The latt Mortal Kombat game has the seri' first openly gay character, and the reactns are about what you'd expect.
Contents:
- DID MORTAL KOMBAT WASTE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER?
- INTRODUCG MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- MORTAL KOMBAT GETS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- BLK AND YOU MIGHT MISS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
- MORTAL KOMBAT SERI INTRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTER, KUNG J
- KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
- HERE’S MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
- HOMOPHOB UPSET ABOUT MORTAL KOMBAT X’S GAY FIGHTER ARE HILAR
- FIRST GAY MORTAL KOMBAT CHARACTER IS NEWER KUNG J
- MORTAL KOMBAT X HAS SERI' FIRST GAY CHARACTER (MAYBE)
- KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
- WHY IS KUNG J GAY?
- MORTAL KOMBAT 11: FANS LL FOR RETURN OF GAY CHARACTER KUNG J
- KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
DID MORTAL KOMBAT WASTE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER?
Kung J is a gay character om Mortal Kombat. Kung J is the nephew of Kung Lao, one of Earthrealm's top Shaol warrrs. J viewed his uncle as a hero and held much admiratn for him. Followg Kung Lao's ath, the fay lost their fortun and moved to the USA, where J turned to... * kung jin gay *
Kung J is a gay character om Mortal Kombat. Kung J began to exprs his fear of the Shaol rejectg him bee of his homosexualy, but was terpted by Rain statg that "(The Shaol) re only about what is your heart, not what your heart sir.
INTRODUCG MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
Observant fans have jt outed a closeted gay character Mortal Kombat X, said to be the first the seri. The fighter is Kung J, a of the famed Kung Lao, and an archer who riddl his opponents wh arrows durg his blood fatali. His orientatn is somethg [...] * kung jin gay *
It is later nfirmed by the game's director that he is gay[1]. ↑ Kung J is Gay. "Mortal Kombat’s first gay male character may be new playable Mortal Kombat X character Kung J, acrdg to an terpretatn of flashback scen explorg the character’s past.
MORTAL KOMBAT GETS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
Gay Star News was observant enough to notice that Kung J is a homosexual, thanks to one of Mortal Kombat X's cutscen. * kung jin gay *
We've prevly explored -pth why we need more gay characters gam and noted that “subtlety wrg should always be praised and ’s more reprentative of real LGBT people.
Observant fans have jt outed a closeted gay character Mortal Kombat X, said to be the first the seri. His orientatn is somethg slipped subtly to the game, and appears to be first spotted by Gay Star News who was payg close attentn durg one of his flashback cutscen. While I suppose that uld be terpreted as Kung J fallg for say, the razor-toothed cloned villa Mileena, which no orr of monks would approve of, Mortal Kombat X’s cematic director Domic Cianclo nfirmed that the scene was ed alludg to Kung J beg gay.
BLK AND YOU MIGHT MISS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
Mortal Kombat Mak History Wh Its First Gay Character * kung jin gay *
It’s a small thg, but given that Kung J would be the first gay character MK history, ’s not signifint.
KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
Mortal Kombat X featur the first gay character the history of the anchise. * kung jin gay *
Gay fightg game characters are few and far between, and only a few LGBTQ characters even seem to exist the landspe at all. The pot is, legimately, nfirmed gay characters are a rary fightg gam.
In recent years, more and more gay characters have ma their way to gam, most notably the sts of Bware’s Dragon Age and Mass Effect seri, many of whom are gay, where the player character has the optn to be gay (or bi) as well.
There’s also The Last of Us: Gone Home, which revealed Ellie as gay as she shar a tenr moment wh her (unfortunately soon-to-be-killed) iend.
MORTAL KOMBAT SERI INTRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTER, KUNG J
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Only recent years have more fully-flhed out gay characters started to appear gam.
I rpect Mortal Kombat, possibly the goofit, bloodit, most over-the-top anchise gamg, at least attemptg to be a b more mdful of their gay and female fans wh subtle chang or addns to the seri.
Gay Star News was observant enough to notice that Kung J is a homosexual, thanks to one of Mortal Kombat X‘s cutscen. What do you thk of Mortal Kombat‘s first gay character? For the first time, players of the massively popular Mortal Kombat seri have the optn to play as a gay character the anchise's latt stallment, "Mortal Kombat X.
KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
Mortal Kombat X newer might be gay. * kung jin gay *
However, observant gamers have disvered that Mortal Kombat X featur the first openly gay character the anchise’s history.
In Chapter 4, one of the cutscen strongly impli that the character Kung J is gay.
