Tim Drake. One of the most recent heroes to come out as queer is also one of the most well-known to be part of the LGBTQ+ community: Tim Drake, the third Robin.
Yep, we've got two more queer MCU characters who's queerness has yet to be seen on screen. Wiccan (who is canonically gay) and Speed (who is canonically bisexual) are Wanda and Vision's twin sons who grow up to become queer members of the superhero group Young Avengers.
Northstar was the first major character to be openly gay in the Marvel Universe, and he was also part of the first same-sex marriage depicted by the publisher.
Eternals is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to feature an openly gay superhero. It might sound like a familiar refrain to fans of the franchise, who've been burnt by the company's promise of LGBTQ representation before.
Deadpool comic co-creator Fabian Nicieza has been dogged with the question for years, confirming back in 2015 that all fan theories about Deadpool's sexuality are accurate, because the character is constantly in flux. “He can be gay one minute, hetero the next, etc,” Nicieza wrote to a fan on Twitter. “ALL ARE VALID.”
Extraño is a superhero magician appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Joe Staton, he first appeared in Millennium #2 (January 1988). Extraño is noted for being the first openly gay superhero in DC Comics.
Fantomah transforming. From Jungle Comics #15 (March 1941), art by Fletcher Hanks. The character preceded Wonder Woman's first appearance, and has been claimed to be the first female superhero in comic books (although the Centaur Comics superheroine, "Magician from Mars", predates Fantomah by two months).
Marvel's decision to fire Victoria Alonso from her position at Marvel Studios has led to new reports to surface. Specifically, it looks like Disney made the decision to have gay imagery removed from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in an effort to keep the film from getting banned in Kuwait.
Is there kissing in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania?
Sex, Romance & Nudity. Scott and Hope kiss and embrace, as do Hank and Janet. A character makes suggestive jokes about how wild his time with Janet was during the 30 years she was stuck in the quantum realm.
Hela made history as the first major female villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which began in 2008--the same year that Cate Blanchett played villainess Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Black Panther, the alter ego of T'Challa, genius ruler of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda, is considered the first black superhero to be featured in mainstream American comics. In 1968, Black Panther was added to the roster of Marvel Comics' super-group, The Avengers, Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
The first canonical DC Comics character to be on the asexual spectrum, Green Arrow's son Connor Hawke, is being celebrated in a gorgeous new Pride Month variant cover illustrated by the talented Luciano Vecchio for Green Arrow #3.
One thing that fans should note is that DC did originally publish The Boys under its WildStorm imprint. However, the series only lasted for six issues before it was canceled by DC and The Boys moved over to Dynamite.
Dove (real name Dawn Granger) is a character in DC Comics, being a central character in the Teen Titans and Titans comics. She is an avatar of Peace and half of Hawk and Dove; first with the original, Hank Hall, and later with her sister Holly Granger.
1980s. In The Avengers #200 (Oct. 1980), which was written by Bob Layton, David Michelinie, George Pérez, and Jim Shooter, Ms. Marvel is kidnapped by a character named Marcus (the apparent son of Avengers foe Immortus) and taken to an alternate dimension, where she is raped by Marcus and impregnated.
Marcus brainwashed Carol into loving him, and then returned her to Earth where she would give birth to a new physical body for Marcus himself. Once back with the Avengers, Carol had no memory of what occurred in Limbo and she was understandably alarmed by her sudden pregnancy and delivery.
In the comic released January 4th, the magician Zantana casts a spell to ensure that no one else will ever have the Joker's baby. But her true intention gets twisted in the spell and the Joker himself gets pregnant. We won't go into the strange details, but the Joker ends up having a son who looks just like him.
Granted, Hope (Lilly) isn't referred to as Cassie's (Kathryn Newton) stepmom, and Hope and Scott (Paul Rudd) aren't officially married, as far as we know.
The wife of Hank Pym and mother of Hope, Janet Van Dyne operated under the codename Wasp in S.H.I.E.L.D. but became lost to the Quantum Realm during a dangerous mission.
Desperate to provide for his family, but unable to make ends meet, electronics genius Scott Lang turned to burglary and inadvertently won himself a prison sentence.
