The incorporation of the creature coming out of an egg is significant in queer and particularly trans culture. When an egg “cracks,” it symbolizes a person realizing they are trans. To learn more about this history, I recommend the 2024 Them article by Evelyn Bauer “Cracking The History of The Trans ‘Egg.'”

Another short that includes imagery of the egg cracking in this database is Me and The Matrix (Áine, 2021).

Brunhilde is arguably one of Bugs Bunny’s most recognizable disguises, appearing on things like postage stamps to a skin option in the online game MultiVersus.

Originally intended to have a festival run in 2022, the film faced a setback when, before a midnight screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Drew received a letter from Warner Bros. Discovery. The letter impacted the film's release, as the Wired article "The Best Queer Batman Parody You Almost Never Saw" by Angela Watercutter notes how multiple news outlets misreported it as a much more serious cease-and-desist letter. As a result, the film faced difficulty obtaining a distributor, and led to a period of secret, theatrical screenings.

In 2024, the film gained a distributor, Altered Innocence, and received a larger, limited theatrical run, concluding with both streaming and physical media releases.

Originally created by ND Stevenson as a webcomic and later released as a graphic novel, the film adaptation has quite the rocky history in terms of completion and release. In the CBR article by Lisa Laman, Fox and Blue Sky purchased the film adaptation rights in June 2015, and work commenced until Disney announced they were shutting down Blue Sky in February 2021. A writer for The Hollywood Reporter, Borys Kit tweeted on February 9, 2021, that “Blue Sky was in the middle [of] production of NIMONA, adapting the Noelle Stephenson GN. Sources tell me the movie is about 75% complete. Could someone step in to acquire it and finish it?” Fortunately, the movie was able to be shopped. On April 11, 2022 as detailed by Entertainment Weekly, “Netflix saves Nimona after Disney scrapped LGBTQ-friendly animated film” production resumed for Nimona with DNEG Animation and would be released by Annapurna Pictures on Netflix in 2023. The film was released on Netflix on June 30th 2023.

When Nimona takes on a human form, while she often presents as female and uses she/her pronouns, she is not cis woman but rather her identity is the form she is currently in. For instance, after Nimona transforms into a shark, they state “But I’m not a girl. I’m a shark.” During the end credits before Chloë Grace Moretz’s name appears there is an image of Nimona and text that reads “I’m a lot of things” with the word girl crossed out. While Nimona does not state she is transgender, I have included this descriptor because not only are the trans flag colors included during the end credits, but Nimona’s views on her identity is one which can be identifiable for people who fall under the transgender umbrella.

Wade’s younger sibling, Lake, is credited as the first nonbinary character in a Pixar film, and is voiced by nonbinary voice actor Kai Ava Hauser. In the film, Lake’s nonbinary identity is not stated explicitly, and she is addressed with she/her pronouns. However, Lake is canonically nonbinary in some of Elemental’s related media. In the book Unlikely Friends (Rusu, 2023), their role is expanded further throughout the story, and their pronouns are exclusively they/them. 

Additionally, due to the characters being elementals there is an ambiguity in the character design. I have included androgyny and queer to reflect this aspect. If anyone who worked on the film can confirm whether there were supposed to be additional queer background characters (in particular the couples seen dancing in the park), please feel free to reach out, and I will adjust the categorization accordingly.