Y and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the first openly gay superhero cema. But Deadpool 2's simply taken a small first step.
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- 'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
- RYAN REYNOLDS IS OPEN TO EXPLORG DEADPOOL’S PANSEXUALYTHE ACTOR SAID AS MUCH AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, WHERE TALK OF L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN BROKE BOUNDARI OTHER WAYS.BY YOHANA DTAJULY 23, 2018BY JUN SATO/GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERYAN REYNOLDS THKS MIGHT BE TIME TO EXPLORE DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ON THE BIG SCREEN. ON SATURDAY AT COMIC-CON, THE ACTOR, WHO PLAYS THE FOUL-MOUTHED SUPERHERO THE EPONYMO FILM ANCHISE, TOLD A FAN THAT THE ANCHISE’S FUTURE MOVI SHOULD, AND HOPEFULLY WILL, FEATURE A BROAR SPECTM OF L.G.B.T.Q. CHARACTERS. AND THAT CLUS DEADPOOL HIMSELF.“I CERTALY THK THAT THIS UNIVERSE . . . NEEDS TO REPRENT AND REFLECT THE WORLD VERY REAL WAYS,” REYNOLDS SAID DURG A HALL H PANEL AFTER A FAN ASKED ABOUT FUTURE GAY AND BI REPRENTATN THE SERI, ACRDG TO VARIETY. “THE GREAT THG ABOUT DEADPOOL IS THAT WE’RE ALLOWED TO DO THGS THAT OTHER SUPERHERO MOVI DON’T NECSARILY DO, AND THAT’S PROBABLY ONE OF THEM. IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF, CERTALY THROUGH WA, CERTALY THROUGH THIS UNIVERSE, BEE ’S SOMETHG THAT WE’RE BUILDG OUT MORE. WE HAVE A LOT OF TOOLS THE SHED THAT WE GET TO PLAY WH.”DEADPOOL IS ON THE WILST END OF THE SUPERHERO SPECTM, AN R-RATED ACTN TALE WH A NEVER-ENDG ARSENAL OF RNCHY JOK. IN THE LAST TWO FILMS, DEADPOOL/WILSON IS PRENTED AS STRAIGHT, A RELATNSHIP WH VANSA CARLYSLE (PLAYED BY MORENA BACR). HE DO, HOWEVER, FLIRT WH ANYONE AND EVERYONE, TO THE POT WHERE FANS HAVE WONRED IF THE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY PANSEXUAL. DEADPOOL IC -CREATOR FABIAN NICIEZA HAS BEEN DOGGED WH THE QUTN FOR YEARS, NFIRMG BACK 2015 THAT ALL FAN THEORI ABOUT DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ARE ACCURATE, BEE THE CHARACTER IS NSTANTLY FLUX. “HE N BE GAY ONE MUTE, HETERO THE NEXT, ETC,” NICIEZA WROTE TO A FAN ON TWTER. “ALL ARE VALID.”THAT HASN’T QUE BEEN REFLECTED THE FIRST TWO MAJOR FILMS, HOWEVER, NOR HAS REALLY BEEN NFIRMED THAT ’LL HAPPEN THE FUTURE. A THIRD DEADPOOL FILM HAS NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED, BUT THE TEAM HAS HTED THAT THE CHARACTER ULD, AT THE VERY LEAST, POP UP FUTURE X-MEN MOVI.DPE REYNOLDS’S GOOD TENTNS, HIS L WILL SOUND ALL TOO FAIAR TO FANS OF PROPERTI THAT HAVE QUEER CHARACTERS ON PAPER, BUT DON’T REPRENT THEM AS SUCH ON THE BIG SCREEN. ALB DUMBLEDORE (PLAYED BY JU LAW) THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SERI IS ONE SUCH RECENT EXAMPLE; THOUGH THE CHARACTER IS NONILLY GAY THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS, HE WON’T BE EXPLICLY GAY THE UPG SEQUEL. SIARLY, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY -WRER JONATHAN KASDAN RECENTLY NFIRMED THAT THE CHARACTER LANDO CALRISSIAN (PLAYED BY DONALD GLOVER) IS PANSEXUAL—BUT THIS IS NOT EXPLICLY EXPLORED THE FILM. THE PROCS HAS BEE