Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story.
Contents:
- IF LU AND THE FALN AND THE WTER SOLDIER ARE GAY TO YOU, THEN THEY’RE GAY
- NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
- GAY CAPTA AMERI TO DEBUT UPG MARVEL COMICS SERI
IF LU AND THE FALN AND THE WTER SOLDIER ARE GAY TO YOU, THEN THEY’RE GAY
But nowadays, Bucky's homoerotic yearngs are directed towards another superhero, Sam Wilson, which is all kds of awkward bee Faln basilly had a thg for Cap urse, we're kiddg (sort of), yet even so, 's hard to ignore the gay subtext of Bucky and Sam's new show, The Faln and the Wter Soldier. And then there's also that tiger moment om the first episo which set Gay Twter ablaze.
What seems more likely is that Marvel knew exactly what was dog here, and so liberately queer-baed dienc wh this Studs has a long history of playg to homoerotic trop whout ever followg through on them. That way, Marvel gets to have s ke and eat too by drawg queer fans while not offendg the homophobic mographic of their dience. Sure, Eternals will soon feature the MCU's first out gay superhero, and Billy Maximoff, one of Wanda's children, is sted to bee a queer hero too one day.
"Er Kellyman is gay, " one follower victorly clared on Twter.
NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
\u201cERIN KELLYMAN IS GAY WE WON\u201d — Arson Barn (@Arson Barn). "\u201cstill reelg over the fact that er kellyman is gay i sudnly have a will to live\u201d — rayyyyy \u263d (@rayyyyy \u263d). Marvel also troduced the first gay superhero wh an onscreen love tert their library of tl.
"The mixed-race Kellyman has never hidn the fact she is gay. In one post, the pair n be seen celebratg at a Pri June, O'Coy posted a pic of the two sually seated together outdoor, sayg her "gay ass self" was the happit she'd ever been bee of Eternals is due for release November. The same has happened wh the relatnship between Bucky and Sam, and the first episos of The Faln and the Wter Soldier were charged wh homoeroticism, which fans were quick to pot out on social media, but wh that also me the cricism of the stud’s tenncy to queerbag, as (unfortunately) ’s not somethg new the MCU.
GAY CAPTA AMERI TO DEBUT UPG MARVEL COMICS SERI
The homoeroticism shown The Faln and the Wter Soldier feels like yet another failed attempt om Marvel to brg LGBTQ+ reprentatn to the mix, and remas to be seen if the MCU will ntue on this queerbag path for the rt of the seri or will fally embrace Bucky’s potential bisexualy. Surely, The Eternals will troduce the MCU’s first openly gay superhero, but given the stud’s long history of failur at reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny, the queerbag problem should be fixed as soon as possible.
Anthony Mackie, ver your ears: Lu is gay. While ’s not ma explic, Pixar’s latt—the sun-soaked tale about the transformative iendship between two young sea monsters who disguise their te inty to explore life on land among humans—mak for a rich parable for the queer g-of-age experience, and one that feels more genue and more heartfelt than any of the Disney rporatn’s meager attempts at “exclively gay moments” recent the ncern Mackie voiced last week, about “the exploatn of homosexualy, ” was a direct rponse to fans ’shippg a romance between his Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barn the MCU, ’s hard not to read as a crique of the broar culture: that LGBTQ+ dienc, particular, misterpret certa characters and stori to— his words—“make themselv relevant and ratnal.
” In that sense, ’s a funny cince Mackie’s statement was published the day prr to Lu’s release: Ever sce s Call Me By Your Name-que synopsis was first revealed, was speculated (sometim jokgly) that the movie would be gay, or at least a gay metaphor. As director Enri Casarosa—who notably also receiv a “story by” cred—told our lleagu at 9, Lu wasn’t signed to be a gay allegory.