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Contents:

• INTRODUCG MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• HOW IS KUNG J GAY?
• KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• WHERE WAS IT SUGGTED IN MKX THAT KUNG J IS GAY?
• WHY IS KUNG J GAY?
• ABOUT KUNG J BEG "GAY"
• MORTAL KOMBAT X HAS SERI' FIRST GAY CHARACTER (MAYBE)
• MORTAL KOMBAT SERI INTRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTER, KUNG J
• KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT
• MORTAL KOMBAT X HAS SERI' FIRST GAY CHARACTER (MAYBE)
• BLK AND YOU MIGHT MISS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• DID MORTAL KOMBAT WASTE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER?
• HOMOPHOB UPSET ABOUT MORTAL KOMBAT X’S GAY FIGHTER ARE HILAR
• HOW IS KUNG J GAY?
• KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

INTRODUCG MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST 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].

HOW IS KUNG J GAY?

↑ 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. 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.

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

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

BoardsMortal Kombat 1Where Was It Suggted In MKX That Kung J Is Gay? Fightg1212y 1 month ago#1Kung J is the first LGBT character of Mortal Kombat however I don't rell ever beg mentn or suggted he is gay? It shouldn’t be that big of a al lol the Great: PLAYING: AC Origs, Odyssey and Valhalla(eded 1 month ago)Twisted_Element 1 month ago#3It was hted his story chapter a flashback scene wh Rain they not gog to outright say he's gay only fightg game who took full risks wh havg LGBT characters is Street Fighter wh Eagle and now Marisa.

"The velopers also nfirmed him as gay on Twter once.

Ssjmatthew 1 month ago#5Ahhhh good ol' Kung J is gay and jaxs endg are back boards are like a time, I post thee name.

WHERE WAS IT SUGGTED IN MKX THAT KUNG J IS GAY?

NathanCopeland 1 month ago#8wasn't implied that Liu Kang was homophobic MKX one tro wh Kung JNot Changg Until No More Hero 3 Is AnnouncedSpiriguidiberto 1 month ago#9NathanCopeland posted... Wasn't implied that Liu Kang was homophobic MKX one tro wh Kung JWasn't all his dialogue X beg a douche spectre though? Wasn't implied that Liu Kang was homophobic MKX one tro wh Kung JY, 's probably why so many of his fans ll me the f slur when I make them wa 30s to select a new fighter, 60s on the character select screen and then teabag to a fataly when I w.

WHY IS KUNG J GAY?

"BoardsMortal Kombat 1Where Was It Suggted In MKX That Kung J Is Gay?

BoardsMortal Kombat XWhy is Kung J gay? They're phg boundariOr maybe bee real life, sexuali and relatnships are more varied than "a whe guy and a whe woman" to see you're beg equally homophobic AND racist, though.

Who r if he is gay? Stryker, Kabal, Ermac, Nara, Reptile, Sektor, Cyrax, Sheeva, Shang Tsung, Ktaro, Goro, Motaro, Ja, Kung Lao, Quan Chi, Onaga, Blaze, Mokap, Chameleon, Khameleon, Ferra/Torr, D'Vorah, uld assume all of the above is gay, and you wouldn't necsarily be add to their character?

ABOUT KUNG J BEG "GAY"

I'll say aga, Kung J beg gay is jt an NRS stung... "I don't re if somebody's gay, I jt don't want to know they're gay.

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

"-DOAbayman, 2015Jubei_Kubagami 8 years ago#37You know, the only one really gettg mad at this pot are you guys, who really r, 's also silly to suggt that him beg gay means the velopers uld not make more stag and characters bee of , jt wow. Also someone who worked on the game nfirmed that he is gay when asked about People's HeelIF YA THE ROB IS COOKING!!! Somebody om nrs nfirmed that he's gay on ignore .

You play the game and you won't notice that he's gay.

MORTAL KOMBAT SERI INTRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTER, KUNG J

If you want to image he's gay, then he is.

If the Shaol n accept Kung J for beg gay, so n like the 50th f***g time (bee 's not like there's a search functn on the boards or anythg), he and Rain were havg a nversatn the story mo about Kung J jog the Shaol Orr. "Then someone asked one of the vs on Twter if Kung J was gay and they straight up said "y"'s also bate about one of his and Liu Kang's tro dialogu where Kung J asks Kang why he won't accept PounceBounce84"Holy Roller ss the garn we fled. "I doubt he's gay.

However, after meetg the Thunr God, he let go of his rentment and traed unr the Whe Lot Society, who J origally thought would not accept him bee of his homosexualy. A disurse between Kung J and Rain, as well as one of J's ments durg an teractn wh Tanya the game's ar, and a half-nfirmatn on the speculatn of fans by one of the game's wrers has led a strong implitn J beg the first homosexual character the Mortal Kombat seri.

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT’S FIRST GAY KOMBATANT

[1] Later, via Twter, creator Domic Cianclo nfirmed that J is ed homosexual. An teractn wh Liu Kang shows that Kang do not approve of eher Kung J's homosexualy or his thief past.

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? 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 X HAS SERI' FIRST GAY CHARACTER (MAYBE)

Gay Star News was observant enough to notice that Kung J is a homosexual, thanks to one of Mortal Kombat X‘s cutscen.

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

What do you thk of Mortal Kombat‘s first gay character?

DID MORTAL KOMBAT WASTE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER?

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.

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

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

HOW IS KUNG J GAY?

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.

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.

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.

KUNG J IS MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

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?

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.