Watch: Stephen Colbert's Marvel Cinematic Universe "Sausage Fest" Rant
Late Show host calls for more female villains.
Stephen Colbert has joked about the absence of female superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and offered his own amusing observations on Marvel's justification for the recent revelation that they changed Iron Man 3's villain from a woman to a man.
Speaking on the Late Show, Colbert said;
I saw Captain America: Civil War and I liked it. But I could not help but notice, as I watched it, sitting there in the theater, absolutely thrilled by the movie, so many of the characters seem to have something in common - Iron Man, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther-Man. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is kind of a sausage fest, and I gotta say, all that spandex really showcases the sausage.
Responding to a recent interview in Uproxx with Iron Man 3 director and co-writer Shane Black, who claimed that they received a memo instructing them to switch the female villain in the script to a male one, since "that toy wont sell as well if its a female," Colbert went on to comment ironically, "It makes sense! Girls don't pay with dolls!"
The skit ends with Colbert joking about Darth Vader's origins as Darlene Vader, the Star Wars villain appearing with a pretty pink bow tied to her helmet.
Check out the full segment from the Late Show here: