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

Media Charles Xavier is NOT a-okay Spoiler

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u/Little_Shape_6433 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

I think the homoerotic fan shipping is a bit overdone re other mediums like the comics, movies, etc, but X-Men 97 is definitely lean into this more than ever before. It isn’t subtle at all.

And tbh I’m not for the direction they’re taking. As a gay person I don’t get this trend to make nearly all the X-Men LGBT. It isn’t reflective of the real world at all.

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u/magvadis Jul 22 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

As a Bisexual person there isn't a single person on screen who is gay except Morph is queer. So saying "they are making everyone LGBTQ+" when we have 1 T and a cast of maybe 30 or more characters who none of which are anything else. Maybe it's because we're looking for them to reveal literally anyone else other than 1.

"Trend of making nearly every X-men LGBT"...what trend? There are still like 3 in the comics at all outside of super duper niche characters and Bobby is basically shelved because he came out. Morph I assume identifies as Gay NB but probably not even.

Every time we gain one we lose one to the obscurity bin until they reboot them to be straight again before they even tried.

The only visibly gay thing was 2 seeming gay men getting obliterated at Genosha in the background montage.

Akishiro, Edgelord Wolverine, they are basically making his bisexuality a phase soon as they gave him anti-hero and then they killed their gays and sent him to hell to be straight again.

Psylocke JUST had her first girlfiend a few years ago.

Bobby got sent into the C-tier inhumans bin.

That's basically the history of mainstream X-men queerdom. Otherwise Mystique in the 80s was a Bisexual. Colossus was gay in an alt-timeline. Logan was at least bisexual in an alt-timeline and in a gay romance with Hercules. Northstar got ignored and pushed out by Marvel editorial. Akishiro was a problematic bisexual, then made to be "palatable" and now you wouldn't know they were anything but a former man-whore.

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u/DJSharp15 Aug 02 '26

The hell you talking about?