#hexed 2026

same mfs who scream about “we need more cringe and or neurodivergent coded female MCs” and then complain about her “quirkiness”. i think there’s a lot of internalized stuff that a lot of yall may need to unpack there.

and i understand being upset about the owl house but u guys also need to remember that there are REAL PPL who create these projects. Disney is just the one that OWNS them. imagine being the creator of hexed who worked extremely hard on their creation and finally ready to release it out into the world, only for ppl online to tear apart the female mc for being “quirky” or “cringe” and not giving it a chance before ur full creation is even out yet.

what happened to supporting real artists over ai??? plus the only resemblance to the owl house that is shown so far is that the female mc is an outcast at school due to being the weird kid, is a poc, discovers she has magical powers, and goes to another magical world.

the owl house doesn’t own that concept and there are plenty of stories that have done this exact thing long before hexed and the owl house and there will continue to be more in the future.

luz never had any magical powers while she was in the human world unlike Billie who discovered that she had them in the school bathroom. also are we gonna ignore/forget the way ppl treated Luz when the owl house first came out?

ppl talked about her the same way ya’ll are talking about Billie, slapping on the “quirky Disney female character” label on her and calling her “annoying” and “cringe”.

Disney sucks for how they treated the owl house,but don’t take ur rage out on this movie and the creator of hexed who most definitely had nothing to do with it.

also..u do realize that Dana Terrence is not the sole creator of Knights of Guinevere right? not only that but it was already confirmed that the message of KoG was not to poke fun at ppl who still like Disney nor to poke fun at the human creators behind Disney projects.

it’s about still having love for all these different characters from these different IPs from since u were a child and still continuing to love them, while ALSO recognizing and being sad about the monster the company behind these IPs have become thanks to corporate greed.

This is a Disney fan blog, so I try not to be a hater on here, but I do have my criticisms of the movies, and with the company's business decisions.

Hexed was announced last year, it was basically about this boy and his high-strung mom getting isekai'd to a magical world.

The concept art gained praise, especially since it highly resembles Alice in Wonderland, though some people criticized the premise for being derivative. The movie is directed by Josie Trinidad and Jason Hand; Trinidad is Filipina and has a son. Disney also put out a casting call for a Filipino boy.

^I know this is a rumor account, but the description seems to line up with Hexed's original description of the young male lead being "awkward." We can put two and two together and reasonably assume that the boy and his mother were based on Trinidad and her son.

We later heard nothing about the movie until today at Cinemacon. A new logo and picture for the movie were shown.

The new logo looks less stylized than the old one, and looks more "business card friendly" or "trademark ready."

And this is a new picture for the movie

As you can see, the male lead has suddenly been changed to a female one at the last minute. The new description is: "Steinfeld will voice the role of Billie, an unconventional teenager from a boring town who accidentally discovers that she’s a witch and finds herself whisked away to a world of magic. Her type-A mom, voiced by Jones, also finds her world upside down." "Disney showed off teaser featuring Steinfeld’s Billie meeting a talking book and pen. “Have you ever been persecuted, drowned or burned at the stake?” the Pen asks, to which Billie quips, “I’ve burned a steak in the microwave.” After Billie signs her name to his pages, the book then introduces her to a “world of magic and wonder.”" Hailee Steinfeld's grandfather is Filipino and African-American, while Rashida Jones is mixed black and white. It seems like here, Disney is completely shying away from cultural specificity.

So, here's what I think happened:

Disney suddenly changed the movie in the middle of production.

How were so tired of the adorkable trope esp used on grown women who keep on being infantalized by disney over & over again (gen the last time I felt like i've seen an accual grown experienced woman in a disney movie was w Megara in hercules) how the designs are geniuenly so bland it almost hurts, THAT DAMN ELSA EXPRESSION, how disney refuses to explore any artstyles for their movies now and so on and so on

While i accualy haven't seen the side trying to defend the movie say anything good about it I haven't seen a single person say "wow im so excited to see this and this, i wonder how this xharacter will be, i wonder if we'll see xyz" instead all i've seen from the defending side is pointing at people with geniuine critisism and yelling

"oh so you people can't enjoy anything"

"oh hating on disney is trendy"

"you wanted an original idea so shut the fuck up" etc etc

Witch are also the most generic defenses that can quickly be put down when you point out yea no one trust disney because they haven't been delivering at all, last time they cooked was with encanto and that was long ass time ago don't kid yourself, of course people don't wanna give out their hearts and hopes to a corporation that has dissapointed them over & over again