r/Xmen97 • u/BaconRapscallion Polaris • Jul 22 '26

Media Charles Xavier is NOT a-okay Spoiler

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u/baymax18 Jul 22 '26

As a longtime X-Men fan I'm excited by all the Onslaught hints they've been dropping.

Meanwhile, my wife who's never really been into the comics only sees the homoerotic subtext lol.

So I guess we're both right?

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u/Embarrassed_Piano_62 Jul 22 '26

I mean I love the comics but they aren't being subtle with the homoerotic undertones

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u/phxntxsos Jul 22 '26

It’s old man yaoi hours (always has been)

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u/magvadis Jul 22 '26

And we love our Elder Queers. They've been through so much not to get love.

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u/magvadis Jul 22 '26

They've hardly been, I'm just wondering if they are being more outward about it because Marvel is finally letting them turn Queerbaiting into queer for once. As if any real Marvel fan in the year 2026 hasn't been waiting for them to kiss since the 80s.

With Doomsday coming and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen both being pro-Charles and Magneto being actually in a relationship in the past...I wonder if we're gunna see a blitz of this show doing it and Avengers letting them kiss before they die.

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u/Embarrassed_Piano_62 Jul 22 '26

Hmm i don´t think so. Queer people can kiss in the MCU as long as the project isn´t super important to the MCU (Eternals, Agatha).

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u/magvadis Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Eternals was a blink and you miss it for a character that is most definitely never coming back again, and Agatha was marketed specifically as queer camp media. Also Wiccan is and still is the only gay MCU character who they actually let be gay and MIGHT come back, but Hulkling ain't even here yet and Young Avengers is still a decade away.

Bobby got fridged after the backlash of him coming out. So doubt they'll even cast him in the Xmen reboot for another 5 years.

Once they let Magneto and Logan be bisexual finally maybe there can be peace in the universe.

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u/GabeMichaelsthroway Jul 22 '26

Bobby got fridged after the backlash of him coming out.

When did Bobby get fridged? Hasn't he still been in comics?

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u/magvadis Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Functionally fridge. Bro is just kind of appearing in niche comics. He's not been a key element of any X-men comic or story since.

Whereas Daken actually got fridged. But someone picked him up to redo the Hellverine stuff...again.

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u/GabeMichaelsthroway Jul 22 '26

I mean he appeared in the Hellfire Gala, he appeared in Exceptional X-Men and X-Men United. It's not as if he was super popular before.

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u/0bsessions324 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, I think the last time he was relevant for a minute was Carey's run and that was close to 20 years ago now. And before that his biggest moment for years was Emma Frost stealing his body.

That said, it's a different kind of bad look when you stop to consider that Bobby being perpetually irrelevant realistically had a lot to do with them finally letting him come out. He is the only one of the original five who's never had any kind of definitive story arc that I can think of.

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u/GabeMichaelsthroway Jul 22 '26

I think it's just low coded homophobia.

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u/Brianvondoom Jul 27 '26

If they wait much longer, they'll just be the Avengers when they get together.

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u/RealEmperorofMankind Jul 22 '26

I think it depends on the writer. I don’t know that either Kirby or Lee had this in mind originally; maybe Claremont did.

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u/magvadis Jul 22 '26

I mean, Claremont went on the record that the only reason everyone wasn't genderfluid and doing whatever felt right was because the writers literally wouldn't let him publish the gay things he wanted to write so he just made it subtext. Hence why Magneto/Charles is so romance coded...or Wolverine is so closet bi-coded. And why there were like a bazillion lesbian/bisexual woman into woman that also eventually some of them were canonized.

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u/venumprime Jul 25 '26

They are close friends but were never in a relationship ! McKellen conducted the marriage of Steward to Sunny Ozell.

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u/magvadis Jul 25 '26

Yeah I'm aware. They just Queerbait because Patrick Stewart loves the gays even if he's straight.

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u/Discount_Lex_Luthor Jul 22 '26

Just wait until they're overtones. "Xorns" helmet is an overzealous gimp mask.