While speaking with Variety, Daley and Goldstein discussed how Michelle Rodriguez's Holga the Barbarian and Sophia Lillis' Doric the Druid tend to engage in the frontlines of battle compared to their male party members. "That was not an attempt at wokeness on our part," Goldstein said. Daley elaborated, saying, "Swear to God, it wasn't. We liked that Holga is the bruiser that does the dirty work for Edgin, and he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. We also love emasculating leading men."

It’s not woke. It’s just everything you associate with woke.

Regardless of the part each member of the DnD adventuring party plays, actor Hugh Grant, who plays the rogue Forge Fitzwilliam in the film, noted that none of the main characters are particularly good at what they do. "I think maybe what I responded to most in their script was that it's about losers. This little band of comrades, they're all a bit crap. You are not great at being a bard," Grant said. "And the magician, played by Justice [Smith], is really bad. What do they call magicians in Dungeons & Dragons?... Sorcerer. He's not much good.

Yeah, the male characters are made to look inept and stupid. Not woke at all.

These studios need to go under. It’s the only solution.