8 Marvel Characters Who Could Be The MCU's First Gay Hero | Cemablend

Contents:

• WANDAVISN EPISO 6 JT TRODUCED THE MCU'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• 8 MARVEL CHARACTERS WHO COULD BE THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO

WANDAVISN EPISO 6 JT TRODUCED THE MCU'S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO

Kev Feige has teased that this group will play a key role Phase 4, and we wouldn't be surprised if olr versns of Billy and Tommy help found the team after StudsBut more importantly than that, Wicn is also one half of Marvel's most proment gay uple the ics. Apparently, the Eternals may soon help change that, but the meantime, a teen versn of Billy who is openly gay uld add some much-need LGBTQ+ reprentatn to this world. There's also a worryg amount of ic book precent here which suggts that Billy and Tommy uld be erased om realy, perhaps by whatever Big Bad is actually behd all this (Mephisto did exactly this the source material) even if the kids do go past Ellis Avenue, and even if Wanda's bubble is stroyed, this still marks the onscreen but of a pivotal gay superhero.

As ic book fans already know, Billy and Tommy eventually returned om limbo to bee grown-up hero, and WandaVisn's versn of the kids will likely do the same, heraldg a new and cidly gay versn of the MCU movg forward. 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.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

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. ” 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.

8 MARVEL CHARACTERS WHO COULD BE THE MCU'S FIRST GAY HERO

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.