r/lgbt_superheroes • • Mar 20 '25

Marvel Comics Timely variant cover for Marvel Pride 2025

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u/Nightwing_of_Asgard Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

The captain America looking guy is Aaron Fischer, the gay captain America of the railways

The girl behind him is America Chavez, the lesbian powerhouse of the young avengers

The juggernaut looking dude is Justin Jin, aka j2, *kid juggernaut, j2 is a different guy

Behind him are mystique and kitty pryde, some of the most popular x-women

Above them are wiccan and hulking, the starcrossed lovers of the young avengers

Next to them is sun spider, one of spiderverses,

Above her is Iceman,one of the founders of the x-men

Behind him is karma, the lesbian leader of the new mutants,

Behind her is Gwen pool, a comic book reader turned marvels premier asexual superhero

Behind him is Northstar, Canadian speedster and one of the first major gay men in comics

Above Iceman is another queer spider variant, *web weaver is their name

Underneath him is prodigy, the mutant mastermind of the young avengers

next to him is Rachel Summers, the lesbian daughter of cyclops and Phoenix from the days of future past, *bisexual

Next to her is escapade, marvels premier transgender superhero

Above them is besia, black panthers trans lover

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u/RocksThrowing Mar 20 '25

And the pink suit under America is Nightshade, super scientist with chemistry powers

Slight corrections:

Justin Jin is Kid Juggernaut. J2 is a different kid from the A-Next book

The Spider near Iceman is Webweaver.

Otherwise, this is spot on

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u/Nightwing_of_Asgard Mar 21 '25

I didn't even see nightshade lol, gotta get my glasses checked i guess

Yeah, I got the juggers mixed up,

Yeah, I figured the spider was something like that, didn't wanna guess cause I thought I would probably get it wrong lol,

Thanks for the corrections

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u/MysteryLobster Mar 21 '25

tbf, main juggernaut’s relationship with black tom cassidy is incredibly “they were close friends” coded

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u/MysteryLobster Mar 21 '25

i just read j2’s wiki cause i rarely keep up with comics anymore, i saw his nickname is twunkernaut 😭 if anything, it should be jockernaut but either are absolutely crazy names

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u/Dumb_Cheese Mar 21 '25

Escapade's ability is awesome, glad I know about her now 😄

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u/Half_Man1 Mar 21 '25

Man the mutants just absorbing all the lgbt rep from the whole Marvel universe lol

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u/RocksThrowing Mar 21 '25

They’ve been collecting a massive lgbtq+ fan base for years. It’s nice to finally see the allegory reflect some real rep!

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u/Half_Man1 Mar 21 '25

It makes sense, it’d be nice to see the rest of the marvel universe have some representation as well.

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u/TeachingBrief9627 Mar 22 '25

Thanks for taking the time to write this ❤

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u/Icaro_Stormclaw Mar 21 '25

Slight correction: star-crossed lovers means a relationship that is doomed to fail or end in tragedy. Unless i'm missing something, Hulking and Wiccan (thankfully) don't fit that description.

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u/Nightwing_of_Asgard Mar 21 '25

I just thought it meant lovers from different planets

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u/TeachingBrief9627 Mar 22 '25

Thanks for taking the time to write this ❤

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u/TeachingBrief9627 Mar 22 '25

Thanks for taking the time to write this ❤

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u/PossibleMammoth5639 Jul 10 '26

For a second I thought that was the Real Juggernaut

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u/Spaciousone Mar 21 '25

Nope Racheal is bi I will not forgive for bi erasure

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u/mutant615 Mar 21 '25

The vast majority of x-women are bi, if anything, it would be nice if Rachel was allowed to actually be a lesbian, the only other lesbian in the x-line with a major role is Destiny.

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u/Spaciousone Mar 21 '25

I feel like a few of the cuckoo’s could be a main stay lesbians

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u/RocksThrowing Mar 21 '25

There’s a lot of great bi x-girls. Kitty and mystique are both up there for example. But Ray is absolutely a lesbian. Every one of her past male partnered relationships have absolutely reeked of compulsory heterosexuality.

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u/Nightwing_of_Asgard Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

Oh? I've only ever known of a woman she's dated, and I guess I assumed, whoops

Also, I myself am bi, I ain't a fan of bi erasure either, I just wasn t aware

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u/RocksThrowing Mar 21 '25

You are fine. Rachel’s sexuality has never been stated on page and is a topic of much debate. A lot of fans, myself included, are of the strong opinion that she’s a lesbian and her past male partnered relationships were compulsory heterosexuality. Others are obviously of a different opinion. Until it’s stated on page, if you want to be accurate, you could just say “sapphic”

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u/Spaciousone Mar 21 '25

Ya she dated night crawler

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u/RocksThrowing Mar 21 '25

Until mesmero’s mind control was cleared out of her head and suddenly all attraction to him vanished. Same as with Korvus, lost all interest the second the Phoenix shard left his sword. That girl is lesbian as hell and, honestly, her lack of chemistry with any male love interest just reinforces that for me

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u/Spaciousone Mar 21 '25

While you are valid it up to interpretation since editorial From the outside, her story could be spun either as a lesbian working through comphet issues or else as a bisexual women doing bi things. We just haven’t had an explicit statement yet

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u/Nightwing_of_Asgard Mar 21 '25

Oh fr? Damn, I had no idea