As Pedro Pascal moves through one press tour onto another to promote his 2025 projects, the beloved actor (often being hailed as a "daddy") is now facing what many other A-list celebrities must deal with: The day when a base of social media users turn against superstars and try to turn them into villains through a coordinated hate campaign taking place online.Sign up for the Out Newsletter to keep up with what's new in LGBTQ+ culture and entertainment delivered three times a week straight (well) to your inbox!At the moment, a crop of X users are flooding timelines with images and videos of Pascal attending press events for the first MCU film that will reintroduce "Marvel's First Family" into the cinematic canon. Specifically, the materials being shared show Pascal being affectionate with his co-star, Vanessa Kirby.One post on X that has over 47,000 likes reads, "How does Pedro Pascal get away with heavily petting his female costars, in Hollywood of all places, after the entire industry was upended over MeToo several years ago?" (@) Blake Lively alleged that her It Ends With Us co-star, Justin Baldoni, allegedly hired a crisis PR manager to help coordinate a doctored social media smear campaign against her. This saga between the two actors, which started in November 2019, is still happening as of this story's publication date.Given that pop culture enthusiasts just went through and are still in the middle of the ongoing Lively vs. Baldoni saga, the internet is more aware and more careful than ever when a beloved figure suddenly becomes the target of intense online hate that could be interpreted as suspicious. The sudden switch on Pascal sounded alarm bells for many people. (@) Some fans pointed out that this sentiment comes not too long after Pascal voiced his opposition more strongly than ever against J.K. Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric.Even though there is no concrete proof that this is a direct cause-and-effect situation that can be linked to any one individual or situation, X user @MischiefsYT received nearly nearly 9,000 likes in a post that reads:"The Pedro Pascal hate campaign that suddenly sprung up over night has got to be the most obviously coordinated and botted attack I've ever seen. It's literally the Superman monkey meme incarnate." (@) Fans of the Fantastic Four and The Last of Us actor quickly came to his defense pushed back on the trolls trying to tear Pascal down in the midst of one of his most successful years in showbiz. "This whole Pedro Pascal thing is just revealing that most men cannot fathom intimacy and affection without the promise of sex," one person shared on X. (@) Another person tweeted, "I think most of the anger directed at Pedro Pascal is men not knowing what consent is." (@) Before the backlash ensued, Kirby spoke highly of her costar in an interview for the July/August 2025 cover of Vanity Fair. Kirby discussed the viral moment of them holding hands during a panel at 2024 Comic-Con, saying that they grew close when they started this Fantastic journey into the Marvel Cinematic Universe together."What happened is, we were both incredibly nervous going out in front of thousands of people who love this comic," Kirby explained, referencing Pascal. "He wanted me to know that we were in this together, and I found it a lovely gesture and was very glad to squeeze his hand back." (@) Speculations of coordinated efforts against the Fantastic Four actor grew even more among Pascal's fans who read a particularly pointed X post from fellow MCU star, Simu Liu, of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.Liu wrote on X, "Manufactured hate for someone simply because theyre experiencing a moment of extreme visibility (ie a press tour theyre contractually obligated to do) is really fucking boring."Either way, Pascal continues to glide from one press tour to the next in a landmark year that has had him in the second season of HBO's The Last of Us, making his MCU debut in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, working with Celine Song in Materialists, and then set to appear on Ari Aster's Eddington.