Of course, first joke that came out (so to speak) of my head was: Please be Batman, please be Batman. Just for the apocalyptic nerd meltdown that would occur. (But then, if you ask Grant Morrison, as Playboy did, Batman is "very, very gay" already.)
Batman writer Scott Snyder has already jokingly refuted the coming gay character will be the Dark Knight.
I keep getting asked if it's Bruce who's going to come out as gay, b/c of the @KapowCon announcement that a DC character will soon do so...
I'd actually heard a rumor that it would be Tim Drake that would come out, but there you have it from Snyder, it's someone not yet seen in the New 52.
That opens up a few possibilities:
Wally West Donna Troy Ted Kord Maxwell Lord uh... Lobo? Has he appeared? Orion? Lightray? Highfather? (New Gods and aliens would probably be huge cop outs.)
Speculate away!
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My bet its a female character to make it a lot more appealing to the 12-18 demographic. Has Artemis, Donna Troy or Cassandra Cain came back yet? I wouldn't mind having a gay male character around, but if its a Robin, its going to really be a giant joke. It should be someone that wasn't a kid sidekick. Ted Kord, I would be ok with it. But, isn't he dead?
The Wee Baby Sheamus.Twitter: @realjoecarfley its a bit more toned down there. A bit.
Given how many "major characters" relied on relationships for plots, they'd have to break up an established couple to do this. Unless it was someone who rarely had relationships. That makes me think it's a long-standing supporting character, like a JLA member constantly kept in the midcard.
I'll say Red Tornado. He's no A-lister, but he's been in a constant DCU presence for about 40 years.
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Originally posted by John OrquiolaHe's also an android! He's not even a person.
For a time, he was an elemental like Swamp Thing. Before that, he was an alien sentience trapped in a robot body. And he had a "family" with an adopted child.
I'm saying they have wiggle room to move in any direction with a new Red Tornado.
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Originally posted by John OrquiolaHe's also an android! He's not even a person.
For a time, he was an elemental like Swamp Thing. Before that, he was an alien sentience trapped in a robot body. And he had a "family" with an adopted child.
I'm saying they have wiggle room to move in any direction with a new Red Tornado.
Sure. But you realize that kind of defeats the point of having a person who is gay in the current DCU.
EDIT: Oh, I see what you're saying. A new Red Tornado could just as easily be a gay person who controls wind as he was anything else prior.
Geoff Johns is making Vibe a resurrection project soon. Maybe it's Vibe.
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It'll probably be Martian Manhunter to (a) use a non-human to avoid any real controversy, (b) use a "prominent" character that nobody really cares about anyway, and (c) to add ONE MORE feature to this absurdly complicated and overpowered character.
Martian or the chick? I highly doubt it would be J'onn considering his back story is having a wife and children murdered in front of him. I am going with Donna Troy. Wonder Woman's history comes from a bondage fan, so this would sorta fight. Sorta.
The Wee Baby Sheamus.Twitter: @realjoecarfley its a bit more toned down there. A bit.
Originally posted by lotjxMartian or the chick? I highly doubt it would be J'onn considering his back story is having a wife and children murdered in front of him. I am going with Donna Troy. Wonder Woman's history comes from a bondage fan, so this would sorta fight. Sorta.
The main reason I don't think it'll be a female character outed as a lesbian is because they already have Batwoman as a prominent superhero lesbian. Plus before The New 52, they had Renee Montoya as The Question, also a prominent lesbian. So another hot lesbian superheroine isn't "new", which I presume is what they're up to.
I think it'll be Wally West, personally. He's probably the biggest holdout character, considering an entire generation knew him as The Flash before Barry Allen was resurrected and took the spot back.
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Originally posted by samoflangeIt'll probably be Martian Manhunter to (a) use a non-human to avoid any real controversy, (b) use a "prominent" character that nobody really cares about anyway, and (c) to add ONE MORE feature to this absurdly complicated and overpowered character.
Also, surely DC would see the problem in having its major male gay character be the guy called the 'Manhunter.'
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Ah, poor choice of words on my part, I suppose. To me it was clearly established. In the movie, it was more strongly hinted at by Zack Snyder. It's the sum of a number of visual and other clues: Showing Veidt at Studio 54 with the Village People in the opening credits, his speech about Alexander to Lee Iacocca, Rorschach wondering about Veidt's "proclivities" when he and Nite-Owl broke into Veidt Tower. But the real "evidence" that Veidt is gay is this blink and you'll miss it folder on his Mac desktop. (facebook.com) Also, mock advertisements like this (facebook.com) for Veidt products.
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Originally posted by samoflangeIt'll probably be Martian Manhunter to (a) use a non-human to avoid any real controversy, (b) use a "prominent" character that nobody really cares about anyway, and (c) to add ONE MORE feature to this absurdly complicated and overpowered character.
You're not the only one to suggest this (here or elsewhere) so please don't think I'm picking on you specifically, but I don't quite buy into the idea that it would be less controversial for Martian Manhunter to be gay because he's an alien. It certainly wouldn't create less controversy with, say, anti-gay bigots and groups. If it created any less controversy with fanboys, it'd be because of the character's status and place in the universe and not necessarily his planet of origin.
A friend of mine suggested, jokingly, that it would be Plastic Man. But then I thought about it and he would fit all the criteria, right?
I've seen Didio and others specifically mention that it would be a "major character" in the DCU that hasn't debuted in the New 52. That disqualifies the Watchmen roster, since it's not in their continuity.