Mortal Kombat Wasted Its First Openly Gay Character

Contents:

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

INTRODUCG MORTAL KOMBAT'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Mileena isn't the first queer character the seri, Mortal Kombat X showed ex-Shaoil Monk Kung J to be gay, but this is the most expansive LGBTQ+ story we've gotten one of the gam so all of this wasn't enough to grab your attentn, watch this Mortal Kombat 11 ad for Mileena starrg Megan Thee Stalln servg full Tarkatan Assass Realns. RELATED: 'Assass's Creed: Valhalla' Has a Gay Sex Scene Between Two Vikgs. "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. We all know that Kung J is gay, Tanya is lbian and Mileena is bisexual. So, are there some characters are gay, bisexual or lbian Mortal Kombat?

I thk Kano is gay, and Kuai Liang is guys, what is your opn? BoardsMortal Kombat 1Where Was It Suggted In MKX That Kung J Is Gay?

MORTAL KOMBAT GETS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Fightg1212y 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago)Twisted_Element 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago#5Ahhhh good ol' Kung J is gay and jaxs endg are back boards are like a time mache. NathanCopeland 4 weeks ago#8wasn't implied that Liu Kang was homophobic MKX one tro wh Kung JNot Changg Until No More Hero 3 Is AnnouncedSpiriguidiberto 4 weeks 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. "BoardsMortal Kombat 1Where Was It Suggted In MKX That Kung J Is Gay?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Only recent years have more fully-flhed out gay characters started to appear gam.

MORTAL KOMBAT SERI INTRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTER, KUNG J

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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.

DID MORTAL KOMBAT WASTE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER?

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.