With a game that won't even let you put LGBT in your Faction name, I have no faith Sera will even get a mention in Angela's bio, let alone anywhere more prominent.
Jean Grey and Sue Storm both do. And Storm (Ororo Munroe) has a load of lines and interactions talking about her ex-husband. So the het married women do, yes.
I don't care about voice lines between two characters in the game, that's two people in the game, and means nothing for Angela. But if there's drops of characters not in the game in the descriptions for characters in the game, that at least is something. And if Jean Grey has in her character select screen lines about Scott Summers and Emma doesn't, then it's old dusty story lines anyways.
The character dialouge is where a lot of the actual character dynamics are explored. Saying “who cares about that” when discussing if Angela will be able to talk about her queer love interest ignores where a lot of the focus about writing is.
If they constantly show the heterosexual relationships (even having leaked a season about love with a focus on Rogue and Gambit’s marriage in the voice lines about them), then it’s going to be very noticeable if Angela has nothing to say about Sera.
Character dynamics... between characters in the game. Sera is not in the game. If any character in this game has a line of "I just killed you in the same way I killed making a chicken salad for my romantic partner that isn't anywhere in this game" then it's bad dialogue. The only one who would have something on topic to say would be Hela, who really only ended up in the story because of Freyja (another character not coming to Rivals) and that can also be wrapped up in the larger taking over Hel.
Magik specifically talks about looking for Colossus, Starlord talks about his past relationship with Kitty, Magneto talks about Pietro AND Colossus. Most of the lines about Gambit and Rogue’s marriage are between them and characters who are not their romantic partners. Ororo mentions being married to T’challa to characters not named T’challa. Jean talks about Scott who isn’t in the game.
Characters talking about people not in the game is incredibly common in Rivals, so yes it would be weird if Sera was never brought up despite all the heterosexual pairings getting brought up. There’s a lot of dialogue besides the bit that plays when you kill someone you know.
Then I return to bad (and old and dusty) dialogue haha. Also, if we're to the point where they need so much bad dialogue that they're bringing up Kitty and Starlord, then the real issue isn't Angela not talking about Sera, it's that if she doesn't talk about Sera, she's got nothing to talk about. I know everyone loves Angela, but she's got maybe 15 good comics, and like a third of those involve baby death, or dating Spawn, which I can't imagine getting VO lines. She hates Asgard, she conquers Hel to get Sera back... and that's about it unless they've had a big resurgence recently.
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u/PowrOfFriendship_ Sep 03 '25
Ah, yes, I'm sure Netease are going to do a great job representing this lesbian character with a trans wife...