http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/entertainment/ice-man-gay-feat-xmen/
So context: All New X-Men features a past version of the original X-Men (Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Jean Grey). Theoretically so they could have Jean Grey stories without resurrecting her back for the fifth time or something. As far as I've been able to understand it (I'm not sure if it's been retconned), these are not alternate timeline X-Men. They've done the "if your past self dies, you will fade away" Back to the Future thing to affirm this.
In the comic, Jean outs Bobby, probably from mind-reading.
Implications: This implies that present Iceman is also gay and handwaving this revelation away with the fact that Iceman has failed relationships with women (never mind the fact that this pretty much describes every unmarried character in comics).
Further implications: Marvel's pulled this sort of thing before. See Spider-Man's The Clone Saga of the 1990s. A minor story from the 70s/80s in which a clone of Spider-Man is made and dies. Cut to the 90s and that clone never actually died, but left because he thought he was the clone. The reveal is that he's actually the original and that the Peter Parker of the 70s/80s and 90s is the clone. So now Peter will retire and the real Peter will take the stage.
This Peter everyone's been reading has, since that story in ths 70s/80s, gotten married to Mary Jane, been in several powerful stories such as Kraven's Last Hunt and that storyline where his parents came back (robots!) He's now about to have his first kid. And now he's not really Spider-Man.
The fans were not happy with that revelation at all. It came across as a slap in the face to everyone who'd been following Spider-Man for decades, that these stories weren't about the real Peter Parker.
Similarly, The Crossing, an Avengers/Iron Man storyline featuring the revelation that Tony Stark had been manipulated by time traveler Kang the Conquerer over the decades as well, mind controlled into being his cat's paw and a traitor for years. Ultimately, Stark was killed and replaced with a time-displaced younger self. Again, not a moment fans of the character really enjoyed. All retconned by the Onslaught/Heroes Reborn thing.
This situation is very similar, in that it takes a character everyone's loved and suddenly throws decades of character development on its head for no really justifiable reason.
So context: All New X-Men features a past version of the original X-Men (Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman and Jean Grey). Theoretically so they could have Jean Grey stories without resurrecting her back for the fifth time or something. As far as I've been able to understand it (I'm not sure if it's been retconned), these are not alternate timeline X-Men. They've done the "if your past self dies, you will fade away" Back to the Future thing to affirm this.
In the comic, Jean outs Bobby, probably from mind-reading.
Implications: This implies that present Iceman is also gay and handwaving this revelation away with the fact that Iceman has failed relationships with women (never mind the fact that this pretty much describes every unmarried character in comics).
Further implications: Marvel's pulled this sort of thing before. See Spider-Man's The Clone Saga of the 1990s. A minor story from the 70s/80s in which a clone of Spider-Man is made and dies. Cut to the 90s and that clone never actually died, but left because he thought he was the clone. The reveal is that he's actually the original and that the Peter Parker of the 70s/80s and 90s is the clone. So now Peter will retire and the real Peter will take the stage.
This Peter everyone's been reading has, since that story in ths 70s/80s, gotten married to Mary Jane, been in several powerful stories such as Kraven's Last Hunt and that storyline where his parents came back (robots!) He's now about to have his first kid. And now he's not really Spider-Man.
The fans were not happy with that revelation at all. It came across as a slap in the face to everyone who'd been following Spider-Man for decades, that these stories weren't about the real Peter Parker.
Similarly, The Crossing, an Avengers/Iron Man storyline featuring the revelation that Tony Stark had been manipulated by time traveler Kang the Conquerer over the decades as well, mind controlled into being his cat's paw and a traitor for years. Ultimately, Stark was killed and replaced with a time-displaced younger self. Again, not a moment fans of the character really enjoyed. All retconned by the Onslaught/Heroes Reborn thing.
This situation is very similar, in that it takes a character everyone's loved and suddenly throws decades of character development on its head for no really justifiable reason.