On Dragon Ball - General, a GameFAQs msage board topic tled "Which Z fighter do you thk is gay?".
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- DRAGON BALL Z GAY COMICS
- WHICH Z FIGHTER DO YOU THK IS GAY?
- ‘DRAGON BALL SUPER’ CAST ADDRS WHETHER BEES & WHIS ARE GAY
- DRAGON BALL Z GAY COMICS
DRAGON BALL Z GAY COMICS
* dragon ball gay *
In fact, when Bulma and Krill acce him of beg gay, he reacts a very shocked manner, as if he's tryg (and failg) to hi his sexualy. Which, to many fans, nfirmed that this character was meant to be gay.
In fact, this whole scene plays on the horribly outdated and offensive trope of gay men beg sexual predators. Also, General Blue's general personaly is built around several offensive homosexual stereotyp. Havg one of the few obvly gay d characters be nstantly ridiculed and heavily implied to be a Nazi is highly offensive, pecially when no other gay characters are prent the story to unteract this.
WHICH Z FIGHTER DO YOU THK IS GAY?
The other implied gay character the seri is Otokosi. " A jab at his obv homosexual dg.
And this is another example of a gay-d character actg a predatory manner. The public perceptn of LGBT people, pecially gay men, is very different om how was the 1980s and 1990s.
However, is a shame that the only gay characters play on rogatory stereotyp and only exist to be lghed at. In a universe as big as Dragon Ball's, there is room for a new gay character, one who isn't based on horrible and offensive stereotyp. In Japane, Otoko Si means "man love", a reference to his obv homosexualy.
‘DRAGON BALL SUPER’ CAST ADDRS WHETHER BEES & WHIS ARE GAY
He wears the attire of a stereotypil homosexual biker, nsistg of a black peaked p wh a skull motif, a sgle black strap across his cht om the left shoulr, black studd glov, black pants, and black motorcycle boots.
Apart om his homosexualy and attractn to Tnks and to a lser extent Goten, ltle is known about Otokosi's personaly. Dpe clearly over-rankg him, Tnks is hant to participate a match wh Otokosi due to Otokosi's overt homosexualy, cludg his flirtgly tellg Tnks that he'll go easy on him as well as statg that he, unlike Wild Tiger, was happy wh his challenger. Otokosi bears a great remblance to the late Glenn Hugh, who played the biker the Village People, a 1970s dis band monly associated wh homosexualy.
In televised airgs of "Buu's Rernatn", Otokosi's homosexual behavr is largely eded out. Otokosi is the send homosexual character to appear the Dragon Ball seri, wh the first beg General Blue. "Are there gay characters DragonBall?
DRAGON BALL Z GAY COMICS
Var voic wh the LGBT movement dite homophobia as a drivg force behd the ongog "nspiracy" (or however you would fe the willful excln of diveristy) that kept gay characters om beg reprented for such a long time mastream nsumptn.
In light of the creasgly succsful tegratn of homosexual characters popular anchis, arguments of mercial ncerns or nsumer protectn that were floated twenty years ago certaly don't rry the same weight they once did- tim are changg, and the media landspe is morphg to reflect that.