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tournament-of-x · 10 months
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The Tournament of X
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From Wolverine Vol. 7 #044, “Sabretooth War: Part 4”
Art by Cory Smith, Oren Junior and Alex Sinclair
Written by Benjamin Percy and Victor LaValle
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amageish · 8 months
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Thinking way too hard about the queer possibilities of X-Men ‘97
When X-Men ‘97 was first announced, I’ll admit I was kind of ambivelent to the entire project... It felt very nostalgia-focused and was just less interesting to me then an all-new X-Men cartoon that could do its own thing without being burdened with established canon...
...and then I listened to the X-Men 60 Uncanny Years event earlier this year and hearing the executive producer of the series discuss what the X-Men meant to him as a kid as a gay black man in Florida basically changed my mind about the entire project. Now I’m excited for it!
The X-Men are so fucking queer. Even ignoring the ways that the mutant metaphor have been used to discuss queer issues before queer issues could be discussed textually, Marvel’s merry mutants just have... so many queer members and even more when you expand the list to include sub-textual and intended queerness.
So, with all that in mind, I did a little thinking and decided to take some guesses about who could make for queer representation in '97... Let’s dive in!
Part One: The Comic Canon Gays
Let’s start with the characters who are explicitly no-subtext-required queer in the comic books themselves. These are a few of the characters Marvel uses in Pride events and generally parades around every June.
Northstar
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Jean-Paul Beaubier may seem like the vanilla ice cream of this rainbow sundae, but there’s far more going on with this character then the “Marvel’s first explicitly gay superhero” title that he is so often boiled down to. A French-Canadian superstar athlete, he’s lived never being entirely sure if his skiing career success was a result of his talent or his mutant abilities.
While his depiction in X-Men The Animated Series just had him be painfully French-Canadian with an on-the-nose accent and French exclamations, there’s a mean catty gay under the surface that is just waiting to be unleashed. They could also adapt his famous wedding arc, wherein he married his husband Kyle Jinadu...
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Also he hates cops, so y’know... Maybe Marvel did nail the queer experience on their first try?
Iceman
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Bobby Drake is arguably the most famous queer character at Marvel. A member of the original five X-Men, he was famously confirmed as gay when his teenage self was transported to the present and, with some unsolicited help from a teenage Jean Grey, questioned why his older self remaining closeted, even in a world that was (comparatively at least) accepting of queer desire.
In the original show, he showed unrequited interest in Polaris, as he had in the comics before his coming-out. This reboot could potentially give a more grounded and less fantastical take on coming-out then what he had in the comics... or maybe time travel will be involved again - who knows really!
Prodigy
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David Allyene, aka Prodigy, is one of the most notable bi men at Marvel with one of the most distinctive coming-out stories. His mutant powers cause him to instantly learn things that other people know, hence the name Prodigy, and, through his powers, he also learned his own sexuality. How’s that for a crazy journey of self-discovery.
Prodigy is a newer character who did not appear in the original animated series at all, so there’s no continuity concerns there...
Mystique and Destiny
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Destiny, also known as Irene Adler, met her lover Mystique when he was presenting as male and operating as a consulting detective in Victorian London.
Yeah uh. This is implying what you think it is.
The two of them have been lovers for centuries now, though both took other partners at different points during their relationship. Their love is something special though and together they raised Rogue as a child - as well as maybe sired Nightcrawler together? That was once intended to be Nightcrawler’s origin, but it was famously scrapped due to Marvel editorial not wanting to depict a child that is a product of a queer relationship at the time... but now this November a new comic will explore the “true” origin of Nightcrawler, so maybe Mystique/Destiny having a biological child is back on the table!
Mystique was, of course, in the original series. I’m not sure the actual odds of her relationship with Irene being acknowledged in ‘97 - partially just because I imagine Marvel would be concerned about backlash to queer villains... but also they’re adorable and good to me so I’d like them!
Captain Britain and Askani
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Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers are two incredibly complicated characters to summarize. Rachel is the time-displaced daughter of Scott and Jean from a hypothetical alternate feature, while Betsy Braddock spent like 30 years of her publication history trapped in the body of Kwannon, a Japanese assassin. While these two characters are some of Marvel’s most actively in-your-face unquestionably queer characters - the last Betsy story had a surprising amount of implied sex for only five issues - they’ve never really had a chance to shine in a multimedia way (well, at least not with Betsy in her own body and not being merged with Kwannon).
