When did movies go "Woke"?

The very first "woke" (using the modern definition of the term) films were around 2003-2004, but it didn't become a full scale pandemic infesting all of Hollywood and ruining existing franchises until around 2016-2017.

"John Q." starring Denzel Washington from 2002, is a very early example of a 'woke' film that was created purely to push a narrative and beat the audience over the head with its "social justice" message.

Alien in 1979

2015

Mad Max Fury Road was the first to turn the hero into a woman. They did it sneakily by including a character named "Mad Max" but the woman Furiosa was obviously playing the Mad Max role in that. There have been other action movies with female leads before, but that was the first one where the woman stole the established hero role.

It's interesting that a term called "woke" and its movement is the most "braindead". And I'm a liberal Democrat saying this.
Movies were diverse before quite a bit but it was done right. Something has gone wrong now and it has become "woke" type thing now with blatant stuff like a cake being rubbed on your face so you see the awesome wokeness. Instead of it being there and you not caring about that but the story.

Personally I think inserting diversity for a checkbox instead of telling a good compelling story with good cast is a racist problem in itself. You cannot combat racism by being racist yourself. It only comes through education, tolerance and getting the right person for the job and focusing on the story instead of the changed diversity for checkbox purposes and idiotic dialogs they get.

In the recent past, this is how it was done and it was fantastic. Several examples abound from Star Trek: Voyager (the best imo of all ST) - which had a female Captain, female chief engineer, native American first officer, black pure Vulcan, Asian Comms officer, female astrophysicist and female alien Kes, female chief protagonist Borg Queen to many others. But the show was amazing not because it was so diverse, no one cared about that, but because it was good. They all worked together as a team, a unit and shared their experiences in a positive way and it was never about them being a woman or black or white or whatever but because of the content of their character. And the stories were all almost about them working together to fix things.

Other examples are Stargate: SG1 which had a black main char Teal'c who was amazing. And Stargate Atlantis had Ronon and Tayla and female Dr. Weir who commanded the unit and Roberto Picardo (who was also in ST:Voyager) and they all were excellent.

Movie examples are Independence Day with Will Smith, Matrix with several prominent Asian chars and Keanu Reeves to Morpheus who is also black.

Others like 48hrs, Lethal Weapon to others.

Not sure when it started but i keep hoping it ends.Problem is wokes are so loud and self rightious that they drown out and character assassinate all other voices on social media.So studios are under the mistaken impression that these obnoxious ranting woke voices are their fanbase.How many movies have to flop before they realize that's not the case.

MAD MAX FURY ROAD 2015.They made Max a supporting character in his franchise not to mention that Mel Gibson should have played his iconic movie role...

Look what they've done with the Netflix Masters of the Universe update....same thing again. The iconic male character is undermined and we get a load of fucking women. They just keep doing this shit...can they not come up with anything else? Make these fucking movies if you want but give me a proper R rated film aimed at men. I want action, gore, excitement, fast cars and beautiful women as tertiary characters.

Aren't they doing another Conan movie? Probably do the same thing again with that too......