HERE’S MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER
For Mortal Kombat X on the PlayStatn 4, a GameFAQs msage board topic tled "Why is Kung J gay?" - Page 4. * kung jin gay *
— Domic Cianclo (@domcianclo) April 14, 2015 [Source: GayStarNews]. ” A tweet om Mortal Kombat X‘s cematic director, Domic Cianclo, suggts that Kung J is the fightg anchise’s first (nonilly) gay character.
“I see people are pickg up on the subtle exposn ntaed Kung J’s flashback, ” he said a tweet picked up by Gay Star News. The game also troduc the first openly gay fighter the Mortal Kombat universe, Kung J.
That this was an explic reference to J beg homosexual was later nfirmed by NetherRealm studs. Kung J is arguably the first openly gay playable character a fightg game ever (Street Fighter’s Poison is nsistently portrayed as a transwoman and Venom of Guilty Gear is implied to love wh his male mentor.
HOMOPHOB UPSET ABOUT MORTAL KOMBAT X’S GAY FIGHTER ARE HILAR
See, homophobe land gay people are only allowed to be real characters if nobody ever lls them gay and they never ever do anythg to ll attentn to themselv as gay. Once someone acknowledg the gayns YOU CAN’T UNSEE IT! They are no longer a regular person; they are a gay person and you always have to take that to nsiratn.
Dorian by the way, refers to the openly gay character om Dragon Age: Inquisn, the game that has set the bar on genr and sexual orientatn diversy the dtry. It seems like there needs to be a reason for a character to be gay; they n’t jt be gay. Why do Kung J have to be gay?
FIRST GAY MORTAL KOMBAT CHARACTER IS NEWER KUNG J
It all go back to that notn that gay is part of an agenda stead of a part of everyday life. Like, they look at Mortal Kombat and say, “nope, nothg for gays here” and go off to play whatever tl are the approved Homophobic Gamer Handbook.
And fally, my favore type of oblivns; the ia that cludg a gay character bowg to polil rrectns. Addg a gay character, a solid, non-stereotypil gay character, to a beloved anchise is actually phg the envelope.
Sometim means, n the people who make gam get you to enjoy a gay character and be OK wh that. That’s right, Kung J is Mortal Kombat’s first homosexual fighter. Acrdg to Gay Star News, there are two piec of evince to support this claim.
MORTAL KOMBAT X HAS SERI' FIRST GAY CHARACTER (MAYBE)
Of urse this alone isn’t nclive evince that Kung J is gay.
KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
Kung J, a new playable character Mortal Kombat X, might well be the seri' first gay character, at least acrdg to Gay Star News. Is that enough to nclu Kung J is homosexual, or are some fans too quick to jump to nclns?
However, a seri of flashbacks Mortal Kombat X, which was released on April 14, reveals somethg far more personal: he's gay, albe told by the character Rain that he should jo the Shaol monks, Kung J rponds:"I n't...
"Watch a trailer for the new game below:(H/T Gay Star News). Clever fans noticed a scene s story mo that heavily impli seri newer Kung J, the of razor hat-tossg seri regular Kung Lao, is gay… an implitn that the game’s cematics director then more or ls nfirmed on Twter. It says somethg that our nfirmatn on whether or not J is gay (as opposed to bi or pan, or some more fluid sexualy, which are all optns given his scene wh Rain) om cematic director Cianclo himself, a tweet where someone fally jt asked him pot-blank about .
WHY IS KUNG J GAY?
I’m legimately happy that they ma J gay, and I’m even happier that didn’t go massively wrong the thoand and one ways uld have.
MORTAL KOMBAT 11: FANS LL FOR RETURN OF GAY CHARACTER KUNG J
Shoehorng more “gay time” for J to the script seems silly, pecially given that Mortal Kombat’s myth-arc is about elr gods and terdimensnal fightg tournaments and spec ops soldiers wh cyb shotgun arms, and that s visual style is all about wild kung fu movie athetics and a guy who n lerally bear hug people to ath. Maybe, but I already fd that behavr obnox heterosexual characters like Johnny Cage, so why would I put up wh om J jt bee he’s gay? Never md that the rt of the st appears to be straight men, and I fd the practice of gay men htg on straight men the media often go to a bad place.
KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
When I hear myself say “Let’s give NetherRealm cred for dog a ol thg wh J but not go overboard” I flip right back to 2014 and the impendg release of what was then lled Ultimate Gay Fighter. The suatn wh that game is more or ls the verse of J’s; Ultimate Gay Fighter as prented 2014 was full of damagg and rctive stereotyp, but me om a queer creator. In the spir of that, I thk NetherRealm serv cred for not jt cludg a gay character a long-nng anchise, but also dog a genre where that’s rarely seen, and dog a rpectful way.