Every Single Comic Book Character That Has Been Retconned To LGBTQ+
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And they wonder why manga is kicking their ass.
Manga: Here's a cast of 20+ new characters that tells interesting stories about conflict, tragedy, and life.
Comics: Here's a dozen characters that have been around for over 60 years doing the same things they always did. They're all fucking now.
This statement is deeper than you realize. The Doujin market in Japan and the various awards that companies like Shounen Jump and the like put out encourage new talent to come forth and while the hours are kind of murderous to someone just starting out, there's always a set of fresh talent year after year with new ideas that can become big running series like Demon Slayer or Hero Academia, there's always something for people looking for it.
American comics have been stagnant since the 90s with the endless reboots no long story arcs for fear of violating the status quo. DC and Marvel have this heroes with legacies but the only story-lines they can do is are they gay, are they dead, crisis event then eventual reset. No adaptation is what's leading to their decline. Then you introduce new ideologically aligned talent and the result is New Heroes reboot that gets mocked at because it's so inept.
Well, that, and American comics seem to have boiled down to no more than superhero and Archie comics. The war and horror lines seem to have died out just after about the time I stopped buying comics (the price had just gone up from 25 cents, too). Those dealt with more mature stories, and often had character death (especially Sgt Rock, and yes, this was under the Comics Code. Really, I think it was less restrictive than what we're getting now.)
And another note would be that I remember the original dub of Kimba the White Lion, and it had real character death (unlike Saturday morning cartoons ...) And I swear I remember a story about the leader of a tribe of poachers named Magic Mask, who gets shot dead by the Ranger dude ...
I miss horror anthology comics. As a kid I bought all the tales from the crypt reprints or EC books.
inb4 they plagiarize RealDRJester's wokewashing list completely.
Used to be a trope called Woke Up Gay. I loved those fics. Even wrote a couple myself.
When will they be brave enough to retcon a gay muhammad or even a gay Jesus?
If he stuck to adult men a gay muhammad would be a step up from the real thing.
Well, jokes about Jesus being gay have circulated since forever, though he did hang with at least one female named Mary (that wasn't his mom) ...
And Mohammed .. there's too many of his living descendants running around for that to stick hard; I think the king of Jordan is/was one, and so was the guy al-Saud beat for to form Saudi Arabia.
Netflix already had a gay Jesus movie.
Was expecting a Babylon bee article. Oh well...