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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Representation Score

8.7/10

Excellent

2023

PG-13

Director

Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley

Runtime

134 minutes

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The film successfully updates high-fantasy clichés by incorporating a diverse cast into a non-hierarchical society. It avoids common genre pitfalls by ensuring characters of color and women have significant influence and leadership roles. While the film excels in racial and gender representation, it lacks explicit LGBTQ+ identities and specific disability-focused narratives. The world-building favors a flexible social landscape and moral relativism over traditional institutional structures. Overall, the production achieves a high level of inclusion by making diversity a natural part of the story rather than a central plot element.

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Category Breakdown

Does Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film highlights a close-knit community and fatherly bonds but does not include explicit LGBTQ+ identities or same-sex relationships. The social environment feels flexible rather than strictly assuming everyone is straight or cisgender.

How does Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves portray gender?

Good

Holga challenges traditional stereotypes by being a strong leader and physically capable character. The group operates with a collaborative and merit-based system rather than a hierarchical one.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves?

Excellent

The film features actors of color in key roles where they play important parts in driving the story. This approach ensures that diverse identities are integrated naturally into the narrative.

How does Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves represent religion and culture?

Good

The story portrays its main characters as likable troublemakers who resist oppressive authority. It emphasizes personal loyalty and found family over strict institutional morality.

Does Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves include disability representation?

Fair

The film showcases a variety of physical abilities and skills among the characters. However, there are no character arcs specifically focused on visible or invisible disabilities.

Present on Screen

  • Challenges traditional gender roles through Holga's leadership and physical strength.
  • Features actors of color in key roles that drive the story forward.
  • Collaborative and merit-based group dynamics that avoid hierarchical structures.
  • World-building that prioritizes found family over rigid institutions.

Limited or Absent

  • Could include more explicit LGBTQ+ identities or same-sex relationships.
  • Needs more representation of neurodivergent or physical disabilities.
  • Character arcs should explore disability more deeply.

Official Synopsis

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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