In the original show, Rachel cameoed briefly as a prisoner of Apocalypse while Pyslocke appeared without being named - assumedly they didn’t want to bother explaining the body-swap storyline. Personally, if they were to be in the show, I’d suggest that Betsy should be introduced as having inherited her brother’s title of Captain Britain, with Pyslocke of the original show being revealed to have been Kwannon in her own body all along...
Part Two: The New Mutants
There’s so many queer New Mutants that I’m just giving them their own category here... plus, with Sunspot being in the main cast, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the time got (Sun)spotlighted as well!
Note that the sapphics of the first generation of New Mutants can also be mixed and matched when it comes to shipping. I present them based on the pairings that are currently canon/teased in the present comics, but Dani/Xuan, Xuan/Kitty, Kitty/Rahcel, etc. are all valid too and could be within the cards for the show.
Karma & Galura
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The first explicit lesbian of the X-Men line, Xuân Cao Mạnh is a refugee of the Vietnam Boat Crisis, a thing which makes no sense when you consider that she is still canonically like 20-something years old in 2023. Her coming-out was a much lower-key affair then Jean-Paul’s, with her friends just casually running into her at the Exploding Person festival (i.e., Burning Man) with a shaved pink haircut and already travelling with her two “girlfriends”.
After the musical festival, she proceeded to fall in love with her roommate Kitty Pryde and then her co-worker Dani Moonstar, both of which were never (textually) requited. Recently, she’s started dating the winged mutant Galura and finally gotten to do stuff like “kiss a woman on-panel regularly” after two decades of being a lesbian denied a girlfriend...
She has cameoed in X-Men ‘92-related media with a design that is truly terrible IMO, but I think she could be rebooted and appear in this series in her full glory... especially after the New Mutants movie left her out entirely!
Mirage and Wolfsbane
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Introduced in the original New Mutants run, Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair share a unique telepathic connection, helpfully described as them being “soul-mates.” The Comic Book Code prohibited depictions of queer people, but uh. This first run is incredibly not subtle, even as Rahne nominally has interest her male teammate Cannonball.
Unfortunately, post-Claremont, their relationship was more or less abandoned for a few decades (coinciding with a massive downward spiral in Rahne content in general) climaxing with Rahne being killed off entirely in an allegory for transphobic violence... Thankfully, she recovered from her death and has recently been written by a non-binary author and now a trans author, both of whom have leaned back into the idea that these “soul-mates” may, in fact, have romantic feelings for each other.
Oh, also they were explicitly gay in the movie. So. Good for them for that!
Magik and Shadowkat
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Another classic pair of X-Men “roommates,” Illyana Rasputina and Kate Pryde are another Claremont-created “soul-mate” duo - albeit without the telepathic bond. After decades of queer-coding, both were able to do queer-adjacent things explicitly for the first time in the Krakoa era, with Illyana asking a group of people of various gender presentations to make out with her and Kate kissing a tattoo artist who looks suspiciously like her bestie on-panel.
Pryde famously lost the spot of “Teen X-Men PoV character” to Jubilee in the show, but maybe X-Men ‘97 could give her a second chance... plus Illyana is one of the most popular X-Men characters not given a full spotlight in the original show, in spite of her more or less being an A-list X-Men in 2023. I don’t know if Marvel is brave enough to make this one canon, but I do think these two are two of the most obviously missing characters from the ‘97 line-up.
Escapade
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Shela Sexton, aka Escapade, is a transgender sapphic who debuted in Marvel Pride last year and has since then had a starring role in the most recent New Mutants series. She has the incredibly unique power of the ability to “steal” things from people - including everything from stealing physical objects like their wallet to stealing abstract concepts like their emotional or physical state. Her character also generally has embodied the intersectional approach to mutant identity which has become more and more prevalent in the modern era - her mutant identity and trans identity are both important to her character, but neither are allegories for the other.
I think she’s probably too new to be added to the X-Men ‘97 cast pragmatically, but maybe they could have snuck in a cameo at the last minute? Idk. I figured I’d include her on the list.
