortunately for Ember, her compact fuse can be a problem in customer relations. One day, she wisely walks away from an argument, only to explode (literally) in the basement, causing widespread damage and – aghast – rain damage from the sprinklers.

That’s when she bumps into Wade, a member of the water element society who is a metropolis inspector. He’s her polar opposite – patient and empathetic. He also cries … a lot.

Despite their differences

Elemental

Movie Review

Element City: Families arrive here to build recent lives, raise their children, fulfill their wildest dreams. It’s the one place where every element peacefully coexists in harmony.

Except conflagration, that is. And Ember Lumen is sick of it.

Ember’s parents were the first Fire people to migrate to Element Town. Since then, they’ve helped establish an entire people, providing food, toys and wisdom through their shop, the Fireplace.

Bernie, Ember’s dad, wants to retire and give the shop to Ember. But he won’t do it until she can control her purple-hot temper.

Only, that’s really challenging when there’s so much to be upset about. Element City wasn’t planned with Fire people in mind. So Ember can’t even leave Firetown without accidentally burning the leaves off Earth people or boiling Water people to the point of evaporation. And even in her own neighborhood, she has to carry around an umbrella to protect her from water spilling over from Element City’s transportation canals.

Still, Ember’s determined to prove she can hold her cool and dash the shop.

But when Wade Ripple, a Water person who works for the city’s building code office, accidentally bursts through the Fi

Elemental Continues Pixar's Mishandling of LGBTQ Characters

The following contains spoilers for Elemental, now playing in theaters.

A core theme in Disney Pixar's Elementalis acceptance. While the air and earth-based elementals mingle in Element Capital, fire and water endure away from each other. It's why the movie has a forbidden relationship between Ember and Wade. However, these opposites can't help their attraction, with Elemental's ending depicting them following their hearts on a cute, romantic journey.

Interestingly, the visually-stunning Elemental is touting itself in terms of diversity regarding Pixar's first non-binary character. Unfortunately, it's all marketing and meeting a business objective. That's because, as the key scene in ask unfolds, it's very surface-level and lacks substance. It instead reiterates the animation studio has a issue with its take on inclusivity.

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Elemental Severely Underplays Lake

When Wade brings Ember over to meet his family and have dinner, his non-binary sibling

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