After this TikTok, you’ll never look at Ratatouille the same way

At this point, it just makes sense to assume that most Disney/Pixar vehicles make for a very easy gay reading. When you have a hero who “always knew [he] was different” and who finds much to appreciate in the realm of the forbidden, suffice it to say it’s not exactly a stretch to see the queer parallels. We’ve personally been on the Luca is gay train since it came out, because if you make a movie about a boy who’s secretly a fish, I’m sorry but your movie is gay regardless of anyone’s intentions.

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But what about some of the less obvious ones? Can we possibly find a gay parallel for the grumpy Carl Fredricksen in Up? I mean, it is a movie about chosen family. What about Brave, the story of a gender-nonconforming Scottish girl who must look within herself to find the solution to her problems? It writes itself! And we can’t forget everyone’s favorite gay rat Remy from Ratatouille!

Wait…what?

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That’s right: a queer reading for Remy has been on the table all along, but we were too caught up the drama to even notice it.

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Who can queen out with me over this …? #ratatouille #gay #lgbt #queericon #queer

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TikToker D’Andre Wilcox recently noticed something about the classic Pixar film, and now we can’t look at it the same way. In the edit Wilcox presents, we see Remy being told to stay away from the human world, even though he loves humans and is fascinated by what they represent. “I now had a secret life,” Remy tells us in voiceover after disobeying the rules. I mean…yeah that’s quite gay.

Remy’s older brother Emile is the one other rat who knows his secrets and is comfortable keeping them. “He doesn’t understand me,” Remy says of Emile, “but I can be myself around him.”

Emile then tells Remy that he’s walking weird and that “dad’s not going to like it” if he catches him walking that way. Wow Pixar, you didn’t need to cut us that deep!

Honestly, that’s enough evidence for me to declare Ratatouille officially gay. We always sort of knew Remy was one of us, but now it’s official.

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