Gay superheroes
Gay superhero film
KenK said:
I'm genuinely surprised no studio has ever thought to option The Leadership.
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Yeah, they really should. I think the hesitancy to act so though has little to nothing to do with the sexuality of Apollo and Midnighter and more to do with the risk of releasing a superhero movie with characters that no one outside of comic manual readers know. Watchmen was really the only film that did this in the past decade or so, and that movie was only a moderate hit.
The trouble is, to make a superhero film nice in this evening of age, you generally need a big effects budget. And it's tough to justify signing off on something that requires a big effects budget unless you can almost guarantee that it's going to make money. Studios do take risks on occasion, and sometimes it pays off (Avatar) and other times it doesn't (Pacific Rim).
I think The Command might work finer as an HBO/Showtime/Cinemax series. I've often felt that Game of Throneswould hold never been a successful film. It didn't have the name recognition of Harry Potteror The Lord of the Rings, despite also being a
Marvel’s first gay superhero is an amalgamation of straight assumptions. Northstar was introduced in 1979 as the first lgbtq+ character in the superhero genre. Unfortunately, the Comics Code Authority censored scripts that were explicit on the matter of his sexuality. For years writers employed subtext to leave hints for their audience to pick up.
Besides men coming in and out of his home, or lingering shirtless in the background of panels, Northstar was coded through the distinct perspective of how straight men typically view gay men. As Ben Bolling points out, he was portrayed as vain, sarcastic, and reckless, but more interestingly, he was given a backstory full of poverty and abandonment. While this is a common background in action/adventure drama, it parallels tightly with sociological work on the queer people in the overdue ’70s. Material enjoy the documentary Paris is Burning exists as a reminder that the gay community was viewed as an economically suppressed class for decades.
In the ’80s Northstar’s creator left his flagship and the subsequent penner, Bill Mantlo, idea he could publicly discuss Northstar’s sexuality by killing him off through a long
Stan Lee's Gay Superhero
Teelie said:
Unfortunately it will almost certainly only reinforce stereotypes or do a poor job of exploring the difficulties of his non-superhero persona. I see it like this; do we have any superheroes who are heterosexual and are constantly given screen time regarding being heterosexual?
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Superman's love for Lois Lane has been a major character aim in every version of the character from Action Comics #1 to whatever issue was released this month. Superman was the first and definitive superhero, so to say a superheroes heterosexuality is not an issue is a tad ridiculous.
Scott Summers and Jean Grey's romance has been a major element in X-Men.
Peter Parker's love for Gwen Stacey and his relationship with MJ have been major elements in Spider-Man.
Daredevil and Elektra. Rogue and Gambit. Bruce Banner and Betty Ross. Selina Kyle and Slam Bradley. Tony Stark is a raging hetero lothario.
These are just off the top of my head.
You could bring up how they show Bruce Wayne with women on his arm but it's an act, a cover of the "playboy" persona he's meant to have, not the rea
12 superheroes who came out in 2021
Comics fans are still reeling from the news that next-generation Superman Jonathan Kent, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is attracted to both genders. Although DC shared the news on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Sunlight, Kent will explore his feelings for another childish man in “Superman: Son of Kal-El” No. 5, dropping in November.
Queer visibility in comic books has exploded in recent years, but in 2021 it went supernova: In part that’s due to an expanding presence in sci-fi TV shows and — with the release of Marvel’s “Eternals” next month — a blockbuster movie.
Below we celebrate a dozen comic book characters who hoisted the rainbow flag this year in produce or screen.
Superman
No, Clark Kent hasn’t come out: His son, Jonathan, is taking on the mantle of the Man of Steel while Dad pursues an existential threat off-planet.
In “Superman: Son of Kal-El”, which is replacing the usual monthly “Superman” title, Jonathan falls for high-school correspondent Jay Nakamura.
After Jon physically and emotionally burns out from “trying to save everyone that he can,” according to a DC Comics news discharge, Jay is there to support him. The two have their first embrace in