#next of dc poll

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Motivations:

Cassandra Cain (Batgirl) & Jason Todd (Red Hood)

their moral codes directly oppose each other and are formed by extremely traumatic situations they were put in when they were children. jason sees himself in every victim and cass sees herself in every killer and i think they should beat each other up about it. cass's refusal to let anyone kill and her insistence that everyone can change if she can convince them has been explored multiple times but I think bruce's closeness with jason would add another interesting layer to her thought process. all that being said, I don't trust dc to actually pull it off

Duke Thomas (The Signal)

he's been in 2 anthology comics & alt universe him was in outsiders i believe in him this can be his year!! he's got lots of story potential if dc would let him have even just one full-length arc!!! I know, another Bat book, but listen this doesn't even need to be a particularly long running solo, in fact I'd say it should be 24 issues (without crossovers), no annuals max. Duke as a character has been around for over a decade at this point and still feels incoherent. With each new appearance there seems to be some kind of retooling involved: he has been a meta with a secret cosmic backstory and ambiguous immortal heritage (infinite blood???); he has been Gotham's Robin, but not Batman's (as he would prefer it, given his healthy mistrust for adults who position themselves as helpful and then don't do anything); he's been Gotham's day time hero (with no reference to how it would affect his full time education), and he's been an Outsider (in a book that somehow managed to focus on everything except the team at its core). Every new appearance has seemed to throw something new onto him, often contradicting what has come before, but the foundations are shaky. It seems he is perpetually being set up for his next great arc without ever receiving any payoff. His most consistent appearance has been in Wayne Family Adventures where his character has been simplified down to New Guy with occasional flashes of, insecure and also The Normal One™. I maintain that a single contiguous run with a stable creative team, could be his Giffen & Rogers Blue Beetle. One run to clearly lay out who he is and provide a road map to his comfortable future as occasional backup in Tec. This run would: reassemble the We Are Robins crew (themselves an interesting and diverse set of characters who have been poorly utilised in everything afterrwards); focus largely on street level crime, distinguishing itself from other current Bat books; allow time to build out Duke's relationships with the other Bats (particularly Cass, Bruce, Damian, Stephanie, and Harper), and provide a coherent resolution to the matter of Duke's parents (including Gnomon) and of his powers.

[megamindsupremacy]

Are you tired of this "gay representation" constantly being shoved at us in comics? Do you think your fave really could have stayed straight and there really was no need to make them queer? Do you HATE when the woke liberals take over our precious comic books with their woke liberal agendas?

Well good news: I have the ear of someone veeeery high up at DC comics, and they have told me that the winner of THIS poll will be put BACK in the closet this pride month!

So, I present to you, the product of an whole twenty minutes of hard work:

*disclaimer: this is a joke. im not actually homophobic. in the year of our lord 2024 on fandom tumblr? are you kidding me?

RULES:

Propaganda and voting bias is allowed and encouraged. Send me an ask with propaganda and I'll appendage it to the next post the character appears in

This poll is for the next STRAIGHT character. If a character is queer and you LIKE that and you want them to STAY that way then vote for ANOTHER GUY

however i highly encourage voting for the funniest character to make straight. that is subjective.

Polls will last a week, with a few days in between for complaining (/pos) + letting me make new posts

kill

This post will be pinned on my intro post! Also, if I make any mistakes in the polls, please tell me so I can fix it!

Tag used is #dc's next straight character

Poll typed out below, plus links to the posts to vote:

DC'S NEXT STRAIGHT CHARACTER: (aka, homophobia: the poll)

ROUND ONE:

Left side:

Jon Kent v Renee Montoya Nubia v Pamela Isley Harley Quinn v Jackson Hyde John Constantine v Midnighter

Right side:

Diana Prince v Kate Kane Selina Kyle v King Shark Alan Scott v Connor Hawke Tim Drake v Harley Rathaway

ROUND TWO:

Left side:

Jon Kent vs Nubia Jackson Hyde vs Midnighter

Right Side:

Diana Prince vs King Shark Alan Scott vs Tim Drake

[finzphoenix]

Uploaded this thingy a little earlier this month on Patreon, I really missed drawing this version of him~ ^-^🖤🤍

I'm actually really proud of this one uwu

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[antrunner]

WELL FOLKS! First round is done!

