New Warriors showrunner Kevin Biegel reveals the shocking reason the series was never picked up for series order. The New Warriors were introduced in the comics in 1989 and focused on a group of teenage and young adult superheroes. The series was set to be the star vehicle for the character of Squirrel Girl played by comedian Milana Vayntrub and would have featured characters like Mister Immortal, Night Trasher, Speedball, Microbe, and Debrii.

ABC Studios and Marvel Television originally announced development on the series in 2016 and in April 2017 ABC Freeform ordered ten episodes of the series. Despite the pilot for the series testing positively, Freeform passed on the series in 2017 as they said they had no room for it in their 2018 schedule. The series was shopped around to other Disney subsidiaries but by 2019 it appeared the series was officially dead.

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Kevin Biegel, the showrunner of New Warriors took to Twitter to reveal the official reason why the series was passed on. Biegel is one of the co-creators of the hit series Cougar Town and written for series like Scrubs and The Real O'Neals. Biegel reveals that it was one executive that killed the series for being proudly gay and that unnamed person no longer works at the company. Biegel's tweet has since been deleted. Read what it said below:

"There's a show we wrote a few years ago

It was very very proudly gay

A SINGULAR power that be killed the show. Because it was too gay. A rich, straight, Brentwood turd.

He got fired for being vile at his company.

We, on the other hand, live."

Squirrel Girl in Marvel comics

Biegel didn't reveal which person killed the series but given the use of 'he' pronounces and the fact that the executive was fired from the company could illuminate who it was that killed the series. While this is purely speculation, one suspect could be Jeph Loeb, the former Executive Vice President of Marvel Television. Loeb stepped down from the company when Kevin Feige was appointed Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment but many saw the decision as him being let go from the company after a string of high profile misfires like Iron Fist and Inhumans. Since stepping down, Daredevil star Peter Shinkoda accused Loeb of cutting Asian storylines from the series and Loeb told the writer's room that "nobody cares about Asian people".

Had New Warriors premiered in 2018 like it was originally planned, it would have premiered alongside Freeform's Cloak and Dagger series. It sadly would have suffered a similar fate to Cloak and Dagger and many other Marvel television series that was canceled in 2019 as Disney+ was about to launch and the Marvel television series like WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and more would be closely connected to the films than the previous series. Regardless, it was a shame that audiences never got to see New Warriors as it could have potentially been a fan favorite and introduced an entire audience to a new group of characters. There is still always a chance that Marvel Studios could rework the original series, bring back the original cast and creators and incorporate the series into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Source: Kevin Biegel/Twitter