A REGNIZABLE PATTERN: MAJOR ANCHIS EHER PROMISG MORE L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN AND FALLG SHORT, OR RETROACTIVELY STATG A CHARACTER’S SEXUALY, WHOUT SHOWG ANYTHG THAT WOULD TLY DITE ON-SCREEN. DEADPOOL DO, AT THE VERY LEAST, HAVE AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER: NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEAD (BRIANNA HILBRAND), WHO SPENDS MOST OF DEADPOOL 2 WH HER GIRLIEND, Y.THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON DID, HOWEVER, HAVE SOME NCRETE, EXCG NEWS TERMS OF L.G.B.T. REPRENTATN OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS. THE CW ANNOUNCED THAT ACTRS AND ACTIVIST NILE MA, WHO IS TRANS, IS JOG THE ST OF THE TV SERI SUPERGIRL, PLAYG CHARACTER NIA NAL. THE STG MAK MA THE FIRST TRANS PERSON TO PLAY A SUPERHERO ON TELEVISN.“IT SEEMS ONLY FTG THAT WE HAVE A TRANS SUPERHERO FOR TRANS KIDS TO LOOK UP TO,” MA SAID, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM. “I WISH THERE WAS A TRANS SUPERHERO WHEN I WAS LTLE.”THE CW ALSO SCREENED THE PILOT OF THE CHARMED REBOOT AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, REVEALG THAT ONE OF THE MA SISTERS THE RE ST IS QUEER, A REHG TWIST ON THE ORIGAL SERI.CONSIRG THE SERI’S UNCERTA FUTURE, ’LL BE A WHILE BEFORE WE KNOW ANYTHG FOR SURE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DEADPOOL (AND WHETHER OR NOT WA WILSON’S PANSEXUALY WILL ACTUALLY BE EXPLORED). THE SEND FILM, RELEASED THIS PAST MAY, GROSSED $732 LN AT THE WORLDWI BOX OFFICE, A STAGGERG SUM THAT WOULD URGE ANY STUD TO SPRG FOR A THIRD STALLMENT. HOWEVER, WH THE RECENT SALE OF 21ST CENTURY FOX TO DISNEY, EVERYTHG IS STILL FLUX.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDWHO SHOULD PLAY ELON MK ALL SIX THAI CAVE RCUE MOVI?1 / 8CHEVRONCHEVRONBY AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE.JSE PLEMONSIN BLACK MIRROR’S “U.S.S. CALLISTER” EPISO, PLEMONS PROVED HE ULD EXU SISTER RAGE LIKE NO ONE ELSE. AND ALTHOUGH PLEMONS, AGE 30, IS FAR YOUNGER THAN THE 47-YEAR-OLD TECH MOGUL, WH A LTLE MAKP HE ULD PROBABLY BE NVCG ENOUGH TO MAKE THROUGH A QUICK MEO. ALSO, AS ANYONE WHO SAW GAME NIGHT KNOWS, THE ACTOR EXCELS A EDY AS WELL—SO EHER WAY HE NEEDS TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER, PLEMONS N PULL OFF.YOHANA DTA
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
- GLAAD CHAMPNS DEADPOOL 2'S GAY SUPERHERO ROMANCE
- DEADPOOL’S KARAN SONI HAS PLANS TO MAKE A GAY ROM COM WH HIS PARTNER
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
Acrdg to Gay Tim, Deadpool 2 mak a short reference solidifyg the film genre's first-ever LGBT+ romance. She is shown datg Yo, a brand-new mutant to this universe, and Deadpool 2 do explicly state they are an em (via Exprs), Gay Tim did share a few veats for the LGBT+ uple. Acrdg to Gay Tim, Shatterstar do not volize anythg about his sexualy Deadpool 2, but the sequel do lend a voice to the LGBT+ muny elsewhere.
The first explicly gay superhero Marvel Comics was North Star, a mutant and X-Men off-shoot om Alpha Flight #7 2011. Sce then, one of the origal X-Men, Iceman/Bobby Drake, was revealed to be gay last year’s Iceman seri.
