The Pixar series “Win or Lose,” according to a Disney synopsis, “features the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game — the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire.”

Win or Lose,” Pixar’s first original series not based on an existing intellectual property, has something not seen in the Disney universe in nearly two decades: a distinctively Christian character. In fact,

Disney Pixar’s latest animated series, “Win or Lose,” has ignited a cultural firestorm with the introduction of its first explicitly Christian character in nearly two decades — a move that starkly contrasts with the studio’s recent decision to drop a transgender storyline from the same project.

Disney Pixar’s new animated softball series Win or Lose has introduced an explicitly Christian character, the entertainment giant’s first in almost 20 years, months after confirming a trans plot line had been axed.

Disney has added an explicitly Christian character to Pixar’s new series Win or Lose. That might not be head-turning in isolation, but it comes just months after nixing a transgender character’s storyline from the same show,

Disney confirmed it had cut a storyline that would have established a character as trans, saying “[W]e recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.