‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ Cancelled for Controversial ‘Transphobic Scene’

Cancel culture has been taking over society more frequently over the past couple of years, as many call for the re-examination of popular characters, both animated television series and live-action movies. Among those called out were Warner Bros. Television and Disney for airing some of their older characters and movies that seemingly portray harmful and corrosive racial and gender stereotypes. And now, many other Hollywood original movies are getting reprimanded for their controversial characters and plots, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Detective Ace Ventura is hilariously played by Jim Carrey, who is hired by the football team, the Miami Dolphins, to find their mascot, a live dolphin named Snowflake. The movie is carried through its plot by Carrey’s comedic antics, the ones that defined him as an actor throughout many other movies, ending with quite the plot twist.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective- The Final Reveal
Lois Einhorn, the police chief who detests Ventura for always intervening in their cases, is actually the culprit behind Snowflake’s kidnapping, as it’s revealed that she is actually the shunned Miami Dolphin football player, Ray Finkle. Finkle was never able to move past when he messed up the Dolphin’s chances at winning the championship trophy and was sent to a mental hospital. He had soon escaped, transforming into Lois Einhorn so that he could execute his elaborate plan to tear down the Dolphins.

The issue arises when Ventura is seen freaking out that he had previously kissed Einhorn out of tension during a heated moment they had while arguing about the case. The movie shows Ventura scrubbing himself when he realizes that Einhorn was actually a trans woman, and the entire final scene is built on the comedic revealing to the entire football team and the entire police force that Einhorn is actually a...

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