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RYAN REYNOLDS IS OPEN TO EXPLORG DEADPOOL’S PANSEXUALYTHE ACTOR SAID AS MUCH AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, WHERE TALK OF L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN BROKE BOUNDARI OTHER WAYS.BY YOHANA DTAJULY 23, 2018BY JUN SATO/GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERYAN REYNOLDS THKS MIGHT BE TIME TO EXPLORE DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ON THE BIG SCREEN. ON SATURDAY AT COMIC-CON, THE ACTOR, WHO PLAYS THE FOUL-MOUTHED SUPERHERO THE EPONYMO FILM ANCHISE, TOLD A FAN THAT THE ANCHISE’S FUTURE MOVI SHOULD, AND HOPEFULLY WILL, FEATURE A BROAR SPECTM OF L.G.B.T.Q. CHARACTERS. AND THAT CLUS DEADPOOL HIMSELF.“I CERTALY THK THAT THIS UNIVERSE . . . NEEDS TO REPRENT AND REFLECT THE WORLD VERY REAL WAYS,” REYNOLDS SAID DURG A HALL H PANEL AFTER A FAN ASKED ABOUT FUTURE GAY AND BI REPRENTATN THE SERI, ACRDG TO VARIETY. “THE GREAT THG ABOUT DEADPOOL IS THAT WE’RE ALLOWED TO DO THGS THAT OTHER SUPERHERO MOVI DON’T NECSARILY DO, AND THAT’S PROBABLY ONE OF THEM. IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’D LOVE TO SEE MORE OF, CERTALY THROUGH WA, CERTALY THROUGH THIS UNIVERSE, BEE ’S SOMETHG THAT WE’RE BUILDG OUT MORE. WE HAVE A LOT OF TOOLS THE SHED THAT WE GET TO PLAY WH.”DEADPOOL IS ON THE WILST END OF THE SUPERHERO SPECTM, AN R-RATED ACTN TALE WH A NEVER-ENDG ARSENAL OF RNCHY JOK. IN THE LAST TWO FILMS, DEADPOOL/WILSON IS PRENTED AS STRAIGHT, A RELATNSHIP WH VANSA CARLYSLE (PLAYED BY MORENA BACR). HE DO, HOWEVER, FLIRT WH ANYONE AND EVERYONE, TO THE POT WHERE FANS HAVE WONRED IF THE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY PANSEXUAL. DEADPOOL IC -CREATOR FABIAN NICIEZA HAS BEEN DOGGED WH THE QUTN FOR YEARS, NFIRMG BACK 2015 THAT ALL FAN THEORI ABOUT DEADPOOL’S SEXUALY ARE ACCURATE, BEE THE CHARACTER IS NSTANTLY FLUX. “HE N BE GAY ONE MUTE, HETERO THE NEXT, ETC,” NICIEZA WROTE TO A FAN ON TWTER. “ALL ARE VALID.”THAT HASN’T QUE BEEN REFLECTED THE FIRST TWO MAJOR FILMS, HOWEVER, NOR HAS REALLY BEEN NFIRMED THAT ’LL HAPPEN THE FUTURE. A THIRD DEADPOOL FILM HAS NOT YET BEEN ANNOUNCED, BUT THE TEAM HAS HTED THAT THE CHARACTER ULD, AT THE VERY LEAST, POP UP FUTURE X-MEN MOVI.DPE REYNOLDS’S GOOD TENTNS, HIS L WILL SOUND ALL TOO FAIAR TO FANS OF PROPERTI THAT HAVE QUEER CHARACTERS ON PAPER, BUT DON’T REPRENT THEM AS SUCH ON THE BIG SCREEN. ALB DUMBLEDORE (PLAYED BY JU LAW) THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SERI IS ONE SUCH RECENT EXAMPLE; THOUGH THE CHARACTER IS NONILLY GAY THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS, HE WON’T BE EXPLICLY GAY THE UPG SEQUEL. SIARLY, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY -WRER JONATHAN KASDAN RECENTLY NFIRMED THAT THE CHARACTER LANDO CALRISSIAN (PLAYED BY DONALD GLOVER) IS PANSEXUAL—BUT THIS IS NOT EXPLICLY EXPLORED THE FILM. THE PROCS HAS BEE A REGNIZABLE PATTERN: MAJOR ANCHIS EHER PROMISG MORE L.G.B.T.Q. REPRENTATN AND FALLG SHORT, OR RETROACTIVELY STATG A CHARACTER’S SEXUALY, WHOUT SHOWG ANYTHG THAT WOULD TLY DITE ON-SCREEN. DEADPOOL DO, AT THE VERY LEAST, HAVE AN OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER: NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEAD (BRIANNA HILBRAND), WHO SPENDS MOST OF DEADPOOL 2 WH HER GIRLIEND, Y.THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON DID, HOWEVER, HAVE SOME NCRETE, EXCG NEWS TERMS OF L.G.B.T. REPRENTATN OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS. THE CW ANNOUNCED THAT ACTRS AND ACTIVIST NILE MA, WHO IS TRANS, IS JOG THE ST OF THE TV SERI SUPERGIRL, PLAYG CHARACTER NIA NAL. THE STG MAK MA THE FIRST TRANS PERSON TO PLAY A SUPERHERO ON TELEVISN.“IT SEEMS ONLY FTG THAT WE HAVE A TRANS SUPERHERO FOR TRANS KIDS TO LOOK UP TO,” MA SAID, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK TIM. “I WISH THERE WAS A TRANS SUPERHERO WHEN I WAS LTLE.”THE CW ALSO SCREENED THE PILOT OF THE CHARMED REBOOT AT THIS YEAR’S COMIC-CON, REVEALG THAT ONE OF THE MA SISTERS THE RE ST IS QUEER, A REHG TWIST ON THE ORIGAL SERI.CONSIRG THE SERI’S UNCERTA FUTURE, ’LL BE A WHILE BEFORE WE KNOW ANYTHG FOR SURE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DEADPOOL (AND WHETHER OR NOT WA WILSON’S PANSEXUALY WILL ACTUALLY BE EXPLORED). THE SEND FILM, RELEASED THIS PAST MAY, GROSSED $732 LN AT THE WORLDWI BOX OFFICE, A STAGGERG SUM THAT WOULD URGE ANY STUD TO SPRG FOR A THIRD STALLMENT. HOWEVER, WH THE RECENT SALE OF 21ST CENTURY FOX TO DISNEY, EVERYTHG IS STILL FLUX.