Here are our final results. Our next round will begin tomorrow! Thank you for participating this was so fun omg 💕⭐️ remember to be kind... its what our babygirls would have wanted... may they rest in peace

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LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 3, Poll 6

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Data Soong-Star Trek: The Next Generation

Qualifications:

Many fans interpret him as autistic, including me, and he is gay. Also canonically asexual! He has only ever had one onscreen romance (Tasha Yar does not count, that was a one night stand/FWB thing), with a woman, in which the entire moral was that he was forcing himself to be someone he wasn't while in a relationship with her. His closest relationship is with Geordi LaForge, a relationship commonly interpreted as romantic or queerplatonic.

Propaganda:

Data as a character is so important to me, as an autistic queer kid. His whole storyline of wanting to be human, but never being able to be human, because there's something fundamentally different about him that causes some people to treat him as lesser and nonsentient.... very autistic. He often infodumps to people, is very blunt, experiences emotions in an unconventional way, is socially awkward, and has specific interests in things like poetry and painting. He is a very kind person, and is averse to harming even people who are direct threats to him (such as Kivas Fajo). He has a cat and writes poems about her!! He breaks the prime directive to save a little alien girl!! I cannot adequately explain how awesome this character is in words.

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device

Sir Alistair Hammerlock-Borderlands

Qualifications:

Canonically an amputee, also has a missing eye

Propaganda:

Silly victorian gentleman hunter guy in a scifi setting. His glasses are broken in a way that makes you see his robo eye AND resembles a fancy monocle. Bri'ish for some reason. Goofy lil man who gives you sidequests and is probably the nicest person in the setting. Refined vocabulary which he occasionally peppers in swears. Fabulous facial hair. Makes jokes abt his missing limbs ("[...] my more artificial limbs may begin to rust. Hard to sneak up on prey with a squeaky prosthetic!"). Huge ADHD and tism vibes imo. Also he's gay and has an equally silly + classy husband who is also disabled so epic diversity win (old man yaoi)

Anything Else?:

IM SO NORMAL ABT HIM

Submitted by @wainwrightjakobshammerlock

[puppetmaster13u]

Idk why but I just got the urge to draw all the batfam in dresses

I am open for ideas on dresses or other clothes

[m00n-kn1ght]

The batfam as benders:

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Motivations:

Anita Fite (Empress)

Anita Fite was done and has continued to be done dirty for a long time. She spent the original Young Justice run being preyed on by older men, bullied, drawn half naked, been foisted with stereotypical depictions of Vodou, having her major spotlight arc co-opted by a random team up if basically every teen hero, having the climax of her spotlight arc instead going to more Cissie angst, and then receiving an incredibly dumb write out. Literally every member of Young Justice save her (and Slobo, but his circumstances are trickier) has since resurfaced in modern comics. Anita deserves her chance in the spotlight. The current continuity reset means we don't have to stay married to her bullshit ending. There's a lot of potentially interesting ground to cover with her relationships to the loa. She can have more insane homoerotic tension with other women. Maybe she'll almost stab a werewolf to death for looking at the girl she likes wrong again! DC is also sorely lacking a magical team book at the moment. She'd do great on a team as the magic user who actually knows how to throw a punch Bring her back!!!

Stephanie Brown (Batgirl), Cassandra Cain (Batgirl), & Sin Lance

baby birds of prey

[queer-comic-showdown]

Renée is gay and Gwen is aroace

[megamindsupremacy]

DC's Next Straight Character

RULES:

This poll is for the next STRAIGHT character. If a character is queer and you LIKE that and you want them to STAY that way then vote for ANOTHER GUY. (i.e "i like that X is queer, I'm voting for Y)

however i highly encourage voting for the funniest character to make straight. that is subjective.

