Question 1

Is The Martian woke?

Accepted Answer

The Martian has a woke score of 8/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. This is straight-up hard sci-fi survival with zero identity politics or lectures. Mark Watney (Matt Damon) gets stranded on Mars and uses brains, science, and grit to stay alive while NASA scrambles to bring him home. The story is all problem-solving, teamwork, and human ingenuity—no race swaps, no gender sermons, no institutional takedowns. Cast is mixed but it serves the international NASA premise without ever becoming the point. A pre-woke-era crowd-pleaser that sticks to the book’s focus on real science and hope.

Question 2

Is there DEI in The Martian?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Creator track record context. During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

The Martian

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