Y and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the first openly gay superhero cema. But Deadpool 2's simply taken a small first step.
Contents:
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
- IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
- 'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
Is Deadpool gay, bisexual, straight, or somethg else that is ncrete Marvel non?
This is blatant panrg to fans of the homoerotic iendship of Peter Parker and Wa Wilson—universally shorthand as Spiypool. So far, the ic seems mted to explorg the homoerotic elements of Spiypool’s often-antagonistic relatnship—or at least puttg plenty of gay jok about .
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IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?
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'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
K is gay. 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.
Their homoerotic iendship has been allud to many tim the Marvel Universe, and the huge fan culture surroundg the two characters led to their own spoff ic seri beg released 2016 lled "Spir-Man/Deadpool" (a reference to the Spiypool slash ship). Are They Gay? The first explicly gay superhero Marvel Comics was North Star, a mutant and X-Men off-shoot om Alpha Flight #7 2011.
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