Stan Lee 'to create worlds first gay superhero' - Telegraph
Good going Stan, I hope this character is worthy of becoming something cool.
Ummm, I hate to tell everybody, but this character won't be the world's first gay superhero. If my comics history serves me right, technically the first gay superheroes were Captain Metropolis and The Hooded Justice of "Watchmen," which was published in 1986. However, that was a limited series. The first major well-known superhero to be revealed as gay was Northstar from "Alpha Flight," and he came out of the closet in 1992.
But maybe what Stan Lee means is that he's the first gay superhero to be born that way?
Shrinking Violet/Lightning Lass relationship was first hinted at in 86.
Also, you forgot to mention The Silhouette from Watchmen.
Sigh, I am such a geek...
"Being president these days is too big a job for someone with just one superpower. Though I do think Obama has a certain Mr. Fantastic quality," he said.
What about the ambigously(sp) gay duo?
I'm sure he/she will have fabulous powers
Stan Lee 'to create worlds first gay superhero' - Telegraph
Good going Stan, I hope this character is worthy of becoming something cool.
Funny enough material for a kid's cartoon series, to be sure, but as with other great works of art, such as Michelangelo's paintings and the Village People's songs, the subtext is where The Tick gets really interesting. The show plays on the long history of sexually ambiguous hero-sidekick relationships, from modern pairings--the spouselike bickering of Riggs and Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon films and the chicken-hawkish Batman-Robin bond--all the way back to the manly antics of Achilles and Patroclus and those very first Sumerian "special friends," Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
On the episode titled "The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil," Tick and Arthur argue--a la The Birdcage--over the impending visit of Arthur's sister, Dot, who "doesn't approve of our superhero lifestyle." Not wanting to upset sibling relations, Arthur asks his roommate to "tone down" his heroic behavior, to which the Tick replies, "I'll control my urges." In the end, of course, Dot relents and gives her brother and the Tick her blessing to embrace their true natures, in this case saving The City from a titantic, mutant dinosaur.
Subsequent episodes deal with the Tick's jealousy over Arthur's budding relationship with a woman ("Sidekicks don't kiss!" he admonishes), Arthur's disapproval of his roommate's new mustache, and even the heartbreaks and societal disapproval of gay adoption, as when the pair take in an infant foundling who turns out to be telepathic villain Mr. Mental in disguise. In that instance, the Tick explores his maternal side, refers to himself and Arthur as "co-dads," and endures the stinging rebuke of a stranger who declares, "You people are sick!" upon first seeing the unorthodox family.
NAYSAYERS MAY argue that homosexuality gets only a metaphorical treatment in the show, but as film scholar Vito Russo chronicled in The Celluloid Closet, that's been the case ever since the very dawn of the moving image. The Tick wears its gay-friendly intentions on its sleeve far more honestly than cowardly pabulum like Fried Green Tomatoes, and did anyone ever really think "Y.M.C.A." was about the joys of swimming laps?
I think it's a mistake to make the character openly gay. It removes some of the ambiguous subplot that a lot of these super heros stories have. They are usually dedicated to their super heroing, either sublimating their sexuality, or with perhaps unspoken homosexuality, or bisexuality that is kept below the surface, or in the closet, so to speak.
It always made it fun to watch The Tick with my now grown sons to have this subtle adult theme that was cleverly woven into the characters, with lots of humorous references.
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Good going Stan, I hope this character is worthy of becoming something cool.
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