Part Three: Let’s Get Wild!
Okay. Fuck it. Let’s talk about some comic book justifications that could be used to queer up the actual main cast from the original classic X-Men The Animated Series.
Jubilee
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Jubilation Lee, the teen PoV lead of the X-Men, has been written as queer a handful of times, but never explicitly in 616. Most notably, she was gay in an AU Runaways story (written by N.D. Stevenson), where she dated a bisexual version of Pixie as well as an ice-powered sapphic named Frostbite. Monet also had a crush on her in the X-Men ‘92 animation-inspired comic book series. In terms of 616 content, her relationship with Laura Kinney has often been read in a sapphic way, especially in Liu’s X-23 series where Laura notably breaks up with her boyfriend only for Jubilee to be waiting back at her apartment to go out with her.
Storm
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Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, famously has had a subtextual Sapphic fling with the bundle of chaos that is Yukio. They two met for the first time when Ororo went to Japan and their time together was almost immediately followed by her famous punk Storm era, which is very queer when you consider that context. Yukio was also later made explicitly queer in Fox’s Deadpool 2 movie, though the movie character doesn’t share much of the personality and thrill-seeking antics of her comic book counterpart...
Storm is the central protagonist of the original Claremont Uncanny X-Men and will be central to the ‘97 series as well. It’d be really bold to confirm her as queer, but I’d say this is the kind of move that would be worth it if they want this to stand out among X-Men adaptations.
Wolverine, Phoenix, and Cyclops
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Finally, Jean Grey, Scott Summers, and Logan were implied to have been in a poly relationship throughout most of the Krakoa era - though they have fallen on hard times recently in the run-up to Fall of X.
I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Marvel corporate would approve this being textual... but I’m willing to be proven wrong, I guess!
WHEW. Okay. That’s my list. This is nowhere near definitive of course - I didn’t discuss Shatterstar’s bisexuality, Deadpool’s pansexuality, Gwenpool’s aroace identity, et al - but also basically every X-Men character is either textually queer or could be justified as being queer based on comic book lore. This entire brand has a queer poly energy that even the straightest writers weren’t able to fully shake off of it... so, while this is my list, they could really do anything they wanted (and that Mickey Mouse lets them do, at least)... We’ll see what happens!
[PS: In light of the strike and the general shitty way that megacorporations in entertainment have been treating their workers for years now, I’d be remissed if I made this post and didn’t encourage people to consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund as well!]
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big-gay-apocalypse · 10 months
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i love them
// Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #1
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artphotographyofmen · 5 months
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Northstar by Matt Wagner
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pepperclint · 8 months
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erinptah · 2 months
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Jean-Paul and Aurora Beaubier, taking flight!
Pose reference from the comics, and I tried to do an MCU-style adaptation of their outfits. The basic color silhouette is the same, but there are a lot more visible fabric panels, construction lines, and textures in general.
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thebigbookfanboy · 7 months
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Random characters that have (both accidentally and on purpose) called Jean-Paul Beaubier dad:
Bobby Drake
Jay Guthrie
Roberto da Costa
Peter
Victor Borkowski
Jonas Graymalkin
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lovecatsys · 3 months
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Bobby: oh god he's so hot... and I'm such a loser... he's so out of my league...
JP: oh god he's such a loser... I'm so out of his league
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comicsgallery-marvel · 4 months
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Alpha Flight (2011) #6
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tournament-of-x · 9 months
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From X-Force Vol. 6 #047, “The Greenhouse”
Art by Daniel Picciotto and GURU-eFX
Written by Benjamin Percy
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strangeknight · 5 months
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Marvel Year-In-Review, 1992.
ID: An article from Marvel Year-In-Review 1992. It's titled "Northstar's Hair-Raising Revelation". The article text is as follows: "When the famous Olympic athlete, Canadian superhuman and Alpha Flight founding member Jean-Paul Beaubier made an impassioned revelation in the midst of a battle through downtown Toronto last March, for some reason every major news agency in the civilized world leapt upon it like piranha on a side of beef. So Northstar is gray … this is news?
