Green Lantern is Gay
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No, he's the actual green lantern. He's the Original Golden Age Green Lantern. Thus, Iconic.XMark said:
It's also not too unexpected. Alan Scotts particular audience was already the Gay reader base because his son was gay. But in making Alan young in the New 52 Obsidian was erased. So instead of a Golden Age Father dealing with his Openly Gay Son we now have a Gay Golden Age Hero.
Once again, DC goes for big overture, little show. Alan Scott qualifies as "iconic" only in the loosest sense of the word, given that "Green Lantern" is most typically associated with either Hal Jordan (thanks to the movie) or John Stewart (thanks to the Justice League cartoon from a few years back). And on top of that, he's the Green Lantern of an alternate universe. The perfect choice for playing it safe while being self-congratulatory.
Well seeing as how having a character going around with being gay being their only real characteristic would make for a bland and boring character, then yeah. In a way it is only acceptable if it's not all he's about.Ayjona said:
I would have said the exact same thing about the movie a year ago.
So a million moms didn't change the sexuality of a guy wearing fabulous green tights? What a cryin' shame.
So a million moms didn't change the sexuality of a guy wearing fabulous green tights? What a cryin' shame.
The Japanese ran a character for a while in Manga and Anime called "Eat Man", real name Bolt Crank, who had the super abillity to eat pretty much anything (including weapons) and then conjure it back. He would devour weapons a piece at a time and then summon them as his major trick, as well as doing things like bite guns apart when people pointed them at him.Cyrus Hanley said:That's a superpower?thiosk said:Yes. Yes it is.
Being able to eat metal is a superpower?
That said, yes DC has had some REALLY lame heroes, especially in The Legion Of Super Heroes over the years, which lead to parodies like "The Mystery Men" and similar things. Marvel has had lame heroes also, but I don't think they ever quite hit the same depths as DC did at times.
I actually thought of who it might be (seriously, in some of my previous messages) though I did have his name wrong as "Alan Ladd" instead of "Alan Scott" for some reason, but the original Green Lantern was who I meant.... but at the time I said I thought JSA characters were going to be off limits because they are long running but aren't iconic in the same way the JLA characters are, and that with the possible exception of Captain Marvel it would wind up being iconic by technicality.
So, why are they changing an established heterosexual character into a homosexual one?
There's plenty of room for gay superheroes. There's not room for "changing" existing ones, most especially when they have an established history of, say, a gay son they can't relate to. What's next? Lois catches Superman fucking Jimmy Olsen?
This is like Daniel Craig saying he wanted Bond to do a gay sex scene. It isn't necessary.
I'm certainly not going to agree with OMM here, whose stance is that there shouldn't be any LGBT anything, ever, but this is just pandering.
There's plenty of room for gay superheroes. There's not room for "changing" existing ones, most especially when they have an established history of, say, a gay son they can't relate to. What's next? Lois catches Superman fucking Jimmy Olsen?
This is like Daniel Craig saying he wanted Bond to do a gay sex scene. It isn't necessary.
I'm certainly not going to agree with OMM here, whose stance is that there shouldn't be any LGBT anything, ever, but this is just pandering.