Propaganda and voting bias is allowed and encouraged. Send me an ask with propaganda and I'll appendage it to the next post the character appears in

kill

DC's Next Straight Character Masterpost

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 3

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Geordi La Forge-Star Trek: The Next Generation

Qualifications:

He is blind, canonically, and also [has] chronic headaches as a result of the visor he wears. He was actually originally conceptualized as gay, but never written as such because every Trekkie's nemesis, Rick Berman, took over the production of TNG after Roddenbury left. Every single heterosexual romance written for him is atrocious, and his closest non-familial relationship is with a man, Data. Said relationship is often interpreted as romantic or queerplatonic in nature by fans.

He is blind (uses a VISOR that lets him see the electromagnetic spectrum) and was intended to be gay before one of the producers decided not to let him be (thousand curses on Rick Berman)

Propaganda:

He is so wonderful and I love him so so so much. OK. Okay. So Geordi's main traits are that he is an incredibly dedicated and talented engineer, a ridiculously friendly and charismatic person, and very loyal & stubborn when it comes to the people he loves. He has, on two separate occasions, successfully made friends with a member of a hostile alien faction just by spending a few days with them (Hugh, Bochra). When his mother goes missing and he starts getting communications from an entity claiming to be her, he disobeys orders and puts himself in danger in an attempt to save her. Similarly, in The Most Toys, when Data is kidnapped by Kivas Fajo, he refuses to believe that Data made an error in piloting a shuttlecraft that resulted in his death, and through rigorous investigation, finds out what really happened and is able to get the Enterprise to rescue him. (This episode bears incredible similarity to an episode in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, wherein Keiko does the exact same thing when her husband Miles is falsely reported as dead, so in that parallel, Geordi and Data are directly analagous to a married couple). Geordi's disability is presented in one of the best ways I have seen in media from the 80s-90s. His disability is a part of his character, but never his defining trait, and in several episodes he stresses that he doesn't resent being blind, as it is part of who he is. In fact, there's even an episode where he is placed in direct thematic opposition to a eugenicist society that terminates all disabled zygotes. He was originally conceptualized as gay by Roddenbury, but was never written as such (partially due to Rick Berman's influence). However, all of his canon heterosexual romances are unspeakably terrible, and his closest onscreen relationship is with Data. This relationship is interpreted by many to be romantic or queerplatonic in nature.

He's so cooool!! He's the chief engineer on the enterprise, he's so kind, and his relationship with the android Data is one of the best on the show and is my favourite in all of Star Trek

Anything else?:

The actor who played him, LeVar Burton, is a vocal ally and has expressed support for his gay daughter in interviews :).

Geordi is awesome

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device and @autisticiantojvnes respectively.

Saki Tenma-Project Sekai

Qualifications:

Saki is canonically disabled and also is probably in a polycule with the three other girls in her band (the polycule is unfortunately not canon)

Propaganda:

Saki Tenma is Canonically Disabled (although her disability hasnt been named) and oh my god is she amazing disability rep i was not expecting a Hatsune Miku rhythm game to get me so attached to a character to the point of crying but here we are!!!!! methinks her and the rest of Leo/Need are definitely dating each other they were childhood friends who played music together until middle school but ended up drifting apart for different reasons after Saki is unable to continue going to school and must stay in the hospital but when Saki comes back in high school they eventually become close again and continue playing music as a band!! a part of Sakis arc is learning how to rely on her bandmates and be able to ask them for help when she needs it Saki often pushes her limits to the point of causing harm to herself because of how much time she had to spend in the hospital away from her closest friends while growing up due to her being disabled and how much she wished she could’ve been there with them instead but now she has them there to cheer her up and to remind her that even when she does end up having to miss out on events because of her disability that they will always be there for her no matter how ill she gets