Well, apparently these days it is, along with Vice Presidents misspelling vegetables and epileptics having seizures in response to Mary Hart's voice. But the media furor over Northstar's idiotically obvious statement was so overwhelming that at the Canadian super guy's press conference, many of us journalists were forced to sit almost out of earshot. Until now, the superhuman community seemed to the effects of social peer pressure, at least so far as it related to their hair. Everyone's known for years that Fantastic Four leader Reed Richards is partially gray, as is his evil-looking twin brother, Nick Fury. Then you've got the all-white mutant squad: Magneto, Cable, Quicksilver … heck, a contact deep within Wilson Fisk's organization implied that the totally bald Kingpin of Crime is really a closet gray who shaved his head to conceal the truth. ('Course, I don't recommend asking Willie about that to his face.) So again … what's the big deal? Psylocke goes from being a purple-haired Brit to a blue-haired Oriental (sic) and no one bats a lash. The Hulk's skin changes from green to gray to green and the media collectively yawn. But, hey, a second-string super hero like Northstar tells everyone he doesn't use Grecian Formula and suddenly it's circus time. Sean Larkin, noted Toronto-area hair stylist and tonsorial spokesman with the "Silver Grail" salon chain, thinks he has the answer to this puzzling situation. "While the loss of hair is becoming more and more accepted in our culture, it's still considered by some to be a major faux pas to mention it in mixed company." Uh-huh. Right. Let's ask someone else's opinion. "Before the public statement, people just thought he was an arrogant celebrity," noted Toronto media consultant Mark Asquith. Ahh … now w're getting somewhere. The media hoopla obviously must have been due to the resounding revelation -- Northstar is really a courageous arrogant celebrity. -- Steve Saffel."
The next portion is a series of short interviews with Marvel heroes. It's titled Peer Perplexity and reads as such: "Marvel Year-In-Review contacted a few of Northstar's peers -- other muscular guys who wear tights in public -- to get their reactions to this raving controversy. Their responses were less than illuminating. In fact, most of them seemed more confused than anything else by the whole thing. Captain America's interview: MYIR: Do you feel there is any problem with Northstar's decision to remain gray in the face of public opinion? CA: Did you say-- MYIR: Yes, do you feel he should be forced to conform? CA: Of course not! It is every man or woman's inalienable right to maintain whatever lifestyle they wish, so long as it does not infringe upon the personal freedom by any other person. MYIR: So you feel freedom of hair color is guaranteed in the Constitution. CA: Yes, I -- wait, what did you say --? MYIR: Thank you, Captain. USAgent's interview: MYIR: What is your response to the uproar over Northstar's revelation that he is gray? USA: Gray! Ohhhh … so that was the problem! Well, that's just the kind of crud I'd expect from a Canadian, especially a French-Canadian. No real American would be caught dead worrying so much about his hair. If you want to look like a real man, you just use a little chemical enhancement. President Reagan proved that! MYIR: Uh … right. Thank you. Reed Richards' interview: MYIR: Do you feel Northstar's gray hair presents any real problem in his line of work? RR: His what? MYIR: His gray hair. RR: His… MYIR: Gray hair. Dr. Richards, do you have a hearing problem? RR: No, no, it's just I expected you to say -- MYIR: The *question*, Dr. Richards, was: does Northstar's open grayness represent a threat to his standing as a super hero? RR: Well, of course not. But if he did want to change, with just a few adjustments to his basic genetic structure I could provide him with any color hair he could possibly want, and perhaps even give him the ability to change it at will. It wouldn't be a problem at all, compared with changing things like his -- MYIR: Thank you, Dr. Richards.
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northstarfan · 1 year
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The opening pages of Marvel’s Voices: Pride #1 from 2021 laid out the modern take on Marvel’s queer history, opening with Canadian superhero Northstar literally leaping at the reader in a recreation of the melodramatic moment everyone remembers from Alpha Flight #106, yelling “I AM GAY” at the top of his voice. The story goes on to retcon the Marvel Universe into an inclusive home for queer characters of all kinds that has always existed if you knew where to look.
The reality is less forgiving.
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big-gay-apocalypse · 10 months
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ok so jp and kyle are like 2 seconds away from telling bobby they've been watching him from across the party and they really like his vibe, damn
// Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #4
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