Gay Superhero: 12 Inic LGBTQ Characters Marvel and DC Comics

Contents:

• IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?
• 'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.
• IS DEADPOOL GAY? PANSEXUAL SUPERHERO CELEBRATED BY LGBTQ DPE MENTAL DISORR BEG THE OFFICIAL CSE
• 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?
• DEADPOOL: PANSEXUAL ANTIHERO OR GAY-BAG JOKTER?

IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS MARVEL CANON?

Is Deadpool gay, bisexual, straight, or somethg else that is ncrete Marvel non?

K is gay. The ntext here is, Peter’s only about 50% gay. Deadpool and Spirman have started patrolg together, and they both enjoy the pany their own is given a missn to fd some missg people, but 's a lot harr than he thought, and on top of that he is alg wh a b of a gay is pg after Spiy as ual, but he also meet's this other guy who weirdly enough don't seem to md his face that much.

'DEADPOOL 2' IS THE GAYT SUPERHERO MOVIE YET. THAT'S NOT SAYG MUCH.

Dpe a few smirkg nods to extremely -the-know viewers, Reynolds’ film versn of Deadpool is no more pansexual than a at boy who smacks another brother’s ass and then giggl about , acknowledgg a homoerotic energy he only knows how to dismiss wh a joke. He n be gay one mute, hetero the next, etc. Deadpool referenc Wolvere’s balls, and seems to have an obssn wh Hugh Jackman, a kd of playful homosocial way.

Gay?

IS DEADPOOL GAY? PANSEXUAL SUPERHERO CELEBRATED BY LGBTQ DPE MENTAL DISORR BEG THE OFFICIAL CSE

Word of Gay. If Deadpool is gay, then his ndn is apparently jt a momentary lapse Wa Wilson’s boggled bra. [Image via TBS]Serly, though, the ma Deadpool plot thread has the tular character pg away for his lost female lover, so if Deadpool is gay, then that’s not a major feature of the first film.

But is Deadpool gay or not based upon the official stance by Marvel? [Image via Marvel]It turns out Niceieza believ Deadpool n lerally change his md about homosexualy as a rult of his cell regeneratn disorr.

But the way Niceieza scribed Deadpool’s sexualy raised the hackl of some fans sce he said Deadpool’s “bra cells [are] nstant flux so he is hetero one mute, gay the next. Acrdg to the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, homosexualy was a mental illns until 1974, when the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistil Manual) was updated rponse to multiple APA protts om LGBTQ activists San Francis. Do you thk Deadpool 2 should make Deadpool gay/pansexual?

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

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. Back then, ic would not have allowed an openly gay character, so creator John Byrne had hts through meetg a ‘special iend’ named Raymon Belmon.

IS DEADPOOL GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? OR NEHER?

Bryne even went on to fend his actns, sayg that “there need to be gays ics bee there are gays real life.

Wh hts of mutants and the X-Men jog the MCU soon the form of The Mutants, perhaps Marvel should give this historil gay character a chance on the big screen.

Jean Grey reads a teenaged time-displaced Iceman and outs him as gay. If this were ma to a gay Marvel film would surely be one of the worst g-out films of all time.

DEADPOOL: PANSEXUAL ANTIHERO OR GAY-BAG JOKTER?

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.

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.