15 Openly Gay Marvel Characters That Might Be Comg To The MCU

Contents:

• MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• IS SHE-HULK GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
• MARVEL COMICS: HULKS (MAD TV: GAY HULK)

MARVEL COMICS REVEALS EARTH'S FIRST GAY SUPER-COUPLE

K is 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.

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

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. ” 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.

IS SHE-HULK GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?

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.

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.

IS HULK GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?

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.

MARVEL COMICS: HULKS (MAD TV: GAY HULK)

In recent years, many Marvel fans have exprsed disappotment that the MCU is takg s sweet time to troduce a gay character who isn't a meo by the director of the movie appearg onscreen for 40 sends. The '70s: No Gay People In The Marvel Universe... Throughout the '60s and most of the '70s, there were no gay characters Marvel ics, unls you unt the ocsnal effemate villa or "lispy stool pigeon.

" And we say "most of the '70s" bee that changed 1979 wh the troductn of the first explicly homosexual characters Marvel Comics history. Gay rears, and people wh basic humany general, weren't imprsed wh the fact that Marvel's first foray to LGBTQ reprentatn nsisted of two dis-era rapists lled Dewey and Luellen (Dewey and Luellen (c) Walt Disney Company, all rights rerved). When they let Marvel know about this, wrer/ic child prodigy Jim Shooter, who also happened to be the pany's Edor--Chief, fend the story by sayg that he " unrstand why any non-rapist would be offend" and potg out that there were lots of non-sister gay characters that very magaze.

You jt uldn't tell they were gay. Shooter apparently liked this "you n't see the gay people" policy, nsirg what happened next...