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDWHO SHOULD PLAY ELON MK ALL SIX THAI CAVE RCUE MOVI?1 / 8CHEVRONCHEVRONBY AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE.JSE PLEMONSIN BLACK MIRROR’S “U.S.S. CALLISTER” EPISO, PLEMONS PROVED HE ULD EXU SISTER RAGE LIKE NO ONE ELSE. AND ALTHOUGH PLEMONS, AGE 30, IS FAR YOUNGER THAN THE 47-YEAR-OLD TECH MOGUL, WH A LTLE MAKP HE ULD PROBABLY BE NVCG ENOUGH TO MAKE THROUGH A QUICK MEO. ALSO, AS ANYONE WHO SAW GAME NIGHT KNOWS, THE ACTOR EXCELS A EDY AS WELL—SO EHER WAY HE NEEDS TO PLAY THIS CHARACTER, PLEMONS N PULL OFF.YOHANA DTA
Bh would n a succsful reelectn mpaign that, among other thgs, falsely promised to create a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage. While CW’s superhero televisn shows have actually been rryg the flag recent years by makg a number of ma characters gay, lbian, and bi on Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl, those seri are still targeted to a relatively small, young, and socially liberal (read: likemd) dience the U. But Cha, and s ernment’s censors, are notorly behd on gay rights.
Gay relatnships were a punishable offense until 1997 the People’s Republic, and those who participated them were still rerd as sufferg om a “mental disorr” until 2001. To this day, movi wh explicly gay relatnships are banned Cha, as well as other smaller markets. K is gay.
IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
Cha, pecially, has grown to the domate foreign market and isn't as tolerant of homosexualy, which uld pose a problem were a major stud's superhero film to star a gay character.
Even though gay marriage is legal the Uned Stat, the movie dtry has been slow to velop projects anchored by queer characters.
GLAAD CHAMPNS DEADPOOL 2'S GAY SUPERHERO ROMANCE
The first — and, so far, last — gay breakthrough romance is still 2005’s “Brokeback Mounta. One reason for the ristance to gay characters is that Hollywood is heavily reliant on box office om Cha, where attus about homosexualy are ls tolerant.
When Andrew Garfield suggted a 2013 terview that Spir-Man uld be gay, the creative team at Sony didn’t exactly endorse that ia for the upg reboot.
” While there are a number of gay superhero the ics — Northstar, Batwoman and even the Earth 2 Green Lantern — there was been ltle crossover to the movie world. Even Star Wars, one of the more progrsive geek anchis, only troduced their first gay character (albe the expand universe) last year. Rowlg’s sual assertn that Dumbledore was gay, and the ensug backlash may still be enough to spook nservative stud would be a remarkable step forward if a major movie superhero was a homosexual relatnship (pecially a film as proudly juvenile as Deadpool), and perhaps if the film opens strongly this weekend, Fox will be willg to give s creative team more eedom for Deadpool 2.
DEADPOOL’S KARAN SONI HAS PLANS TO MAKE A GAY ROM COM WH HIS PARTNER
Needs to reprent and reflect the world very real ways, ” Reynolds said durg a Hall H panel after a fan asked about future gay and bi reprentatn the seri, acrdg to Variety.
“He n be gay one mute, hetero the next, etc, ” Nicieza wrote to a fan on Twter. Alb Dumbledore (played by Ju Law) the Fantastic Beasts seri is one such recent example; though the character is nonilly gay the Harry Potter books, he won’t be explicly gay the upg sequel. One notable example of an LGBT character the Marvel Universe is Northstar, a member of the X-Men who was revealed to be gay 1992.
The openly gay choreographer has bee a viral sensatn for his YouTube vios which he and other men fiercely dance to the diva disgraphy of Beyoncé, Rihanna, and fellow ins — heels no ls. ) Deadpool 2 checks off two box: “The film ntas a character that is intifiably lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr” and “That character mt not be solely or predomantly fed by their sexual orientatn or genr inty. ” Apparently, gay characters are already the MCU, acrdg to Guardians of the Galaxy director Jam Gunn.
IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
Wh Disney’s live-actn Bety and the Beast, Rsia threatened to pull the film om theaters bee media had reported Josh Gad’s LeFou would e out as gay. Northstar (Jean-Pl Bebier) is probably the most famo (and the first Marvel ics history) openly gay superhero many dienc might never have heard of.