A new trailer nfirmed that Eternals will feature Phastos, a gay character played by Brian Tyree Henry, who's married wh a kid. Never heard of him? You're not alone.
Contents:
- 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
- 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
- "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
- A GAY SUPERHERO WOULD FALLY GIVE LGBTQ KIDS THE REPRENTATN THEY NEED — SO WHY ARE WE STILL WAG?
- WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
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Jam Gunn, who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy films, elud to gay characters wh the MCU the past.
“You know, somebody asked me will there be any gay characters Marvel movi, and what I meant was there’s a lot of characters the MCU and very few of them have we lved to what their sexuali are — whether ’s gay or straight or bisexual, ” Gunn said. "So, I image there are probably gay characters the Marvel Universe, you know. He's not the first queer MCU character; he's the first out, super-powered MCU character In 2019's Avengers: Endgame, -director Joe Rso played an unnamed gay man a brief scene at a support group.
15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
Pl, there's sr of background players var crowd scen that have pged my personal gaydar. Avengers: Endgame gave the first openly gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, but left a lot of fans (who have spent the last wag to see a gay superhero jo the Avengers) pretty unrwhelmed.
Here's a selectn of openly gay Marvel characters who serve their time to she the MCU.
"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
While many fans hope that Marvel Studs ntu to diversify the superhero they brg to live-actn, Eternals recently took a signifint step forward by prentg Phastos as part of the first openly gay superhero uple the MCU.
Iceman had been fightg alongsi the X-Men the ics for s before he stunned dienc by g out as gay, but fans quickly accepted his sexualy. Wh Marvel Studs hopg to fix the X-Men film anchise after acquirg om Fox, this uld be a good ll for the MCU’s first gay character. Viv’s sexualy hasn’t been nfirmed the ics, but she's kissed Ironheart and was strongly suggted that she’s eher gay or asexual when she said, “an attractn to boys is nowhere wh me.
A GAY SUPERHERO WOULD FALLY GIVE LGBTQ KIDS THE REPRENTATN THEY NEED — SO WHY ARE WE STILL WAG?
” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay. There was speculatn that Hercul would be a lead The Eternals when Marvel announced that the film would star a gay lead, but the reference was stead to Phastos.
Phyla-Vell was first intified as gay when she admted to and acted on her attractn towards Moondragon. In any discsn of who will be the first openly gay superhero the MCU, ’s important to mentn the first openly gay superhero Marvel Comics. Northstar was a landmark character for ic book history bee he was one of the first gay superhero, the first to e out a Marvel book, and 2012, he beme the first character to have a same-sex weddg a mastream ic.
Phastos may be half of the first openly gay relatnship the Marvel Cematic Universe, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead was part of the first gay superhero uple all of superhero cema several years earlier. The two shared the first gay kiss between major characters a Marvel ic back X-Force #45 while Rictor was huntg for Multiple Man New England. Rictor has also dated women the Marvel Universe, such as Wolfsbane and Boom Boom, but he stated X-Force #20 that he always knew ep down that he was gay.
WH AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GAY PEOPLE FALLY EXIST THE MCU
K is gay. The Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU) was fairly slow troducg LGBTQ+ characters —though seeg as even the most chaste reprentatns of queer love get the films banned some untri, you n see why they would be Strange and The Multiverse of Madns actually breaks the rerd for the most lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and/or queer characters an MCU property wh three.
However, seeg as two of them do not talk, and one never mentns their sexualy out loud, clearly there is still some work to be done when to LGBTQ+ MCU is of urse fairly sexls general, but any mentns of queer sexuali have tend to be very brief, the better to allow Disney to easily cut out the scen more homophobic markets.