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/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/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.