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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 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. It is later nfirmed by the game's director that he is gay[1].

↑ Kung J is Gay.

INTRODUCG MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

"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

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. It’s a small thg, but given that Kung J would be the first gay character MK history, ’s not signifint.

BLK AND YOU MIGHT MISS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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.

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT

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.

MORTAL KOMBAT SERI INTRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTER, KUNG J

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.

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

— Domic Cianclo (@domcianclo) April 14, 2015 [Source: GayStarNews].

HERE’S MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST NONILLY GAY CHARACTER

” 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.

HOMOPHOB UPSET ABOUT MORTAL KOMBAT X’S GAY FIGHTER ARE HILAR

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. 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.

FIRST GAY MORTAL KOMBAT CHARACTER IS NEWER KUNG J

Once someone acknowledg the gayns YOU CAN’T UNSEE IT!

MORTAL KOMBAT X HAS SERI' FIRST GAY CHARACTER (MAYBE)

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.

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT

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? It all go back to that notn that gay is part of an agenda stead of a part of everyday life.

WHY IS KUNG J GAY?

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.

MORTAL KOMBAT 11: FANS LL FOR RETURN OF GAY CHARACTER KUNG J

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.

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT

Of urse this alone isn’t nclive evince that Kung J is gay. Kung J, a new playable character Mortal Kombat X, might well be the seri' first gay character, at least acrdg to Gay Star News.