The male lead of Marvel's The Eternals is mored to be Hercul, meang the ic book character will be the MCU's first openly gay lead.
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- 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
- HERCUL LIKELY TO BE THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HERO IN THE ETERNALS
- 8 MARVEL CHARACTERS WHO COULD BE THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO
15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
From Iceman to Hulklg and Moondragon, Marvel boasts a whole array of openly gay characters who would be smash-hs the MCU. * mcu hercules gay *
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. 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.
HERCUL LIKELY TO BE THE MCU’S FIRST OPENLY GAY HERO IN THE ETERNALS
” 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.
8 MARVEL CHARACTERS WHO COULD BE THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO
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. When asked about prev hts of bisexualy and an alternate Hercul' romantic relatnship wh an alternate Wolvere the 2012-2013 "X-Treme X-Men, " seri, Alonso rpond, "Hercul and Jam Howlett's relatnship 'X-Treme X-Men' took place a unique alternate universe, siar to how Coloss was gay the Ultimate Universe, but is straight the 616.
The issue, which tak place the ntuy of the classic, mastream Marvel Universe, se the character of Snowbird suggtg that the male Northstar (long tablished as openly gay), should be unted among an assembly of Hercul' past sexual partners, otherwise all female. The stud has e unr fire the past for lackg LGBT characters, wh Valkyrie and Phastos (om the upg film, The Eternals) beg the only openly gay superhero yet troduced to the universe -- wh scen that would have nfirmed this about Valkyrie even beg cut om Thor: Ragnarok. K is gay.