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Originally Posted by GreenPsychoRanger

I think it's awesome that since people are creating new universes that they should change things. I mean that's the whole point of the multiverse concept. In another verse I'm hetero. For every decision we make, or decision made for us, in this verse it was a different decision in another. For instance, in this universe I'm gay. In another universe I'm a straight guy. In another I was born a woman, in another I was born a lesbian. The possibilities go on and on. I think it's stupid that people think that just because a majority of verses have one character as a straight guy, that ll the others must be the same.


When DC did it to Hal Jordan or Kyle Raynor, which ever one it was, I was so damn happy because I like the Green Lantern and always hoped that one day they would make a Gay Lantern character.

I also have no problem with the character being gay, but you clearly don't have an understanding of the material you're talking about. It has nothing to do with alternate an universe or anything in the multi-verse whatsoever.

This is All-New X-Men, that's the original Iceman from the 60's in the regular 616 universe. It's not an alternate universe, this is a character whose been written straight for roughly 60 years worth of publication, with a future version of himself still existing in the present and being apparently straight. It's been revealed at some point in his life the younger Bobby was gay but he couldn't reconcile it with also being a mutant and being persecuted for both of these things. So the implication is that the adult Bobby has also been sort of living a lie and hiding his true feelings. Which is a pretty cool take on things. This is an actual X-Man, one of the founding members, in the main continuity, being outed. That's pretty huge.

And clearly you must have been really happy about the Green Lantern shift considering you didn't even bother to know which one of them it was. Alan Scott. Which was done as a tribute to his son from the pre-Flashpoint/New 52 era of publication. His son Obsidian was gay, but the Flashpoint reset meant that the JSA characters were shunted off into Earth-2 continuity and some of them no longer existed, like Obsidian. So James Robinson wanted to have a fitting tribute for Alan's son by making Alan himself gay. It was really touching honestly.