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

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• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• 15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU
• MARVEL MIGHT’VE JT CAST NEW GAY YOUNG AVENGERS HERO IN THE MCU

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

In a new teaser for Marvel Studs' highly-anticipated superhero film Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns, we've learned that the Marvel Cematic Universe's first gay baby superhero, Billy and Tommy, are officially g back! For those not the know, Billy grows up to be the gay superhero Wicn, and Tommy grows up to be the bisexual hero Speed, both are members of the mostly-LGBGTQ+ superhero team the Young Avengers.

While the two were babi and pre-teens the seri, fans are hopg that the troductn of the two characters will eventually lead to seeg them as their fully-realized gay selv.

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

Hopefully, the movie will permanently brg the two characters to the MCU two gay tws aren't the only queer characters appearg the film. It also giv fans hope that queerns will bee more normalized the year's Eternalstroduced the MCU's first gay superhero, Phastos, but mostly jt left fans wantg more. 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. ” The MCU uld easily portray the character as gay.

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

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.

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. And most importantly, which gay superhero will be the movie?

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

One mor says that some of her queer Young Avengers iends, specifilly, Billy (Wicn) and Tommy (Speed), the two gay tw sons of Wanda and Visn, uld also appear the movie.

Eratn of the gang, wh 2014’s Young Avengers #15 eher nfirmg or heavily htg that all the members at the time were gay. A prev stg ll may have revealed that Wicn alongsi his partner om the ics, Hulklg, may be clud Coven of Chaos, leadg fans to speculate how the gay superhero uple will f Agatha's next chapter. Coven of Chaos Might Introduce a Young Avenger Followg the news that Joe Locke joed the st of Agatha: Coven of Chaos as s male lead oppose Kathryn Hahn, Deadle noted that the actor is set to play “a gay teen wh a dark sense of humor, ” lg up wh Wicn Marvel Comics and the aforementned stg ll that was unvered by Murphy's Multiverse.

K is gay. In addn, he’s an openly gay superhero a mted relatnship wh teammate Hulkg. The two have ntued to be one of the most popular gay upl all popular ics and got married 2020.

MARVEL MIGHT’VE JT CAST NEW GAY YOUNG AVENGERS HERO IN THE MCU

While Wicn gets the most attentn for beg gay, Tommy’s bisexualy has been explored the Young Avengers ics as well. And wh Marvel wantg to make money abroad, and specifilly anti-gay untri like Cha, we n’t be sure the MCU won’t give half-baked reprentatn.

Here’s lookg at you, gay guy om Avengers: Endgame and all the LGBTQ characters who have remaed closeted so far (Valkryie, Ayo, K).

However, we do have to nsir that Marvel produc ntent for a global dience and there are still untri where pictg acts of homosexualy, even to the pot of kissg someone of the same genr, is nsired offensive. That's the ma reason why we haven't had a gay uple as the ma characters the 'Star Wars' movi (we're lookg at you, Poe and Fn) and that's also why Marvel is unlikely to go the full-on LGBT route wh the Young Avengers, at least not if they want the team to show up the movi. Billy ma history as one of Marvel Comics’ most proment gay characters (alongsi his love tert, Teddy Altman, aka Hulklg).