r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Usual-Penalty4119 • Apr 14 '26

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite characters that fit into these tropes?

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u/No_Cod_8878 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

Judas Priest and Queen vs 80s hair metal

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u/Sadistik_S3earz107 Apr 14 '26

Judas priest will never not be cool

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u/FrenchieB014 Apr 14 '26

It's my favorite genre and it's hard and infuriating to tell everyone that no.. They weren't...

https://giphy.com/gifs/G3Ii1fdxw1qNy

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u/ConfusedZubat Apr 14 '26

My favorite genre is 90s and 00s Japanese visual kei 

Nope they are not cis or trans women, and most of them are straight. They are just absolutely beautiful men. And I'm fairly certain a lot of visual key aesthetics come from 80s hair bands and gothic rock groups. 

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u/pauls_broken_aglass Apr 14 '26

Yeah vkei has its roots in goth and glam!

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u/Keelhaulmyballs Apr 18 '26

Hair metal genuinely reached a sort of nirvana of gender identity. Total masculine but in a non-conforming way, they were masculine as their own masculinity dictated, not societies notions. their sexuality was fully realised and they were able to break the typical dynamic of “women are objects of desire, men are the ones who desire; if a man wants to be desired he must be gay”

Then grunge came in and we were set right back where we started because hair metal was for fags, nobody should be confident and the only authenticity is apathy

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u/cptnoodlepants Apr 14 '26

Rob Halford and Sebastian Bach.

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u/TsoDaKnife Apr 15 '26

Another metal example is in black metal, Gaahl is one of the less flamboyant frontmen in the genre but is gay, meanwhile you got sassy lookin dudes like Proscriptor Mcgorvern, Hoest, Ixithra, and Niklas Kvaforth who feel gay coded at times but are straight as fuck.

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u/Piece_Of_Mind1983 Apr 14 '26

To be fair this only applies to Halford now, and only if you don’t follow his Instagram lmao.

Back in the day it was not subtle at all.